Warren Upham (March 8, 1850 – January 29, 1934) was an American geologist, archaeologist, and librarian who is best known for his studies of glacial

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Biography

Warren Upham was born in Amherst, New Hampshire and attended

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College ( ) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, Dartmouth is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the America ...

. He married Addie M. Bixby in 1885 and they had a daughter. Upham worked as a geologist in

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before moving in 1879 to

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to study the resources and glacial geology of that state. He worked for the U.S. Geological Survey from 1885 to 1895. Upham's first major report on Lake Agassiz was published in 1890 by the

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, but the main product of his many years of study ("The Glacial Lake Agassiz") was published in 1895 as ''Monograph 25'' of the U.S. Geological Survey's monograph series. Upham graduated from Dartmouth College in 1871 and worked under Minnesota state geologist Newton H. Winchell. The Minnesota Historical Society published his landmark 735-page volume on place name origins
''Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance''
in 1920. A revised and enlarged third edition was published by the Minnesota Historical Society in 2001. He was a member of the

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, the

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, and the Archaeological Society of America. Warren Upham died in

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on January 29, 1934.

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Online books by Warren Upham

Author:Warren Upham
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Upham, Warren 1850 births 1934 deaths Geology of Minnesota American geologists People from Amherst, New Hampshire

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