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==Biography==
==Biography==
He was born at Chicago, Illinois on June 4, 1880, the son of Isaac Simeon Blackwelder and Alice Gertrude née Boughton.<ref name=Marquis_Leonard_1924/> Isaac was an insurance adjuster, then working on claims following the [[Great Chicago Fire]] of 1871. Alice was a former instructor at the University of
He was born at Chicago, Illinois on June 4, 1880, the son of Isaac Simeon Blackwelder and Alice Gertrude née Boughton.<ref name=Marquis_Leonard_1924/> Isaac was an insurance adjuster, then working on claims following the [[Great Chicago Fire]] of 1871. Alice was a former instructor at the University of
Kansas. Eliot had an older brother, Paul Bruce Blackwelder, born in 1878.<ref name=Harper/> As a youth, Eliot developed an interest in entomology, and by the age of 15 he was a member of the [[American Ornithological Union]]. He matriculated to the [[University of Chicago]], where he chose geology as his vocation, gaining an A.B in 1901.<ref name=Howard_Krauskopf_Page/>


Immediately following graduation, he was invited by [[Rollin D. Salisbury]] to accompany him on an expedition to the Rocky Mountains.<ref name=Howard_Krauskopf_Page/><ref name=Salisbury_1901/> He would join Salisbury again in 1902 as a field assistant to explore glaciation in the [[Bighorn Mountains]].<ref name=Salisbury_Blackwelder_1903/>
Immediately following graduation, he was invited by [[Rollin D. Salisbury]] to accompany him on an expedition to the Rocky Mountains.<ref name=Howard_Krauskopf_Page/><ref name=Salisbury_1901/> He would join Salisbury again in 1902 as a field assistant to explore glaciation in the [[Bighorn Mountains]].<ref name=Salisbury_Blackwelder_1903/>
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Eliot Blackwelder
Born(1880-06-04)June 4, 1880
Chicago, Illinois
DiedJanuary 14, 1969(1969-01-14) (aged 88)
Palo Alto, California
EducationPh.D. (1914)
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
SpouseJean Otis Bowersock
Parents
  • Isaac Simeon Blackwelder (father)
  • Alice Gertrude Boughton (mother)
Scientific career
FieldsGeology
ThesisPost-cretaceous history of the mountains of central western Wyoming

Eliot Blackwelder (June 4, 1880 – January 14, 1969) was an American geologist and educator. Known primarily as a field geologist, from 1922 to 1945 he was head of the Stanford University department of geology. He served as president of the Geological Society of America in 1940 and of the Seismological Society of America from 1947 to 1949.[1][2]

Biography

He was born at Chicago, Illinois on June 4, 1880, the son of Isaac Simeon Blackwelder and Alice Gertrude née Boughton.[3] Isaac was an insurance adjuster, then working on claims following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.[4] Alice was a former instructor at the University of Kansas. Eliot had an older brother, Paul Bruce Blackwelder, born in 1878.[5] As a youth, Eliot developed an interest in entomology, and by the age of 15 he was a member of the American Ornithological Union. He matriculated to the University of Chicago, where he chose geology as his vocation, gaining an A.B in 1901.[6]

Immediately following graduation, he was invited by Rollin D. Salisbury to accompany him on an expedition to the Rocky Mountains.[6][7] He would join Salisbury again in 1902 as a field assistant to explore glaciation in the Bighorn Mountains.[8]

He received a fellowship at Chicago and became a geology instructor.[9]

From 1902–1903 he was a fellow then an assistant at the University of Chicago.

In 1903–1904, he worked as a paleontologist on the Carnegie Institute expedition to China. He was one of the assistants to Bailey Willis, the leader of the expedition. The trip lasted more than a year, crossing Asia, northern China, and ending on the Yangtze River. Much of the region covered was unknown to Western geologists. It resulted in a four volume report, one of which was assembled by Blackwelder.[10] After returning to America, on September 26, 1904, he was married to Jean Otis Bowersock,[3] a childhood friend.[6] The couple would have seven children: two sons and five daughters.[5]

He was offered a position at the geology department as instructor at the University of Wisconsin in 1905.[6] During the following years he became assistant professor then associate professor in geology.[3] Starting in 1906 he became associated with the United States Geological Survey. First he was an assistant geologist in Alaska and southeastern Wyoming during 1906–1908. After 1909 he worked as a geologist performing studies in northern Utah, southeastern Idaho, and western Wyoming. Most of his field work involved stratigraphic and glacial features of these regions, as well as their economic resources.[11] In 1911, he was named full professor, and would remain at the university until 1916.[3]

He performed his post-graduate work at the University of Chicago for a period of 2-1/2 years.

In 1914 he was awarded a Ph.D. with a thesis titled, Post-cretaceous history of the mountains of central western Wyoming.[12]

From June 1916 until August 1916 he was head of the geology department at the University of Illinois.

In 1917 he was a member of the California Petroleum Commission.[11]

During 1919 he was a visiting professor at Stanford University where he taught for a quarter.[11]

He became the chief geologist for the East Butte Copper Mining Company in September 1919, remaining there until 1921.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

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Further reading

  • Douglass, John. "Eliot Blackwelder (1880-1969) and Lake Overflow re-proposed 1934". GPH 211 Grand Canyon: Deciphering the Grand Canyon. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
  • "Professor Eliot Blackwelder". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2024-03-04.


  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Krauskopf_1976 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b "Dr. Eliot Blackwelder is Dead; Retired Stanford Geologist, 88". The New York Times. January 16, 1969. p. 41. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
  3. ^ a b c d e Marquis, Albert Nelson; Leonard, John William, eds. (1924). Who's who in America. A. N. Marquis and Company. p. 422.
  4. ^ a b "I. S. Blackwelder, Pioneer Insurance Man, 86, Dead". Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois. August 15, 1926. p. 12. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  5. ^ a b c Harper, Dan. "Unitarians in Palo Alto, 1891-1934, A Biographical Dictionary" (PDF). Palo Alto, California: Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, 2019. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  6. ^ a b c d e Howard, Arthur D.; Krauskopf, Konrad B.; Page, Ben M. "Memorial to Eliot Blackwelder, 1880-1969" (PDF). The Geological Society of America. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
  7. ^ a b Salisbury, Rollin D. (November 1901). "Glacial Work in the Western Mountains in 1901". The Journal of Geology. 9 (8): 718–731. Bibcode:1901JG......9..718S. doi:10.1086/620970. JSTOR 30061414.
  8. ^ a b Salisbury, Rollin D.; Blackwelder, Eliot (February 1903). "Glaciation in the Bighorn Mountains". The Journal of Geology. 11 (2): 216–223. Bibcode:1903JG.....11..216S. doi:10.1086/621070. JSTOR 30054783.
  9. ^ a b Colby, Frank Moore, ed. (1924). New International Encyclopedia. Supplement. Vol. 1. Dodd, Mead, and Company. p. 180.
  10. ^ a b Blackwelder, Eliot. "Willis Bailey" (PDF). National Academy of Science. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  11. ^ a b c d Bishop, Bradford, ed. (1923). "Directory of Stanford Earth Scientists". Year Book and Directory of the Geological and Mining Society of American Universities. Vol. 9. Stanford University. p. 14.
  12. ^ a b Stephens, Alida M. (1916). A List of American Doctoral Dissertations Printed in [1912-] 1938. Library of Congress. Catalog Division. p. 20.
  13. ^ "Eliot Blackwelder". www.nasonline.org. National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
  14. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. American Philosophical Society. Retrieved 2023-05-12.
  15. ^ "Guide to the Eliot Blackwelder Papers". Online Archive of California, UC Libraries. Retrieved 2024-03-03.
  16. ^ "Eliot Blackwelder papers, 1901-1964". Archives West. Orbis Cascade Alliance. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  17. ^ "Professor at Stanford 'U' Geology Head". The Minneapolis Star. Minneapolis, Minnesota. December 28, 1939. p. 11. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
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