# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josiah-e-spurr
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:18:51.446Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josiah-e-spurr"
name: "Josiah E. Spurr"
slug: "josiah-e-spurr"
description: "Josiah Edward Spurr (1870–1950) was an American geologist, explorer, and writer.\nBorn in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he was considered something of a failure as a youth, unsuited for the family fishing business, since on a voyage he invariably became seasick. Since he could not be a productive fisherman like his brothers, his parents decided he might as well go to college. After working his way through Harvard, he began his career with the Minnesota Geological Survey, making the first-ever geological map of the great Mesabi Range in Minnesota."
tagline: "Geologis (1870–1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Josiah_Edward_Spurr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1870-10-01"
deathDate: "1950-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.41
  momentum:             10
  historical:           5.470914666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Edward_Spurr"
    title: "Josiah Edward Spurr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%A1%D0%BF%D1%8A%D1%80"
    title: "Джосая Спър"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Edward_Spurr"
    title: "Josiah Edward Spurr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D1%91%D1%80%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%8F_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Спёрр, Джозайя Эдуард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Edward_Spurr"
    title: "Josiah Edward Spurr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Edward_Spurr"
    title: "Josiah Edward Spurr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1343648"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump