Henry Gannett
✓ Source-basedfallingUnited States geographer (1846-1914)
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Henry Gannett was an American geographer who is described as the "father of mapmaking in America." He was the chief geographer for the United States Geological Survey essentially from its founding until 1902.
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U.S. Geological Survey cartographers with Gannett, c.1890-1900
Supervisors for the Puerto Rican Census, 1899
Review of Peary's Records: Gilbert Grosvenor, Otto H. Tittman, Willis L. Moore, Commander Peary, Gannett, C. M. Chester
National Geographic Society members, 1909
Gannet Peak and Gannett Glacier in Pinedale, Wyoming
Mount Gannett in the Chugach Mountains, Alaska
Sierra Club trek with John Muir, Gannett and others at the General Sherman Tree, 1902Scientists from United States 6
About this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1846 to 1914 · aged 68
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