Charles Whittlesey (geologist)
| Charles Whittlesey | |
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| Born |
October 4, 1808 Southington, Connecticut |
| Died | October 18, 1886 (aged 78) Cleveland, Ohio |
| Allegiance |
United States of America Union |
| Service/branch |
United States Army Union Army |
| Years of service | 1831-1832 (U.S. Army) 1861–1862 (Volunteer Army) |
| Rank |
 Colonel, U.S.V.
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| Unit | 20th Ohio Infantry |
| Commands held | 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Tennessee |
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| Other work | geologist |
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Charles Whittlesey (born Southington, Connecticut, 4 October 1808; died Cleveland, Ohio, 18 October 1886) was a soldier, geologist and an investigator of mounds relics of the United States. He is described by Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis, in their book Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, as a "zealous investigator," in the field of "American antiquarian research."
Whittlesey graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1831, and was assigned to the 5th infantry. In 1832 he was stationed at Fort Howard, Wisconsin, and, after serving in the Black Hawk War, he resigned on 30 September of the same year. After studying law, he followed that profession in Cleveland, and from 1836 to 1837, he was editorially connected with the Cleveland Herald.
In 1837 he was appointed assistant geologist of Ohio, under William W. Mather, and given charge of the topographical and mathematical parts of that survey, which disclosed the rich coal and iron deposits of eastern Ohio that are the foundation of its manufacturing industries. At this time, he also carefully examined and measured several of the works of the mound builders, and his plans and notes of twenty of these remains were embodied in Edwin Hamilton Davis and E. G. Squier's Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley.
From 1847 until 1851 he was engaged by the U. S. government in making a mineralogical and geological survey of the region about Lake Superior and the upper Mississippi. Subsequently, he was professionally engaged as a mining engineer in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and in 1858 became associated in the geological work of the survey of Wisconsin. In February 1861, he was enrolled in a company that tendered its services to Gen. Winfield Scott to escort the president-elect, Abraham Lincoln, to Washington.
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