Mildred Esterbrook Mudd
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| Born | August 30, 1888 Leadville, Colorado, U.S. |
| Died | April 12, 1955 (aged 66) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California |
| Other names | Harvey Mudd |
| Occupation | Mining engineer |
| Known for | Harvey Mudd College, founded in his honor |
| Spouse(s) | Mildred Mudd |
| Children |
Henry T. Mudd Caryll Mudd Sprague |
| Parent(s) |
Seeley W. Mudd Della Mulock Mudd |
| Relatives | Norman F. Sprague, Jr. (son-in-law) Seeley G. Mudd (brother) Victoria Nebeker Coberly (daughter-in-law) |
Harvey Seeley Mudd (30 August 1888– 12 April 1955) was a mining engineer and founder, investor, and president of Cyprus Mines Corporation, a Los Angeles–based international enterprise that operated copper mines on the island of Cyprus.
He was vice president of the Board of Trustees for the California Institute of Technology. Mudd helped found Claremont McKenna College. The science and engineering college Harvey Mudd College at Claremont was named in memory of him. Mudd was chair to local symphony organizations and the art museums.
Harvey Mudd was born in Leadville, Colorado, in 1888 to Colonel Seeley W. Mudd, the manager of the Small Hopes silver mine, and Della Mulock Mudd.
Harvey had a younger brother, Seeley (1895–1968), who was a physician and cancer researcher at the California Institute of Technology and then professor and dean at the School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.
In 1902, Col. Mudd moved his family to Los Angeles, California, where he worked as a consulting engineer for the Guggenheim Exploration Company. In 1907, he developed the Ray mine in Arizona, which is still in production. Harvey attended Stanford University for two years and then transferred to Columbia University, where he received a degree in mining engineering in 1912.
Mudd and his father founded the Cyprus Mines Corporation in 1916. The Los Angeles–based enterprise started with development of the copper mines on the island of Cyprus, which was famous and named for its copper in ancient times. The Greek word for Cyprus is Kupros, which means copper. However, at the time the Mudds began the Cyprus Mines Corp., copper had not been mined on Cyprus for almost 1500 years. With the backing of Colonel Seeley Mudd, geologist Charles Godfrey Gunther searched for new copper on Cyprus, but it was twenty years before Cyprus Mines paid its first dividends in 1936.
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