Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Joseph Paxson IDDINGS
IDDINGS, Joseph Paxson, geologist, was born in Baltimore, Md., Jan. 21, 1857; son of William Penn and Almira (Gillet) Iddings; grandson of Caleb Peirce and Harriet (Jackson) Iddings, and of Martin and Eliza (Edwards) Gillet, and a descendant of Richard Iddings, of Nantmeal township, Chester county, Pa., who died there in 1725; also of Thomas Lloyd, first governor of Pennsylvania under William Penn (1682); of Jonathan Gillet, who landed at Nantasket, Mass., May 30, 1630, in the ship Nancy and John, and of Reinold Marvin, who moved from Hartford to Saybrook, Conn., in 1639. He was graduated, Ph.B., engineering course, Sheffield Scientific school, Yale college, in 1877, and was assistant in field surveying and mechanical draughting there, 1877-78, during which time he pursued a course in mineralogy and chemistry. He then took a special course in geology and assaying at the School of Mines, Columbia college, 1878-79; worked in microscopical petrography at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, 1879-80; was assistant geologist on the U.S. geological survey, 1880-88; geologist, 1888-92; reinstated, 1895; assistant professor of petrology, University of Chicago, 1892-95, and became full professor in 1895. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1884; foreign correspondent of the Geological Society of London; honorary fellow of the New York Academy of Science, and fellow of the Washington Academy of Science and of the Geological Society of America. He is the author of numerous articles published by the U.S. geological survey and in the American Journal of Science, the Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington, The Journal of Geology, and elsewhere.
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