Henry Gannett
Henry Gannett, M.E.; LL.D. (1846-1914) was an American geographer. He was born in Bath, Me., graduated at Harvard in 1869 and at the Hooper Mining School in 1870. He was geographer of the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth censuses of the United States, and assistant director of the census of the Philippines (1902) and of Cuba (1907-08). From 1897 to 1909, he was a vice president of the American Statistical Association. He was a president of the National Geographic Society. Gannett Peak was name after him.
His publications include:
- A Manual of Topographic Methods (1893)
- Dictionary of Altitudes (third edition, 1899)
- The Building of a Nation (1895)
- Gazetteer of Cuba (1902)
- Gazetteer of Texas (1902)
- Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States (1902)
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American non-fiction writers | Harvard University alumni | American geographers | 1846 births | 1914 deaths