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Also known as Wes Powell, J. W. Powell, J.W.Powell, Major John Wesley, John W. Powell, Major Powell

American geologist (1834-1902)

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Born
1834
Died
1902
Works
116

Top works

  • Address by J.W. Powell
  • Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
  • Address by Hon. John W. Powell, LL.D.
  • Report of the explorations in 1873 of the Colorado of the West and its tributaries
  • Atlas accompanying the report on the geology of a portion of the Uinta Mountains and a region of country adjacent thereto

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1963-09-18
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John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 – September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first known passage through the Grand Canyon. Powell served as second director of the US Geological Survey (1881–1894) and proposed policies <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Wesley

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Quotes

  • Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
  • The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
  • Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words.
  • The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.
  • Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs; in denoting the object, it also assigns to it some quality or characteristic.
  • In Seneca the north is "the sun never goes there," and this sentence may be used as adjective or noun; in such cases noun, adjective, verb, and adverb are found as one vocable or word, and the four parts of speech are undifferentiated.

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Key facts

Preceded by
Clarence King
Succeeded by
Charles Doolittle Walcott
Born
March 24, 1834 , Mount Morris, New York , U.S.
Died
September 23, 1902 (1902-09-23) (aged 68) , Haven Colony, Brooklin, Maine , U.S.
Resting place
Arlington National Cemetery, Section 1
Spouse
Emma Dean Powell
Relatives
William B Powell , brother. Walter H Powell , brother
Known for
Traversing Colorado River of the Grand Canyon
Education
Illinois College Oberlin College
Fields
Natural sciences
Institutions
Illinois Wesleyan University Illinois State Normal University U.S. Geological Survey Smithsonian Institution
Allegiance
United States of America
Branch
United States Army
Service years
1861–1865
Rank
Major

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Charles Doolittle Walcott, John Wesley Powell, and Sir Archibald Geikie on a geological field excursion to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, May 1897.

John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 – September 23, 1902) was an American geologist, U.S. Army soldier, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for his 1869 geographic expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers, including the first official U.S. government-sponsored passage through the Grand Canyon.

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