1. Henry Gannett was a founding member and president of the National Geographic Society, a founder of the American Association of Geographers, and a co-founder and president of the Twenty Year Club or Twenty Year Topographers which was formed at the USG.
Henry Gannett was a founder and president of the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC.
Henry Gannett was the assistant director of the 1899 Census of the Philippines and Puerto Rico, the 1902 Census of the Philippines, and the 1906 Census in Cuba.
Henry Gannett was born in Bath, Maine, on August 24,1846.
Henry Gannett was the son of Hannah Trufant and Michael Farley Gannett.
Henry Gannett attended local schools, before going to Harvard for college.
From 1870 to 1871, Henry Gannett was an assistant at the Harvard College Observatory.
Henry Gannett suggested calling the new organization "United States Geological and Geographical Survey" although the name United States Geological Survey would officially be approved.
Henry Gannett assisted in planning the work of the USGS.
Henry Gannett was immediately transferred served as the geographer of the 10th United States Census in 1880.
Henry Gannett laid out 2,000 enumeration districts with such precision that for the first time, each census enumerator knew in advance the metes and bounds of his particular district.
Henry Gannett served as a geographer for the 11th Census in 1890 and the 12th Census in 1900.
Henry Gannett was named to the newly created Board on Geographic Names by President Benjamin Harrison in Executive Order No 28.
Henry Gannett wrote more than fifty USGS Bulletins and Annual Reports.
Henry Gannett issued a gazetteer for eleven states and was a contributor to Baedecker's Guide to the United States, Encyclopedia Britannica, and The New International Encyclopedia.
Henry Gannett was the author books for general readers and.
Henry Gannett wrote articles for The National Geographic Magazine, Science, Nature, Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, and other journals.
In 1888 Henry Gannett was one of six founding members of the National Geographic Society.
Henry Gannett was Chair of the Society's Research Committee, organizing expeditions to Alaska, La Soufriere, Mount Pelee, Peru, and the Polar Seas.
Henry Gannett was a member of the Washington Academy of Sciences, the Royal Geographical Society of London, the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, and the Philadelphia Geographic Society.
Henry Gannett was one of the ten founding members and president of the Cosmos Club.
Henry Gannett died at his home in 1840 Biltmore Street, Washington, DC on November 5,1914, after being ill for about a year with Bright's Disease.