1. Raphael Pumpelly was an American geologist and explorer.
22 Facts About Raphael Pumpelly
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Raphael Pumpelly was a descendant of William Pynchon, a colonial assistant treasurer and original patentee of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Raphael Pumpelly led the 1635 settlement of Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts, which was named after his home village, now a suburb of Chelmsford in Essex, England; and Captain Elizur Holyoke, the namesake of the mountain, Mount Holyoke, and, of the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts.
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Raphael Pumpelly's father was William Pumpelly, son of John Pumpelly and Hannah Bushnell.
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Raphael Pumpelly's father was a great-grandson of Jean Pompilie, a sea captain who settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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Raphael Pumpelly was a French Huguenot refugee from Avignon, France, originally from Spoleto, Italy.
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Raphael Pumpelly graduated in 1859 from the "Technische Universitat Bergakademie Freiberg".
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In 1860 Raphael Pumpelly was engaged in mining operations in Arizona.
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Raphael Pumpelly was called upon in 1871 to conduct the geological survey of Missouri, and for three years devoted his energies to that task, preparing "A Preliminary Report on the Iron Ores and Coal Fields," with an atlas, for the report of the Geological Survey of Missouri.
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Raphael Pumpelly was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1874.
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Raphael Pumpelly became a resident of Newport in 1879, and lived there for 44 years.
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In 1879 Raphael Pumpelly introduced the idea that the numerous lakes of the Canadian Shield are the result of the creation of basins due to the stripping of an irregular mantle of weathered rock by glacier erosion.
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Raphael Pumpelly had charge of this work until its cessation in 1884, and edited the reports of the survey.
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Raphael Pumpelly was appointed the Director of the US Geological Survey, New England branch, in 1884.
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Raphael Pumpelly spent his summers in Dublin, New Hampshire, near Mount Monadnock, and in 1884 he blazed a trail from his summer house to the summit along a ridge that carries his name.
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The Raphael Pumpelly Trail is considered one of the most scenic on the mountain.
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Raphael Pumpelly was a member of the New Hampshire Society of the Sons of the Revolution.
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Raphael Pumpelly was president of the Geological Society of America in 1905.
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Raphael Pumpelly died at the age of 86 on August 10,1923, in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Raphael Pumpelly married on October 20,1869, at Dorchester, Massachusetts, Eliza Frances Shepard, born March 14,1840, in Dorchester, Massachusetts and died on February 5,1915, in Newport, Rhode Island.
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Raphael Pumpelly was the daughter of Otis Shepard and Ann Pope.
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Raphael Pumpelly was the great-grandson of Thomas Handasyd Perkins; and a grand nephew of William Morris Hunt, an American painter.