Arthur Powell Davis, 1861-1933 [no date recorded on caption card]

1 photographic print. | Half lgth., facing slightly left.

Arthur Powell Davis was an American hydrographer, engineer, geographer, topographer and nephew of John Wesley Powell. He was born on February 9, 1861, in Decatur, Illinois and received his Civil Engineering degree from George Washington University in 1888. Upon graduation he joined his uncle west on the US Geological Survey through New Mexico, Arizona, and California. He then worked in hydrography in places as far flung as China, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Turkestan. In 1888 he co-founded the National Geographic Society, and in 1907 he was elected president of the Washington Society of Engineers. He served as the director of the Reclamation Service from 1914 to 1923. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1921 and the American Philosophical Society in 1927. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Powell_Davis

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