William Henry Brewer

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William Henry Brewer
Born(1829-09-14)September 14, 1829
Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
DiedNovember 2, 1910(1910-11-02) (aged 81)
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale School of Engineering & Applied Science
Scientific career
FieldsBotany
InstitutionsWashington & Jefferson College
Yale University

William Henry Brewer (September 14, 1828 – November 2, 1910) was an American

botanist. He worked on the first California Geological Survey and was the first Chair of Agriculture at Yale University's Sheffield Scientific School.[1]

Biography

William H. Brewer was born in

Presbyterian minister Laurentine Hamilton
.

In 1855 Brewer travelled to Europe where he studied

Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania. His wife later died in June, 1859.[2]
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In 1860, shortly after the death of his wife and newborn son, Brewer was invited by Josiah D. Whitney to become the chief botanist of the California Division of Mines and Geology (predecessor of today's California Geological Survey).[3] Brewer led field parties in the extensive survey of the geology of California until 1864, when he became the Chair of Agriculture at Sheffield Scientific School. Brewer wrote extensively during the survey including many letters to family and friends, a compendium of which was eventually published by the Yale University Press in 1930 as Up and Down California in 1860-1864.

On September 1, 1868, he married his second wife, Georgiana Robinson, of

Alaskan expedition. In 1903 Brewer retired from teaching, and died at his New Haven, Connecticut home in 1910. He was buried at Grove Street Cemetery. He was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
.

Sierra Nevada mountain range, is named after him, as is the very rare spruce Picea breweriana, Brewer Spruce,[4] endemic to the Klamath Mountains of southwest Oregon
and northwest California.

The standard author abbreviation W.H.Brewer is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[5]

References

  1. doi:10.2475/ajs.s4-31.181.71
    .
  2. ^ a b Russell H. Chittenden, BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR of WILLIAM HENRY BREWER 1828-1910, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS, VOLUME XII, 1927
  3. ISSN 1059-1028
    . Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  4. ISBN 978-0-19-866189-4
    , p. 392
  5. ^ International Plant Names Index.  W.H.Brewer.
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