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Albert David Hager

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Name
  
Albert Hager


Role
  
Geologist

Died
  
July 29, 1888, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Books
  
Ancient Mining on the Shores of Lake Superior

Albert David Hager (1 November 1817 Chester, Vermont - 29 July 1888 Chicago, Illinois) was a United States geologist, librarian and historian.

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Biography

He received a common school education in Chester. In 1856, he was appointed assistant naturalist of Vermont. He was assistant state geologist under Edward Hitchcock 1857-1861, and state geologist and curator of the state cabinet of natural history 1862-1870. In 1870, he was appointed state geologist of Missouri, and in 1877 he became librarian of the Chicago Historical Society. Hager was commissioner from Vermont to the Paris Exposition of 1867.

Works

  • Geology of Vermont, with Prof. Hitchcock (2 vols., Claremont, New Hampshire, 1861)
  • Annual Report of the Vermont Fish Commission (Montpelier, Vermont, 1866–1869)
  • Economic Geology of Vermont
  • Report on the geological survey of Missouri (1871)

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