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Henry Gannett

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Gender Male
Death109 years ago
Date of birth August 24,1846
Zodiac sign Virgo
Born Bath
Maine
United States
Date of died November 5,1914
DiedWashington
D.C.
United States
FoundedNational Geographic Society
First ascents Mount Massive
Job Geographer
Education Harvard University
Harvard University School of Mining and Practical Geology
Production company National Geographic Society
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
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A guide to the origin of place names in the United States
The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States
Manual of Topographic Methods
A Gazetteer of West Virginia
A Gazetteer of Cuba,
Commercial Geography
dictionary of altitudes in the United States
Boundaries Of The United States And Of The Several States And Territories, With An Outline Of The History Of All Important Changes Of Territory
The building of a nation
A Gazetteer of Porto Rico
Statistical Abstract of the World
forests of the United States
Report on the Census of Porto Rico, 1899
Census of the Philippine Islands: Taken Under the Direction of the Philippine Commission in the Year 1903, in Four Volumes
gazetteer of Maryland and Delaware
Occupations of the negroes
A Gazetteer of Virginia
A Gazetteer of Indian Territory
Lists of Elevations Principally in That Portion of the United States West of the Mississippi River
Encyclopedia of Place Names in the United States
A Geographic Dictionary of Massachusetts
Indian Territory . .
A Gazetteer of Virginia and West Virginia
A Geographic Dictionary of Rhode Island
Second Report of the United States Board on Geographic Names. 1890-1899
A Geographic Dictionary of Connecticut and Rhode Island
Report on the Census of Cuba, 1899
Statistics of the Negroes in the United States
Boundaries If the United States
A Geographic Dictionary of New Jersey
Census Reports Tenth Census. June 1, 1880
Bulletin No. 307. Department of the Interior United States Geological Survey: Manual of Topographical Methods
Bulletin of the United States, Geological Survey. No. 183. Series F, Geography, 25
Department of the Interior. United States Geological Survey of the Territories. Miscellaneous Publications. - No. 1. Lists of Elevations Principally in That Portion of the United States West of the Mississippi River
Geographic Dictonary of Connecticut and Rhode Island: (1894)
Extra Census Bulletin. the Areas of the United States, the Several States and Territories, and Their Counties
Louisiana
Miscellaneous Publications. -No. 1. Lists of Elevations Principally in That Portion of the United States West of the Mississippi River
Special Report of the United States Board of Geographic Names Relating to the Geographic Names . . .
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Henry Gannett was an American geographer who is described as the "father of mapmaking in America." He was the chief geographer for the United States Geological Survey essentially from its founding until 1902. He was also a founding member and president of the National Geographic Society.

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