Springer, Frank, 1848-1927

LC control no.	n 85294343
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Springer, Frank, 1848-1927 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	18480617
Death date	19270922
Profession or occupation	Attorney Paleontologist
Found in	Land titles in N.M., 1889: t.p. (Hon. Frank Springer, retiring President of the New Mexico Bar Association) Dict. Amer. Biog., 1935 (Springer, Frank; b. June 17, 1848; d. Sept. 22, 1927; prominent lawyer in New Mexico; also paleontologist specialising in crinoids) Smithsonian, Mational Museum of Natural History, Dept. of Paleobotany, Jan. 22, 2013 Springer Collection (Most of the Museum of Natural History's fossil echinoderm collection, and the large library associated with it, were donated by Frank Springer in 1911. Springer was a lawyer and businessman who spent most of his life in Santa Fe, New Mexico and was widely known for his leadership in resolving major land grant disputes in the southwest and his influence on New Mexico's early economic development. His name is familiar to paleontologists, however, because of his interest in crinoids that began at an early age from his collecting visits to the Burlington Limestone, which was about 30 miles south of his boyhood home of Wapello, Iowa) <http://paleobiology.si.edu/springer/paleoSpringer.html>
Associated language	eng