| LC control no. | n 86873136 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Owen, David Dale, 1807-1860 |
| Variant(s) | Owen, D. D. (David Dale), 1807-1860 |
| Associated country | United States Scotland England Switzerland |
| Located | Cincinnati (Ohio) Lexington (Ky.) |
| Birth date | 1807-06-24 |
| Death date | 1860-11-13 |
| Place of birth | Scotland |
| Place of death | New Harmony (Ind.) |
| Affiliation | Indiana. Geological Survey Kentucky Geological Survey |
| Profession or occupation | Geologists College administrators Civil engineers |
| Found in | LCCN 05-31669: His Report of a geological survey of Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, 1852 (hdg.: Owen, David Dale, 1807-1860; usage: David Dale Owen; variant: D.D. Owen) Kentucky encyclopedia, ©1992: page 699 (David Dale Owen, geologist, born in Scotland on June 24, 1807. Educated in North Lanark, England then studied chemistry and geology in Switzerland. In 1823 he arrived in the United States to study medicine at the Ohio Medical College in Cincinnati. After traveling in Europe and in the U.S., he became the director of the Indiana Geological Survey in 1837. Surveyed and oversaw the surveying of Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. Appointed the state geologist of Kentucky in 1854, a post that he held until his death on November 13, 1860.) Find a grave (website), viewed August 30, 2020 (David Dale Owen, born in New Lanark, Scotland; died in New Harmony, Indiana.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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