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Van Hise was born on May 29, 1857, in Fulton, Rock County, Wisconsin. He was the son of pioneer parents, William Henry and Mary (Goodrich) Van Hise.
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Van Hise was born on May 29, 1857, in Fulton, Rock County, Wisconsin. He was the son of pioneer parents, William Henry and Mary (Goodrich) Van Hise.
Prepared at Evansville Academy, Van Hise entered the University of Wisconsin in 1874, and after a year's absence in 1877-78, was graduated with the degree of bachelor of metallurgical engineering in 1879.
Subsequently, he received in course the degrees of B. S. (1880), M. S. (1882), and Ph. D. (1892). Van Hise received his training in geology under Roland Duer Irving at a time when the modern science of microscopic petrology was just developing.
Van Hise was employed as an instructor in metallurgy, 1879-83, assistant professor, 1883-86, and professor, 1886-88; professor of mineralogy, 1888-90; professor of Archaean and applied geology, 1890-92, and professor of geology, 1892-1903. He was also a non-resident professor of structural geology in the University of Chicago from 1892 to 1903 and from 1883 a member of the United States Geological Survey.
In April 1903, he was chosen a president of the University of Wisconsin; he assumed office in the fall and was formally inaugurated in June 1904. This position he filled until his death. His first research work of importance was undertaken in collaboration with his instructor and resulted in a paper by the two, "Crystalline Rocks of the Wisconsin Valley, " published in Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879.
With the termination of the state survey, Irving and Van Hise continued under the United States Geological Survey, and in 1892, Van Hise saw through the press the last product of their joint work, The Penokee Iron-Bearing Series of Michigan and Wisconsin, published as Monograph XIX of the federal survey. As planned by Irving this report was to be the first of a series treating each of the important iron-producing districts of the Lake Superior region; after Irving's death, the project was carried on by Van Hise as a geologist in charge of the Lake Superior division from 1888 to 1900.
He was a joint author of Survey monographs dealing with the Marquette and Crystal Falls districts and of the special folio of the Geologic Atlas dealing with the Menominee iron-bearing district of Michigan; he also supervised the preparation of Survey monographs on four other districts of the region. Meanwhile, he published in 1892 a notable series, Correlation Papers; Archean and Algonkian, and in 1896 "Principles of North American Pre-Cambrian Geology, " in the Sixteenth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey.
When he accepted the presidency of his University, he necessarily abandoned much of his geological work, but a revision and enlargement of his Correlation Papers of 1892, prepared in collaboration with C. K. Leith, appeared in 1909 under the title, Pre-Cambrian Geology of North America and with the same associate in 1911, he brought out The Geology of the Lake Superior Region, the first general treatise on the subject.
As president of the University of Wisconsin, Van Hise exhibited the same breadth of outlook that characterized him as a scientist. Believing that as a state institution its primary duty was to serve the citizens of the commonwealth, he proceeded to develop not only the research activities of the University but an extension department exceeding in scope any then existing, with numerous means of placing "accumulated knowledge" at the service of Wisconsin citizens. His conviction that it was the duty of the University to give state leadership led him to enter aggressively upon the debatable ground, and frequently brought severe, perhaps just, criticism.
Nevertheless, under his administration the University increased enormously in material equipment, nearly trebled in enrollment, and excited favorable attention throughout the United States and abroad. Moreover, his conception of the peculiar functions of a state university gained wide recognition and influenced the policies of other institutions. He served in the capacity of consulting geologist on the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey from 1897 to 1903 and for several years as chairman of the Wisconsin State Conservation Commission appointed in 1908.
Late in that year, he was called into wider public service as a member of the National Conservation Commission and subsequently contributed to the conservation movement what has been called its most valuable book, The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States (1910). From 1909, he was a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; in 1912, he was a member, and for part of the time chairman, of the board appointed to arbitrate a dispute between the eastern railroads and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. His contact with problems of the social order set him seeking again for fundamental principles, and in 1912, he published Concentration and Control; A Solution of the Trust Problem in the United States.
During the World War, he gave much time and energy to the work of conservation and allocation of the food supply, preparing for the Food Administration an outline of a series of lectures to be given in colleges and universities, under the title Conservation and Regulation in the United States during the World War. He was frequently called to Washington for consultation and during August and September 1918, visited France and England with a party of observers who were guests of the British government. He was an enthusiastic believer in a league of free nations to enforce peace and on November 8, 1918, in Madison, delivered the opening address before a convention of supporters of the project.
At the time of his death, he was working on a synthesis of his geological and social studies, a treatise on the influence of mineral resources upon the history of civilization, foreshadowed in his address, "The Influence of Applied Geology and the Mining Industry upon the Economic Development of the World, " delivered in 1910 before the International Geological Congress at Stockholm.
Van Hise died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from meningitis following a nasal operation.
Van Hise was the recipient of many academic honors. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and other scientific bodies both in the United States and abroad, and in several held office. Van Hise Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus at the intersection of Charter and Linden Streets is named after him. There is an elementary school in Madison named after him.
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Charles's constant effort to ascertain the fundamental laws governing observed phenomena led him further to A Treatise on Metamorphism, in which he endeavored to show that the changes in rock characteristics take place in accordance with recognized physical and chemical laws.
Quotations: "The difference between bad observation and good observation is that the former is erroneous; the latter is incomplete. "
a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Charles was married on December 22, 1881, to Alice Bushnell Ring, who bore him three daughters.
1 February 1829 - 29 August 1910
8 April 1831 - 28 November 1910
February 1859 - 6 December 1913
13 November 1860 - 16 November 1934
14 February 1864 - 21 September 1864
March 1855 - 1931
5 February 1853 - 26 March 1937
28 March 1871 - 9 December 1948
28 June 1866 - 6 February 1902
28 September 1856 - 10 April 1927
18 December 1896 - 15 May 1970
8 June 1891 - 12 May 1911
26 June 1887 - 5 March 1931
