Background
Toothaker, Charles Robinson was born on May 4, 1873 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Charles Everett and Zetta (Elder) Toothaker.
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Charles Robinson Toothaker
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Graduate Central Manual Training High School, Philadelphia, 1890. Special course in geology under E. D. Cope. Other special courses.
Career
Mineralogist A. E. Foote, Philadelphia, 1890-1897. Assistant curator Commercial Museum, 1898-1904, curator, 1904-1952. Pioneered in extending popular museum educational activities.
Lecturer on commercial geography. Commissioner in charge Pennsylvania mining exhibit, Atlanta Exposition, 1895. Honorary consul of Czechoslovakia, in Philadelphia.
Former consul Columbia.
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Membership
Fellow Mineral Society American, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member S.R., Mineral Society Pennsylvania, Academy Natural Science, American Association Museum.
Connections
Married Martha Taylor McCandless, September 27, 1904.
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American -
Political Party
Republican