Claude Ervin Needham

Background

Needham, Claude Ervin was born on September 10, 1894 in near Newton, Illinois, United States. Son of John Newton and Alice Amanda (Gibson) Needham.

Education

Educated Central Normal College, Danville, Indiana, 1915-1916, Iowa State College, 1916-1917, Mississippi State College, 1922-1925 (Bachelor of Science, 1924, Master of Science, 1925), Northwestern University, 1927-1931 (Doctor of Philosophy).

Career

Chemical work, Saint Louis, 1917-1920. Assistant in geological, Mississippi State College, 1923-1925. Superintendent of schools, Cortez, Colorado, 1925-1926.

Assistant professor of geology, Mississippi State College, 1926-1927.

Instructor geology, Northwestern University, 1927-1930, fellow, 1930-1931. Assistant professor geology, New Mexico School of Mines, 1931-1935, associate professor, 1935-1938, professor, 1938-1939, president, 1939-1942.

Also director New Mexico bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, 1939-1942. Economic analyst, editor Minerals Yearbook, United States bureau of Mines, 1942-1945.

Supervising engineer, Salt Lake section Metal economics division, United States Bureau Mines, since 1945.

With Illinois Geological Survey summers 1929, 30. Visiting professor, University of Mississippi, summers 1935, 36.

Achievements

• Claude Ervin Needham has been listed as a noteworthy mineral economist, geologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Association Petroleum Geologists, American Institute Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Geological Society America, Utah Geological Society, Utah Academy Science, New Mexico Miners and Prospectors Association, Sigma Xi.

Connections

Married Pauline Hyde Wesch, June 1927. Children: John Wesch, Darrell Ervin.

Father:

John Newton Needham

Mother:

Alice Amanda (Gibson) Needham

Spouse:

Pauline Hyde Wesch

child:

Darrell Ervin Needham

child:

John Wesch Needham