Background
Kalb, Courtenay De was born on September 18, 1861 in Loudoun Company, Virginia, United States. Son of E. E. and Emma A. De Kalb.
Kalb, Courtenay De was born on September 18, 1861 in Loudoun Company, Virginia, United States. Son of E. E. and Emma A. De Kalb.
Academic education.
Practiced as mining engineer in Western and Southern states. Went on expeditions through Brazil up the Amazon River and through Peru, Ecuador, Central America and Mexico. Professor mining and metallurgy, University of Missouri, 1895-1898, Queen's University, Canada, 1898-1901.
Manager San Fernando mine, Durango, Mexico, 1901-1902, Exposed Treasure mine, California, 1902-1905.
Associate editor Mining and Scientific Press, San Francisco, 1908-1910. President and general manager Pacific Smelting & Mining Company, Guaymas, Mexico, 1910-1912.
Associate editor Mining and Scientific Press, 1917-1919. Trade commissioner unites states department of Commerce, for investigation of mineral resources of Spain, Portugal and Morocco, 1919-1920.
Construction engineering, New Orleans.
And Roadside Mine, Arizona, 1921-1925. Professor mining engineering, University of Alabama, 1925-1926. Investigations in Spain and other countries for Saint Joseph Lead Company, 1926-1927.
Lectured De Pauw University, 1925.
Author: Handbook of Explosives. Nicaragua Canal—Ours or England’son
A Visit to King Solomon’s Mines. Fixed Nitrogen for National Defense.
Home: New York, New New York
Married Frances Douglas.