Background
LL, D. was born in 1850 in New Market, Tennessee, of American parents.
LL, D. was born in 1850 in New Market, Tennessee, of American parents.
Studied at Cornell University, New York Imperial Geological Commission Brazil, 1875-1877. Agent United States Department of Agriculture in Brazil, 1882-1883. Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, 1883-1885.
Professor of Geology, University of Indiana, 1885-1891. State Geologist of Arkansas, 18S7-93. Director of the Branner-Agassiz Expedition to Brazil, 1899.
Geologist of the United States Geological Survey until 1906.
Fellow of Geological Societies of London and Belgium and Society Geologique of France. President Geological Society of America, 1904.
M ember of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington. Member American Philosophical Society, et cetera
Associate Editor Journal of Geology.
Spouse 1883, Susan Kennedy.