Background
Hovey, Edmund Otis was born on September 15, 1862 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Son of Horace Carter and Helen Lavinia (Blatchley) Hovey.
Hovey, Edmund Otis was born on September 15, 1862 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Son of Horace Carter and Helen Lavinia (Blatchley) Hovey.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1884, Doctor of Philosophy, 1889, University of Heidelberg, 1890-1891.
He made his greatest impact as curator of geology at the American Museum of Natural History. The family travelled throughout Hovey"s teens exposing him to a range of landscapes across the United States. He first studied at Yale University before becoming a school teacher.
Foreign the next few years he managed both teaching and postgraduate study - gaining his doctorate under James Dwight Dana in 1889.
He was appointed assistant curator at the American Museum of Natural History after organising a successful mineralogical exhibition at the Columbian Exposition. He began in 1894 eventually becoming curator in 1910.
One of his most significant voyages was to study the aftermath of the Mount Pelee and Louisiana Soufriere eruptions in 1902.
Fellow Geological Society America (secretary 1907-1922), New York Academy Sciences, American Geography Society Compiled (with R. P. Whitfield) Catalogue of the Types and Figured Specimens of Geological Department, American Museum Natural History.
Married Esther A. Lancraft, September 13, 1888 (died 1914). Married second, Dell G. Rogers, October 23, 1919.