First Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Ohio: Third Organization (Classic Reprint)
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There are no gas meters made that are able to take account of the gas required by large works, or that is passing through main pipe lines; but to the new gauge, such measurements are as easy as the determination of the amount used by a cook stove or a grate. The largest meters that are in market are so expensive that this fact alone for bids their adoption for any thing like general use, but the new gauge takes away all excuse from gas companies or municipal gas boards for disposing of the precious fuel that has come into their hands, with the ignorance and reckless extravagance that have hitherto prevailed. They can at least know what they are doing. It must be added that several of the companies and boards of trustees having the largest amounts of gas at their disposal have already availed themselves of the new system. The new gas rates of Findlay for manufacturers are based on measurements made by the Robinson gauge, and which were executed in part by the officers of the Geological Survey.
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Review Of Stratigraphical Geology Of Eastern Ohio
Edward Orton
Nevins & Meyers, State Printers, 1880
Science; Earth Sciences; Geology; Geology; Geology, Stratigraphic; Science / Earth Sciences / Geology
Geological Survey of Ohio: Preliminary Report Upon Petroleum and Inflammable Gas (Classic Reprint)
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VI, Geology of Ohio. The chapters submitted and which were to consti tute the new volume were the following.
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An Account of the Descendants of Thomas Orton of Windsor, Connecticut, 1641: (Principally in the Male Line) - Scholar's Choice Edition
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Edward Francis Baxter Orton was an American geologist, and the first president of The Ohio State University.
Background
Edward Francis Baxter Orton was born on March 9, 1829, in Deposit, Delaware County, New York, the son of Samuel Gibbs and Clara (Gregory) Orton. His father was a Presbyterian clergyman, a descendant of Thomas Orton, one of the early settlers of Windsor, Connecticut. Edward's boyhood was passed mostly in Ripley, New York, where his father was then settled.
Education
Edward Orton entered Hamilton College in 1845, graduating in 1848. He then spent time at Lane Theological Seminary (1849–50), Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard (1852–53), and Andover Theological Seminary.
Career
The years 1853-54 Edward Orton thaught in the Delaware Institute. In 1856, however, he became professor of natural sciences in the state normal school, Albany, New York. Charged with holding heretical views, he resigned at the end of three years, and from 1859 to 1865 was principal of an academy at Chester, Orange County, where his success was such that he was elected professor of natural history in Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, a position he continued to hold until chosen its president in 1872. Meanwhile, in 1869, he had been appointed an assistant on the Geological Survey of Ohio under John S. Newberry, and in 1873 was made professor of geology and president of the newly established College of Agriculture and Mechanics, which in 1878 became the state university. In 1881 he voluntarily resigned his presidency, but he retained his professorship to the end of his life.
In 1882, on the reorganization of the state survey, he was appointed state geologist, a position he held until his death seventeen years later. Though his interest in geology developed late in life, yet as state geologist he was markedly successful, notwithstanding the delicate position in which he was placed in being called on to take up and complete the work of his former chief (Newberry). During his administration there were brought out volumes V to VII of the final reports of the survey; these differed in a marked degree from those of his predecessor in the attention given to economic problems, particularly clay, coal, oil, and gas. He was the first to point out in a convincing manner the essential conditions for the accumulation in the earth's crust of the last two substances and their true relations, and to warn of the probability of their exhaustion through a continuance of the wasteful practices then employed. He lived to see his forebodings become actualities.
As an administrator, Orton was a compelling force in the organization of the College of Agriculture and its subsequent development into the state university. He suffered a stroke of paralysis early in December of 1881, which deprived him of the use of his left arm and caused a slight limp in his walk, but he retained his mental powers unimpaired until 1899 when, on October 16, he died suddenly and painlessly.
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Membership
Edward Orton was president of the Geological Society of America (1896) and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898–99).
Personality
Edward Orton was a likable man; quiet in his manner and of a somewhat retiring nature. Sagacious, kindly, and conservative, he won out where a more aggressive man would have failed. His interest in the public welfare was deep, especially in matters of public health and conservation of resources.
Connections
In 1855 Edward Orton married Mary M. Jennings of Franklin, New York, by whom he had four children; his wife died in 1873 and two years later he married Anna Davenport Torrey of Millbury, Massachussets, by whom he had two children.