Background
Hallock Raup was born on January 15, 1901 in Athens, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Raup attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Raup received his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
Hallock Raup was born on January 15, 1901 in Athens, Pennsylvania, United States.
Raup attended the University of California, Los Angeles, and received his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
Hallock Raup began his career as an instructor in geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1935-1940. He was an assistant professor of geography at Eastern Washington State College (now Eastern Washington University) at Cheney in 1940-1943 and served as a researcher for the U.S. Board on Geographical Names at the U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., in 1943-1945.
Raup became a full professor of geography at Kent State University in 1945, a position he held until his retirement in 1970. During his tenure, he also served as head of the department there. His first book was The German Colonialization of Anaheim, California (1932), followed by San Bernardino, California: Settlement and Growth of a Pass-Site City (1940), Essentials of Geography (1948), Fundamentals of Global Geography (1955), and Ohio Geography: Selected Readings, the last, as editor, with Clyde Smith (1973). He also contributed to several other anthologies, as well as wrote numerous articles to various professional journals. He was editor of the Professional Geographer and of Kent State University Research Publications.
Hallock Raup was a member of the Association of American Geographers and the American Name Society.