Henry Helm Clayton

Background

Clayton, Henry Helm was born on March 12, 1861 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States. Son of Doctor Henry Holmes and Maria L. (Helm) Clayton.

Education

Educated private schools, 1869-1877.

Career

Observatory, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1884-1885. Assistant, Harvard Astronomical Observatory, 1885-1886. Observer, Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, 1886-1891.

Local forecast official United States Weather Bureau, 1891-1893.

Meteorologist, Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, 1894-1909. Dean School of Aeronautics Association Institute, Boston, 1909-1910.

Employed by Oficina Meteorologica Argentina to study methods of weather forecasting in the Argentine Republic and also to inaugurate near Cordoba a station for exploring the upper air by means of kites, March-October 1910. Engaged in business, 1911-1912.

Forecast official, Oficina Meteorologica Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1913-1922.

Researches, in coöperation with the Smithsonian Institution, in regard to the relation of world weather changes to observe conditions on the sun, 1923-1925. Private weather service and consultant meteorologist for business organizations, 1925-1942. Research associate, Harvard University, 1943-1944.

In charge, 1905, of Tiesseren de Bort-Rotch expedition for exploring the atmosphere over the Atlantic ocean with kites and sounding balloons.

Accompanied Oscar Erbsloh in the German balloon Pommern, October 1907, when record-making balloon voyage was made from Saint Louis to Asbury Park, New Jersey Inaugurated a new system of weather forecasting, based on solar heat changes in Argentina, 1918. Consultant expert in Cloud Atlas prepared for Hydrographic Office, under Captain Sigsbee, United States Navy.

Invented attachment for anemometers, Blue Hill box kite, et cetera Delaware Pan-American Scientific Congress, Washington, District of Columbia, 1915.

Delegate Argentine Weather Service to 6th International Meteorological Conference, Holland, 1923.

Achievements

• Henry Helm Clayton has been listed as a noteworthy meteorologist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences.

Connections

Married Frances Fawn Coman, September 21, 1892. Children: Henry Comyn (deceased), Lawrence Locke, Frances Lindley Assistant.

Father:

Doctor Henry Holmes Clayton

Mother:

Maria L. (Helm) Clayton

Spouse:

Frances Fawn Coman

child:

Henry Comyn Clayton (deceased)

child:

Lawrence Locke Clayton

child:

Frances Lindley Assistant Clayton