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Jacob Vandenberg Brower was born on January 21, 1844 at York, Michigan, and at thirteen years of age moved with his parents, Abraham Duryea and Mary R. Brower, to Minnesota.
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Jacob Vandenberg Brower was born on January 21, 1844 at York, Michigan, and at thirteen years of age moved with his parents, Abraham Duryea and Mary R. Brower, to Minnesota.
Jacob received his common school education in Minnesota.
The young man saw service in the volunteer army and navy, and at a later period held various state and federal appointments. Much remaining to be done to complete the knowledge of the region of the sources of the Mississippi, in 1889 Brower undertook exploration about Lake Itasca.
As Itasca State Park Commissioner (1891 - 95) for which office he was particularly fitted on account of his explorations of the region, he continued to note sites of archeological interest. Continuing his geographic studies, in 1896 he traced the sources of the Missouri River. In this period he rediscovered Quivira, the legendary locality in central and eastern Kansas reached by the Coronado expedition in 1541.
Always exploring with an indefatigable energy, he located the surprising number of 1, 125 ancient aboriginal mounds at Mille Lac, Minnesota, evidently a populous ancient Indian center. In the prolific field of Minnesota archeology no one has done more than Brower.
Not only did he collect specimens, but he made it a rule to publish promptly. That he found means to publish, and most voluminously, indicates an enviable situation rarely acoorded to scientific men. As an example of his perseverance, after a fire which destroyed the notes of years of research, he calmly began the work anew.
Of his published writings the most important are, Prehistoric Man at the Headwater Basin of the Mississippi (1895); Quivira (1898); Harahey (1899); Mille Lac (1900); Kathio (1901); and Kakabikansing (1902). His historical and geographical works include The Mississippi River and Its Source (1893); The Missouri River and Its Utmost Source (1896); Minnesota: Discovery of Its Area, 1540-1665 (1903); Kansas: Monumental Perpetuation of Its Earliest History 1541-1896 (1903); Itasca State Park, an Illustrated History (1904); and many shorter articles. These works were published mainly at his own expense, and at the height of his productive period he issued usually one volume a year.
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In appearance Brower was like the ideal pathfinder, over six feet, quite erect and slender, but muscular, and capable of feats of endurance.
Jacob Vandenberg Brower was married to Armina E Shava Brower with whom he had a son and a daughter.