Josiah Edward Spurr

Background

Spurr, Josiah Edward was born on October 1, 1870 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Alfred and Oratia E. (Snow) Spurr.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1893, Master of Arts, 1894.

Career

Mining engineer and geologist to Sultan of Turkey, April 1901-May 1902. Geologist, United States Geological Survey, 1902-1906. Chief geological department American Smelting & Refining Company, American Smelters Securities Company, Guggenheim Exploration Company, 1906-1908.

Spurr & Cox (Incorporated.), consultant specialists in mining, 1908-1911.

Vice president in charge of mining, Tonopah. Mining Company of Nevada, 1911-1917.

Member committee of mineral imports, United States Shipping and War Trade boards, 1917-1918. Executive war minerals investigations, chief metal mining engineer, Bureau of Mines.

Chief engineer, War Mineral Relief, 1918-1919.

Editor Engineering and Mining Journal, 1919-1927. Professor of geology, Rollins College, 1930-1932. Member, Mining and Metallurgical Society America (president 1921), American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Society Economics Geologists (president 1923), Geological Society America, American Geography Society, Society Mayflower Descendants, Society of Colonial Wars.

Author: The Iron-Bearing Rocks of the Mesabi Range in Minnesota (Minnesota Geological and National History Survey), 1894.

Through the Yukon Gold Diggings, 1900. Geology Applied to Mining, 1904.

The Ore Magmas, 1923. Geology Applied to Selenology, 1944.

Features of the Moon, 1945.

Lunar Catastrophic History, 1947. The Shrunken Moon, 1949. Also various monographs and reports on economic geology, et cetera

Editor: Political and Commercial Geology, 1921.

Mount Spurr peak in Alaska named by United States Geological Survey in honor of his explorations in Alaska, 1896, 98. Home: 324 Henkel Circle, Winter Park, Florida.

Also Alstead, New Hampshire (U.S.)

Achievements

• Josiah Edward Spurr has been listed as a noteworthy geologist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member committee of mineral imports, United States Shipping and War Trade boards, 1917-1918.

Connections

Married Sophie C. Burchard, January 18, 1899. Children: Edward Burchard, John Constantine, William Alfred, Robert Anton, Stephen Hopkins.

Father:

Alfred Spurr

Mother:

Oratia East. (Snow) Spurr

Spouse:

Sophie C. Burchard

child:

William Alfred Spurr

child:

Robert Anton Spurr

child:

John Constantine Spurr

child:

Stephen Hopkins Spurr

child:

Edward Burchard Spurr