A Geological Hand Atlas of the Sixty-Seven Counties of Pennsylvania, Embodying the Results (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from A Geological Hand Atlas of the Sixty-Seven Counties of Pennsylvania, Embodying the Results
In spite Of the present nearness Of the surface level Of the State to the level of the sea such was not always the case. Our mountains were once ten times higher than they are now and their gradual erosion to their present height by the frosts and rains of past ages, beginning long before the advent of the races Of living beings which now inhabit the planet, makes the most interesting chapter in our geological history.
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The Geology of Lehigh and Northampton Counties, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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Manual of Coal and Its Topography. Illustrated by Original Drawings.
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The Iron Manufacturer's Guide to the Furnaces, Forges and Rolling Mills of the United States
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Prof. J. P. Lesley's Report of Oil, at Brady's Bend, Pennsylvania, 1865 (Classic Reprint)
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A fifth consideration is, that, in a basin, you have flowing in towards you the underground drainage of salt water (carrying petroleum) from the whole slope to the northwest of you; that is, the drainage of the whole great Sixth Coal Basin is down to and along the line marked A, B in figure 2. So that, even if petroleum was not originally deposited in the rocks under the Red Bank and Mahoning region, it has been brought thither by underground drainage, and must- come up at Brady's Bend through wells bored to depths ranging from two or three to ten or eleven hundred feet.
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A Dictionary of the Fossils of Pennsylvania and Neighboring States Named in the Reports (Classic Reprint)
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Man's Origin and Destiny: Sketched from the Platform of the Sciences, in a Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Institute in Boston, in the Winter of 1865-6
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Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Pennsylvania for 1885 (Classic Reprint)
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Chapter III - General Geology Upper Productive and Barren Coal Measure Series; features of the Pittsburgh coal-bed.
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Peter Lesley was an American geologist. He served as a pastor of a Congregational church at Milton from 1847 to 1852. He was the editor of a weekly newspaper, The United States Railroad and Mining Register from 1869 to 1873 and State geologist of Pennsylvania from 1874 to 1887.
Background
Peter Lesley, the third child but first son of Peter and Elizabeth Oswald (Allen) Lesley, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The fourth Peter Lesley in direct succession, he was known at first as Peter Lesley, Jr. , but disliking his first name, in early manhood transferred the "J" from Junior, and adopted the signature of J. P. Lesley. His grandfather, a cabinet maker, came to America from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and, landing in Boston, walked thence to Philadelphia where he settled. A few years later he saw service in the Revolution. His son, Peter's father, was also a cabinet maker. Young Peter was a nervous, timid child, extremely near-sighted.
Education
At the age of six he was sent to a private school where he developed into a bright pupil, fond of his books. At fifteen he entered the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with the degree of A. B. in 1838, but with health so impaired that on the advice of his physicians he discontinued his studies. Later Lesley returned to his books, attending the Theological Seminary at Princeton, 1841-1844. He also studied at the University of Halle.
Career
Upon graduation Lesley sought outdoor employment with the state geological survey. For this line of work he had shown no predilection, but he was appointed and made such creditable progress as to win special commendation from Henry Darwin Rogers, the director. For political reasons the survey was discontinued in 1841, but he continued to assist Rogers in editing the reports of the unfinished survey. In this work, particularly in the drawing of maps and sections, it is said he showed great skill.
After being licensed as a preacher by the Philadelphia Presbytery in 1844, he sailed for a year in Europe, where he spent several months touring on foot. Returning to Philadelphia in May 1845, he took a position as colporteur for the American Tract Society, preaching and distributing tracts through the northern and central parts of Pennsylvania. This work taxed his strength too severely, however, and in 1846 he once more entered the service of Rogers, who was then located in Boston, aiding him as before in the preparation of his maps and sections.
Late in 1847 he was called to act as pastor of a Congregational church at Milton, Massachussets. His marriage caused discord in Lesley's church, particularly since the young minister himself was quite liberal in his views, and in 1852 he formally abandoned pastoral work and turned once more to geology.
The year before the Pennsylvania legislature had furnished funds for the completion of the state survey, on which he was again employed. He subsequently surveyed coal and iron fields for various corporations in various parts of the country. His first book, A Manual of Coal and Its Topography was published in 1856. From 1856 to 1864 he served as secretary of the American Iron Association, and during this period published, in addition to several geological pamphlets, a volume of nearly eight hundred pages entitled The Iron Manufacturer's Guide (1859) which brought him no inconsiderable reputation.
In 1859 he became professor of mining in the University of Pennsylvania, and with its growth became successively dean of the Science Department (1872) and dean of the newly established Towne Scientific School (1875), retiring, as professor emeritus, in 1883. In 1859 also he was made librarian and secretary of the American Philosophical Society, holding the former position until 1885 and the latter until 1887, when he became vice-president.
In 1863 he was sent to Europe by the Pennsylvania Railroad to study rail manufacture and the Bessemer steel process. This year marked the beginning of the great petroleum excitement, which caused such a demand for his services as to bring about a nervous breakdown and forced him in 1866 to make another trip to Europe for rest and recreation. Returning, two years later, he became in 1869 the editor of a weekly newspaper, The United States Railroad and Mining Register, which he conducted until the end of 1873.
In this year, in response to the clamor of the oil men, there was authorized a second geological survey of Pennsylvania, with Lesley as state geologist. He was at this time fifty-four years of age and at the height of his career. He continued as state geologist throughout the thirteen years of the survey's existence, or until 1887. From this organization there emanated the most remarkable series of reports ever published by any survey. Up to and including 1887, when all field work was discontinued, there were issued seventy-seven octavo volumes of text with thirty-three atlases and a Grand Atlas. These were followed in 1892 and 1895 by the three octavo volumes constituting the final report. The magnitude of the task was too great for Lesley's strength, and he again broke down in 1893--so completely, this time, that his summary and final reports were left for others to finish.
Though for a time after this last breakdown his health caused his friends no great anxiety, he slowly weakened, and in 1903 he had a stroke of apoplexy, from which he died, in his eighty-fourth year. His wife and two daughters survived him. The quantity of Lesley's work was enormous; that much of it was not of as high order as he could wish was not his fault, but that of a legislature crying for immediate benefits. Nor were his writings limited to scientific subjects. He was a philologist of considerable repute; he wrote poetry; delivered a series of Lowell Lectures in 1865-1866, published under the title, Man's Origin and Destiny (1868); under the pseudonym, John W. Allen, Jr. , brought out a work of fiction, Paul Dreifuss, His Holiday Abroad (1882), a "photographically minute account of a holiday trip in the winter of 1881, 1882"; and contributed many articles to magazines and encyclopedias. As editor of the Railroad and Mining Register his paragraphs were well nigh numberless.
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Membership
He was an original member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a member or honorary member of many other scientific organizations.
Personality
He was a man of tall, lank, but commanding, figure, of an impressionable and emotional nature, endowed with tremendous nervous energy, aggressive and outspoken, an enthusiast and optimist, but at times lamentably melancholy.
Quotes from others about the person
"His writings are full of expressions which for terseness and unpolished emphasis are unequalled. "
Connections
On February 13, 1849, Lesley married Susan Inches Lyman, the daughter of Judge Joseph Lyman, a young woman whose religious affiliations were Unitarian.