Theron Wasson

Background

Wasson, Theron was born on April 23, 1887 in near Springville, New York, United States. Son of George Fuller and Hattie Bevins (Smith) Wasson.

Education

Student Griffith Institute, Springville, New York, 1905. Bachelor of Science, Carnegie Institute Technology, 1910. Student Columbia, 1919-1920.

Career

May 1953); children—Elizabeth (Mistress Electronic Arts Bergstrom), Edward B., Anne (Mistress Gregory Harney). Married second, Ann M. Hand, June 3, 1959. Assistant surveys coal mines, railroads, oil and gas fields, pipe lines, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, California, 1903-1915.

Designer hydraulic fill Lake Almanor Dam.

Great Western Power Company, San Francisco, 1913. Water engineer Geological Survey State of New Jersey, Trenton, 1916.

Field geologist Twin State Oil Corporation, Tulsa, also topographer United States Geological Survey, 1917. Chief geologist American Oil Engineering Corporation, Fort Worth, 1920.

With Leonard Exploration County, New York, explorations east of the Andes in Ecuador, 1921.

Chief geologist The Pure Oil Corporation, Chicago, 1922-1952, senior geologist, advisor Executive Committee, 1952-1954, consulting geologist. 1954-1970. Advisory committee construction geological exhibits Chicago Century Progress, 1932-1933. Credited with discovery new oil fields of Southern Illinois, 1937.

Advisory council department geological engineering Princeton, 1941-1955.

Radio program Adventures in Ecuador. Adventurers Club, Chicago, 1947.

Executive Committee oil exhibits Chicago Museum Science and Industry, 1947-1958. Delegate, United Nations Science Conference on Conservation and Utilization of Resources, Lake Success, 1949.

Visiting geological advisor Naval Petroleum Reserve Northern 4, Point Barrow, Alaska, 1950.

Achievements

• Theron Wasson has been listed as a noteworthy geologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served as Second lieutenant 117th and 1st Engineers, United States Army, 1917-1919. Fellow Geological Society American. Member American Petroleum Institute (advising committee research occurrence and recovery of petroleum 1940-1950), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Western Society Engineers, American Geography Society, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (honorary), Society of Economics Geologists (vice president 1954), American Geophysical Union.

American Institute Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Rainbow Division Veterans, American Geological Institute (founder), Illinois Society Mayflower Descendants, Tau Beta Pi.

Member Order of the Top of the World. Clubs: Adventurers (Chicago).

Connections

Married Isabel Doctorate. Bassett, June 11, 1920 (divorced May 1953). Married second, Ann M. Hand, June 3, 1959. Children: Elizabeth (Mistress Electronic Arts Bergstrom), Edward B., Anne (Mistress Gregory Harney).

Father:

George Fuller Wasson

Mother:

Hattie Bevins (Smith) Wasson

Spouse:

Isabel D. Bassett

Spouse:

Ann M. Hand

child:

Edward B. Wasson

child:

Elizabeth Wasson (Mistress Electronic Arts Bergstrom)

child:

Anne Wasson (Mistress Gregory Harney)