Branner, John Casper, 1850-1922.
John Casper Branner papers, 1882-1921.
Personal papers of John Casper Branner including correspondence, manuscripts, field notebooks, photographs from field work, line drawings of geological formations, scrapbooks of photographs of the effects of the 1906 earthquake, report of the commission investigating the Panama Canal, slides, genealogies of the Baker and Branner families, and books and articles by Branner, many annotated.
John Casper Branner, second president of Stanford University, was born in New Market, Tennessee in 1850. He entered Cornell University in 1870, but left in 1874 for Brazil first as assistant geologist on the Geological Survey of Brazil then as assistant engineer for the Sao Cyriaco Gold Mining Company. He returned to Cornell to finish his b.s. degree in 1882. Between 1883 and 1891, he served in a number of state positions including topographic geologist for Pennsylvania and State geologist of Arkansas; between 1885 and 1891, he also served as professor of geology at Indiana University. The first professor to be named at the new Stanford University in 1891, Branner served as professor of geology (emeritus, 1913-1922) at Stanford as well as executive head of the Geology Department. He later served as vice president of Stanford (1898-1913) and president of Stanford (1913-1915) and professor emeritus (1915-1922). He died on March 1, 1922.
Branner, John Casper, 1850-1922.
Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson, 1868-1941
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964.
Hoover, Lou Henry, 1874-1944.
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
Stanford University. Dept. of Geology
Stanford University -- Faculty.
Earthquakes -- California, Northern -- 1906.
Geology -- Field work -- Brazil.
Geology -- Field work -- Southern States (U. S.).
Geology -- Field Work -- West (U. S.).
Geology -- California.
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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives. Stanford, CA 94305, USA