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Last Name Mudge

Given Name Benjamin Franklin

alt. Names B. F. M. ;

Marriage Mary E. Beckford (18xx-1xxx) in 1842

Children

Year born 1817 in Orrington, Maine

Year died 1879

Place of death Manhattan, Kansas

Father's occupation James Mudge (1xxx-1xxx)

Relatives Ruth (1xxx-1xxx) (mother) ; 3 clergymen brothers

Education worked as shoemaker ; science, classics, and law at Wesleyan University 1840

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for Mudge: Geology of Kansas (Biennial Report State Board of Agriculture 1878) ; Othniel Charles Marsh ;

Patronage Kansas Univ. & Dept of Agriculture & Agric. College ; Breckinridge Coal & Oil Co. co-founded Kansas Nat Hist Society

Collaborators S. W. Williston ;

Techniques geological drawing

Sample(s) http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Publications/OFR/2005/OFR05_33/index.html

Archival sources Smithsonian, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Published sources Daniel F. Merriam, William W. Hambleton & John R. Charlton: Kansas Artistic Geologists Illustrators (KGS Open File Report 2005-33) ;

other 1852 elected Mayor of Lynn Massachusetts; 1859 was chemist in Cloverport Kentucky; self-taught paleontologist; was 1st Kansas state geologist 1866.

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