Oliver C. Farrington

Oliver Cummings Farrington (October 9, 1864 – November 2, 1933) was an American geologist.

Oliver Cummings Farrington
Born(1864-10-09)October 9, 1864
Brewer, Maine, USA
DiedNovember 2, 1933(1933-11-02) (aged 69)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Resting placeOak Hill Cemetery, Brewer, Maine, USA
Known forMeteorite classification
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Biography

Oliver C. Farrington was born at Brewer, Maine on October 9, 1864, and was educated at the University of Maine (B.S., 1881; M.S., 1888) and at Yale University (Ph.D., 1891), where he was tutor in 1890-91.[1] Between 1882 and 1887 he taught science in various Maine academies, in 1893 he was an assistant in the United States National Museum, in 1894 he became curator geology in the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and from 1894 to 1904 he was lecturer on mineralogy at the University of Chicago. He was a collaborator in mines and mineralogy at the Paris Exposition in 1900 and a member of the International Jury of Awards at St. Louis in 1904. He was the president of the American Association of Museums (now the American Alliance of Museums) in 1914–16.

He was elected in 1909 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[2]

He died in Chicago on November 2, 1933.[3]

Works

Besides his magazine articles, he was author of:

The mineral farringtonite, first found in the Springwater meteorite, is named in his honor.

See also
  • Glossary of meteoritics
  • Roy, Sharat K.: 53. Memorial of Oliver Cummings Farrington, Proc. Geol. Soc. Amer., 1933, 193-210, 1 pl., June, 1934.
  • Gems and Gemology, March–April 1934.

References
  1. Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard, eds. (1906). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. IV. Boston: American Biographical Society. Retrieved March 18, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
  2. "Historic Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
  3. "O. C. Farrington, Field Museum Curator, Dies". Chicago Tribune. November 3, 1933. p. 30. Retrieved March 18, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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