Arthur Edmund Seaman

Arthur Edmund Seaman (December 29, 1858 – July 10, 1937) was a professor at the Michigan College of Mines (now Michigan Technological University) and curator of the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum which bears his name. He moved to the Upper Peninsula in the 1880s and began working in the timber industry as a "land looker" estimating timber. Because of his abilities, he was hired by the Michigan Geological Survey under Charles E. Wright and later Marshman E. Wadsworth, who was also president of the Michigan College of Mines. Seaman became an assistant at the college in 1890 and began earning his bachelor's degree. When the survey separated from the college in 1892, Seaman was kept on at the college, becoming an instructor in 1893. He earned his degree and became assistant professor in 1895, and finally full professor and head of the Department of Geology and Mineralogy in 1899. In 1917, Seaman discovered the mineral seamanite which was named in his honor. In 1928, after retiring from active teaching, he was named the curator of the college mineral museum. Arthur Seaman had two children: daughter Lucile Lamey

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