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Edward Bennett Mathews

1869 – 1944

American geologist

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Lived 1869 – 1944 (aged 74–75). Edward Bennett Mathews was an American geologist.

Edward Bennett Mathews, Ph.D. (August 13, 1869 – February 4, 1944) was an American geologist. He obtained a bachelor's degree from Colby College in 1891, and began serving with the United States Geological Survey in the same year, working under Charles R. Van Hise. He retired from Johns Hopkins in 1939, departed the position of State Geologist in 1943, and died the following year. He is buried at the Oakwood Cemetery in Troy, New York.

Publications Miller, B.L., Mathews, E.B., Bibbins, A.B., and Little, H.P., 1917, Tolchester folio, Maryland: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Atlas of the United States Folio GF-204, scale 1:125,000. Mathews, E.B., and Miller, W.J., 1905, Cockeysville Marble (Baltimore County, Maryland): Geological Society of America, Bulletin v.16, scale 1:158,000. Clark, W.B., Shattuck, G.B., Bascom, Florence, Mathews, E.B., Dorsey, C.W., Bonsteel, J.A., Fassig, O.L., Pressy, H.A., and Curran, H.M., 1902, The physical features of Cecil County (Maryland, accompanied by a County Atlas (1902)): Maryland Geological Survey Mathews, E.B., 1904, The structure of the Piedmont Plateau as shown in Maryland, American Journal of Science, 4th Series v. 17 Mathews, E.B., Berry, E.W., Knopf, E.B., Jonas, A.I., Watson, E.B., Carter, W.T. Jr., Snyder, J.M., Bruce, O.C., Nunn, Roscoe, Bauer, L.A., and Besley, F.W., 1929, Baltimore County (Maryland): Maryland Geological Survey Mathews, E.B., Miller, B.L., Bennett, H.W., Tharp, W.E., Lyman, W.S., Westover, H.L., Nunn, Roscoe, Wood, B.D., Bauer, L.A., and Besley, F.W., 1926, The physical features of Queen Anne's County (Maryland, accompanied by a County Atlas (1916)): Maryland Geological Survey Mathews, E.B., Miller, B.L., Bennett, H.W., Tharp, W.E., Lyman, W.S., Westover, H.L., Nunn, Roscoe, Wood, B.D., Bauer, L.A., and Besley, F.W., 1926, The physical features of Talbot County (Maryland, accompanied by a County Atlas (1916)): Maryland Geological Survey Mathews, E.B., Miller, B.L., Bonsteel, J.A., Nunn, Roscoe, Grover, N.C., Bauer, L.A., and Besley, F.W., 1926, The physical features of Kent County (Maryland, accompanied by a County Atlas (1915)): Maryland Geological Survey

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1869, Portland
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