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George C. Hewett
1853-1907
President 1903
Mining engineer,
born Hampshire, England, came to Colorado 1884. Was consulting
engineer for the Colorado Springs Company, Dr. W. A. Bell, the
London Mining Company and other large concerns. Chiefly
interested in coal properties in Colorado, Georgia, Alabama, and
West Virginina Was trustee of the
public library of Colorado Springs Was father of
Donnel Foster Hewett, famous mining engineer and geologist of the U.
S. Geological Survey In 1882 was manager
of the Kanawha River [West Virginia] Coal and Coke Co. Later
operated coal mines in Colorado and Wyoming Studied Mining
Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania Won high honors in
mining engineering Author of articles
about coal of northwestern Colorado, iron ore in southwestern Utah,
the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico, and about the age of the
Homestake Lode of South Dakota
from Presidents of the
Colorado Scientific Society
Additional Reading
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