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William Henry Brewer (
September 14,
1828 --
November 2,
1910) was an
American botanist. He worked on the first
California Geological Survey and was the first Chair of
Agriculture at
Yale University's
Sheffield Scientific School.
William H. Brewer was born in
Poughkeepsie, New York and grew up on a farm in
Enfield, New York. In
1848 Brewer attended
Yale and began studying
soil chemistry under Professors
Benjamin Silliman and
John Pitkin Norton. There, Brewer was one of the founding members of the
Berzelius Society. In
1852 he graduated from the first class of the Sheffield Scientific School with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree and began teaching at the Ovid Academy in
Ovid, New York. It was in Ovid where Brewer first befriended
Presbyterian minister
Laurentine Hamilton.
In
1855 Brewer travelled to Europe where he studied
natural science under Professor
Robert Bunsen at the
University of Heidelberg in Germany. He then went to
Munich to study
organic chemistry under Professor
Justus von Liebig. In
1857 Brewer went to
Paris, France and studied chemistry under Professor
Michel Eugène Chevreul. In
1858 Brewer returned to the United States and was appointed professor of chemistry at
Washington and Jefferson College in
Washington, Pennsylvania.
In
1860, shortly after the death of his wife and newborn son, Brewer was invited by
Josiah D. Whitney to become the chief botanist of the
California Geological Survey. Brewer led field parties in the extensive survey of the
geology of
California until
1864, when he became the Chair of Agriculture at Sheffield Scientific School. Brewer took extensive notes during the survey, which were eventually published by the
Yale University Press in
1930 as
Up and Down California in 1860-1864.
During his tenure at Yale, Brewer took part in a survey of
Greenland in
1869. In
1899 he was hired by
Edward Henry Harriman to take part in his famous
Alaskan expedition. In
1903 Brewer retired from teaching, and died at his
New Haven, Connecticut home in
1910.
Mount Brewer, located in the
Sierra Nevada mountain range, is named after him.
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