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The Amos Eaton papers (MC 11) consist of correspondence, Eaton's herbarium (1830), his geological journal (1830-1836), journal fragments, an 1821 deed to the Old Bank Place (the original home of the Rensselaer School), two instruments used by him (steel mineralogist's forceps and a bone letter opener/paper folder), three geological survey drawings, and an undated sketch and comments on women's fashions. Correspondents include William Aiken, Lewis C. Beck, William Marcy, Oliver Steele, John Torrey, Silas Wright, and founder of the Troy Female Seminary, Emma Willard. The collection also contains correspondence among Eaton family members, including Almira Eaton, Amos B. Eaton, Daniel Cady Eaton, Hezekiah Hulbert Eaton, Timothy D. Eaton, Sarah C. Eaton, William B. Eaton, Typhena Cady, and Nathan Halsey; many of the letters are also available as typed transcriptions.
General description of the collection: The Amos B. Eaton papers contains a diary and a letter. Eaton kept a diary from 26 January 1830 to 20 April 1830 during a trip from New York through the South and back to New York to deliver new Lieutenants and soldiers to their posts. In the diary, he makes observatons on flora, fauna, and geology, as well as noting his activities and thoughts. The letter was written to his wife, Elizabeth Eaton, on 5 June 1841 from Eaton's post at Pilatha, Florida, describing his health and duties.
Correspondence with various members of the Eaton family, 1819-1940 (28 letters). Correspondents include Amos Eaton (first senior professor of the Rensselaer School), Almira Eaton, Sarah C. Eaton, Daniel C. Eaton, Timothy D. Eaton, Typhena Cady, John Torrey, and Emma Willard (founder of the Troy Female Seminary). Also, two publications by or about Amos Eaton, and two instruments used by him (steel mineralogist's forceps and a bone letter opener, n.d.).
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Explores the origins of American geology and the culture that helped give it rise, focusing on Amos Eaton, the educator and amateur scientist who founded the Rensselaer School, and on DeWitt Clinton, the masterful politician who led the movement for the Erie Canal.
How did geology and politics inform scientific ideas and contribute to New York's prominence in the early nineteenth century? David I. Spanagel explores the origins of American geology and the culture that promoted it in nineteenth-century New York. Focusing on Amos Eaton, the educator and amateur scientist who founded the Rensselaer School, and DeWitt Clinton, the masterful politician who led the movement for the Erie Canal, Spanagel shows how a cluster of assumptions about the peculiar landscape and entrepreneurial spirit of New York came to define the Empire State. In so doing, he sheds light on a particularly innovative and fruitful period of interplay among science, politics, art, and literature in American history.