Unknown County IL Archives Biographies.....Broadhead, Garland Carr 1827 - 
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Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary

BROADHEAD, Garland Carr, geologist, was born in Albemarle county, Va., Oct. 
30, 1827. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812, a self-made man, who, 
educating himself, rose to be a magistrate. In 1836 he settled in St. Charles 
county, Mo., where the son received his early education, first under his 
father, afterward under a tutor, while he worked at intervals upon his fathers 
farm. He early showed a fondness for mathematics, and was familiar with Latin 
grammar before his tenth year. At the age of twenty-three he entered the 
University of Missouri, and two years later, the Western military institute at 
Drennon Springs, Ky. He studied geology under Prof. Richard Owen, formerly of 
Edinburgh. In 1852 he engaged as a civil engineer and superintendent of 
construction of a division of the Missouri Pacific railroad. In 1857 he was 
appointed assistant geologist of Missouri, which position he retained four 
years. From 1862 to 1864 he was United States deputy collector in St. Louis, 
and in 1866 he was United States assessor for the 5th Missouri district. In 
1868 he was appointed assistant geologist of Illinois, and in 1873 state 
geologist of Missouri, and he held the office until the survey was suspended 
in 1875. In 1875 Mr. Broadhead made a collection for the Smithsonian 
insitution, and for the Missouri department of the Centennial exhibition, and 
in the following year was one of the jurors at the exhibition, and wrote out 
the report on petroleum and other hydrocarbons, as well as brief memoirs of 
state and other exhibits. In 1881 he was appointed special agent of the tenth 
census for investigating and obtaining data and specimens of rock quarries for 
the states of Missouri and Kansas. In the same year he visited North Park, 
Colorado. From November, 1883, to April, 1884, he was engaged in arranging 
specimens in the museum of the State university at Columbia, Mo. In July, 
1884, he was appointed a member of the Missouri river commission. In July, 
1885, in company with the other members of the commission, he visited Yellow 
Stone park and the upper streams tributary to the Missouri. From 1887 until 
1897 he was professor of geology and mineralogy in the University of Missouri. 
He was made a member of various scientific societies, and, besides, the 
volumes incidental to his geological surveys, he has written several hundred 
articles of scientific interest, chiefly geological, published in various 
pamphlets.

Additional Comments:
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904.

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