Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....VAN HISE, CHARLES RICHARD
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.  UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT HEADS.

PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY.

CHARLES RICHARD VAN HISE, Ph. D., LL. D., President of the
University, was born May 29, 1857, at Fulton, Wisconsin.
He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1879,
with the degree of Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering.
Since that time from the University he has received the
following degrees: Bachelor of Science in 1880; Master of
Science in 1882; and Doctor of Philosophy in 1892. He has
received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the
University of Chicago, in 1903, and from Yale University
in 1904. Immediately after graduating in 1879 he entered
the instructional force of the University of Wisconsin and
has remained on its staff in various positions to the
present time. In the University he has been instructor in
metallurgy, 1880-88; professor of mineralogy and
petrology, 1888-90; professor of structual and applied
geology, 1890-92; professor of geology, 1892-03; and he
was elected President of the University in 1903. At the
University of Chicago he was non-resident professor of
structural and metamorphic geology from its foundation to
1903. He has held various positions on the United States
Geological Survey from 1883 to the present time. Under
this organization he was assistant geologist on the United
States Geological Survey, 1883-88; geologist in charge of
Lake Superior Division, 1888-1900; and he has been
geologist in charge of pre-Cambrian and metamorphic
geology, 1900 to the present time. For the State
Geological, and Natural History Survey he was consulting
geologist from 1897 to 1903. Since 1903 he has been
president of the Board of Commissioners of the Survey. He
was president of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts
and Letters, 1893-1896; and vice president of Section E of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
1901. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences;
the Washington Academy of Science; the Geological Society
of America; the American Institute of Mining Engineers;
the Scientific Society of Christiana, Norway; the Boston
Society of Natural History. He has been editor (for
structural geology) of the Journal of Geology since 1892.
He has made many contributions to geological literature,
of which the more important are: the Archaen and
Algonkian, the Penokee Iron-bearing Series of Michigan and
Wisconsin (with R. D. Irving), Principles of North
American Pre-Cambrian Geology, the Marquette Iron-bearing
District of Michigan (with W. S. Bayley), the Iron Ores of
the Lake Superior region. President Van Hise has also
given various addresses upon educational subjects.

Additional Comments:
Erickson, Halford.  The Blue Book of the State of
Wisconsin. Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer,
1905.

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