Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....VAN HISE, CHARLES RICHARD
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Author: Beck, J. D.

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 1883; and Doctor of Philosophy in 1892,. He
received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the
University of Chicago, in 1903, from Yale University in
1904, Harvard University in 1908, and Williams College in
1908. 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, 1886-88; professor of mineralogy and
petrology, 1888-90; professor of Archaen and applied
geology, 1890-92; professor of geology, 1892-1903; 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, 1883-83; geologist in charge of
Lake Superior Division, 1888-1900; geologist in charge of
pre-Cambrian and metamorphic geology, 1900-1908, and was
appointed consulting geologist in 1909. For the State
Geological and Natural History Survey he was consulting
geologist from 1897" to 1903. Since 1903 he has been
chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Survey. In
1908 was appointed a member of the National Conservation
Commission and is chairman of the State Conservation
Commission. He has been chairman of the State Forestry
Commission since 1905. 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 n 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, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
Stockholm, the Boston Society of Natural History. American
Philosophine Society, American Academy of Political and
Social Science. 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:
Beck, J. D. . The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin.
Madison, Wis.: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer, 1909.

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