Alexander Winchell
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- Born
- 1824-12-31
- Died
- 1891-02-19
- Works
- 23
Top works
- Sketches of Creation
- Douglass Houghton
- Elements of Optical Mineralogy : an Introduction Microscopic Petrography; Part 1
- Science and the state
- Geological excursions; or, The rudiments of geology for young learners
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Key dates
- Born
- 31 December 1824
- Died
- 19 February 1891
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alexander
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- North East
- Place of death
- Ann Arbor
- Occupation
- meteorological observer
- Educated at
- Wesleyan University
- Employer
- Vanderbilt University
- Field of work
- botany
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1824 births1891 deaths19th-century American geologists19th-century American writersAmerican non-fiction writersPeople from North East, New YorkPresidents of Syracuse UniversityPresidents of the Geological Society of AmericaScientists from New York (state)Theistic evolutionistsUniversity of Michigan facultyWesleyan University alumni