John Wesley Powell

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John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 – September 23, 1902) was a U.S. soldier, geologist, explorer of the American West, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He is famous for the 1869 Powell Geographic Expedition, a three-month river trip down the Green and Colorado rivers that included the first known passage through the Grand Canyon. Powell served as second director of the US Geological Survey (1881–1894) and proposed policies <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Wesley

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Quotes

• “Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.”
• “The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.”
• “Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words.”
• “The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.”
• “Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs; in denoting the object, it also assigns to it some quality or characteristic.”
• “In Seneca the north is "the sun never goes there," and this sentence may be used as adjective or noun; in such cases noun, adjective, verb, and adverb are found as one vocable or word, and the four parts of speech are undifferentiated.”

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Key facts

Preceded by

Clarence King

Succeeded by

Charles Doolittle Walcott

Born

March 24, 1834 , Mount Morris, New York , U.S.

Died

September 23, 1902 (1902-09-23) (aged 68) , Haven Colony, Brooklin, Maine , U.S.

Resting place

Arlington National Cemetery, Section 1

Spouse

Emma Dean Powell

Relatives

William B Powell , brother. Walter H Powell , brother

Known for

Traversing Colorado River of the Grand Canyon

Education

Illinois College Oberlin College

Fields

Natural sciences

Institutions

Illinois Wesleyan University Illinois State Normal University U.S. Geological Survey Smithsonian Institution

Allegiance

United States of America

Branch

United States Army

Service years

1861–1865

Rank

Major

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