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Samuel F. Emmons

Geologist

Centurion, 1890–1911

Full Name Samuel Franklin Emmons

Born 29 March 1841 in Boston, Massachusetts

Died 28 March 1911 in Washington, District of Columbia

Buried Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, District of Columbia

Proposed by Clarence King and Charles C. Beaman

Elected 3 May 1890 at age forty-nine

Seconder of:

Century Memorial

Those who knew Samuel Franklin Emmons, and understood his work will long recognize the worth of his character, and the value of his services to geology. Of Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke, his charming social qualities, his varied career and many-sided connoisseurship, there is scarcely need here to speak at length.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1912 Century Association Yearbook