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    Henry Gannett (August 24, 1846 – November 5, 1914) was an American geographer who is described as the "father of mapmaking in America." He was the chief...
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    Geological Survey in 1911 for Henry Gannett. One arm of the Knik Glacier flows from the ice fields of Mount Gannett's north and east slopes, and the...
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    of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. Named in 1906 for American geographer Henry Gannett, the peak is also the high point of the Wind River Range. The mountain...
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  • publisher, founder of Gannett Company Henry Gannett (1846–1914), American geographer Lewis Gannett, American writer Robert T. Gannett (1917–2012), American...
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  • cartographer. He was born on February 10, 1861, in Augusta, Maine, cousin of Henry Gannett. He attended Bowdoin College, and then MIT. In 1882 he moved to Washington...
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    Shoshoni term wasattsi, meaning "blue heron". In 1926, Cecil Alter quoted Henry Gannett from 1902, who said that the word meant "land of many waters," then...
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    Deming Davis Rich Dewey Halbert L. Dunn Murray Feshbach Robert Groves Henry Gannett Morris H. Hansen Joseph Adna Hill Herman Hollerith Leslie Kish John...
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    German settlers who led the project to establish the community though Henry Gannett stated that the name derived from the city of Karlovac in Croatia, which...
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    Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion (2014). Henry Gannett (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Government...
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    president of the railroad or a surveyor However, according to geographer Henry Gannett, the town was named after a local resident. The town emerged as a small...
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  • French linguist Eilert Ekwall (1877–1964, Sweden) Yoel Elitzur [he] Henry Gannett (1846–1914), American geographer Margaret Gelling (1924–2009), English...
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    Rivers of the Rocky Mountains, Falcon Guides, ISBN 9781493052400, p 89. Henry Gannett (1877), Lists of Elevations Principally in that Portion of the United...
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    in 1873 during the Hayden Survey of the American West. Survey member Henry Gannett is credited with the first ascent. Its name comes from its elongated...
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  • ISBN 0-7478-0470-2 "township". Encyclopedia Britannica. Joseph Prentiss Sanger; Henry Gannett; Walter Francis Willcox (1900). Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico...
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    Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011. Henry Gannett (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt...
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    County". National Association of Counties. Retrieved June 7, 2011. Henry Gannett, (1905) THE ORIGIN OF CERTAIN PLACE NAMES IN THE UNITED STATES". US...
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    Snowmass Creek in one mile (1.6 km). The mountain was named in 1874 by Henry Gannett during the Hayden Survey to honor Charles P. Daly (1816–1899), who was...
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    are also senior living communities including Del Webb at Lake Oconee. Henry Gannett (1905). The origin of certain place names in the United States. Govt...
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    to mean "bright strait" or "clear opening", according to geographer Henry Gannett. Because explorers found navigation hazardous in this New World place...
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    named for Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and Duke of Leeds. However, Henry Gannett in 1905 attributed the town's name to Danby, North Yorkshire, in England...
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    technique to show data is also often said to have originated earlier with Henry Gannett in work preceding the Statistical Atlas of the United States for the...
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    the County, Its Cities, Towns, &c. Western Historical. 1878. p. 328. Henry Gannett (1905). The origin of certain place names in the United States. Govt...
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    Massachusetts: Provincetown Sheet (Map). 1 : 62,500. Cartography by Henry Gannett (Chief Geographer) and Marcus Baker (Geographer-in-Charge). United States...
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    Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011. Henry Gannett (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt...
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    McFarland & Co. p. 79. ISBN 0-7864-2248-3. Joseph Prentiss Sanger; Henry Gannett; Walter Francis Willcox (1900). Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico...
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    universality. United States. Bureau of the Census; Joseph Prentiss Sanger; Henry Gannett; Victor Hugo Olmsted (1905). Census of the Philippine Islands: Taken...
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    Antarctica Denali–Mount McKinley naming dispute Name of Pittsburgh Henry Gannett, "Father of the Quadrangle Map" Geographical Names Board of Canada Geographical...
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    Spanish). p. 1614. Retrieved 4 April 2023. Joseph Prentiss Sanger; Henry Gannett; Walter Francis Willcox (1900). Informe sobre el censo de Puerto Rico...
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  • 1840-1976. Gannett 1902, p. 174. Gannett 1902, p. 175. Gannett 1902, p. 176. Gannett 1902, p. 177. Gannett 1902, p. 178. Gannett 1902, p. 179. Gannett 1902...
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    Google Books. The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States by Henry Gannett Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning...
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