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William Morris Davis

1850 - 1934

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William Morris Davis (February 12, 1850 – February 5, 1934) was an American geographer, geologist, geomorphologist, and meteorologist, often called the "father of American geography". He was born into a prominent Quaker family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, son of Edward M. Davis and Maria Mott Davis (a daughter of the women's advocate Lucretia Mott). Davis studied geology and geography at Harvard's Lawrence Scientific School and then joined the Harvard sponsored geographic exploration party to the Colorado territory, led by the inaugural Sturgis-Hooper professor of geology, Josiah Dwight Whitney. Wild stories had circulated since soon after the Louisiana Purchase about Rocky Mountains peaks 18,000 feet or higher. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Morris Davis is the 22nd most popular geographer (up from 28th in 2019), the 1,414th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,649th in 2019) and the most popular American Geographer.

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, William Morris Davis ranks 22 out of 86. Before him are Georg Joachim Rheticus, Ibn Khordadbeh, Pomponius Mela, Paul Vidal de La Blache, Ibn Jubayr, and Al-Bakri. After him are Élisée Reclus, Fra Mauro, James Lovelock, Zakariya al-Qazwini, Sebastian Münster, and Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, William Morris Davis ranks 22. Before him are Luigi Cadorna, Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton, Oliver Heaviside, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, and Frances Xavier Cabrini. After him are Lafcadio Hearn, Besarion Jughashvili, Ignác Goldziher, César Ritz, Victoriano Huerta, and Sami Frashëri. Among people deceased in 1934, William Morris Davis ranks 30. Before him are Marinus van der Lubbe, Alice Liddell, Edmond James de Rothschild, Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Jean Vigo. After him are Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Hans Hahn, Carl von Linde, Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Pietro Gasparri, and Vlado Chernozemski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William Morris Davis ranks 1,414 out of 20,380. Before him are Meat Loaf (1947), Kevin Hart (1979), Don Norman (1935), Alicia Keys (1981), Robert M. La Follette (1855), and Robert Englund (1947). After him are William J. Burns (1956), E. Donnall Thomas (1920), Matt Groening (1954), Timothy M. Dolan (1950), Mae West (1893), and Sam Jones (1933).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In United States

Among geographers born in United States, William Morris Davis ranks 1. After him are Marie Tharp (1920), Richard Hartshorne (1899), Ellsworth Huntington (1876), Ellen Churchill Semple (1863), Carl O. Sauer (1889), and Henry Schoolcraft (1793).

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