Col. Alfred Dale Owen (1841) William Herschel Owen (1847) Nina Dale Owen (1849) Anna Owen
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Ann (or Anne) Caroline Dale and Robert Owen
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David Dale Owen (24 June 1807 – 13 November 1860) was a prominent American geologist who conducted the first geological surveys of Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. Owen served as the first state geologist for three states: Kentucky (1854–57), Arkansas (1857–59), and Indiana (1837–39 and 1859–60). His first geological work was as an assistant mapping the geology of Tennessee in 1836. In addition, Owen was appointed as a U.S. geologist in 1839 and led federal surveys of Iowa, Wisconsin, and northern Illinois (1839–40) and in the Upper Midwest (1847-1851). Owen's greatest legacy lies in the eleven volumes of published reports from his state and federal geological surveys, which increased the general knowledge and understanding of American geology, the structural geology and paleontology of the United States, and the mineral wealth of the Midwestern states. Owen's most significant contribution to the field of geology was identifying and naming major geological formations of the Mississippi River Valley and placing them in relative position on a geological timeline. He also helped to standardize the nomenclature of geological structures in the Midwest.
David Dale was the third surviving son of Robert Owen, a Welsh-born socialist reformer who established a social experiment at New Harmony, Indiana. The experiment failed within few years, but David Dale and his three brothers, Robert Dale Owen, William, and Richard Dale Owen, as well as their sister, Jane Dale Owen Fauntleroy, established a permanent home at New Harmony. Owen amassed an extensive personal collection of natural history specimens at New Harmony, as well as a geological laboratory and museum that served as the headquarters of the U.S. Geological Survey until 1856. In addition to his geological survey work, Owen had a minor role in the preliminary design of the Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, D.C., and recommended the distinctive, dark-red Seneca Creek sandstone that was used in its construction.
Robert DaleOwen (7 November 1801 – 24 June 1877) was a Scottish-born Welsh-American social reformer who was active in Indiana politics as member of the...
(1809–1890) and Mary (1810–1832). Owen's four sons, Robert Dale, William, DavidDale and Richard, and his daughter Jane Dale, followed their father to the...
DavidDale (6 January 1739–7 March 1806) was a leading Scottish industrialist, merchant and philanthropist during the Scottish Enlightenment period at...
district include the Harmony Society, George Rapp, Robert Owen, Robert DaleOwen, DavidDaleOwen, Thomas Say, Charles-Alexandre Lesueur, William Maclure...
great-grandfather was Robert Owen, one of Britain’s first social reformers and industrialists. Her grandfather was DavidDaleOwen, a geologist for the United...
the Geological Survey of Arkansas, commissioning Principal Geologist DavidDaleOwen, to survey the territory west of Little Rock and provide a report on...
American, dinosaur paleontologist, discovered warm-blooded Deinonychus DavidDaleOwen (1807–1860), American, first state geologist of Indiana, Kentucky,...
to explore the Badlands. Evans was a subagent of the U.S. geologist DavidDaleOwen. Under his instruction, Evans devised a map of the Badlands, which...
they have never since been of such relatively great importance. Dr. DavidDaleOwen, indeed, while studying the various building stones of Maryland at...
established in 1857, at the direction of Governor Elias Nelson Conway. DavidDaleOwen was the agencies first geologist. Initially, the agency received funding...
Mississippian. This formation was first named the "Archimedes Limestone" by DavidDaleOwen in 1858, but was replaced in 1904. The Pitkin conformably overlies...
1847, he shifted careers to geology. From 1847 to 1851 he worked for DavidDaleOwen performing field survey throughout Wisconsin Territory and Iowa. In...
method of doing geological surveys, which was carried on by DavidDaleOwen, son of Robert Owen, who went on to do several surveys of the American northwest...
founded originally by DavidDale, passed on to a partnership that included Robert Owen, who became mill manager in 1800. In Owen's time approximately 2500...
was established by law on 1854-03-04 and only partly completed by DavidDaleOwen before he died. It comprised four volumes, 2012 pages, of topographic...
out scientific research expeditions; among her students were DavidDaleOwen and Richard Owen, Indiana's first and third state geologists. Due to the frontier...
Earl Cawdor, Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, 69 13 November – DavidDaleOwen, geologist in the USA, 53 27 November – Richard Richards, politician...
story arcs on Emily Owens, M.D. and Hart of Dixie, and the unsold television adaptation of Delirium. Following Hawaii Five-0 Dale had a brief recurring...
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