Charles M. Wheatley

Charles M. Wheatley
A. M.
Born (1822-03-16)March 16, 1822
Ongar, England
Died May 6, 1882(1882-05-06) (aged 60)[1]
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
Occupation miner and palaeontologist
Known for Identifying several new fossilized species

Charles Moore Wheatley (16 March 1822 Ongar, England – 6 May 1882 Phoenixville, Pennsylvania) was a noted English-American miner and palaeontologist of the 19th century. He is noted for identifying several new fossilized species, some of which bear his name, and for his connection to the Port Kennedy Bone Cave, which contained one of the most important middle Pleistocene (Irvingtonian, approximately 750,000 years ago) fossil deposits in North America.

He also managed successful mines in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, including a lead mine in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.

Species

Notes

  1. ↑ "Obituary Notes". New York Times. May 9, 1882. Retrieved 18 February 2011.

References

  • Wheatley biography at The Mineralogical Record
  • Pennypacker, Samuel Whitaker (1872). Annals of Phoenixville and Its Vicinity: From the Settlement to the Year 1871. Phoenixville, PA: Bavis & Pennypacker, printers. 295.
  •  "Wheatley, Charles Moore". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1889.


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