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Letter, 5 March 1883
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5 March 1883 (Creation)
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- Rockwood, Charles G. (Charles Greene), 1843-1913
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- Princeton (N.J.)
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(1843-1913)
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Charles Greene Rockwood was born on January 11, 1843, in New York City, New York.
He was an educator, mathematician, seismologist, and vulcanologist. He graduated from Yale University in 1864. He continued his studies in higher mathematics and modern languages and received his Ph.D. in 1866. He was Professor of Mathematics at Bowdoin College (1868-1873), Rutgers (1874-1877), and Princeton University (1877-1905), becoming its Emeritus Professor of Mathematics in 1905. He was interested in seismology, vulcanology, and solar heat and is considered the earliest student in earthquakes in the United States. He published numerous articles concerning his studies of American earthquakes in the American Journal of Science. Rockwood was a member of the American Meteorological Society and served as their first secretary. He was also a member of the National Geographic Society, the U.S. Geological Society, and the New Jersey Historical Society. In 1880, he was ordained a deacon of the First Presbyterian Church in Princeton, a position he held until his death.
In 1867, he married Hettie Hosford Smith (1840–1925). He died on July 2, 1913, in Caldwell, Essex County, New Jersey.
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Letter from C.G. Rockwood to John William Dawson, written from Princeton.