Albert David Hager

Albert David Hager (1 November 1817 Chester, Vermont - 29 July 1888 Chicago, Illinois) was a United States geologist, librarian and historian.

Biography

He received a common school education in Chester. In 1856, he was appointed assistant naturalist of Vermont. He was assistant state geologist under Edward Hitchcock 1857-1861, and state geologist and curator of the state cabinet of natural history 1862-1870. In 1870, he was appointed state geologist of Missouri, and in 1877 he became librarian of the Chicago Historical Society. Hager was commissioner from Vermont to the Paris Exposition of 1867.

Works

• Geology of Vermont, with Prof. Hitchcock (2 vols., Claremont, New Hampshire, 1861)
• Annual Report of the Vermont Fish Commission (Montpelier, Vermont, 1866–1869)
• Economic Geology of Vermont
• Report on the geological survey of Missouri (1871)

Notes

References

• Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Hager, Albert David" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

Attribution:

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1892). "Hager, Albert David" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.