Resources of south-west Virginia, showing the mineral deposits of iron, coal, zinc, copper and lead. Also the staples of the various counties, methods of transportation, access, etc ... (1881)
Resources of south-west Virginia, showing the mineral deposits of iron, coal, zinc, copper and lead. Also the staples of the various counties, methods of transportation, access, etc ... (1881)
Author: Boyd, Charles Rufus, 1841-1903
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Title Resources of south-west Virginia, showing the mineral deposits of iron, coal, zinc, copper and lead. Also the staples of the various counties, methods of transportation, access, etc ...
Creator Boyd, Charles Rufus, 1841-1903
Publisher New York : J. Wiley & Sons
Date 1881
Language eng
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"Charles Rufus Boyd {1841-1903}
The third character is much less known than Rogers and Hotchkiss. A native of Wytheville, C.R.Boyd also served with Hotchkiss in the Confederate Army as an engineer in the Stonewall Brigade. After the war he studied at the University of Virginia under Francis H. Smith, one of William Barton Rogers' former students who succeeded Rogers as natural science professor at the university [Roberts, 1942, p.50]. Boyd was a consultant in mineral resources from 1874 to 1890, traveled and wrote widely about southwestern Virginia. He corresponded and advertized in Hotchkiss' publication "me Wrginias", and often listed himself as "State Geologist, ex officio". He published a large volume on the "Resources of Southwest Virginia" {1881} that contained an excellent map, and was contracted to publish a smaller volume on "Grayson county, Virginia" {1897}. He produced and reprinted several large-scale maps of the area in 1886, 1897, 1899, and 1903. His only memorial marker is a headstone in Wytheville tht might cover this page. It was broken and lying inside some other family's plot, saying just "{CSA} C.R.Boyd". The is more at the above location.
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