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Henry Schoolcraft

1793 - 1864

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Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (March 28, 1793 – December 10, 1864) was an American geographer, geologist, and ethnologist, noted for his early studies of Native American cultures, as well as for his 1832 expedition to the source of the Mississippi River. He is also noted for his major six-volume study of Native Americans commissioned by Congress and published in the 1850s. He served as United States Indian agent in Michigan for a period beginning in 1822. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Schoolcraft has received more than 193,751 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Henry Schoolcraft is the 74th most popular geographer (down from 67th in 2019), the 13,412th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,327th in 2019) and the 7th most popular American Geographer.

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  • 17

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, Henry Schoolcraft ranks 74 out of 67. Before him are Yuly Shokalsky, Herman Moll, Johannes Gabriel Granö, Arnold Henry Guyot, John Speed, and Thomas Griffith Taylor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1793, Henry Schoolcraft ranks 53. Before him are Jan Frans Willems, John Clare, Manuel Menéndez, Eliphalet Remington, Robert Edmond Grant, and Thomas Doughty. After him is John Slidell. Among people deceased in 1864, Henry Schoolcraft ranks 69. Before him are Juris Alunāns, John Clare, John Sedgwick, Adelaide Anne Procter, Leonidas Polk, and William Smith O'Brien.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Henry Schoolcraft ranks 13,412 out of 18,182. Before him are Richard J. Terrile (1951), John M. Berrien (1781), Laurie Bartram (1958), John Ousterhout (1954), India Eisley (1993), and NF (1991). After him are Robert J. Cenker (1948), JC Chasez (1976), Ronnie Milsap (1943), Clayton Anderson (1959), Jason Butler Harner (1970), and Frances Gifford (1920).

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Among GEOGRAPHERS In United States

Among geographers born in United States, Henry Schoolcraft ranks 7. Before him are William Morris Davis (1850), Marie Tharp (1920), Richard Hartshorne (1899), Ellen Churchill Semple (1863), Ellsworth Huntington (1876), and Carl O. Sauer (1889).

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