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Major Higginson began his address with a short account of Professor Agassiz's life, especially that part relating to his marine work and to the upbuilding of the Calumet and Hecla mine, a feat he accomplished only after hard and protracted labor. "After 1873, he spent several months of each winter in some foreign country to make researches, and it was during these times that he did so much sea-dredging." Mr. Agassiz's scientific writings number more than two hundred titles, including volumes and short papers...
...will give a sketch of Mr. Agassiz's life from the time he entered Harvard to the present day, telling some of his experiences in College and in the Scientific School. Beginning with his connection with the Calumet and Hecla mining property, Major Higginson will trace how he developed it from an insolvent condition to the best copper mine in the world, and will describe the difficulties he faced and overcame in the process...
...Agassiz, who was then managing a coal mine in Pennsylvania, was called by his brother-in-law, Mr. Quincy A. Shaw, to go to Michigan to represent his interests in the supervision of the operations in the Calumet, Hecla and Huron Copper properties, the controlling interest in which Mr. Shaw had acquired. With his arrival there Agassiz began his career in copper mining, in which he continued uninterruptedly for forty-four years. He long survived the term of all his early contemporaries in the direction of that industry in Michigan. During his career he not only developed the largest...
...principal mines of California and collected specimens for the Museum at Cambridge. Upon his return in 1860, he became assistant in Zoology at the Museum, of which he took charge during his father's absence in Brazil. From 1866 to 1869 he was superintendent of the Calumet and Hecla Copper Company, which he developed from a state of insolvency into the most noted copper mine in the world. During the years 1869 and 1870 he carefully inspected the museums of England, France, Germany, and Scandinavia, after which he returned to his duties in Cambridge, and succeeded his father as curator...
...Boston last Friday, at the age of 68. He served through the Civil War as a member of the First Massachusetts Cavalry, and then engaged in the cotton planting business. Later the returned North, and became a prominent cotton merchant and manufacturer. He was president of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company for four years and retired from active business only a few years...