TAYLOR, FRANK BURSLEY: 1860-1938.
Frank Bursley Taylor , son of Robert Stewart and Fanny Wright Taylor, was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., on Nov. 23, 1860. He graduated from high school in 1881 and attended Harvard University for a time. On Apr. 24, 1899, he married Minnetta A. Ketchum of Mackinac Island, Mich.
In 1900 Mr. Taylor was employed in the Michigan Geological Survey. From 1900 to 1916 he was employed in the U. S. Geological Survey, Glacial Division, and in 1908-09 in the Canadian Geological Survey. He published numerous papers relating to the history of the Great Lakes and Niagara Fails and to the glacial and postglacial geology of the lake region, both in the U. S. and Canada . Those of his works which were published by various governments are not listed here.
Information from Who's Who in America.
page: 315[View Page 315]- An Endogenous Planetary System. A Study in Astronomy.
Fort Wayne, Ind., 1898.
- The Planetary System (withF. Leveret). Fort Wayne, Ind., 1903.
- The Fort Wayne Route. The Michigan and Erie Ship
Canal … Fort Wayne, Ind.
- The Growth of the Planetary System as Revealed in Its
Vestiges (withF. Leveret). 1919.
- Ancient Strait at Nipissing. n.p., n.d.
