Henry G. Hanks
(1826-1907)
Henry Garber Hanks was an American chemist, assayer and geologist, and the first State Mineralogist of California. He was born in Ohio in May of 1826, and had arrived in San Francisco sometime before 1860, probably during the Gold Rush of 1849 (he cannot be found anywhere on the 1850 census, and was probably prospecting). He establised his own assaying company, the Pacific Chemical Works, in San Francisco in 1866, in which he was joined by his son Abbott Hanks, also an assayer. He headed the California State Mining Bureau in San Francisco from its establishment in 1880 to 1886 (at a salary of $3000 per year). The Bureau received the entire collection and property of the California State Geological Society, and established a museum and library open to the public. He is credited with many important geological and chemical investigations for the U.S. Government. The mineral hanksite (from Searles Lake, California) was named in his honor by William E. Hidden in 1885.
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[Citation format for this entry:
WILSON, Wendell E. (2010)
Mineralogical Record
Biographical Archive, at www.mineralogicalrecord.com.]
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Henry Hanks' Pacific Chemical Works and assaying company in San Francisco, 1868. |
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55 x 81 cm,
1880-1886 |
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68 x 95 mm,
1880-1886 |
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56 x 79 mm,
Label for a specimen from Hanks' private collection. |
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