Father: Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphus Agassiz
Mother: Anna Russell
Wife: Mabel Simpkins
Graduated Harvard, class of 1884. He was a director of the Calumet and Hecla Mine, traveled widely, became an Arizona rancher and served for a time with the Boston brokerage firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. For several years after his marriage he lived in California.
He was the author of the biography of his father, "Letters and recollections of Alexander Agassiz," of "Mead's Headquarters," published in 1927, and contributed to several journals.
He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Harvard gave him an honorary doctorate in Law in 1938, during one of his terms as alumni Association president.
In December 1951, Harvard University decided to rename its Oak Ridge Station in Harvard, Massachusetts, the George R. Agassiz Station. It was named in honor of George R. Agassiz, in recognition of his part in the planning and construction of the observatory and his life-long interest in the department of astronomy. Agassiz had also served on the University Board of Overseers from 1924 to 1937, and had been its president for eight years. In August 1982, the "Agassiz Station" name was transferred to a site in Texas when the Harvard Radio Astronomy Station (est. 1956) was officially renamed the George R. Agassiz Station of the Harvard College Observatory. The new site was on Cook Flat, a valley at the base of Mount Locke, in the Davis Mountains about five miles northwest of Fort Davis.
Mother: Anna Russell
Wife: Mabel Simpkins
Graduated Harvard, class of 1884. He was a director of the Calumet and Hecla Mine, traveled widely, became an Arizona rancher and served for a time with the Boston brokerage firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. For several years after his marriage he lived in California.
He was the author of the biography of his father, "Letters and recollections of Alexander Agassiz," of "Mead's Headquarters," published in 1927, and contributed to several journals.
He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Harvard gave him an honorary doctorate in Law in 1938, during one of his terms as alumni Association president.
In December 1951, Harvard University decided to rename its Oak Ridge Station in Harvard, Massachusetts, the George R. Agassiz Station. It was named in honor of George R. Agassiz, in recognition of his part in the planning and construction of the observatory and his life-long interest in the department of astronomy. Agassiz had also served on the University Board of Overseers from 1924 to 1937, and had been its president for eight years. In August 1982, the "Agassiz Station" name was transferred to a site in Texas when the Harvard Radio Astronomy Station (est. 1956) was officially renamed the George R. Agassiz Station of the Harvard College Observatory. The new site was on Cook Flat, a valley at the base of Mount Locke, in the Davis Mountains about five miles northwest of Fort Davis.
Father: Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphus Agassiz
Mother: Anna Russell
Wife: Mabel Simpkins
Graduated Harvard, class of 1884. He was a director of the Calumet and Hecla Mine, traveled widely, became an Arizona rancher and served for a time with the Boston brokerage firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. For several years after his marriage he lived in California.
He was the author of the biography of his father, "Letters and recollections of Alexander Agassiz," of "Mead's Headquarters," published in 1927, and contributed to several journals.
He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Harvard gave him an honorary doctorate in Law in 1938, during one of his terms as alumni Association president.
In December 1951, Harvard University decided to rename its Oak Ridge Station in Harvard, Massachusetts, the George R. Agassiz Station. It was named in honor of George R. Agassiz, in recognition of his part in the planning and construction of the observatory and his life-long interest in the department of astronomy. Agassiz had also served on the University Board of Overseers from 1924 to 1937, and had been its president for eight years. In August 1982, the "Agassiz Station" name was transferred to a site in Texas when the Harvard Radio Astronomy Station (est. 1956) was officially renamed the George R. Agassiz Station of the Harvard College Observatory. The new site was on Cook Flat, a valley at the base of Mount Locke, in the Davis Mountains about five miles northwest of Fort Davis.
Mother: Anna Russell
Wife: Mabel Simpkins
Graduated Harvard, class of 1884. He was a director of the Calumet and Hecla Mine, traveled widely, became an Arizona rancher and served for a time with the Boston brokerage firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. For several years after his marriage he lived in California.
He was the author of the biography of his father, "Letters and recollections of Alexander Agassiz," of "Mead's Headquarters," published in 1927, and contributed to several journals.
He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Harvard gave him an honorary doctorate in Law in 1938, during one of his terms as alumni Association president.
In December 1951, Harvard University decided to rename its Oak Ridge Station in Harvard, Massachusetts, the George R. Agassiz Station. It was named in honor of George R. Agassiz, in recognition of his part in the planning and construction of the observatory and his life-long interest in the department of astronomy. Agassiz had also served on the University Board of Overseers from 1924 to 1937, and had been its president for eight years. In August 1982, the "Agassiz Station" name was transferred to a site in Texas when the Harvard Radio Astronomy Station (est. 1956) was officially renamed the George R. Agassiz Station of the Harvard College Observatory. The new site was on Cook Flat, a valley at the base of Mount Locke, in the Davis Mountains about five miles northwest of Fort Davis.
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