Frederick Gardner Clapp

Frederick Gardner Clapp (1879-1944) was an American petroleum geologist considered to be the "first American to make a living wholly as a consultant in petroleum geology in 1908."^[1]

Biography

Clapp was born in Boston, July 20, 1879, and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1901. . After working for the United States Geological Survey from 1902 to 1908, he joined the Associated Geological Engineers in 1911 as a founding member; the firm became the Associated Petroleum Engineers in 1917, the largest geological consulting organization in the United States.

Work

In the United States he conducted field studies in Texas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming, He also worked in Canada, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, France Romania, Australia, New Zealand, Iran, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Afghanistan, and China.

Recognition

Clapp was a fellow of the Geological Society of America, the American Geographical Society' the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the 'Royal Geographical Society.

References

External links

• t portions of Frederick G. Clapp's collection at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee's Libraries Digital Collections
• much other material was donated to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after his death.