Powell, John Wesley

1834 - Born on the 24th of March in Mount Morris, New York.

1830 - Had emigrated to the US from Shrewsbury, England.

1855 - He spent four months walking across Wisconsin.

1856 - He rowed the Mississippi from St. Anthony to the sea.

1857 - He rowed down the Ohio River from Pittsburgh to St. Louis.

1858 - Down the Illinois River, then up the Mississippi and the Des Moines River to central Iowa.

1859 - He was elected to the Illinois Natural History Society.

1862 - He married Emma Dean.

1867 - He led a series of expeditions into the Rocky Mountains and around the Green and Colorado rivers.

1869 - He set out to explore the Colorado and the Grand Canyon.

         - He gathered nine men, four boats and food for ten months and set out from Green River, Wyoming on the 24th of May.

1871-1872 - Powell retraced the route with another expedition, producing photographs, an accurate map, and various papers.

1881 - He became the second director of the US Geological Survey, a post he held until 1894.

1902 - Died on the 23rd of September.