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Gannett, Henry

topographer, aubeen chief topographer of the United States geological survey since 1882, and is the author of Boundaries of the United States; The Building of a Nation; Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States; Results of Primary Triangulation; Manual of Topographical Methods; and Geographic Dictionaries of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey.

GANNETT, WILLIAM CHANNING, clergyman, author, poet, was born in 1840.

He is a unitarian clergyman of Minneapolis, and subsequently of Rochester, N. Y.,. and the author of A Year of Miracle, a poem in Four Sermons; Memoir of E. S.

Gannett; and The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems.

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