Tuomy, Michael
geologist, educator, author, was born Sept. 29, 1808, in Ireland. He was a professor of geology in the university of Alabama in 1847-57, state geologist of South Carolina from 1844, and of Alabama from 1848. He was the author of Geological and Agricultural Survey of South Carolina; Report on the Geology of South Carolina; Fossils of South Carolina (with F. Holmes); and First and Second Biennial Reports on the Geology of Alabama. He died March 30, 1857, in Tuscaloosa, Ala.