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Winchell, Alexander

educator, geologist, author, was born Dec. 31, 1824, in North East, Dutchess county, N. Y. He was a professor of geology at the university of Michigan in 1854-73 and in 1879-91; and the author of Sketches of Creation; Pre-Adamites; Doctrine of Evolution; World Life; Science and Religion; The Geology of the Stars; Thoughts on Causality; Sparks from a Geologist's Hammer; Geological Excursions; Geological Studies; and Walks and Talks in the Geological Field. He died Feb. 19, 1891, in Ann Arbor, Mich.