14 PR0CEEDI>'GS 01 THE BALTIMORE MEETING 



Few of the present generation of geologists were personally acquainted 

 with Professor Broadhead. Those of the generation immediately pre- 

 ceding knew him well. He belonged really to the third generation back. 

 His colleagues were the men who flourished three-quarters of a century 

 ago. His name is firmly linked with those of Owen. Shujnard, Xorwood. 

 Swallow, Engelmann. Hawn, Meek, and Worthen. His contemporaries 

 in the East were Hall, Conrad. Vanuxem. Hitchcock, the Eodgers. Dana. 

 Lesley^ and L. Agassiz. With the passing of Broadhead. the last of the 

 heroic figures in American science makes exit from the geologic stage. 



Garland C'arr Broadhead was bom October 30, 182 T. near Charlottes- 

 ville, Virginia. Xine years afterward the father, Achilles Broadhead, 

 remoTed with his family to Missouri, settltQg at Flint Hill, in Saint 

 Charles County. 2b miles north of Saint Louis. Here young Garland 

 received his early education, under tutors at home and at private schools. 

 When he matriculated at the Missouri University, in 1850, he had already 

 shown a strong ])ent toward mathematics. Latin, and history. Eapid ad- 

 vancement in the first mentioned branch led to his entering the Western 

 Military Institute, one of the famous coUegiate schools of that day, located 

 at Drenum Springs. Kentucky. Here he came under the tutelage of 

 Professor Eichard Owen, from whom he gained his first inspiration to 

 enter geological fields. At this time General Bushrod E. Johnson held 

 tlie chair of mathematics and Colonel Williamson the chair of engi- 

 neering. These distinguished instructors largely determined the future 

 vocation of young Broadhead. Under them he made such rapid progress 

 that when the Chief Engineer of the Missouri Pacific Eailroad, then 

 building out of St. Louis, went to Professor Williamson for assistants, 

 Broadhead was selected one of the surveyors. This post he filled with 

 credit to himself and satisfaction to his chief, sinc-e in the following year 

 he was promoted to Assistant Engineer, in charge of location lines. In 

 185 T he was made Eesident Engineer of Construction, with headquarters 

 at Hermann. In 1864 Mr. Broadhead married and settled in Pleasant 

 Hill, near Kansas City. With headquarters there, he continued his rail- 

 road work in the capacity of Assistant Engineer. Construction work on 

 the Missouri Pacific Eailroad was then nearing the Kansas line. This 

 building lasted two years. Later, he was engineer of railways construct- 

 ing in Kansas, his last work in this field being done in 1880. 



The Civil War brought railroad building for a time to a standstill. The 

 strenuous days of that period found Mr. Broadhead helping to preserve 

 the Union. In 1862 he was commissioned Assistant Adjutant General 

 on the staff of General J. B. Henderson. During the same year he was 

 appointed Deputy Collector of Internal Eevenue for the First District of 



