Alexander Agassiz
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Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz （December 17, 1835 – March 27, 1910）, son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.
Agassiz was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and immigrated to the United States with his parents, Louis and Cecile （Braun） Agassiz, in 1846.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1855, subsequently studying engineering and chemistry, and taking the degree of Bachelor of Science
at the Lawrence Scientific School of the same institution in 1857; in 1859 became an assistant in the United States Coast Survey.
Thenceforward he became a specialist in marine ichthyology.
Agassiz was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1862.
Up until the summer of 1866, Agassiz worked as assistant curator in the museum of natural history that his father founded at Harvard.
Agassiz circa 1860 E. J. Hulbert, a friend of Agassiz's brother-in-law, Quincy Adams Shaw, had discovered a rich copper lode known as the Calumet conglomerate on the Keweenaw Peninsula in Michigan.
Hulbert persuaded them, along with a group of friends, to purchase a controlling interest in the mines, which later became known as the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company based in Calumet, Michigan.
That summer, he took a trip to see the mines for himself and he afterwards became treasurer of the enterprise.
Over the winter of 1866 and early 1867, mining operations began to falter, due to the difficulty of extracting copper from the conglomerate.
Hulbert had sold his interests in the mines and had moved on to other ventures.
But Agassiz refused to give up hope for the mines.
He returned to the mines in March 1867, with h...