Harvey Seeley Mudd

Harvey Seeley Mudd

Infobox Person
name = Harvey Seeley Mudd


caption =
birth_date = 1888
birth_place = Leadville, Colorado
death_date = 1955
death_place = Los Angeles
other_names = Harvey Mudd
known_for = eponymous engineering school named in his memory
occupation = mining engineer
resting_place = Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California

Harvey Seeley Mudd (born Leadville, Colorado 1888, died Los Angeles 1955) was a mining engineer and founder, investor, and president of Cyprus Mines Corporation, a Los Angeles-based international enterprise that operated copper mines on the island of Cyprus. The science and engineering college Harvey Mudd College was named in memory of him. He also was a Vice President of the California Institute of Technology and has two geology buildings on that campus named in his memory. [ [http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/93/01/Millikan.pdf Caltech, C.I.T. News] ]

His father, Colonel Seeley W. Mudd (1861–1926) was also a mining engineer. In 1907 he developed the Ray Copper Mine in Arizona, which is still in production.

Harvey S. Mudd's remains are interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California.

References

*cite web| title= Harvey Mudd College History | url= http://www.hmc.edu/highlights/history.html |accessmonthday=23 June | accessyear=2006
*cite book| title=The story of the Cyprus Mines Corporation | first=David|last=Lavender | publisher=Huntington Library | location=San Marino, CA | id=LCCN 61014054 | year=1962

External links

* [http://www.hmc.edu/headline/commencement2006wrapup.htm Mudd Family history] (scroll down)
* [http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/93/01/Millikan.pdf Caltech Newsletter]


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