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Warring, Charles B. (Charles Bartlett), 1825-1907
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Dates of existence
1825-1907
History
Charles Bartlett Warring was born on November 15, 1825, in Charlton, New York.
He was a physicist, educator, amateur geologist, and author. He attended Poughkeepsie and Union College (B.A., M.A.). He founded and directed the Poughkeepsie Military Institute, a school for boys. He taught Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and contemporary cosmogony at the Collegiate School in Poughkeepsie. Warring was one of the founders of the Poughkeepsie Society of Natural Sciences which later became the Scientific Section of the Vassar Brothers Institute. He was also a member of the New York Academy of Science and an Associate Member of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain. His most original contribution was a paper of 1887 in which he proposed that the continents drifted apart from a single mass at the beginning of the earth’s history. He published several books, e.g., "Mosaic Account of Creation, the Miracle of Today, or, New Witnesses to the Oneness of Genesis & Science" (1875), "Studies Upon the Inclination of the Earth's Axis" ( 1876?), and "Genesis I and Modern Science" (1892).
In 1851, he married Catharine Anne Lent (1821-1911). He died on July 4, 1907, in Poughkeepsie, New York.