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Person
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Wilkins, D. F. H. (David Francis Henry), 1846-
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Dates of existence
1846-
History
David Francis Henry Wilkins was born in 1846 in Charleston, Ohio.
He was a teacher and geologist. He studied at the University of Toronto (B.A.) and McGill University (Bac. App. Sc., 1875). In 1878, he became Professor of Chemistry and Geology at Albert College, Belleville, Ontario. In 1881, he was teaching in Chatham and in 1890, when he published his last papers, he was principal of Beamsville High School. Wilkins was prominent in the Hamilton Association for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art and published articles on geology in the Canadian Naturalist, Journal and Proceedings of the Hamilton Association and Quarterly Journal of Science.
In 1881, he married Minnie Talbot Robinson (-1930).