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Article: Dutton, Clarence Edward
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- Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
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Dutton, Clarence Edward
(
b
. Wallingford, Connecticut, 15 May 1841;
d
. Englewood, New Jersey, 4 January 1912)
geology
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Prepared for college early (he was ready to matriculate at thirteen), Dutton was held back by his parents, Samuel and Emily Curtis Dutton, as too young. Entering Yale at fifteen, he at first showed more literary than scientific aptitude. After graduation in the class of 1860, he entered Yale Theological Seminary. His studies were interrupted by the Civil War; he entered the army, where he quickly discovered a liking for mathematics that led him to make the army his career. Emerging from the war a captain of ordnance, he was stationed first at Watervliet Arsenal, near the ...