Bio:D. Moreau Barringer
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Daniel Moreau Barringer, III graduated from The Haverford School (Haverford, Pennsylvania) in 1916. He spent a year at the Evans School (Mesa, Arizona) before attending Princeton, where he majored in Geology. Upon graduation in 1921, he spent the next 10 years in Arizona where he became assistant head-geologist of the Copper Queen Mine.
Mr. Barringer III (1900-1962) was the grandson of Daniel Moreau Barringer (1806-1873), a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, and the son of Daniel Moreau Barringer, Jr. (1860-1929), a geologist best known as the first person to prove the existence of a meteorite crater on the Earth, now known as Meteor Crater (in Arizona). (This crater is also referred to by geologists as the "Barringer Crater".) In 1926, D. Moreau Barringer III became the second person to identify a crater, the Odessa Crater (in Texas), as having been created by a meteor. In 1931, Barringer returned to Philadelphia to study investment banking and, becoming a banker, was one of the founders of the Delaware Fund. During World War II Barringer served in the Allied North African and other Air Forces and became Chief, Office of Statistical Control, Headquarters AAF. For his services, Colonel Barringer received the Legion of Merit.
In 1956 Barringer published a pre-historic novel "And the Waters Prevailed," based strongly on his geological knowledge and background. This book has been published in at least 3 editions, and translated into other languages, including Indonesian. At the request of the Library of Congress, Barringer read the book into a tape for the blind.
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1. ^ This biography is taken extensively from the "Portrait" published at his death in Meteoritics V. 2(1), 1963, pp. viii-x. Some additional notes come from the Wikipedia pages linked to above.