William C. Redfield
1789–1857
Meteorologist. Advocated improvements in steamboat navigation and railway construction. First president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848.
Source
DAB.
Bibliography
DAB: Dictionary of American biography. Under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. 20 vols., index, and 10 supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons; Simon & Schuster Macmillan. London: Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford. 1928–95.
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