Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1858, Aug. 19 | Born Joseph Stanley Brown (later changed to Joseph Stanley-Brown), Washington, D.C. |
| 1866-1876 | Educated in Washington, D.C., public schools |
| 1876-1880 | Stenographer to John Wesley Powell, director of the Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region |
| 1878-1881 | Secretary to James A. Garfield |
| 1881-1882 | Private secretary to Presidents James A. Garfield and Chester Alan Arthur |
| 1882-1885 | Civil servant, U.S. Geological Survey |
| 1885-1888 | Studied geology, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. |
| 1888 | Married Mary Garfield, daughter of the assassinated president |
| 1888-1889 | Assistant geologist, U.S. Geological Survey |
| 1891-1893 | Special agent, Treasury Department, investigating seal life on Pribilof Islands |
| 1892 | Secretary to Bering Sea Joint Commission |
| 1893 | Secretary to American commissioners in attendance on the Fur Seal Tribunal of Arbitration, Paris, France |
| 1893-1932 | Editor, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America |
| 1894-1899 | Superintendent, North American Commercial Co., and leaseholder of sealing rights in Pribilof Islands |
| 1899-1902 | Assistant secretary, Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railway systems, New York, N.Y. |
| 1902-1904 | Assistant to the president, Long Island Railroad Co., William H. Baldwin |
| 1905-1914 | Manager, railroad department, Fisk & Robinson, bankers, New York, N.Y. |
| 1915-1929 | Partner, Robinson & Co., New York, N.Y. |
| 1941, Nov. 2 | Died, Pasadena, Calif. |