Harrington, George

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Epithet: Alderman of Bristol

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George Harrington, born in Minnesota in 1883, earned his engineer's degree from the Minnesota School of Mines in 1912. He was a geologist with Standard Oil in Argentina from 1921 to 1943. He retired to Palo Alto in 1943; after the war he became a research associate to Stanford paleontologists Myra Keen and Hans Thalman. His daughter Jane Harrington Jones, Stanford class of 1941, established the George L. Harrington Faculty Scholar Fund in his honor.

From the guide to the George Harrington photograph albums and papers, 1921-circa 1993, 1921-1928, (Department of Special Collections and University Archives)

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