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HARVEY
SEELEY MUDD
Harvey Seeley Mudd, mining engineer, was born in Leadville, Colorado, August 30, 1888; the son of Seeley Wintersmith and Della (Mulock) Mudd.
Student at Stanford University, 1906–08; received an E.M. degree from Columbia University in 1912 (honorary Sc.D.degree, 1947); received honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of California in 1941 and from Loyola University in 1943; is an honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers; an honorary officer Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire; received the Egleston Medal from Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association in 1949.
Mr. Mudd began his career as mining engineer at Bisbee, Arizona, in 1912. He is president and managing director of the Cyprus Mines Corporation; director of Texas Gulf Sulphur Company, Mesabi Iron Company, Southern Pacific Company, Founders Insurance Company; voting trustee Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company; trustee of Rand Corporation, California Institute of Technology and Southwest Museum; chairman Board of Fellows Claremont (California) College; chairman Board of Directors Welfare Federation of the Los Angeles Area; member Advisory Committee of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery; member Board of Governors, Los Angeles County Museum
During Word War I Mr. Mudd served as technologist with the United States Bureau of Mines and as assistant secretary of the War Minerals Committee..
Mr. Mudd is a member and past president of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers; councillor of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America; member Society of Colonial Wars; Sons of the Revolution; Sigma Xi, Delta Tau Delta, and Tau Beta Pi; Congregational Church; University, California, Bohemian and Los Angeles Country Clubs. He is a Republican.
On March 12, 1913, Mr. Mudd married Mildred Hardy Esterbrook. They have two children: Henry Thomas and Caryll Esterbrook.
Home: 1240 Benedict Canon Drive, Beverly Hills, California.
Offices: 1206 Pacific Mutual Building, Los Angeles, California.
Transcribed 11-7-13 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 146, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2013 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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