Washington Post (Washington, District of Columbia, USA) on Monday, June 9, 1975, page C6:
T. C. Denton, Engineer for Mines Bureau
Thomas C. Denton, 76, a retired mining engineer, died Saturday at Suburban Hospital after suffering an aneurysm.
He had retired in 1969 as African specialist in the Foreign Minerals Division of the Interior Department's Bureau of Mines.
Born in Houghton, Mich., Mr. Denton interrupted his schooling at Harvard University to enter the Army infantry in 1918, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant.
He returned to Harvard after World War I and was graduated cum laude from the university and its mining school.
Mr. Denton then had two investments companies and prospected for gold all through Canada, including Vancouver Island.
At the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Bureau of Mines in Tucson, Ariz., and participated in the search for strategic metals in the Southeast.
He left government service briefly to work for the Potash Company of America in Carlsbad, N. Mex., before rejoining the Bureau of Mines in Washington in 1948.
Mr Denton was a former member of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America.
He is survived by his wife, Margaret l. Denton, and a son, Thomas C. Jr., of home, 5515 Charles St., Bethesda; two daughters, Mrs. Richard T. Groos, of Hastings, Mich., and Alice D. Wittler, of Champaign, Ill.; two brothers, K. C. Denton, of Portland, Maine, and John S., of Jackson, Mic.; a sister, Mrs. Eugene B. Hotchkiss, of New Canaan, Con., and eight grandchildren.
Contributor: Ruth Watkins (Pew) Jaynes (48360967)
T. C. Denton, Engineer for Mines Bureau
Thomas C. Denton, 76, a retired mining engineer, died Saturday at Suburban Hospital after suffering an aneurysm.
He had retired in 1969 as African specialist in the Foreign Minerals Division of the Interior Department's Bureau of Mines.
Born in Houghton, Mich., Mr. Denton interrupted his schooling at Harvard University to enter the Army infantry in 1918, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant.
He returned to Harvard after World War I and was graduated cum laude from the university and its mining school.
Mr. Denton then had two investments companies and prospected for gold all through Canada, including Vancouver Island.
At the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Bureau of Mines in Tucson, Ariz., and participated in the search for strategic metals in the Southeast.
He left government service briefly to work for the Potash Company of America in Carlsbad, N. Mex., before rejoining the Bureau of Mines in Washington in 1948.
Mr Denton was a former member of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America.
He is survived by his wife, Margaret l. Denton, and a son, Thomas C. Jr., of home, 5515 Charles St., Bethesda; two daughters, Mrs. Richard T. Groos, of Hastings, Mich., and Alice D. Wittler, of Champaign, Ill.; two brothers, K. C. Denton, of Portland, Maine, and John S., of Jackson, Mic.; a sister, Mrs. Eugene B. Hotchkiss, of New Canaan, Con., and eight grandchildren.
Contributor: Ruth Watkins (Pew) Jaynes (48360967)
Washington Post (Washington, District of Columbia, USA) on Monday, June 9, 1975, page C6:
T. C. Denton, Engineer for Mines Bureau
Thomas C. Denton, 76, a retired mining engineer, died Saturday at Suburban Hospital after suffering an aneurysm.
He had retired in 1969 as African specialist in the Foreign Minerals Division of the Interior Department's Bureau of Mines.
Born in Houghton, Mich., Mr. Denton interrupted his schooling at Harvard University to enter the Army infantry in 1918, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant.
He returned to Harvard after World War I and was graduated cum laude from the university and its mining school.
Mr. Denton then had two investments companies and prospected for gold all through Canada, including Vancouver Island.
At the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Bureau of Mines in Tucson, Ariz., and participated in the search for strategic metals in the Southeast.
He left government service briefly to work for the Potash Company of America in Carlsbad, N. Mex., before rejoining the Bureau of Mines in Washington in 1948.
Mr Denton was a former member of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America.
He is survived by his wife, Margaret l. Denton, and a son, Thomas C. Jr., of home, 5515 Charles St., Bethesda; two daughters, Mrs. Richard T. Groos, of Hastings, Mich., and Alice D. Wittler, of Champaign, Ill.; two brothers, K. C. Denton, of Portland, Maine, and John S., of Jackson, Mic.; a sister, Mrs. Eugene B. Hotchkiss, of New Canaan, Con., and eight grandchildren.
Contributor: Ruth Watkins (Pew) Jaynes (48360967)
T. C. Denton, Engineer for Mines Bureau
Thomas C. Denton, 76, a retired mining engineer, died Saturday at Suburban Hospital after suffering an aneurysm.
He had retired in 1969 as African specialist in the Foreign Minerals Division of the Interior Department's Bureau of Mines.
Born in Houghton, Mich., Mr. Denton interrupted his schooling at Harvard University to enter the Army infantry in 1918, where he was commissioned a second lieutenant.
He returned to Harvard after World War I and was graduated cum laude from the university and its mining school.
Mr. Denton then had two investments companies and prospected for gold all through Canada, including Vancouver Island.
At the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Bureau of Mines in Tucson, Ariz., and participated in the search for strategic metals in the Southeast.
He left government service briefly to work for the Potash Company of America in Carlsbad, N. Mex., before rejoining the Bureau of Mines in Washington in 1948.
Mr Denton was a former member of the Mining and Metallurgical Society of America.
He is survived by his wife, Margaret l. Denton, and a son, Thomas C. Jr., of home, 5515 Charles St., Bethesda; two daughters, Mrs. Richard T. Groos, of Hastings, Mich., and Alice D. Wittler, of Champaign, Ill.; two brothers, K. C. Denton, of Portland, Maine, and John S., of Jackson, Mic.; a sister, Mrs. Eugene B. Hotchkiss, of New Canaan, Con., and eight grandchildren.
Contributor: Ruth Watkins (Pew) Jaynes (48360967)
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