Information Sheet

 

 

R         Lynton, Edward Dale.

549                  Papers, 1916-1955.

                                    Two record storage boxes and one gray box.

 

THIS COLLECTION IS IN OFF-SITE STORAGE. AT LEAST TWO DAYS' ADVANCE NOTICE IS REQUIRED FOR ITS USE BY RESEARCHERS.

 

 

These are reports, maps, and other papers written and collected by Edward Dale Lynton (1890-1977), a mining engineer and geologist.  They deal mostly with petroleum exploration in the United States, although there are also data concerning mineral exploration and exploitation in North Africa, South America, and Europe.  Lynton was an early proponent of magnetometry in the search for mineral deposits, and these papers include results of tests in California, Texas, Wyo­ming, and Venezuela.

 

Edward Dale “Ted” Lynton was born in New York, New York, on 9 May 1890.  He at­tended the Missouri School of Mines in Rolla, graduating with a B.S. in Mining Engineering in 1912.  He was awarded an E.M. degree from the same school in 1915. During World War I he served as an officer in the U.S. Navy.  He then began a career in the petroleum business in Cali­fornia.  After World War II he became an international consultant in petroleum and mining en­gineering.  These papers represent both stages of his long career.  In 1968 Lynton donated these papers to the Geol­ogy Department of the University of Missouri-Rolla (formerly the Missouri School of Mines).  Ted Lynton died on 20 December 1977 in Texas.  In 1994 these materials were trans­ferred to the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Rolla.

 

The Lynton Papers contain miscellaneous reports, maps, articles, and data accumulated by E. D. Lynton during his professional career.  The arrangement follows that provided at the time of their original donation to the University of Missouri.  The materials are organized in nineteen the­matic “files” (See the Shelf List.).  Of particular interest are reports from North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) prior to and during World War II, and early experiments using magne­tometers to indicate the presence of underground mineral deposits.

 

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