Tweedy, Frank
Frank Tweedy (1854 - 1937) was a topographer and botanist best known for his maps of Yellowstone National Park. Born and raised in New York City, Tweedy spent summers in the Adirondack Mountains, inculcating a familiarity with the region that would later be central to his career. He attended Union College in Schenectady and studied civil engineering. He worked as a surveyor with the Adirondack Survey in the late 1870s, where his work in the densely wooded Beaver River region won plaudits from Verplanck Colvin, founder and head of the survey. He then took a job as a sanitation engineer in Newport, Rhode Island, before joining the Northern Pacific Survey in Washington Territory in 1882. In 1884, he began working for the U.S. Geological Survey, where he remained for the rest of his career, conducting surveys throughout the American West. All along, he pursued an interest in botany, collecting and categorizing plants; his collections and descriptions were so important that at least 35 plant taxa have been named in his honor.
A Vast and Wondrous Wilderness.
Beaver River Survey (Base-Lines and Topography), 1876-79. Section No. 1.
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A colorful 1879 map of Beaver Lake in Lewis County, the Adirondacks, New York, drawn by Frank Tweedy for Verplanck Colvin's Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Region. Europeans settled this portion of New York sporadically since the 17th century. Nonetheless, the thick forests and mountains made surveying so onerous that it was not mapped thoroughly until the late 19th century. (more details)