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Hayford, John F

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Hayford, John F(illmore) (1868–1925)

US geodesist. He clarified the US-Mexican boundary (1892–93) and helped define the Alaskan boundary (1894). Hayford was was appointed by US Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward Douglass White to settle the boundary dispute between Panama and Costa Rica (1913). He also served on President Woodrow Wilson's advisory committee on aeronautics. His astronomical and mathematical contributions to the US Geodetic Survey helped bring that organization to international prominence. Hayford was born in Rouses Point, New York.



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