In his youth, Porter Sargent's family moved to a ranch in which city in California, among the professors who influenced him were Nathaniel Shaler, he was an American paleontologist and geologist who wrote extensively on the theological and scientific implications of the theory of evolution?
Porter Sargent In his youth, Sargent's family moved to a ranch in San Bernardino, California. In 1892, he became principal of a San Bernardino grammar school. The next year he went to study at Harvard University, where he obtained his bachelor's (1896) and masters (1897). Among the professors who influenced him were William James, Nathaniel Shaler, Charles Eliot Norton, and William Gilson Farlow. After graduation, Sargent taught school in Cambridge, and did graduate research on neurology, publishing 10 scientific papers, but quitting before he received his doctorate. For a decade beginning in 1904, Sargent ran a travel school for boys, in which he led tours to Europe and other parts of the world.
Joseph Townsend Joseph Townsend (4 April 1739 – 9 November 1816) was a physician, geologist and vicar of Pewsey in Wiltshire, perhaps best known for his 1786 treatise "A Dissertation on the Poor Laws" in which he expounded a naturalistic theory of economics and opposed the provision state provision, either outdoor or otherwise.