Memoirs of George Little by George Little

Memoirs of George Little by George Little

George Little

1838-1924

George Little was born in Tuscaloosa. He earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree from the University of Alabama in 1855 and 1856, respectively. He went on to earn his doctorate from the University of Gottingen in 1859. Little was briefly employed by Oakland College in Mississippi before he began his service in the Confederate Army as a private, captain, and lieutenant colonel. After the war, he became a professor of geology at the University of Mississippi from 1866 to 1874. Little also served as the Mississippi state geologist from 1870 to 1874 and the Georgia state geologist from 1874 to 1881. He moved to Tuscaloosa to become a druggist from 1892 to 1902, and then he became a geological reporter for Geological Survey of Alabama from 1903 to 1918. Little was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Alabama in 1905. He passed away in 1924.

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1924

Memoirs of George Little. Tuscaloosa, AL; Weatherford Printing Co, 1924.

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Little, George, “Memoirs of George Little by George Little,” Alabama Authors of the 19th & 20th Centuries, accessed November 8, 2026, https://www.alabamaauthors.org/items/show/24664.