William Maclure

William Maclure (October 27, 1763 – March 23, 1840) is an Americanized Scottish geologist, cartographer and philanthropist.

He is known as the 'father of American geology' and as a social experimenter on new types of community life, collaborating with British social reformer Robert Owen, (1771–1854), in Indiana, United States.

Maclure has had a highly successful mercantile career, making a fortune that allows him to retire in 1797 at the early age of thirty-four to pursue his scientific, geological and other interests.

In 1809 he makes the earliest attempt at a geological map of the United States of America.

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