For the Iowa archaeologist, see Charles Reuben Keyes

Charles R. Keyes

For the Iowa geologist, see Charles Rollin Keyes.Charles Reuben Keyes was a pioneering Iowa archaeologist, and linguist. He is best remembered as the founder of modern Iowa archaeology. While his early work dealt with lingusitcs, by the 1920s Keyes focused his research almost exclusively on...

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Charles Rollin Keyes (1864–1942) was a U.S. geologist and in 1918 was a U.S. Senate candidate in Iowa

Iowa

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. Born in Des Moines, Iowa

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, he graduated from Iowa State University

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 in 1887. He worked for the United States Geological Survey

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. He earned a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University

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 in 1892. He served as Assistant State Geologist of Iowa, Director of the Bureau of Geology and Mines of Missouri

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 and was president of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

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 at Socorro

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. Keyes was also an avid ornithologist, publishing the first detailed listing of birds in Iowa in 1889. In 1918 he was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate from Iowa, losing to William S. Kenyon.

Selected works by Keyes

• 1884 Paleontology of Missouri (Missouri Geological Survey Vol. IV, Pts. 1-2)
• 1889 Preliminary Annotated Catalogue of the Birds of Iowa. Proc. of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, Vol. V, pp. 113–161.
• 1894 Coal Deposits of Iowa Iowa Geological Survey
• 1895 Geology of Des Moines County. Iowa Geological Survey, Des Moines.
• 1895 Origin and Relation of Central Maryland Granites, U.S. Geological Survey.
• 1910 A Family of Great Horned Owls. The Independent:852–859.
• 1910 Geology of Iowa County. Iowa Geological Survey, Des Moines.
• 1913 Historical Sketch of Mining in Iowa. Iowa Geological Survey, Des Moines.