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User:Esuark Esuark (talk) 15:15, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

The author of a recent (2009) popular biography of Douglass Houghton is obsessed with insisting that Charles Thomas Jackson stole the credit from Douglass Houghton for being the first person to claim that the native copper deposits of the Keweenaw could be be profitably mined, and he repeatedly deletes and revises this site so as to demean Jackson. I discussed this entire episode in great detail in my book of 1992 that is cited here in the "Further readings" section and anyone is free to examine and judge the evidence for themselves. While there is no question that Jackson did indeed attempt to steal credit for himself about several discoveries, his claim that he deserved the rights of priority in the Keweenaw is indeed accurate, and his mineralogical work there was quite insightful. David J. KrauseEsuark (talk) 15:15, 9 June 2010 (UTC) Esuark (talk) 14:42, 9 June 2010 (UTC)