Jedediah Hotchkiss travelled at a period when the map still had blanks on it, and filled some of them.
The record lists Jedediah Hotchkiss as Confederate Army officer cartographer, and topographer (1828–1899).
Jedediah Hotchkiss was born at Windsor in 1828. His recorded nationality is United States.
Enlightenment expeditions carried naturalists and instruments; the Pacific was charted with chronometers and the intention of measuring, not merely claiming.
He is recorded as cartographer, educator and army officer.
The record of exploration is also a record of the people already living in the places reached.
Jedediah Hotchkiss died in 1899, aged 71. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as cartographer, educator and army officer
