Frederick Burritt Peck (1862-1925) graduated from Amherst College in 1886. Following five years in Trinidad, Colorado at the Tillotson Academy, he developed an interest in geology and returned to Amherst in 1891 as assistant professor of geology. He lectured on geology at Amherst and Smith College during 1893-1894. After two years of study at the University of Munich, Germany, he received the degree of PhD. In 1897 he was made head of the newly created Department of Geology at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania. In 1898 Lafayette’s Pardee Hall was destroyed by fire. The immediate need of materials was filled by loans from Lehigh University’s Professor Joseph Richards and Columbia University. In 1901 he married Cora Burr Horton and they had a daughter. He had published a number of papers specifically in the Topographic and Geologic Survey of Pennsylvania, Report No. 5, which included descriptions of minerals in Northampton County including Portland cement of the Lehigh District. He was employed by the U. S. Geological Survey and did geologic mapping of the Carnegie quadrangle (located in western Pennsylvania near to the Vanport limestone areas). He was retained by mining firms doing exploration work in Colorado, Arizona, Utah and Mexico as well as locally on cement rock. He was keenly interested in the outdoors and made many geological trips to the Rocky Mountains and the Bad Lands while on expeditions for the University of Nebraska.