John Griscom (September 27, 1774 – February 26, 1852) was an early American lecturer and educator, and one of the first American educators to teach chemistry.
Biography
John Griscom was born in
Hancock's Bridge, New Jersey on September 27, 1774.
He taught at Queens College (now
Rutgers University
Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...
) from 1812–28, and at
Columbia College. He founded New York's first anti-poverty organization, the New York Society for the Prevention of Pauperism. He also opened the
New York High School in 1825, the first
monitorial system school in New York.
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Historical Development of the New York State High School System
p. 22-24 (1922) In 1836, he was elected as a member to the
American Philosophical Society
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.
He died in
Burlington, New Jersey on February 26, 1852.
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References
External links
* ''Memoir of John Griscom'' (1859)
1774 births
1852 deaths
Rutgers University faculty
Columbia University faculty
American chemists
Environmental health practitioners
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