Pioneers of Science in America Sketches of Their Lives And Scientific Work
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301 tion with this incident his name became changed to School- craft. He died at the age of one hundred and two years. John, his third son, was a soldier under Sir William Johnson. Lawrence, John's son, distinguished himself during the siege of Fort Stanwix. He was afterward director of the glass- works of the Hon. Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, at Hamilton, near Albany ; and established the manufacture of glass in Western New York. Henry Schoolcraft spent his childhood and youth in Ham- ilton, culti...vated poetry, and maintained an excellent standing in scholarship. At an early age he manifested a taste for natural science, which was then (about 1808) little known outside our seats of learning; formed the beginnings of col- lections ; and organized an association for mental improve- ment. He investigated the drift stratum of Albany County as seen in the bed of Norman's Kill ; and afterward, while living at Lake Dunmore, Vt. , put himself under the teaching of Prof. Hall, of Middlebury College ; added chemistry, natural phi- losophy, and medicine to his studies ; erected a chemical furnace, and went into experimenting ; and picked up a knowledge of Hebrew, German, and French.
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