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Denison Olmsted was born on June 18, 1791, in East Hartford, Connecticut. Denison was the youngest and fourth child of Nathaniel Olmsted and his second wife, Eunice Kingsbury of Hebron, Connecticut. He was the grandson of Nathaniel and Sarah (Pitkin) Olmsted of Hartford, and a direct descendant of James Olmsted who emigrated from Fairsted, Essex, England, to Connecticut in 1632. After his father's death, his mother married again and moved to Farmington, Connecticut.
Denison received his early education in the district school in Farmington and privately from Gov. John Treadwell, who instructed him in arithmetic. Later, he entered the school of James Morris at Litchfield South Farms. Rev. Noah Porter, the parish minister at Farmington, was also his instructor. In 1809 he entered Yale and there received the degree of A. B. in 1813. In 1815 he was appointed a tutor at Yale, where he also studied theology under President Timothy Dwight. His M. A. oration in 1816 was on "The State of Education in Connecticut, " and contained ideas relating to a seminary for school-masters (normal school), plans for the establishment of which he hoped to carry out at the end of his tutorship.
Somewhat reluctantly, in 1817, Denison Olmsted accepted a call to the professorship of chemistry at the University of North Carolina. He was granted a year for preparatory study under Benjamin Silliman at Yale. At the University of North Carolina he successfully advocated in 1821 a state geological survey, legally established in 1822. He was appointed state geologist and mineralogist and made the first survey of and reports on the state's natural resources. In 1825 he was called to Yale to fill the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy. Eleven years later he prevailed on the college authorities to establish a separate chair of mathematics, and after that time he filled the chair of natural philosophy and astronomy until his death.
A teacher by nature, Olmsted assisted the friends of common-schools by writing, lecturing, and appearing before legislative bodies. While he was unable to carry out the normal-school idea himself, he nevertheless wrote much on the necessity of such a project. As an instructor of scientific subjects, he introduced experiments into his lectures and inaugurated laboratory work for the students. He advocated an astronomical observatory for the use of students, and another for scientific research. A lamentable lack of textbooks led him to prepare such aids, not only for the colleges, but for academies and the general reader. His Introduction to Natural Philosophy (2 vols. , 1831 - 32) was used for many years after his death in the edition revised by E. S. Snell of Amherst. It was followed by Compendium of Natural Philosophy (1833), which went through more than a hundred editions; Introduction to Astronomy (1839); A Compendium of Astronomy (1839), for schools; Letters on Astronomy, Addressed to a Lady (1840), prepared for school libraries by request of the Massachusetts Board of Education; and Rudiments of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy (1844), which also appeared in raised letters for the use of the blind. All his books show excellent arrangement of material, and thoroughness and clearness of presentation. His contributions in physics and astronomy were mainly on meteors, hailstorms, aurora, and zodiacal light.
The papers dealing with the famous meteoric showers of November 13, 1833, brought Olmsted scientific fame. In these he collected and arranged in logical and orderly manner all the available data on the subject. The cause of such showers, he concluded, is due to particles of cosmic origin (suggesting comets) passing through the earth's atmosphere and proceeding from a definite radiant, and, recalling similar observations of other times, he assumed a probable periodicity of occurrence of the phenomenon. Although he refers to the November showers of 1799, it was left for later generations to connect meteoric showers with a definite comet. His study of hailstorms led him to show the electrical theory then held (especially in France) to be incorrect and to give substantially the explanation, accepted today, based on dynamics and thermodynamics of the atmosphere. His work on geological subjects was mainly concerned with the mineral resources and their utilization. He invented a process for "gas light from cotton seed, " patented July 21, 1827, a useful stove, patented November 5, 1834, and a lubricant of lard and rosin for machinery. He wrote many articles on religious subjects and also a number of biographical sketches.
Deniswon Olmsted died at New Haven, Connecticut, on the 13 May 1859.
Denison Olmsted's works: Student's Commonplace Books (1828); Introduction to Natural Philosophy (1831); Compendium of Natural Philosophy (1832); Observations on the Meteors of November 13th, 1833 (1834); Introduction to Astronomy (1839); Compendium of Astronomy (1841); Letters on Astronomy, Addressed to a Lady (1841); Life and Writings of Ebenezer Porter Mason (1842); Rudiments of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy (1844). Olmsted invented and patented: a process for "gas light from cotton seed" (1827), a useful stove (1834), a lubricant of lard and rosin for machinery, etc. Olmsted is also known for his scientific observations on hail, meteors and the aurora borealis.
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In 1818 Denison Olmsted married Eliza Allyn of New London. His wife died in 1829 and in 1831 he married Julia Mason of Rensselaer County, New York. He had five sons and two daughters
He was a professor of chemistry at the University of North Carolina.
He wrote a book on Hawaii.
