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Eben Horsford was born at Moscow, New York in 1818. He was the son of Jerediah and Charity Maria (Norton) Horsford.
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Eben Horsford was born at Moscow, New York in 1818. He was the son of Jerediah and Charity Maria (Norton) Horsford.
He studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, graduating as a civil engineer at age 19.
He worked for a year or more on the geological survey of New York State. In 1840 he was appointed professor of mathematics and natural sciences in the Albany Female Academy, where he remained four years. During this period he also delivered annually a course of lectures on chemistry at Newark College in Delaware. He went to Germany in 1844 and studied analytical chemistry two years with Liebig at Giessen. On his return to the United States early in 1847 he was appointed Rumford Professor and Lecturer on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts in Harvard University, but was almost immediately transferred to the newly established Lawrence Scientific School. Here he taught chemistry and carried on investigations for sixteen years independently of the chemistry department of Harvard College, which was started about the same time by Josiah P. Cooke. The laboratory of the Lawrence Scientific School was one of the first in the United States to be organized and equipped for teaching analytical chemistry systematically to individual students and exerted a profound influence on the development of analytical chemistry in America.
In 1863 Horsford resigned to engage in industrial chemistry. Up to this time he had published over thirty original articles starting in Liebig's Annalen in 1846 and continuing in Silliman's American Journal of Science and Arts, in the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Several articles relate to phosphates (particularly the restoration of phosphates lost in milling), condensed milk, control of fermentation in mildly alcoholic beverages, emergency rations, and acid phosphates as medicinal agents. He was deeply interested in the chemistry of foods, an interest shown by many published articles, by his pamphlet on The Theory and Art of Breadmaking (1861), and by his development of processes for manufacturing condensed milk and baking powder.
In later life he became interested in historical and archeological subjects, and wrote articles and books on the settlements by the Northmen in America and on the Indian language. He was president of the board of visitors of Wellesley College, and gave this institution money for books, scientific apparatus, and a pension fund. He attended the Priestley Centennial at Northumberland, Pa. , in 1874.
He died in Cambridge, Massachussets.
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He was among the earliest members of the American Chemical Society.
He was twice married: first, in 1847, to Mary L'Hommedieu Gardiner, who died in 1855, and second, in 1857, to her sister, Phoebe Dayton Gardiner. Both were educated and cultivated women, and were specifically helpful to Horsford in his scientific work. By the former he had four daughters, and by the latter, one.
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