The industrial advantages of Gloversville, N.Y.: together with an account of her material development and progress and a series of comprehensive ... under the supervision of the Board of Trade
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The Sorghum Sugar Industry: A Report Upon Experiments Made At Rio Grande During The Season Of 1887; Volume 44 Of Bulletin (New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station)
Arthur T. Neale, George Hammell Cook
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, 1888
Sorghum industry; Sorghum sugar
Addresses Commemorative of George Hammell Cook, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Geology and Agriculture
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Analyses And Valuations Of Complete Fertilizers, Of Ground Bones And Of Miscellaneous Material...
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Analyses And Valuations Of Complete Fertilizers, Of Ground Bones And Of Miscellaneous Material; Volume 43 Of Bulletin (New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station)
George Hammell Cook
New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, 1887
Technology & Engineering; Agriculture; General; Bone meal; Bone-meal; Fertilizers; Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General
Report On The Clay Deposits Of Woodbridge, South Amboy And Other Places In New Jersey: Together With Their Uses For Fire Brick, Pottery, & C
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George Hammell Cook was an American geologist and educator whose claim that he had discovered the North Pole in 1908 made him a controversial figure.
Background
George Hammell Cook was born on January 5, 1818 in Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey, United States. He was the third son of John and Sarah Munn Cook. His paternal ancestors were English who settled in Lynn, Massachussets, in 1640, but soon after removed to Southampton and later to Hanover.
Education
His early training was gained at the common country schools. In 1838 he entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, New York where Amos Eaton was teaching geology as he understood it. It is a fair assumption that it was through Eaton's influence that Cook's attention was turned toward geology. He pursued graduate studies and received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Master of Science degree. Later he became adjunct professor, and after 1842 senior professor.
Career
At eighteen years of age, Cook was employed in surveying for the Morris & Essex and Catskill & Canajoharie railroads. In 1839, he was employed first as tutor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he became adjunct professor in 1842, and after 1842 senior professor.
In 1846 he abandoned teaching and for two years was engaged in the business of glass-making in Albany. In 1848, however, he returned to his profession and was appointed professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the Albany Academy, of which he became principal in 1851. In 1852 his geological qualifications received recognition through his being sent under state auspices to study salt deposits in Europe, with a view to the development of those of Onondaga County. In 1853 he accepted the chair of chemistry and natural science in Rutgers College, with which institution he retained connection for the remainder of his life.
In 1854 he was appointed an assistant to William Kitchell on the geological survey of the state. In 1864, by act of the legislature, he was made state geologist, an office he continued to hold in connection with his professorship in the college until his death. While state agricultural colleges were being established under the Morrill Act, Cook was successful in having the New Jersey institution connected with Rutgers, and became vice-president of the combination. He was also active in the formation of a State Board of Agriculture and became permanently a member of the executive board.
In 1879 he interested himself in the subject of agricultural experiment stations and brought the matter before the state legislature, succeeding, the year following, in having one established in New Jersey. He was made director of this station. Among' Cook’s chief geological accomplishments while on the Kitchell Survey were his reports on the Greensand beds and the apparent recent subsidence of the coast which was still in progress, a fact made apparent by the buried stumps and logs in the coastal swamps. As state geologist, he worked out the structural relationships of the beds of iron ore and of the fine and potter’s clays. Both of these were matters of economic importance by means of which he might have profited financially, had he been willing to sacrifice his profession.
Under his survey too, important work was done in tracing out the continuation of the great terminal moraine in the northern part of the state. The topographic and geologic maps issued under his administration were among the best of any survey up to that date. The water power and water supply of the state were made the subject of investigation and he early advocated the drainage and reclamation, for the purpose of agriculture, of the swamp lands along the Pequest and Passaic rivers. In connection with this work he was made president of the New Brunswick Board of Water Commissioners and a member of the State Board of Health.
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Membership
Cook was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Personality
As a teacher, Cook was beloved by his pupils to whom he had the faculty of imparting confidence in themselves and enthusiasm for their work. With the public at large, he was respected as a thoroughly upright and honest Christian gentleman, one who was ever helpful and humane. He won the confidence of legislatures by his earnestness and honesty of purpose. He worked hard, continuously, and faithfully with never a selfish motive
Quotes from others about the person
“His reports had the rare merit of plain, concise, yet clear statement of the facts which were understood by those for whom they were written”.
Connections
On March 6, 1846, Cook married Mary Halsey Thomas.