Background
Cady was born on May 2, 1874 in Camden, Kansas, United States; the son of Perkins Elijah Cady and Ella Maria (Falkenbury) Vrooman.
Northfield, Minnesota, United States
Carleton College
Lawrence, Kansas, United States
University of Kansas
(This book was originally published prior to 1923, and rep...)
This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work.
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Cady was born on May 2, 1874 in Camden, Kansas, United States; the son of Perkins Elijah Cady and Ella Maria (Falkenbury) Vrooman.
Cady attended the Carleton College. In 1897, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1903 from the University of Kansas.
Also he was granted a scholarship and then a fellowship at Cornell University where he spent the years 1897-1899 in research under the direction of Wilder D. Bancroft.
Cady began his career as an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas in 1899. Four years later he took a position of an associate professor and a professor in 1911 at the same university. Then in 1921, Hamilton was named a chairman of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Kansas, where he worked until his retirement in 1942 as a professor emeritus.
In addition, in 1905, after a 1903 discovery of a major natural gas well in Dexter, Kansas, Cady and his colleague David McFarland analyzed samples from the well. Through their analysis, they were able to extract helium from the sample, which hitherto had been thought to exist only on the sun and in rare minerals. Hamilton and McFarland began analyzing samples from other wells around the region and discovered helium was much more plentiful on Earth than previously known.
In 1917, he was appointed a consulting chemist to the United States Bureau of Mines, where he did a large amount of analytical and research work, the results of which influenced the designs of the various helium plants which were constructed by the government.
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2012Cady was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Chemical Society, Kansas Academy Science, Sigma Xi and Alpha Chi Sigma.
On June 5, 1900 Hamilton Cady married Stella Cornelia (Gallup) Cady. They had three children.