Background
He was born in New York City, and graduated from Columbia College in 1818 he subsequently studied medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New New York
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Henry Anderson
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Education
Columbia University; Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Career
He did not practice medicine for long however, instead devoting himself to scientific and literary pursuits. He was appointed professor of mathematics and astronomy at Columbia College in 1825, when he was twenty-six years old. He retained his chair for twenty-five years.
They had two children Elbert Ellery and Edward Henry.
In 1848, he accompanied the United States Dead Sea exploration expedition, commanded by Captain William F. Lynch, as a geologist. His reports from the expedition, Geological Reconnaissance of Participant of the Holy Land, were published by the United States government in 1848 and 1849.
He was made president of the Particular Council of New York in 1856, and later the head of the Supreme Council in 1860. He visited Pope Pius XI in Rome several times, and was eventually made a Knight Commander of the order of Saint Gregory the Great.
He made a pilgrimage to Lourdes and Rome in 1875.
Afterwards, he travelled to Australia in order to observe a transit of Venus. He planned to return home by way of India, but, after mountain-climbing in the Himalayas, he died of a disease in Lahore on October 19. He is buried in a vault under the Church of the Madonna in Fort Lee, New Jersey, a church in whose construction he had been involved.
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Membership
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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October 19, 1875 (aged 76)