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James Starr Lippincott was born on April 12, 1819 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of John and Sarah West (Starr) Lippincott, and a lineal descendant of Richard Lippincott, who had emigrated from Devonshire, England, and about 1665 moved from New England to Shrewsbury, New Jersey.
James attended Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, in 1834-1835.
Lippincott began his career as a teacher, but later changed to farming, first establishing himself at Cole's Landing near Haddonfield, New Jersey. Soon, however, he became interested in the science rather than the practice of farming and in 1868 removed to Haddonfield where he continued to study and write on agricultural subjects. While living on the farm, he invented a "vapor index" for measuring the humidity of the air. He kept meteorological instruments outside of his Haddonfield house, and took accurate records of the weather and climate. He tabulated and reduced observations made by Benjamin Sheppard near Greenwich, Cumberland County, New Jersey, from March 1856 to June 1861, for the Smithsonian Institution, and was its observer at Cole's Landing from 1864 to 1866, and from 1869 to 1870 at Haddonfield.
He visited Europe twice, once, in 1850, as a delegate to the World's Peace Congress in Frankfort, Germany. On these trips he made extensive observations which he recorded in letters to his friends and to the press. He did much work on Lippincott's Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology (1870) and wrote a series of papers which were published in the Reports of the Commissioners of Agriculture: "Climatology of American Grape Vines, " 1862; "Geography of Plants, " 1863; "Market Products of West New Jersey, " 1865; "Observations on Atmospheric Humidity, " 1865; "The Fruit Regions of the Northern United States and Their Local Climates, " 1866. He contributed various shorter articles to The Gardener's Monthly and Historical Advertiser, later, the Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist, and other agricultural periodicals.
He was much interested in the Society of Friends, and he prepared an index to forty volumes of their journal, The Friend. He compiled also a catalogue of the books belonging to the library of the four Monthly Meetings of Friends of Philadelphia (1853). At the time of his death he had collected a great deal of genealogical data relating to both the Lippincott and Starr families, a considerable portion of which was published later. His death occurred at Greenwich, Cumberland County, New Jersey.
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Lippincott was a member of the Society of Friends.
Lippincott was a man of wide learning and a kindly critic, able to give constructive assistance on nearly all subjects.
Lippincott was married twice: first, in 1857, to Susan Haworth Ecroyd, of Muncy, Pennsylvania; and, in 1861, to Anne E. Sheppard. He had no children by either marriage.
