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He was born on August 13, 1822 in Zanesville, Ohio, United States. The son of Henry and Patience (Van Horne) Safford. His immediate ancestors were from New England, descendants of Thomas Safford who emigrated from England to America in 1630 and in 1641 settled at Ipswich, Massachussets.
James received his early training in Zanesville. He was graduated from the Ohio University at Athens, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1844, and then took a special course at Yale.
While at Yale, in 1847, he was called to the professorship of chemistry and the natural sciences at Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn. , where he remained until 1872. He then became professor of chemistry in the medical school of the University of Nashville, retaining this professorship when, two years later, the school was combined with the medical department of Vanderbilt University.
In 1875 he was also chosen professor of geology and natural history at Vanderbilt, a position he continued to hold until he retired as professor emeritus in 1900. In 1854 he was made state geologist of Tennessee, serving in that capacity by successive reappointments until 1860, when the office was abolished. Under an act of 1871 he was again appointed and served until 1900.
The enterprise was carried on, also, under financial conditions that would have been ridiculous had they not been pitiful. By the act of 1854 his salary was fixed at $1, 500 a year, payable quarterly with no allowance for expenses or assistance.
The act of 1871, under which he was appointed for his second period of service as state geologist, stipulated that that official should receive $300 a year, but for a part of the time the legislature failed to make the necessary appropriation. In 1874 Safford was co-editor with J. B. Killebrew of an Introduction to the Resources of Tennessee. He died in Dallas, Tex.
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He was eminently practical and avoided all unessential technicalities and doubtful hypotheses. The students all liked him.
That he was not more widely known among his collaborators was due to his geographic isolation and inability to attend the society meetings of his fellow workers. Further than this, he shrank from public speaking and debates and disliked controversy. He preferred putting his views on paper and letting them be taken at their face value.
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He is described as "a man among men, everywhere commanding respect by his common sense, his integrity, and his manly recognition of others" (Stevenson, p. 524).
He was married in 1859 to Catherine K. (Howard) Owen, and passed his later days with a daughter.
