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John Griscom was born at Hancock’s Bridge, New Jersey, the United States on September 27, 1774, the son of William and Rachel (Denn) Griscom, and a descendant of Andrew Griscom, Quaker, who settled in New Jersey in 1680.
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chemist philanthropist scientist teacher
John Griscom was born at Hancock’s Bridge, New Jersey, the United States on September 27, 1774, the son of William and Rachel (Denn) Griscom, and a descendant of Andrew Griscom, Quaker, who settled in New Jersey in 1680.
John Griscom attended the country schools near his home, at seventeen began to teach, and after a few months of study at the Friends’ Academy in Philadelphia.
Having become interested in chemistry, John Griscom introduced the subject into his classes and began lecturing on the subject. In 1807 he was persuaded to open a school in New York, which, though the support promised by friends failed, became highly successful. He took charge of the Friends’ School at Burlington, New Jersey. Reorganizing it in 1825 as the New York High School for boys, he instituted the Lancasterian system of monitorial instruction.
The advantages of low fees, unusually good equipment for study of science, and a new emphasis on gymnastics could not overcome the handicap of untrained instructors and opposition from other schools, and in 1831 the establishment was sold.
Griscom then became principal of the Friends’ School in Providence, Rhod Island. Finding Quaker simplicity indisposed to accept the “gimcrackeries of science” as essentials of education, and embarrassed by the Hicksite division, he resigned after three years and settled in West Haverford, Pennsylvania, with his daughters.
He returned to Burlington in 1840, lecturing and serving as superintendent of schools until his death. For the last two years of his life he was nearly blind.
His chief service, according to himself, was to be “a trum- petblower”.
All his interests are exposed in Europe, in which he relates his visits to scientists, philanthropists, schools, hospitals, and prisons and outlines the needs of institutions at home. Jefferson said the book gave the most satisfactory view of public institutions abroad he had ever read.
John Griscom made known the medical properties of cod-liver oil and the value of iodine in treatment of goiter. He was one of the founders of the New York Society for the Prevention of Pauperism and the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents and was a leader in the establishment of the House of Refuge, the first reformatory in the country. His translations from foreign scientific literature, contributed to the American Journal of Science and the Journal of the Franklin Institute, kept American students abreast of current thought.
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Griscom was twice married: in 1800 to Abigail Hoskins, who died April 3, 1816; and on December 13, 1843, to Rachel Denn, a cousin.
His son, John H. Griscom, became a distinguished physician in New York, and his daughter Abigail married S. J. Gummere.
