- HENRY BRADFORD NASON, A.M., Ph.D.,
M.D., LL.D., [Easthampton], son of Elias and
- Susanna (KEITH) NASON, was born
in Foxborough, June 22, 1831; fitted for college at Williston
Seminary, Easthampton; entered the Scientific Department, Amherst
Coll., in 1852. Studied Chemistry and Natural Science in Georgia
Augusta Univ., Göttingen, Germany, '55-'57; Ph.D., Göttingen,
1857 ; Professor of Natural History, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, N.Y., '57-'58 ; Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science,
Beloit Coll., '58-'66; Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., since '66. M.D.,
Union Univ., N.Y., 1880; LL.D., Beloit, 1880. International Juror,
Paris Exposition, 1878. Elected Fellow of the Chemical Society
of London, in 1878 ; member of several Scientific Societies.
Author of "Inaugural Dissertation on the Formation of Ethers,"
"Tables of Reaction for Qualitative Analysis," and
"Table in Colors for Qualitative Analysis"; edited
Elderhorst's " Manual of Blow-pipe Analysis"; translated
and edited "Wöhler's Hand-book of Mineral Analysis,"
and "Manual of Blow-pipe Analysis and Determinative Mineralogy."
Married, Sept. 7, 1864, Frances Kellogg, dau. of Hon. Martin
I. TOWNSEND, LL.D., of Troy, N.Y. Two children. P.O. address,
Troy, N.Y. [Alumnus of Amherst College, 1855]
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- [Taken from "Biographical Record of the Alumni of
Amherst College During Its First Half Century, 1821-1871"
edited by W. L. Montague; (c)1883 J. E. Williams, Amherst, MA,
p. 300]
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