History of Coeymans, (Albany County) New York United States of America

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Henry Smith Carhart, physicist, was born in Coeymans, Albany county, N. Y., March 27, 1844; son of Daniel S. and Margaret (Martin) Carhart. He supported himself at school by teaching, and was graduated at the Wesleyan university as valedictorian of the class of 1869, and then taught Latin in the Hudson river institute, Claverack, N. Y., for two years. After one year spent at Yale he became instructor of civil engineering and physics at the Northwestern university, Evanston, Ill.; in 1873 he became professor of physics in the same institution. He served on the international jury of awards at the Paris electrical exhibition in 1881, and then pursued a course of study at the University of Berlin. He remained at the Northwestern university until 1886, during which time a laboratory was erected and furnished with modern apparatus. In 1886 he accepted the chair of physics in the University of Michigan. He was elected a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science, a foreign member of the (London) institution of electrical engineers, and a fellow of the American institute of electrical engineers. He was one of the official delegates chosen to represent the United States at the Chicago world's electrical congress, and was president of the board of judges of award for the department of electricity at the Columbian exposition in 1893. He was married in 1876 to Ellen M. Soul?, dean of the woman's college of the Northwestern university. He has published, besides numerous contributions to scientific and technical journals, Primary Batteries (1891); Elements of Physics (with H. N. Chute, 1892); University Physics Part I, Mechanics, Sound, and Light (1894); Electrical Measurements (with Geo. W. Patterson, Jr., 1895), and University Phsysics, Part II, Heat, Electricity, and Magnetism (1896).

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Jacob Simmons Mosher, physician, was born in Coeymans, Albany county, N.Y., March 19, 1834; son of Christopher and Elizabeth (Boucher) Mosher. His father was of English descent, and his mother, German. In 1853 his parents removed to New Brunswick, N.J., where he was a student at Rutgers college, 1853-56. He was principal of a public school in Albany, N.Y., 1856-60; graduated at the Albany Medical college in December, 1863, and married Dec. 30, 1863, to Emma S., daughter of Jesse Montgomery of Albany, N.Y. In 1864 he entered the U.S. service as a volunteer surgeon, serving in the Army of the Potomac and subsequently as assistant state medical director of New York, and was on duty, Washington, D.C., until the end of the war. He was surgeon-general of the state of New York, 1869-73; professor of chemistry in the Albany academy, 1863-70; professor of chemistry and medical jurisprudence in the Albany Medical college, 1864-70, and registrar and librarian of the Albany Medical college, 1865-70. He was deputy health officer of the port of New York, 1870-76; spent a short time in British and European hospitals, 1876; was professor of medical jurisprudence and hygiene in the Albany Medical college, 1876-81; of pathology, practice, clinical medicine and hygiene, 1881-83, and registrar of the college, 1876-80. He was a member of the executive committee of the State Normal school, 1866-83; a member of the Albany board of public instruction, 1865-68; a delegate to the annual convention of the American Medical association in 1872, and a member of the commission of experts appointed by President Hayes in 1878, to study the origin and cause of the yellow fever epidemic of that year, the report of the board resulting in the organization of the national board of health. He was chairman of the Albany board of health; a founder, trustee, professor and president of the faculty of the Albany College of Pharmacy established in 1881; president of the Albany County Medical society in 1882; secretary of the Albany institute; a member of the New York State Medical society, of the New York Neurological society and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He received the degree Ph.D. from Rutgers college in 1878. He died in Albany, N.Y., Aug. 13, 1883.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor