History of Ludlowville, (Tompkins County) New York United States of America

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Charles Arad Joy, chemist, was born in Ludlowville, N.Y., Oct. 8, 1823. He was graduated at Union, A.B., 1844 and at Harvard, LL.B., 1847. He served on the U.S. geological survey of the Lake Superior region, 1847-49; and studied chemistry in Berlin and G?ttingen, Germany, and at the Sorbonne in Paris, 1850-53. While in Germany he made a special study of the combination of alcohol radicals with selenium and the compounds of glucinum. He was professor of chemistry at Union college, 1855-57, and occupied a similar chair at Columbia college, 1857-77, when by reason of a sunstroke received in 1876 he retired, and visited Germany. He made many analyses of minerals and meteorites; was a member of the juries of the world's fairs at London, Paris, Vienna and Philadelphia; was president of the Lyceum of Natural History, 1866; president of the American Photographic society; and foreign secretary of the American Geographical society. G?ttingen university conferred upon him the degree of Ph.D. in 1852. He contributed articles on chemistry to the "American Cyclop?dia" and was editor of the Scientific American and the Journal of Applied Chemistry. He died in Stockbridge, Mass., May 29, 1891.

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

History of Ludlowville, (Tompkins County) New York

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