History of Chickies, (Lancaster County) Pennsylvania United States of America

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Samuel Stehman Haldeman, naturalist, was born in Locust Grove, Pa., Aug. 12, 1812; son of Henry and Frances (Stehman) Haldeman; grandson of John B. Haldeman, member of the general assembly of Pennsylvania in 1795, and great grandson of Jacob Haldeman, a member of the committee of safety in the Revolution. His first ancestor in America came from Switzerland. He was educated at the public schools, at a classical academy at Harrisburg, and at Dickinson college, remaining in college two years. He afterward continued his education by extensive reading and by attending lectures in the University of Pennsylvania. 1833-34. For some years following he was interested in a saw mill and blast furnace and later in the iron business. Meanwhile he was collecting a scientific library, and was contributing frequently to scientific periodicals. He was married in 1835 to Mary A. Hugh of Bainbridge, Pa. In 1836 he was an assistant on the state geological survey of New Jersey, and occupied a similar position on the Pennsylvania survey, 1837-42. He was elected professor of zo?logy in the Franklin institute of Philadelphia in 1841; became chemist and zo?logist of the Pennsylvania agricultural society in 1852, and was professor of natural history in Delaware college, 1851-55. He was professor of geology and chemistry in the Agricultural college of Pennsylvania, 1855-69, and professor of comparative philology in the University of Pennsylvania, 1869-80. He was founder and president of the Philological society; a member of the National academy of sciences; editor of the Pennsylvania Farmer's Journal, 1851-52, and a member of the American philosophical society and the Boston society of natural history. He received the degree of LL.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1876. In 1860 he was awarded the prize offered by Sir Walter Trevelyan of England for his "Analytical Orthography," sixteen prominent European philologists having competed. The essay contains specimens of about seventy languages and dialects. He is the authur of about thirty works on philology and about 120 on natural science, chiefly zo?1ogy, entomology and geology. Among the more notable are: Monograph of the Fresh-Water Univalve Mollusca of the United States (1840-45); Zo?logical Contributions (1842-43); Elements of Latin Prnunciation (1851); Tours of a Chess Knight (1864); Affixes in Their Origin and Application (1865); Rhymes of the Poets (1868); Pennsylvania Dutch (1872); Outlines of Etymology (1877); and Word Building (1881). He died at Chickies, Pa., Sept. 10, 1880.

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

History of Chickies, (Lancaster County) Pennsylvania

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