John Michels
b. 1835 d. 1894 or later
English-born American microscopist and journalist. Probably born in London in 1835. Auctioneer, 1861. Married Jane Branson, daughter of William Branson, stonemason, at St Marylebone, Middlesex, in 1867. Member of the Quekett Microscopical Club, 1870. Emigrated to the United States in 1871; became an American citizen in 1886. Founder of Science; editor, 1880–2. Member of the American Society of Microscopists, 1891–4. Chief microscopist, Bureau of Animal Industry, Chicago, by 1891.
Sources
Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1474/243/12), 1861 (RG9/90/110/50)
Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club 2 (1870): 89
Kohlstedt 1980
London, England, Church of England parish registers P74/LUK/172, P89/MRY1/240 (Ancestry.com, accessed 14 October 2022)
Proceedings of the American Society of Microscopists 13 (1891): 59, 216 and 15 (1894): 254
U.S. naturalization record indexes, 1791–1992 (Ancestry.com, accessed 13 May 2016)
Bibliography
Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory. 1980. Science: the struggle for survival, 1880 to 1894. Science n.s. 209: 33–42.
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