John Chapman Cresson
1806–77
American agriculturalist. Worked as a farmer until 1834, then moved to Philadelphia. Member of the Franklin Institute from 1831; professor of mechanics and natural philosophy from 1837; president from 1855. Superintendent of the gas works, 1836–64. Vice-president, Americal Philosophical Society, 1857–77.
Source
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17 (1877–8): 149–62.
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