John Conover Smock

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John Conover Smock, Ph. D.: American geologist; born in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, September 21, 1842; graduated at Rutgers College in 1862, and was tutor in chemistry there 1865-67; became Professor-elect of Mining and Metallurgy in 1867, holding the chair 1871-75, meantime studying at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg and at the University of Berlin; was assistant in charge of the New York State Museum 1885-89; received the degree of Ph. D. from Lafayette College in 1882; was manager of the American Institute of Mining Engineers 1875-77; was associated with Prof. George H. Cook in preparing the annual reports of the Geological Survey of New Jersey for 1871-84, and in the volumes on The Geology of New Jersey (1868), and the Report on Clay Deposits; issued, as a bulletin of the State museum, On Building-Stones in New York (1888).^[1] Died April 21, 1926, Hudson, New York^[2].

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