James Merrill Safford (1822–1907) was an American geologist, chemist and university professor.
Biography
Early life James M. Safford was born in Putnam, Ohio on August 13, 1822.The University of Pennsylvania Library: James M. Safford He received an M.D. and a PhD. He was trained as a chemist at Yale University.Richard G. Stearns, James M. Safford, Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, December 25, 2009
He married Catherine K. Owens in 1859, and they had two children.
Career Safford taught at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee from 1848 to 1873.P. Doyle, Matthew R. Bennett Fields of Battle: Terrain in Military History, Springer, 2002, p. 111 He served as a professor of mineralogy, Botany, and Economical Geology at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee from 1875 to 1900. He was a Presbyterian, and often started his lessons with a prayer.
He served on the Tennessee Board of Health. Additionally, he acted as a chemist for the Tennessee Bureau of Agriculture in the 1870s and 1880s.
He published fifty-four books, reports, and maps.
Death He died in Dallas on July 2, 1907.
Bibliography James M. Safford, The Silurian basin of Middle Tennessee, with notices of the strata surrounding it. (New Haven, Printed by B.L. Hamlen, 1851).HathiTrust Digital Library James M. Safford, A geological report of the coal and oil lands in Kentucky (Louisville, Kentucky: J.P. Morton & co., 1865).HathiTrust Digital Library James M. Safford, Geology of Tennessee (Nashville, Tennessee: S. C. Mercer, 1869.).HathiTrust Digital Library James M. Safford and Joseph Buckner Killebrew, The elements of the geology of Tennessee. Prepared for the use of the school of Tennessee, and for all persons seeking a knowledge of the resources of the state. (Nashville, Tennessee: Foster & Webb, 1900).HathiTrust Digital Library
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