John Conover Smock

John Conover Smock (September 21, 1842 - April 21 1926 Hudson, New York [Obituary, "New York Times", April 22, 1926] ) was an American geologist.

Smock was born in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, graduated at Rutgers College in 1862, and was tutor in chemistry there 1865-67. He became Professor-elect of Mining and Metallurgy in 1867, holding the chair 1871-75, meantime studying in Germany at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg and at the University of Berlin. He was assistant in charge of the New York State Museum 1885-89, received the degree of Ph. D. from Lafayette College in 1882, and was manager of the American Institute of Mining Engineers 1875-77.

Smock was associated with George Hammell 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). ["Universal Cyclopædia & Atlas", 1902, New York, D. Appleton & Co.]

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