Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Charles Massey CRESSON
Cresson, Charles Massey, chemist, was born in Cheltenham, Pa., Feb. 3, 1828; son of John Chapman and Letitia Louisa (Massey) Cresson. He acquired his preparatory education at Gummere's school, Burlington, N.J., at the Central high school, Philadelphia, and by private tuition, and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1847 and from Jefferson medical college in 1849. He became an analytical chemist and expert, was manager and chemist of the Philadelphia gas works, 1849-64; chemist to the Philadelphia board of health for fifteen years, and also chemist to the Fairmount park commission. He instituted the scientific departments of the Pennsylvania railroad in 1868, of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad in 1869 and of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad in 1883. He devoted much time to the examination of waters, chemically and microscopically; was interested in photography; was a prominent Mason; and was for many years organist at the Church of the Atonement, Philadelphia. He was elected a member of the Franklin institute in 1849, and of the American philosophical society in 1857. He is the author of numerous contributions to scientific literature, chiefly in pamphlet form, their titles including: The Manufacture of Gas; The Effects of Electricity upon the Tensile Strength of Iron; Wood Preservation; Paper Manufacture; and Water Supplies of Cities. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 27, 1893.
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