an American Congregational minister and physicist, was born in Acton, Massachusetts, in 1784. He was educated at Harvard and the medical school of Dartmouth College; was ordained about 1810; became very noted for his manufacture of chemical compounds used in the war of 1812 by a company in Boston; was made professor of natural sciences in Amherst College at the close of the war, preaching meantime in the vicinity; subsequently became professor of chemistry in the Berkshire Medical Institute; in 1835 removed to Augusta, Georgia; entered upon a geological and agricultural survey, at first of Burke and Richland counties, then of the entire state; and finally retired to Milledgeville, where he spent his latter years, and died, October 13, 1867. Dr. Cotting prepared text- books of ability and popularity on both chemistry and geology. See Appleton’s Annual Cyclop. 1867, page 580.<\/p>\n
Cotting, John Ruggles, M.D., LL.D an American Congregational minister and physicist, was born in Acton, Massachusetts, in 1784. He was educated at Harvard and the medical school of Dartmouth College; was ordained about 1810; became very noted for his manufacture of chemical compounds used in the war of 1812 by a company in Boston; was … Continue reading “Cotting, John Ruggles, M.D., LL.D”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}