Welcome to my Genealogy Page...

I'm tracking my roots with lots of help from my cousin Dianne (editor of the HELWAGEN Family Newsletter) and many other relatives and friends.

Here are some of the names I'm currently researching:

• Josiah BLAND (1820-1898) m. Margret S. COLER (1821-1899) of Ross County, OH. Who were Josiah's parents?
• Peter CLINE (1813-1888) m. Rosannah [surname unknown] (~1820-after 1880), both born in Prussia, died in Ross County, OH. When did they come to the U.S.? Where in Prussia did they come from?
• David J. JENKINS (~1814-~1875) m. Jane DAVIS (~1825-~1875), both born in Wales, both disappeared from Meigs County, OH between 1870 and 1880, leaving behind a daughter, Margaret Ellen JENKINS. What happened to David & Jane?
• John KOBLENTZ (~1811-after 1880) m. Susan WELLS (~1816-1895), both born in Bavaria, died in Meigs County, OH. When did they come to the U.S.? Where in Bavaria did they come from?
• Perry H. RILEY (1845-1905) m. Rhoda DOWEL (1848-1923) of Ross County, OH. Who were Rhoda's parents?
• Joseph RILEY was born in Virginia about 1765. In 1790 he married Rachael DYE (1761-????). In 1824 he married Elizabeth ATKINSON in Pike county, OH. When and where did Joseph die? Who were his parents?

If you have information about any of these folks, please let me know. Thanks!

My Academic Genealogy

I also became interested in tracking my academic genealogy (my Ph.D. advisor, his Ph.D. advisor, etc.). Vera Mainz and Gregory Girolami have a tremendous Chemical Genealogy Database which really helps in this process. Much of the information in the table below came from their database.

Name	Degree/Institution/Year	Accomplishments
Petrus Ramus	M.A., Philosophy, 1536, Paris	Professor of philosophy and mathematics; champion of revival of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and physics in the educational curriculum (which had fallen into neglect) by emphasizing the practical origins and applications of these subjects. Ramus studied under Jean Le Hennuyer, a Dominican theologian.
Henricus Brucaeus	~1550, College Royal, Paris; M.D. (Hon.), ~1560, Univ. Bologna.	Professor of mathematics and medicine; wrote texts on plague, scurvy, and mathematics of spheres and motion
Petrus Pauw	M.D., 1587, Univ. Rostock	Wrote a text on skeletal anatomy; described frontal and maxillary sinuses and intestinal valves.
Menelaus Winsemius	M.D., 1613, Leiden Univ.	Professor of medicine, anatomy and botany; improved botanical gardens at Univ. of Franeker.
Johannes A. van der Linden	M.D., 1630, Univ. of Franeker	Professor of medicine, anatomy and botany; philologist and publisher; published books on physiology, milk, and venereal diseases.
Petrus Hoffvenius	M.D., 1660, Leiden Univ.	Called the father of Swedish medicine; studied the pineal gland and respiration.
Petrus Elvius (the elder)	M.A., 1688, Uppsala Univ.	Wrote textbooks on astronomical observation; designed a planetarium based on Copernican theory; pioneered giving lectures in Swedish rather than Latin.
Anders G. Duhre	~1711, Uppsala Univ.	Wrote one of the first textbooks on algebra in Swedish.
Samuel Klingenstierna	L.L.B., 1717, Uppsala Univ.	Provided first comprehensive theory for design of lenses that are achromatic and lack spherical aberration.
Bengt Ferrner	Uppsala Univ., ~1751	Designed astronomical instruments; in charge of preparing for observation of Halley's comet in 1759 and Venus in 1761; industrial spy for the King of Sweden while in England.
Tobern Olof Bergman	Ph.D., Mathematics, Uppsala Univ., 1758	Introduced binomial nomenclature for salts; founded qualitative inorganic analysis.
Johann Afzelius	M.S., Uppsala Univ., 1776	Isolated formic acid from ants; studied chemistry of nickel and oxalic acid.
Jons Jacob Berzelius	M.D., Uppsala Univ., 1802	Discovered Ce, Se, Si, Th; coined the terms organic chemistry, isomerism, catalysis, protein, polymer, halogen, and electronegativity;
James F.W. Johnston	Uppsala Univ., 1833	Prepared gold iodides and mercuric cyanides; discovered first isodimorphic crystals.
John P. Norton	M.A. (Hon.), Yale Univ., 1846	Helped found the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale; wrote Elements of Scientific Agriculture.
Samuel W. Johnson	M.A. (Hon.), Yale Univ., 1857	Also studied under Justus von Liebig, the father of agricultural chemistry. Established the first agricultural experimental station in the U.S. Improved the Kjeldahl method for determining nitrogen in proteins.
Oscar D. Allen	Ph.D., Chemistry, Yale Univ., 1871	Investigated chemistry of cesium and rubidium. Horace L. Wells Ph.B., Chemistry, Yale Univ., 1877 Investigated double and triple inorganic salts, especially salts of cesium.
Henry L. Wheeler	Ph.D., Chemistry, Yale Univ., 1893	Investigated chemistry of pyrimidines, hydantoins, and halogenated amino acids.
Treat B. Johnson	Ph.D., Chemistry, Yale Univ., 1901	Synthesized cytosine, orotic acid, ephedrine, hexylresorcinol, and hydantoins
John J. Donleavy	Ph.D., Chemistry, Yale Univ., 1920
James English, Jr.	Ph.D., Chemistry, Yale Univ., 1936
Howard E. Zimmerman	Ph.D., Chemistry, Yale Univ., 1953	Mechanistic and exploratory organic photochemistry.
Gary L. Grunewald	Ph.D., Chemistry, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1966	Drug design using computer modeling and NMR techniques, mechanism of drug action in the central nervous system, enzyme inhibitors, neurotransmitters.
D. Eric Walters	Ph.D., Medicinal Chemistry, Univ. of Kansas, 1978	Computer-aided molecular design; computational biochemistry.

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Last update: 17 July 2007