John Conover Smock

John Conover Smock (September 21, 1842 - April 21, 1926 Hudson, New York^[1]) 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).^[2]

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