Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Schanck, John Stilwell

SCHANCK, John Stilwell, educator, b. near Freehold, N. J., 24 Feb., 1817; d. in Princeton, 16 Dec., 1898. He was graduated at Princeton, and at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1843, settled in Princeton, and followed the practice of his profession there until 1865. In 1847 he was called to the curatorship of the college museum and to give lectures on anatomy, physiology, and zoölogy. In 1855-'6 he instructed the senior class in chemistry, and in 1857 he was elected to succeed John Torrey in the professorship. Under his direction the course was enlarged and extended, and he lectured on anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and hygiene. He was a member of various scientific societies, and received the degree of LL. D. from Lafayette.