The Biographical Dictionary of America/Anderson, Henry James

ANDERSON, Henry James, educator, was born in New York city, Feb. 6, 1799. He was graduated at Columbia college in 1818, and at the college of physicians and surgeons in 1824. He was professor of mathematics and astronomy at Columbia college 1825-'43, professor emeritus 1866-'75, and a trustee 1851-'75. He was geologist on Lieutenant Lynch's expedition to the Red Sea, in 1848, and subsequently joined the scientific expedition sent to Australia to view the transit of Venus. He died at Lahore, India, Oct. 19, 1875.