Augustus Allen Hayes

Augustus Allen Hayes, chemist, was born in Windsor, Vt., Feb. 28, 1806. He was graduated from the Norwich military school in 1823, and studied chemistry under Prof. James Freeman Dana at Dartmouth, 1823-26. He was assistant professor of chemistry in the New Hampshire medical college, 1826–28, and an expert chemist in Boston, Mass. , 1828-82. He was the discoverer of the organic alkaloid sanguinaria; invented in 1838 a novel arrangement of steam boilers for the economical generation of steam: and first suggested the application of oxides of iron in refining pig-iron ; and a process for the production of saltpetre from sodium nitrate by the action of potassium hydroxide. He was state assayer of Massachusetts and author of papers on The Cause of the Color of Lake Leman, Geneva ; The Bed Oxide of Zinc in New Jersey, and technical papers contributed to the Proceedings of various scientific societies of which he was a member and to the American Journal of Science. He received the honorary degree of M.D. from Dartmouth in 1846. He died in Brookline, Mass., June 21, 1882.

Augustus Allen Hayes
Born28 February 1806 
Died21 June 1882  (aged 76)
OccupationChemist 

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