John Fries Frazer

His early education was at the school in Germantown, then at Captain Partridge's Military Academy in Connecticut for a year, after which he went to stay with Rev.

While at the university, and for some time after graduating, he assisted in the laboratory of professor Alexander Dallas Bache, where he studied magnetic variance and the Aurora Borealis.

[1] For a period, he studied in the laboratory that James Curtis Booth, the eminent chemist, established in 1836.

[1] Frazer married in 1838, and was to have two daughters and a son, Persifor, who later also studied at Booth's laboratory and became professor of chemistry at the university after his father's death.

He died suddenly of a heart attack on 12 October 1872 the day after the new university building had been inaugurated in West Philadelphia.