John Henry Cremer
John Henry Cremer (c1846-1924)
1924 Obituary [1]
JOHN HENRY CREMER died at Spartanburg, South Carolina, on July 20, 1924, at the age of seventy-eight.
He was born at Batavia, and was of French Huguenot descent. He went to America when a young man, after having received his education in Paris and Liege. For a time he was associated with Andrew Carnegie in the management of blast-furnaces.
Subsequently he established himself in Cleveland, Ohio, as an analytical chemist, specialising in iron ore analysis. In this work he was associated for a number of years with G. A. Bicknell, and was co-author with the latter of the "Chemical and Metallurgical Handbook," published in 1898.
He was elected a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1886.