He was a geologist with published works, including a compilation of notes on the Smock Family in America. He SMOCK, John Conover, geologist, was born in Holmdel, N.J., Sept. 21, 1842; son of Isaac G. and Ellen (Conover) Smock; grandson of George and Margaret (Van Deventer) Smock, and of John and Ann (Smock) Conover, and a descendant of Hendrick Matthyse Smock, the progenitor of the Smock family in this country, who settled in New Utrecht, Long Island, in 1654. He was graduated from Rutgers in 1862, and became a tutor in chemistry there, 1862-67. He was elected professor of mining and metallurgy in 1867, and studied at the Berg Academic and the University of Berlin, 1869-70. He was married, Oct. 15, 1874, to Catherine Elizabeth, daughter of Abram J. and Catherine (Schoonmaker) [p.334] Beekman, of Brooklyn, N.Y. He was a member of the faculty at Rutgers, 1871-85. He was assistant on the geological survey, 1864-85; assistant in charge of the New York state museum, 1885; and state geologist of New Jersey, 1890-01. He received the honorary degree of Ph.D. from Lafayette in 1881, and that of LL.D. from Rutgers, in 1902. He was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers; of the American Public Health association; the Geological Society of America, of the American Philosophical society, and a member of the board of managers of the geological survey of New Jersey. He is the author of: Reports on Clay Deposits (1878); Building Stones in New York (1888); Report on Iron Ores in New York (1889), and other state reports. He lived in 1925 in Hudson, New York.
John Conover Smock was also known as C. John Smock. John Conover Smock was born on 21. Sep. 1842 at Holmdel, Monmouth County, New Jersey. He was the son of
Issac G. Smock and
Ellen Conover. John Conover Smock married
Catherine E. Beekman, daughter of
Abram J. Beekman and
Catherine Schoonmaker, on 15. Oct. 1874. John Conover Smock was shown in the census on 1. Jun. 1880 as a professor at Rutgers College.
John Conover Smock and
Catherine E. Beekman appeared on the census of 1. Jun. 1880 at New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
John Conover Smock and
Catherine E. Beekman appeared on the census of 26. Apr. 1910 at Hudson, Columbia County, New York; no children. John Conover Smock died in 1926.