MORT 3018 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
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Founded one of the earliest funeral establishments in Germantown, PA in 1761 - ANSWER-Jacob
Knorr
First American patent on a metal burial vault in 1879 - ANSWER-George Boyd
First American patent on a concrete burial vault in 1872 - ANSWER-Jacob Weiden...
Founder of the Rochester School of Embalming in 1882 - ANSWER✔✔-Renouard
Patented the trochar in 1878 - ANSWER✔✔-Rogers
First prepared formaldehyde - ANSWER✔✔-von Hofmann
Founder of what is now the New England Institute - ANSWER✔✔-Dodge
First teacher of "Mortuary Management" (Cincinnati) - ANSWER✔✔-Epply
Poorly made spoons given out as funeral gifts - ANSWER✔✔-Monkey spoons
Poisonous embalming fluids first outlawed in U.S. - ANSWER✔✔-Michigan
NFDA founding - ANSWER✔✔-Rochester, NY
First formal organization of undertakers on a city level - ANSWER✔✔-Philadelphia
Group responsible for Mortuary Science School Curriculum - ANSWER✔✔-American Board of Funeral
Service Education
Group responsible for National Board Examination - ANSWER✔✔-International Conference of Funeral
Service Examining Boards
Obtained the first U.S. patent (1856) for a process of embalming the body by a method using injection of
arsenic and alcohol - ANSWER✔✔-Gaussardia
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