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George Franklin Grant
American academic (1846–1910)
George Franklin Grant (September 15, 1846 – August 21, 1910) was the first African-American professor at Harvard.
He was also a Boston dentist, and an inventor of an early composite golf tee made from wood and natural rubber (specifically, gutta-percha) tubing.[1][2]
Biography
Grant was born on September 15, 1846, in Oswego, New York, to Phillis Pitt and Tudor Elandor Grant.[3][4] He attended the Bordentown School in Bordentown, New Jersey.[5]
He entered the Harvard Dental School (now the Harvard School of Dental Medicine) in 1868, and graduated in 1870.
He then took a position in the department of mechanical dentistry in 1871, making him Harvard University's first African-American faculty member.[6]
Grant was a founding member and later the president of the Harvard Odontological Society and was a member of the Harvard Dental Alumni Association where he