MORT 3018 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
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 Weidenmann
Built the first dedicated funeral home in 1865 - Answer✔️✔️-Kirk and
Nice
Founded the first mortuary science school in Cincinnati -
Answer✔️✔️-Clarke and Lukens
First American patent on a cloth-covered state wood casket (burial
case) in 1871. This type was used to bury U.S. Grant - Answer✔️✔️-
Stein
Inventor of a "mummy case" which was a metallic coffin of cast
metal. Patent was sold to Crane and Breed. - Answer✔️✔️-Fisk
The "Father of Surgery" - Answer✔️✔️-Pare
Discovered the circulatory system - Answer✔️✔️-Harvey
Discovered the capillary system - Answer✔️✔️-Malphigi
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Discovered bacteria - Answer✔️✔️-van Leeuwenhoek
Scottish anatomist originator of the "Injection Technique of
Embalming" - Answer✔️✔️-Hunter
Licensed Dutch public official who directed funerals - Answer✔️✔️-
Aanspreecker
A fee levied on members by guilds to pay for deceased member's
funerals - Answer✔️✔️-Quarterage
A funeral bill - Answer✔️✔️-Soul shot
A chandler was a person who - Answer✔️✔️-made candles
A funeral feast - Answer✔️✔️-averil
A place where widows lived in seclusion - Answer✔️✔️-Dower House
Wax or wooden "imitation dummies" of the deceased - Answer✔️✔️-
effigies
Father of American embalming - Answer✔️✔️-Holmes
Inventor of the disaster pouch - Answer✔️✔️-Holmes
Inventor of the corpse cooler - Answer✔️✔️-Frederick and Trump
First patent on what was to become the "morgue cooler" -
Answer✔️✔️-Kimball
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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
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