Howard Strickland Abbott was born in Farmington, Minnesota on September 15, 1863. He received a Bachelors of Literature from the University of Minnesota in 1885, and later went on to be a professional lecturer on corporation law. He published extensively during his life, and was the commissioner on uniform legislation in Minnesota, 1905-1911.

Elmer Ellsworth Adams was born on December 31, 1861. He graduated from the College of Science, Literature and the Arts in 1884, and again from the College of Engineering and Mechanic Arts in 1906. He was the editor of the Fergus Falls Journal from 1885-1912, and was appointed to the Board of Regents at the University of Minnesota on May 31, 1897. He served as a regent until his election to the Minnesota State Legislature in January 1905, where he served until 1907. He was the second University alumnus to be appointed to the Board of Regents. Adams died on June 24, 1950.

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Carl Anton Anderson graduated from the College of Science, Literature and the Arts in 1909. As a student at the University, Anderson was instrumental in fostering a school of the study of journalism.

Frank Maloy Anderson was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1894 after spending his junior year as the managing editor of the Gopher, and his senior year as a scholar of history, teaching a class to freshmen and sophomores. After graduation, Anderson taught at the University of Minnesota for twenty years, except for one year at Harvard Graduate School, and a sabbatical half year in Paris, where he attended lectures at the Sorbonne and College de France, and worked in the libraries at the Archives Nationales.

In 1898 he married Mary Gertrude Steele also a 1894 graduate of the University of Minnesota. She died in 1939. Their son, Gaylord West Anderson was a public health authority and director of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. In 1944 Frank Maloy Anderson married Mary Maude Case, a member of the Class of 1895.

Anderson's first two years at Minnesota were as a part-time instructor, while he was doing graduate work, receiving his MA in 1896. He then was named an assistant professor in 1898, and later a full professor in 1905, a position he maintained until 1914. Anderson was also the acting head of the Department of History in 1911 and in 1913. He taught Modern European History and American History.

Anderson left the University of Minnesota for Dartmouth College, where he remained until his retirement in 1941, teaching Modern European History. He was also active in World War I, where he prepared a manual on the diplomatic history of Europe, Africa and Asia from 1870-1914 for use by the Department of State. He also later worked on The Inquiry, the name given to the gathering of materials designed to be of use when negotiations for peace should begin. When the war ended, Anderson spent three months on the staff of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace at the Paris Peace Conference. He returned to Dartmouth in 1919, teaching courses on the World War and post-war courses until his retirement. Anderson died at the age of 90 in 1961.

George H. Anderson from Canby, Minnesota, was a 1923 graduate of the School of Agriculture at the University of Minnesota.

Mary Maud Case Anderson was a member of the Class of 1895. While a student she was a member of Delta Gamma and Phi Beta Kappa. She later was a teacher in Minneapolis. In 1944 she married Frank Maloy Anderson, an 1894 graduate of the University of Minnesota and University history instructor and professor (1895-1914).

John Arnold was born on February 5, 1911 in Elmore, Minnesota. He received his D.V.M. in 1941 and his M.S. in 1948 from Iowa State University. He received his Ph.D. in 1956 from the University of Minnesota. Arnold was in private practice in Blooming Prairie, MN from 1941-1946, and later in Mora, MN from 1948-1950. He was also an instructor and assistant professor at Iowa State University from 1946-1948.

Coming to the University of Minnesota in 1950, Arnold was named an instructor, being promoted in 1956 to Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology. He was promoted again to Professor in 1957, a position he maintained until 1971. In 1970, he also took the position as Acting Head of Veterinary Hospitals until 1972, and in 1974, he was in charge of the Animal Resources Facility. He retired in 1976.

Annie Laurie Baker came to the University of Minnesota Hospitals in 1931 as a medical worker after receiving her B.A. degree in 1926 at Minnesota and her masters degree in 1931 at the University of Chicago. In 1935 Miss Baker went to the State Board of Control (now the State Department of Public Welfare) and served as a district representative in the northwestern corner of Minnesota until 1942. She was also director of the Division of Blind from 1938-1942. During World War II, Miss Baker joined the American Red Cross and was assigned first to the domestic service and later to foreign service in England, France and Japan. Miss Baker returned to the University Hospitals in 1948 as director of the social service department and professor of social work. She remained at Minnesota until her retirement on July 1, 1972.

Francis B. Barton was born on March 15, 1886 in Palmer, Massachusetts. He obtained his B.A. from Williams College in 1907 and completed a Doctorate at the University of Paris in 1911. He also studied at the University of Madrid in 1913. Barton came to the University of Minnesota in 1915 as an instructor. While teaching French and Spanish, he served as the Academic Secretary of the Department of Romance languages until 1937. That year he was appointed Chairman of the Department, a position he held until his retirement in 1954.

Barton was a prominent scholar in French literature of the 19th century and attained national fame as the co-author of French grammar and composition manuals known as the Barton and Sirich series. In 1948 the government of France named Barton and Officer d'Academie. In 1949 he received the Palmes Academiques for distinction in the teaching field, and in 1950 France made him a Knight of the Legion of Honor. Barton died in 1971.

Alice Biester was born on January 10, 1890, and grew up in Belvidere, Illinois. In earned her B.A. degree in 1912, and M.A. degree in 1913 from the University of Illinois. In later years, she attended Yale and Columbia Universities.

After serving for two years as an instructor in nutrition at Purdue University, Biester arrived at the University of Minnesota in 1915, where she was for many years a professor and head of the nutrition section in the School of Home Economics. She retired on June 15, 1955 after 40 years of teaching, research, administration and public service. Biester was a leader in developing the curriculum for dietetics majors at the University. The research she conducted included the nutritive value of foods, relative sweetness of sugars, blood regeneration in anemia and the nutritional status of older women.

After retiring, Biester moved to Santa Barbara, California. She died on April 15, 1969 at the age of 79.

William Boss was born in Dakota County, Minnesota on October 7, 1869. After following his older brother, Andrew Boss, to the School of Agriculture at the University of Minnesota, he worked part-time at the campus heating plant. In 1895 he became an instructor in carpentry and power machinery. The following year he became chief engineer in charge of the new central heating plant. He graduated March 19, 1904 and in 1905 became professor of farm structures and farm mechanics in the College of Agriculture and the following year published a book entitled Instruction for Traction and Stationary Engineers. In 1902 he was issued a patent on a grass catcher for lawn mowers, which sparked the organization of the Specialty Manufacturing Company.

In 1907, Boss, with others interested in agricultural engineering organized the American Society of Agricultural Engineers, of which he served as national president during 1927-1928, and simultaneously served on the American Engineering Council. Boss resigned in 1913 to devote full-time to the development of his manufacturing business. At the time of his death, he had a total of 17 registered patents. Despite his resignation in 1919, Boss returned to the University to assume the chairmanship of the Department of Agricultural Engineering, which grew to professional status under his leadership. He retired in 1938. William Boss died on July 30, 1965.

Charles John Brand, an agriculturist and economist, was born in Lac Qui Parle County, Minnesota on October 24, 1879. He received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1902, and went on to be the assistant curator of Botany at the Field Museum in Chicago from 1902-1903. When he left this post, Brand took a position with the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1903-1919. He was the vice president and general manager of the American Fruit Growers, Inc. in Pittsburgh from 1919-1922, the specialist in marketing at the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1922-1925, executive secretary and treasurer of the Natural Fertilizer Association from 1925-1945, and executive director of the Fertilizer Code Authority from 1933-1935. He died on June 29, 1949.

Gertrude Marie Brandsmark was a student at the University of Minnesota from 1897, until she received her B.A. in 1901. She was in the Greek Club, the Twentieth Century Club, and received honors in Greek, Latin, and history.

Olaus Jensen Breda was born in Horton, Norway in 1853. He passed the first (1870) and the second (1871) examination at the Royal University of Christiania, and commenced the study of classic philology. In 1873 he came to the United States and entered the German Concordia Seminary of St. Louis, MO, where he perused the study of theology until the summer of 1875. He then took charge of a Norwegian Lutheran congregation in St. Paul, MN. Two years later, he resigned this charge, having accepted a call to the Norwegian Lutheran College in Decorah, Iowa. Before entering upon his new duties, he spent two years studying classical and modern philology at the University of Christiania. From 1879-1882 he taught Latin and Norwegian in Lutheran College and then resigned and returned to Norway. After another year spent at the University of Christiania, he was appointed to a position in the Gymnasium of Skien, Norway, which he, however, resigned, upon begin tendered the newly created professorship of Scandinavian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota. With the permission of the regents of the school, he spent another year in Christiania and entered upon his duties here in the fall of 1884. Besides his work as the head of the Scandinavian Department, he also taught many classes in other languages. He left the University of Minnesota in 1899, and died in 1916.

Raymond W. Brink was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 4, 1890. He received his B.S. in 1908 and his B.S.E.E. in 1909, both from Kansas State College in Manhattan, Kansas, and later he received his A.M. in 1915 and his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1916 from Harvard University. Brink came to the University of Minnesota in 1917, where he served in the Department of Mathematics of the College of Science, Literature, and the Arts until his retirement in 1957. He was chairman of the Mathematics Department from 1928-1932 and again from 1939-1957. He also served as associate dean of the college.

Brink was an associate editor of the Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. He was vice president of the Mathematical Association of America in 1940 and president in 1941. He was also secretary of section A (Mathematics) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a major contributor to the American college-level mathematics textbook, having authored several widely used books. Brink died on December 27, 1973 in LaJolla, California at the age of 83.

Raymond J. Bros was a student at the University of Minnesota from about 1915 through 1921.

Cora I. Brown was a student at the University from September 1875 until she graduated in June 1880.

Marion LeRoy Burton was born in Brooklyn, Iowa on August 30, 1874. After the death of his father, when Burton was eight, the family moved to Minneapolis. At the age of fifteen, he entered a drug store in Minneapolis and served as a clerk for four years, from July 1889 to September 1893. During these four years, he passed the state examination in pharmacy, served his apprenticeship, and was recognized as a professional pharmacist.

In 1893, Burton entered the academy of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and at the end of three years was ready to enter it's Freshman class. Four years later he graduated from the college with a B.A. and high honors. Following his graduation Burton became principal of Windom Institute in Montevideo, Minnesota. In the fall of 1903 he entered the Divinity School of Yale University and was immediately elected president of the class. In 1906 he graduated with the degree of B.D., summa cum laude. He also took up the study of philosophy, graduating in 1907 with a Ph.D. After a year of teaching as an associate professor of systematic theology at Yale, Burton left to accept the pulpit of the historic Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn. After a year in Brooklyn, Burton was offered the position of president at Smith College at Northampton, Mass, which he took up in the fall of 1910 after a year of travel and study in Europe.

In 1917, Burton was elected president of the University of Minnesota. He was a strong advocate for an increase in salaries for faculty. He also insisted that the primary emphasis at the University should be place on unifying and enriching student life. He resigned his position in 1920 to accept the presidency of the University of Michigan. He died in February 1925.

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Richard Burton was born on March 14, 1861 in Hartford, Connecticut. He received his bachelors degree at Trinity College, Connecticut in 1883 and his Ph.D. five years later at Johns Hopkins where he had taught Old English while still a graduate student. In 1888, he took the position of managing editor of The Churchmanof The, organ of the liberal movement in the American church. He was later the literary editor of the Hartford Courant (1890-1897) and the associate editor of Charles Dudley Warner's Library of the World's Best Literature (1897-1899).

In 1898 Burton accepted an appointment as head of the department of English at the University of Minnesota (1898-1902, 1906-1925). During the interval he served as an editor for the Lothrop Publishing Company of Philadelphia and as a professional lecturer of English Literature at the University of Chicago. Burton's resigned in 1925 to devote his full attention to writing and speaking before the general audience. He was also a temporary lecturer at Columbia University until 1933, and a lecturer at Sarah Lawrence College from 1928-1931. In 1933 he accepted an appointment as Professor of Literature at Rollins College, Florida.

Along with his academic history, Burton was also influential in the creation of the Drama League of America. He served many years on committees named to select winners of the Pulitzer prizes in drama, poetry and fiction. He was also a member in the National Institute of Arts and Letters and to the Simplified Spelling Board. Burton was the author of more than twenty books. Burton died on April 8, 1940 at his home in Winter Park, Florida.

Fred Carpenter was a student in the School of Agriculture in the early 1900s.

Alice May Child was born on May 3, 1876 in Chaska, Minnesota. She received her B.S. degree in chemistry in 1901 and taught physics and chemistry at the University of Minnesota until 1911, when she went to Columbia University to continue graduate study, where she received her M.A. in 1912. After teaching in Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin, she returned to the University of Minnesota to become a laboratory assistant, working under the direction of Mildred Weigley Wood, then chief of the Division of Home Economics, in studies on the relation of chemistry to foods. She became an instructor in 1919 and an associate professor in 1929.

In 1926, the Purnell Act provided funds for the establishment of an experimental station. Child became a member of the staff and it was here that she was able to direct numerous investigations into the value, use, and the preparation of foods. The results of her research were published in journals such as the Journal of Agricultural Research, and popular titles such as Ladies Home Journal. She was also a member of the Committee on the Cooperative Meat Investigation. Child died on July 10, 1938.

Born Carolyn McKnight in Denver, Colorado, Christian moved to Minneapolis as a child, attending the former Judson Institute, Minneapolis Central High School and Burnham School in Northampton, Massachusetts. She married George Christian, a Minneapolis milling executive and manufacturer in 1897.

Throughout her life, Christian maintained an interest in civic affairs and was noted for her support of medical research, education and the arts. She was a past resident of the Friends of the Institute, Stevens Square, the Lake Minnetonka Garden Club and the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of Minnesota. She also served as director of the Minnesota Orchestral Association and as a trustee of Carleton College, and of the Citizens Aid Society. Christian was the president of the Aid Society for twenty-five years, which was founded by her father-in-law.

She later donated $250,000 through the society to construct a cancer research institute at the University of Minnesota, and then she bought four X-ray machines for the center. She also established the George Chase Christian professorship in cancer research at the university. Her and her husband also financed the construction of Thomas Hospital, Minneapolis' first tuberculosis hospital; she donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Abbott and St. Barnabas hospitals, as well as to the Cathedral Church of Mark and the Washington Cathedral. She donated to many other organizations throughout her life, and received the Council of Social Agencies' Outstanding Citizen award, the Interracial Council Honor Medal for 1932 and the university's "Builder" award in 1949. Christian died in 1964 at the age of 89.

Henrietta Clopath, a native of Switzerland, graduated from the College of Aigle-Canton de Vaud. Her art education began early, inspired by the beautiful scenes of her country. She also studied in Dresden and Munich Germany under the best foreign artists. For several years, she had the charge of the art department of the American College for Girls in Constantinople. In 1895, she came to Minneapolis, where she continued her artistic work. Around 1898, she was made an instructor in the Art Department at the University of Minnesota.

Gratia Alta Countryman was born on November 29, 1866 in Hastings, Minnesota. She received her baccalaureate degree from the University of Minnesota in 1889. In October 1889, Countryman took a position at the Minnesota Public Library; the following year, she was promoted to the head of the catalog department, and two years later, in 1892, she was appointed assistant librarian to James K. Hosmer. In 1904, she became chief librarian, a position she held until her retirement at the age of seventy in 1936.

Countryman worked with three legislatures to rally support for the 1899 legislation which made it possible for towns and villages throughout the state to establish and maintain their own libraries and which established a state library commission and traveling libraries for service to rural districts. She was influential in the passage of similar legislation in Wisconsin, and from 1899-1918, she served as recording secretary of the Minnesota Library Commission. She was also elected a Fellow of the American Library Institute in 1906, and served in a number of capacities in the American Library Association, including the presidency from 1933-1934. Countryman died on July 26, 1953 in Duluth, Minnesota.

Osborne Cowles was born in Browns Valley, Minnesota. He was a graduate of the Browns Valley High School in 1918, entering Carlton College that fall. While there, Cowles won four letters in football as a halfback, four letters in basketball, and three in baseball. He was captain of the Carleton basketball team for two years, and an all-Conference selection in basketball for three years and in football for one.

Following graduating from Carleton in 1922, Cowles was appointed as director of athletic and head coach in football, basketball, and track at Rochester High School. In 1923, Cowles was appointed head baseball coach and assistant basketball coach at Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, Iowa. His baseball team won it's Conference championship. The following year (1924), Cowles went to Carleton College as head coach in basketball and baseball and assistant coach in football. He remained in these capacities until 1930.

Cowles resigned from his position at Carleton in 1930 to enter the bond business. After the depression knocked the bottom out of the bond business, Cowles in 1932 accepted appointment as athletic director and head coach in football, basketball and baseball at River Falls State Teacher College in River Falls, Wisconsin, remaining there until 1936. From here he went to Dartmouth as head basketball coach.

After seven years at Dartmouth, Cowles took military leave to enter the Navy as an aviation ground officer. He received his discharge two years later and returned to Dartmouth for a year. Cowles received appointment as head basketball coach at Michigan in 1946. In 1948, he came to the University of Minnesota as the head basketball coach, resigning in 1959.

Farrington Daniels was a student at the University of Minnesota.

Ignatius Donnelly was born on November 3, 1831 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At 28 he was elected the second lieutenant governor of the state of Minnesota. In 1862 he was elected to the first of three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. he was a successful Republican Party politician, influential in the Patrons of Husbandry and the Anti-Monopoly Party, and later in the Farmers' Alliance, which became the Populist Party. He was elected six times to the state legislature. From 1860-1863 he was lieutenant governor and also served as a regent of the University of Minnesota at the same time. Donnelly was also a successful writer and literary critic, writing titles such as Doctor Huget, the story of a white man who fantasized about the injustices that would be done to him if he were black, and The Golden Bottle, which dealt with free silver and other reform issues.

William Dunwoody was born in Westtown, Pennsylvania March 14, 1841. He moved to Minneapolis in 1896. He was the president of the St. Anthony and Dakota Elevator company, president of Northwestern National Bank, and vice president of Washburn, Crosby and Co., a flour mill in Minneapolis. He introduced a new process for milling wheat and to export flour from Minneapolis direct to Europe. He also helped found Dunwoody Institute of Technology in Minneapolis in 1914, leaving three million for it's construction in his will, following his death on February 8, 1914. His purpose was to "provide for all time a place where youth without distinction on account of race, color or religious prejudice, may learn the useful trades and crafts, and thereby fit themselves for the better performance of life's duties." When his wife, Kate L. Dunwoody, died a year later in 1915, she left an additional trust to help sustain the new school.

Clarence Henry Eckles was born near Marshalltown, Iowa in 1875. He entered Iowa State College, and graduated in 1895 with a B.S. degree. He was at once appointed assistant in dairy husbandry and diary bacteriology. In 1896, he went to the University of Wisconsin for additional training in dairy bacteriology, later returning to Iowa State College where he received his M.S. degree in 1897. In 1901, Eckles was called to the University of Missouri to take charge of a newly organized department of dairy husbandry. Here, he built a strong teaching and research department. At some point during his first five years at Missouri, Eckles spent a year abroad studying at the Georgia Augusta University in Gottingen, Germany, and at the dairy experiment station at Liebefeld near Berne, Switzerland.

In 1919, Eckles came to the University of Minnesota as a professor and chief of the division of diary husbandry. As an author of books, a contributor to scientific journals and as a correspondent for farm journals he added much to the knowledge of the dairy industry. He was a member of many scientific societies and associations, and of professional and honorary societies. He was an official delegate of the United States Government at the International Diary Congress at London in 1928 and at Copenhagen in 1931. He was elected in 1931 as Corresponding Member of the Czechoslovakian Academy of Agriculture. In 1916, the Eckles Club was formed, the membership being limited to those students who had received a baccalaureate or graduate degree under Eckles, the number being around 140 at the time of his death on February 13, 1933.

Henry Turner Eddy was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts on June 9, 1844. He entered the classical course at Yale in 1863, and graduated with a B.A. in 1867 with distinction in mathematics, winning first prize at each competition in his class, and receiving the gold medal for mathematics at graduation. He studied Civil Engineering at the Sheffield Scientific School, where he was assistant in the field work of railroad surveying, and received the degree of Ph.B. in 1868. He was an instructor in Latin and Mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, from 1868-1869.

In 1869, Eddy was elected assistant professor of mathematics and civil engineering at Cornell University, continuing his studies while teaching. He received the degree of C.E. in 1870 and Ph.D. in 1872. He was an adjunct professor of mathematics at Princeton University from 1873-1874, and was the first professor selected in 1874 in constituting a faculty for the newly founded University of Cincinnati, where he filled the chair of mathematics, astronomy and civil engineering until 1890. He spent the year 1879-1880 on leave of absence pursuing mathematical physics partly at the University of Berlin and the Physikolische Institute, and partly at the Sorbonne and the College de France, Paris. He was the President of the Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute, Indiana from 1891-1894, when he became professor of engineering and mechanics in the College of Engineering at the University of Minnesota. In 1906, he was made dean of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota, and in 1907 was also put in charge of the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics in the College of Engineering. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Center College in 1892. Henry Eddy died in 1921.

Evelyn Enches graduated from the School of Business in 1923. While at the University, she was active in Gamma Epsilon Pi, the Young Women's Christian Society, the Women's Self Government Association, Grinders, and she was the secretary of Sigma Beta Gamma. She later went on to work at the School of Business in Pasadena, California.

Alvin Eurich was born in Michigan. He did his undergraduate work at Northwestern College and the University of Michigan. He became an instructor in educational psychology at Minnesota in 1927, and in 1929, he received his Ph.D. from the University, being promoted to an assistant professor at that time. In 1935, he was promoted to an associate professor, and one year later, in 1936, he was the assistant dean of the College of Education and a professor of educational psychology.

In 1937, he left Minnesota to work as a professor of education at Northwestern University. Two years later, he left that post to teach education at Stanford. In 1944, he was appointed as vice president and in 1948 to president of Stanford University. Eurich was a member of Sigma Xi and Phi Delta Kappa, and he received an Outstanding Achievement Award in June 1951.

Herbert Freundlich was born in Charlottenburg, Germany on January 28, 1880. He graduated from the gymnasium in Wiesbaden in 1898, studied general science for one year at the University of Munich, and then specialized in chemistry at the University of Leipzig, where in 1903 he received his Ph.D. degree. For eight years he remained at the University of Lepizig, attaining the rank of Privatdocent in October 1906. He was appointed as a professor of physical chemistry and inorganic technology at Technische Hochschule, Braunschweig in 1911. He remained until 1916, when he joined the staff of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut fur Physikalische und Elektrochemie at Berlin-Dahlem. In 1919 he resigned his professorship at Braunschweig to remain permanently at the Kaiser Wihlelm Institut. Later he was appointed Associate Director of Minnesota and the Colloid Committee of the National Research Council to be guest at the University of Minnesota. He remained in Minnesota giving a series of lectures on colloid chemistry during the summer session. In 1937 he was Foreign Guest Scholar at the Fourteenth Annual National Colloid Symposium at the University of Minnesota, and again he remained at the University for a series of lectures.

Following the rise of the Nazi regime, Freundlich was ordered in 1933 to dismiss all of his associates who were not of the “pure Aryan” race. As a result of this order, he resigned in protest and soon left Germany for England. He became associated with University College, London until 1938 when he was hired at the University of Minnesota as Distinguished Service Professor of colloid chemistry in the Graduate School. Freundlich’s scientific career lay almost wholly in the field of colloid and capillary chemistry. In the more than 200 papers and in the several books which he published are found important original concepts relating to almost every field of colloid research or technology. Freundlich died in Minneapolis on March 30, 1941.

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John Goodnow graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree from the College of Science, Literature and the Arts in 1879. He later went on to be the United States treaty commissioner, senior counsel of the consular body, senior judge of the court of consuls, member of the Whamgpoo conservancy board, president of the American College club, master of the American Lodge, and head of the consistory of the Scottish rite. He died on December 7, 1907.

Avis Grant was the wife of Ulysses Sherman Grant and daughter of Newton Horace Winchell. Ulysses Sherman Grant was a graduate of the University of Minnesota in 1888, and served as an assistant on the geological and natural history survey of Minnesota at various times from 1886-1893. He was an instructor in geology at the University of Minnesota from 1896-1897. Avis Grant graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1904 from the College of Science, Literature and the Arts. She was a member of Delta Gamma, Phi Beta Kappa, Women's Club, the Chicago branch of the Collegiate Alumnae Association, first president of the Political Equality League, a member of the University Guild, Playground Association, and Humane Society.

Raymond L. Grismer received his B.A. in 1922 from the University of Vermont, his M.A. in 1922 from Ohio State University, and his Ph.D. in 1930 from the University of California. He came to the University of Minnesota as an assistant professor for Romance Languages in 1931. He was later promoted to professor, and retired in 1963.

John Gruner was born on July 12, 1890 in Neurode, Germany. He received his B.A. in 1917 from the University of New Mexico, his M.S. in 1919 and his Ph.D. in 1922 from the University of Minnesota. He served as an instructor at the University of New Mexico (1917-1918), and as an assistant professor of geology at the Oregon School of Mines (1919-1920). He joined the University of Minnesota Staff in 1920 as an instructor in geology, and was promoted to assistant professor (1923), associate professor (1929), and professor (1944). During many summers, he served as a geologist for the Minnesota Geological Survey, serving as its vice president from 1949-1950. He was also a member of the Mineralogical Society of America, serving in many capacities, including president in 1948. He retired from the university in 1959.

Gruner was an internationally known expert in the field of crystal structures and fine-grained materials, and also widely known for his work with iron ores and allied deposits. He was the author of a great number of publications, and the recipient of one of the highest awards in the field of mineralogy, the Roebling Medal, awarded to him at the annual meeting of the Mineralogical Society of America in Houston, Texas in 1962. Gruner died in March 1981.

Dr. Hagen was elected by the Minnesota Legislature as regent of the University of Minnesota on February 26, 1931. He served in the capacity of Regent for a period of 6 years.

Hugo Hanft was born on December 16, 1871 in St. Peter, Minnesota. He served as principal of Peru Illinois High School from 1892-1894, and in 1896, he graduated from the law department at the University of Minnesota, After being admitted to the bar, Hanft served as the assistant county attorney of Ramsey County from 1900 until elected in May 1906 to the position as judge of the Municipal Court of St. Paul. He served in this position until 1914, when he was named a district court judge, and he was later promoted again in 1930 to the position of senior judge. Hanft also served in the Spanish-American War from 1898-1900, enlisting in the U.S. Army as a private with the Company E, 13th Minnesota Volunteer Infantry.

John Harris worked in the School of Agriculture at the University of Minnesota during the early 1900s.

Howard Haycraft was born in Madelia, Minnesota, receiving his bachelors degree from the University of Minnesota. As a student, Haycraft was editor of the Minnesota Daily from 1926-1928, and it was during the first of these years that he played a vital part in the successful fight against Dr. W.B. Riley's anti-evolution bill in the state legislature. After graduation, Haycraft was employed as an assistant at the University Press. He prepared its first catalogue, tracking down university publications back to 1872.

In 1929, Haycraft joined the staff of the H.W. Wilson Company, a publishing house, in New York City. He was named director of the company in 1934, became vice president in 1940 and president in 1953, retiring in 1970.

Haycraft served in the U.S. Army from 1942-1946, leaving the service with the rank of major. He served as editor and author of several biographical reference books, part-author of a number of the guides to foreign countries prepared for American servicemen, and served as chief purchasing and contracting officer for special Services of the Army. He was also recognized as one of the foremost and soundest critics of the detective story, writing numerous articles and reviews for magazines.

Arthur Haynes was born in Van Buren, New York on May 23, 1849. He graduated from Hillsdale College, Michigan, and after studying at Michigan, Harvard and Cornell, he taught for fifteen years at Hillsdale. This was followed by three years teaching at the Michigan School of Mines.

Haynes came to the University of Minnesota in 1893 as an assistant professor of engineering mathematics, retiring in 1912. During his sixteen years, Haynes was an enthusiastic worker in the college Y.M.C.A., of which he was a member for thirty-nine years. Haynes was especially interested in the student soldiers of the Spanish-American war. Due to his efforts, the solders' monument was erected in front of the Armory; Haynes himself was chairman of the committee which raised $6,000 for this memorial to student soldiers. Haynes died March 12, 1915.

Albert Heine, a native of Ellendale, North Dakota, earned his B.S. degree from the University of Minnesota. He began his career as an instructor in farm mechanics at the University's West Central School of Agriculture in Morris. He was named head of the Department of Agricultural Engineering there in 1920, was promoted to assistant professor in 1944 and to associate professor in 1949.

Heine remained at Morris continuously from 1917 to 1949, except for one year during World War I when he served in the U.S. Navy. He coached interscholastic football and basketball at Morris for 21 seasons beginning in 1926. And during World War II, he taught ground school courses in aviation, including navigation, meteorology and civil air regulations.

Named first superintendent of the Rosemount Experiment Station in 1949, Heine was promoted to full professor in 1957. In 1959 he spent three weeks behind the Iron Curtain during a 19 day trip to Russia as a member of the farm study tour sponsored by Successful Farming magazine. Heine retired in June 1965 after having served 48 years on the University's staff.

Robert Heinze was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He attended St. Paul Central High School and the University of Minnesota, receiving a B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1916.

Lewis Hessler was born in Omaha, Nebraska on May 12, 1884. After graduating with a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1905, he remained there for a year of graduate work, and then taught for a year in the high school at Ishpeming, Michigan. From 1907-1910 he was assistant in English at the University of Michigan. In 1910 he returned to the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught while working on his M.A. (1913) and Ph.D. (1916) degrees. He married Marguerite Allen in 1914.

In 1918 he came to the University of Minnesota as an instructor in English and remained here until 1920, when he went to the University of New Mexico for three years. After a year with the publishing firm of Charles Scribner's Sons, he returned to the University of Minnesota as assistant professor of English, and retired in 1952. Hessler died on January 30, 1958

Robert Holloway was born in 1921 in Walker, Iowa. He received his B.S.C. from State University of Iowa in 1943, and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1948 and 1952. In 1951 he was named an assistant professor in the school of business administration, was promoted to associate professor in 1953, named assistant dean in 1956, chairman in 1958, and a full professor in 1959. Holloway retired in 1990.

Torger Hoverstad graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Agriculture in 1890, and from the College of Agriculture in 1894, making hi the first graduate from the full course in agriculture at the University. After his graduation he was connected with the experiment stations at Coteau farm (1894-1895) and Crookston (1895-1905).

Walter Jessup, a longtime friend of University president Lotus D. Coffman, was asked to give the dedication speech for Coffman Memorial Union on October 25, 1940. Jessup was the president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and a former president of Iowa State University.

In 1947-1949, Theron Johnson, Director of the Student Activities Bureau at the University of Minnesota. (1945-1952), was granted a leave of absence to work with the U.S. Military Government in Germany on the German youth problem. It was the plan of the U.S. Military Government to "coordinate and develop youth programs and to promote democratization." The folder comprising the collection contains letters written by Johnson, while abroad.

Anne Kallio was born on July 1, 1891. She was a cataloger for the University of Minnesota library from September 8, 1930-August 31, 1937, and then the first library assistant from September 1, 1937 until her death on June 11, 1945.

Spenser Bryant Kay graduated from the College of Law at the University of Minnesota in 1905 and practiced law in Minneapolis.

David Kiehle was born in Dansville, New York in 1837, graduating from the State Normal School in Albany in 1856, and later receiving his first degree, as well as his M.A. from Hamilton College in 1861 and 1864 respectively. In 1865, Kiehle came to Minnesota where he worked as a pastor until 1875. He then went into education, working as superintendent and president of various institutions until he was appointed Professor of Pedagogy at the University of Minnesota from 1893 until his retirement in 1902. He also served on the Board of Regents for 12 years. After retiring, Kiehle resumed his work as a pastor, until his death in 1910.

Bert Knight was born in 1875 in Glencoe, Minnesota, where he graduated high school. After graduation, Knight became a student at the University of Minnesota, receiving a degree in 1898 from the College of Science, Literature and the Arts. He was an artist, and later lived in Pleasantville, NY.

Edith Lake was a student in the School of Nursing from 1931-1932. She received a B.S. degree in Public Health Nursing from the College of Education in 1934.

Elias Lyon was born on October 20, 1867 in Cambria, Michigan, and graduated from Hillside High School and Hillsdale College in Michigan. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, afterward taking work as an instructor at Bradley Polytechnic Institute in Peoria, Illinois from 1897-1900. He was then named assistant professor of physiology at the University of Chicago and Rush Medical College from 1900-1904. During summer sessions he was instructor in the marine biology laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts from 1899-1910. After working at St. Louis University, Lyon came to the University of Minnesota in 1913, where he served as professor and head of the department of physiology from 1904 to 1907. He was later professor and dean of the medical college from 1907-1913. Lyon died on May 4, 1937 in Trafford, Pennsylvania.

Moses Marston was born in Williamstown, Vermont in 1832. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1856, and for many years was a Universalist minister. He was subsequently elected to the professorship of Latin and Greek in St. Lawrence University, New York. About 1874 he was forced to resign his position due to ill health, and he came to Minneapolis hoping that a change in climate would be beneficial. For a time he preached in the Church of the Redeemer but was soon appointed as a of English at the University of Minnesota until his accidental death on July 11, 1883.

George Tremaine McDowell was born in Eagle Harbor, New York on October 6, 1893. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1915 and his M.A. at Harvard University in 1916. After holding posts in the English departments at De Pauw University, Houghton College, Miltonvale College, Marion College, and Women's College of Alabama, he studied at Yale, receiving his Ph.D. in 1928, and came to the University of Minnesota as an assistant professor. He was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 1929, and to professor in 1940. In 1945 he established the Program in American Studies and became its first chairman.

McDowell's interest in American literature led him to contribute notable research on William Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper and other writers of the early 19th century, to prepare anthologies of American works, one entitled The Romantic Triumph. He was also part of the literature group, Modern Language Association, acting as secretary from 1935-1936 and 1937-1942 and chairman in 1943. He also published a volume, American Studies (1948), and in 1948 he founded American Quarterly, a national journal devoted to studies in the culture of the United States. McDowell was also a member of the executive board of the American Studies Association, and a founder of its regional branch in Minnesota and the Dakotas; he was a member of the executive committee of the National Council of Teachers of English, a member of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, and director of the Institute of Jazz Studies.

McDowell retired in June 1958 and died January 6, 1959.

Red McCloud was a music student at the University of Minnesota in the early 1930s.

Alice Misz majored in Botany at the University of Minnesota and graduated in 1907. She worked as an Instructor in Botany until 1912 when she married a minister, Mr. Hoag.

George Montelius was born in Drums, Sweden on May 26, 1877. He completed high school at Central High School in Minneapolis (1899), and after a year of travel abroad, he entered the University of Minnesota's School of Dentistry in 1901. Here he was granted his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in 1904. He practiced dentistry in Minneapolis from the time of his graduation until 1920, during this period twice returning to Europe to do post-graduate work in Germany, France and Austria. Leaving private practice in 1920, Montelius joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota, working as a part-time instructor until 1923 in the Division of Oral Diagnosis and from 1923-1930 as an assistant professor.

While serving part-time in dentistry, Montelius was granted his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1925 from the College of Science, Literature and the Arts matriculated in the Graduate School and was granted "in absentia" a Master of Arts degree in 1931 from the University. On June 30, 1930, he was given a leave of absence to assume a three-year appointment with the Rockefeller Foundation teaching and researching at the Union Medical School, Pekin, China. From China, he traveled to Sweden and did further research at the Tandnature Institute. In 1938, he returned to the University of Minnesota and accepted a research position sponsored by the Research Council, Washington, D.C. He was elected to membership in the International Association for Dental Research in 1942, and served as secretary of the Minnesota Section in 1944. He was re-appointed in 1943 to the School of Dentistry as an assistant professor in the Division of Oral Diagnosis, devoting half of his time to teaching, and half to research for the Dight Institute. Montelius retired on June 25, 1945.

Betty Naumann was a student at the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1941. She studied dental hygiene, and was a member of the dental hygiene sorority, Alpha Kappa Gamma.

Isabel Noble was a member of the University of Minnesota faculty from 1937 to 1968, acting as a professor and chair of the food section in the School of Home Economics. She developed curricula for three undergraduate programs, taught one of the first courses in sensory evaluation of food, and advised many graduate programs. Her research applied new methods to study the effects of preparation and storage on nutritive values and quality of foods. Noble died on October 9, 2000 in Tucson, Arizona at age 100.

William Austin O'Brien was born in Fairbury, Illinois on February 28, 1893. He received his early schooling at St. Bede's College and Notre Dame University. At the age of 21, he graduated with a degree in medicine from St. Louis University, following which, he practiced in Detroit, Michigan for two years. Service in the Medical Corps during World War I was followed by several more years of practice.

Dr. O'Brien came to the University of Minnesota in 1921 as a graduate student in pathology. He was made instructor in pathology in 1923, and given charge of the department of pathology of the University Hospitals. He was promoted to assistant professor, 1927-1929; associate professor of pathology and preventative medicine, 1929-1940; professor of preventative medicine and public health, 1940-1944 and professor of public health, 1944-1947.

In 1928, O'Brien began a series of radio lectures on health which was continued without interruption for twenty years. His greatest interest came to lie in the teaching of public health and the publicizing of medical progress, an interest which culminated in his appointment as professor of public health and later as director of postgraduate medical education.

His activities in cancer education were rewarded by his election to the board of the American Cancer Society, and to the presidency of the Minnesota branch. In later years, O'Brien wrote a health column which appeared in more than two hundred newspapers. O'Brien died on November 15, 1947.

Ella Oerting graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1921. After graduation she had a variety of teaching experiences which included grade school teaching, serving as a principal for a consolidated rural school, and teaching English in high schools. For 11 years, she taught in Brainerd and coached debating and dramatics.

Oerting completed her Ph.M. degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1934 with a major in speech and a minor in guidance. She came to the University of Minnesota in 1936 and taught in the School of Agriculture until her retirement in April 1958.

Oerting was president of Delta Phi Lambda honorary society for proficiency and writing from 1944-1945; she was also an active member of the Minneapolis Poetry Society and served as its president from 1949-1950. For many years she was one of the patronesses of the University Theatre, and she maintained memberships in several historical and cultural organizations in the Twin Cities. Oerting died on November 6, 1959.

Herbert Peckham was the son of Stephen F. Peckham, a professor of Chemistry from 1873-1880 at the University of Minnesota.

Wesley Peik was born in Clearwater, Minnesota on October 5, 1886. He received his B.A. from the University of Minnesota (1911), his M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University (1924), and his Ph.D. (1928) from the University of Minnesota. He was appointed as a lecturer at the University of Minnesota, promoted to assistant professor in 1928, associate professor in 1931, and professor in 1934. He was the acting Dean of the College of Education from 1937-1938, and Dean from 1938-1951.

Peik was interested particularly in problems of instruction and curriculum in higher education, with special reverences to the education of teachers. He participated in the National Survey of the Education of Teachers as a curriculum specialist from 1931-1933. He was a frequent contributor to education journals, and he was director of a survey of teacher education in North Dakota in the early thirties. He was the first chairman of the National Education Association commission on teacher education and professional standards. From 1946-1947 he was president of the American Association of College Teachers of Education, and from 1943 he was chairman of the Minnesota educational policies committee.

In his last years, Peik devoted much of his time to planning a new college of education building at the University. Peik died on December 6, 1951.

E.P. Peterson was a University of Minnesota student around 1874.

Ethel Phelps was born in Newark, New Jersey on October 19, 1888. She attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she received her B.S. in 1915. That year, she came to the University of Minnesota, and prior to receiving her M.S. degree, was an instructor in textiles and clothing in the Division of Home Economics. After receiving her M.S. degree she continued to teach and do research in textiles and clothing and was given the rank of full professor in 1947. She pursued further graduate study at Columbia University and Yale University.

Throughout 40 years of research and teaching textiles and clothing at the University of Minnesota, she pioneered in numerous cooperative protects with the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture. She was responsible for the development of advanced courses and graduate research programs in her field. Phelps' most important contribution to research have been in the effects of laundering on fabrics; the wearing qualities of chemically manufactured fibers; and on the characteristics of yarn and fabrics made of flax produced by the Minnesota method from seed flax straw. University. Throughout

Phelps was active in the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists. In recognition of her work in the standardization of textiles, she was given an honorary membership in the American Society for Testing Materials. She was the first woman member of the Textile Research Institute.

Phelps died on August 14, 1968 at the age of 79 in Santa Barbara, California, where she had made her home since retirement from the University of Minnesota in 1955.

James Pierce was connected to the College of Law at the University of Minnesota as a lecturer on domestic relations, 1888-1890, constitutional and statutory law, 1889-1902 and constitutional jurisprudence and history, 1892-1907. He was at one time a judge of the circuit court of Memphis, Tennessee, where for many years he was an active practitioner. He was a contributor to legal and semi-legal periodicals, mainly on patriotic and constitutional subjects and was the author of Studies in Constitutional History. James Pierce died in April 1907.

Carlton Qualey graduated with a B.A. in 1929 from St. Olaf College, he received his M.A. in 1930 with a major in history and a minor in political science from the University of Minnesota.

Ruth Reid graduated with a degree from the College of Science, Literature and the Arts in 1914. While she was a student, she was a member of various clubs, including the Theta Upsilon Literary Society, the University Chorus, Cap and Gown Society, and University Music Club. She taught English and music, and was the leader of the Sleepy Eye Glee Club and the Philharmonic Club at Minneapolis High School.

Dorothy Rietz was a student at the University of Minnesota, graduating in June 1943 with a B.S. in education. Her hometown was Waconia, Minnesota.

Amy Robinson graduated from the college of Science, Literature and the Arts in 1904. Her hometown was Minneapolis. While a student, she was a member of Thalian, a literary society at the University.

Born in St. Paul in 1887, Victor Roehrich graduated from Mechanic Arts High School and was the first graduate to receive a B.S., in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1909. He also obtained his M.S. in chemistry in 1910. As a university student, he illustrated publications such as the Minnesota Magazine and Minne-Ha-Ha. Roehrich worked as a chemist at Pillsbury Mills, the United States Bureau of Standards, and became St. Paul’s first city chemist. In this capacity he established, and was the director of the Bureau of Municipal Testing Laboratory. Roehrich was also one of the founders of the St. Paul School of Art. Roehrich died on December 6, 1964.

Paul Rosenbloom studied at the University of Pennsylvania, and received his doctor of philosophy degree from Stanford. Before coming to Minnesota in 1951, he taught at Brown and Syracuse Universities. In 1950, he received the Frechet Prize of the French Mathematical Society. Rosenbloom was a professor of mathematics, and had a specialty in partial differential equations. He also dealt with the methods of training teachers to help create effective tests and lectures for kindergarten through post-graduate education. He was director of the Minnesota School Mathematics Center, and in 1958, was named director of the Minnesota National Laboratory for the Improvement of Secondary School Mathematics.

Florabelle Runyon graduated from the University of Minnesota's College of Science, Literature and the Arts in 1928. In 1929, she received her B.S. at Minnesota from the Division of Library Instruction.

Martin Sanders graduated from the School of Agriculture in 1891.

Max Shulman, humorist and author, graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1942.

Ernst Simonson was born on June 26, 1898 in Tiegenhof, Germany. He graduated from Greifswald Medical School in 1924; here he became engaged in the forefront of investigations and discoveries concerning muscle contraction and the physiology of work. After graduating, he helped establish a Division of Industrial Physiology at the University of Frankfurt/Main in 1928, the first such academic division at any German university and one of the first in the world. He went on to organize and head the Department of Industrial Hygiene at the Institute of Social Hygiene in Frankfurt from 1929 to 1933 as professor of industrial physiology. Simonson then went to Kharkov, Russia, where he stayed from 1930-1937 as the scientific director of the Institute of Industrial Physiology, and professor of physiology at the First Medical Institute. The approach of World War II led Simonson to leave Russia with his family and after a brief period as head of the Department of Industrial Physiology of the Central Psychotechnical Institute of Prague (1937-1939), he and his family left Europe for the United States.

Simonson worked briefly at Mount Sinai Hospital in Milwaukee before being invited by Ancel Keys to the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene of the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota where he joined the active physiological and epidemiological pursuits of Keys, Taylor, Henschel, Mickelsen and Brozek in the early 1940s. Simonson became involved in electrocardiographic and vectorcardiographic research, and was a pioneer in the field, publishing Differentiation Between Normal and Abnormal in Electrocardiography, a milestone in ECG literature.

Simonson retired from the University in 1967. He was later honored by the University of Frankfurt with a reinstatement of full professorship and retirement, while the Technical University of Munich honored him with a doctorate honoris causa in 1973. In 1974, Simonson received the highest award of the American College of Sports Medicine for outstanding contributions in that field. He worked up until the time of his death on December 7, 1974, continuing to publish, and working with graduate students on ECG-VCG topics.

Born in 1870, Charles L. Sommers was a native of Green Bay, Wisconsin. He received his law degree from the University of Minnesota in 1890, and later became a clerk in the G. Sommers & Co., wholesale general merchandise firm in St. Paul. From 1895-1942, he was the secretary-treasurer and director of the firm.

He served as a University of Minnesota regent from 1910 to 1923 and went for a time as an unpaid comptroller of the university. In 1949, he was named one of the 100 "living greats" of Minnesota. He was a Phi Beta Kappa and a charter member of Beta Theta Pi. He was a director of the University of Minnesota Alumni Association, and a member of the building commission for Northrop Memorial Auditorium and Memorial Stadium on the university campus. In May 1951, he received the University's outstanding achievement award. He was a director of the St. Paul Children's Hospital and president of the Children's Preventorium. He was active in the Boy Scout movement, and served on the Scouts national executive board. Sommers died on March 11, 1964 in St. Paul.

Ruth Stryker received a B.S. and R.N. from the University of Minnesota in 1948. She worked as a nurse in various institutions in Minneapolis and in 1967 received her M.A. in Education from the College of St. Thomas. From 1972 to 1988 she was a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. Her publications included books about nursing and health care facilities.

Lillian Bessie (Marvin) Swenson was born in Zumbrota, Minnesota. She was a member of the University of Minnesota Class of 1898. In 1912, she married David F. Swenson, a professor in the philosophy department and authority on Soren Kierkegaard and translator of Kierkegaard’s work into English. Lillian Swenson was a history teacher at Minneapolis West high school.

After her husband’s death in 1940, Lillian Swenson learned to read Danish, finished and had published the translations her husband began. The following works were published as a result of her efforts: Edifying Discourses, Volumes I-IV (1943-1947), Either/Or, Volume 1 (1945), Works of Love (1946), and Gospel of Suffering and Lilies of the Field (1948). She also compiled and edited Something about Kierkegaard (1941), which is a collection of Swenson's philosophical talks, and Kierkegaardian Philosophy and the Faith of a Scholar (1949), a collection of Swenson's addresses and essays. In addition, she wrote and published several volumes of children's stories and poetry.

Following her husband's death, she established the David F. Swenson-Kierkegaard Memorial Fund, the interest from which is used for annual fellowships for the study of Kierkegaard. Lillian Swenson died on March 23, 1961.

Myron D. Taylor was born in Byron, Maine, December 30, 1855. In 1858 his family moved to Wright, Minnesota and then to Melrose, Minnesota in 1862. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1878. After studying law with S. & O. Kipp law offices in Minneapolis, he was admitted to the bar in 1881; there was no formal law school in the state at that time. Later that same year he moved to St. Cloud, MN, and served as city attorney, 1886-1898 and register of the land office, 1898-1906. In 1906 he was elected district judge in the Seventh judicial district. He served in that capacity until his appointment as supreme court commissioner on April 1, 1913, a position he held until his retirement on August 30, 1930. He died on April 24, 1946.

Carl W. Thompson was born November 21, 1879 in Evansville, Minnesota. He received his A.B. degree from South Dakota in 1903, and his M.A. from Harvard in 1904. He was a graduate student at the University of Chicago. He did research work in laboring conditions in packing industries of Chicago, and the history of bonanza farms in Red River valley of the north, as well as investigations in the marketing of farm products. He was director of a social and economic survey of a rural township in southern Minnesota.

He was an assistant professor of economics and director of the bureau of research in agricultural economics at the University of Minnesota from 1910-1912. In 1912 he was promoted to associate professor of economics. In 1913 he joined the United States Bureau of Agriculture to do special work along the line of marketing farm products. He was a member of the American Economic Association, and the Minnesota Academy of Social Science.

Josephine Tilden was born on March 24, 1869 in Davenport, Iowa. Graduating with her B.S. in 1895, and her M.A. in 1897, both from the University of Minnesota, Tilden became an instructor in cryptogamic botany in 1897, rising to the rank of assistant professor in 1903, and gaining full professorship in 1910. During her career, she became one of the world's leading authorities on algae, writing the books Minnesota Algae, (1910) and The Algae and Their Life Relations (1935, 1937).

In 1920, Tilden served as a delegate to the First Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress in Honolulu, and again in 1923 in Melbourne and Sydney, and in 1936 in Tokyo. In 1935, she led a group of 10 graduate students through the Red Sea to Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, and San Francisco. This expedition was an intensive algae collection project. One of her most important contributions to the University was her large role in founding the Minnesota Seaside Station at Port Renfrew, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Tilden also contributed to developing field instruction at Itasca State Park. During her career, she was a member of the Botanical Society of America, the American Society of Naturalists, the American Microscopical Society, the National Geographic Society, Sigma Zi, the Bull Torrey Botany Club, and the Florida Academy of Science. She was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geographical Society. She also edited a number of scientific periodicals.

After retiring in 1937, she moved to Florida and established a colony for retired professors that grew citrus fruit communally. Tilden died in Golden Bough, Florida on May 14, 1957, at the age of 88.

John A. Vye came to the School of Agriculture at the University of Minnesota in January 1891 and was secretary of the Agricultural Experiment Station around the turn of the 20th century.

Dr. S. Marx White was born in Hokah, Minnesota in July 1873. In 1893, he received his B.A. from the University of Illinois, and in 1897 his M.D. from Northwestern University. In 1898 he came to Minneapolis as an instructor in pathology at the University of Minnesota. In 1908 he transferred to the department of medicine and became professor, and later, department chairman. In 1925, he resigned the department chairmanship but continued to teach. In 1942, he was named a professor emeritus after 44 years at the University. He entered private practice and continued working until 1960.

In 1916, he was appointed a major in the medical corps. He became chief of the internal medicine department at Base Hospital 26, and served with the University of Minnesota unit in France during World War I. He was a member of the Board of Regents for the American College of Physicians, and served as its national president from 1931-1932. He was a co-founder of the Nicollet Clinic, and also served as president of the Hennepin County Medical Society, the State Board of Health, the Minnesota Academy of Medicine, the Minnesota Society of Internal Medicine, and the Minneapolis Society of Internal Medicine. He was the founder and director of the Glen Lake Tuberculosis Sanatorium and for three terms, was the president of the Council of Social Agencies. White died on August 29, 1966.

Norman Wilde received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and taught at the University of Berlin, Harvard, and Columbia before becoming a member of the philosophy faculty at the University of Minnesota in 1898. He served as head of the department from 1902 until his retirement in 1936. He published a study in German realism and

Harold Wilson was born on October 21, 1913 in Alcester, South Dakota. He received his B.A. from South Dakota State College in 1941 in journalism, history, and printing. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942. In 1947 he received his M.A. from the University of Kansas, with a major in journalism, and a minor in history. Wilson did special studies at the American Academy of Art in Chicago during the summer of 1948, the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh in the summer of 1950, and he took a three-month leave of study of new developments in graphic art in and around New York City in 1956.

Coming to the University of Minnesota in 1946 as an instructor, Wilson was quickly promoted to assistant professor in 1949, associate professor in 1952, and later to full professor. In the 1970s he was a prolific producer of filmstrips for journalism education. Outside the classroom, he worked with newspapers and magazines throughout the country as a consultant on design, layout and typography. Wilson was active for many years in the Association for Education in Journalism. He was a member of its executive committee, head of its graphic arts division and its national treasurer for 14 years. He was business manager of its four publications, including Journalism Quarterly and Journalism Abstracts. Wilson was also an advocate for high school journalists. He organized workshops for high school editors and journalism teachers and participated in meetings of the Minnesota High School Press Association every year. In 1980 it gave him the award for Distinguished Service to Student Publications.

After Wilson retired in 1984, he edited the newsletter for the University of Minnesota Retirees Association. At the Minnesota State Fair he helped produce the Maynard News on antique production equipment as an exhibit for the Minnesota Newspaper Foundation. In 1985 he spent summer weekends at Historic Murphy's Landing in Shakopee, assisting in graphic production and explaining antique equipment at the print shop. Wilson was president of the Northwest Industrial Editors Association in 1970, and he was part of the three-member Ayer Award Committee for selecting the best typography and makeup of U.S. newspapers in 1959. He received two fellowships from the National Advertising Executives Association. In 1960 he was editor of the Minnecrafter, the publication of the Minneapolis House of Printing House Craftsmen. He was also a member of the Minnesota Advertising Club, the Graphic Arts Education Association and Kappa Tau Alpha. Wilson died in Minneapolis on August 3, 1993.

Edward Zuppan received a B.S. (1939) and M.S. in metals engineering (1947) from the University of Minnesota. While at the University he was also an instructor in drawing and descriptive geometry from 1946-1947. He was a member of Sigma Xi, an honorary scientific fraternity, and the University of Minnesota Chapter of the Association of Cosmopolitan Clubs. The Cosmopolitan Club was an organization that promoted understanding and friendship between alumni and students from different countries. Zuppan served as president, 1946-1947.