Hamline University - Liner Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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Rev. George Swan Innis, Ph. D. D. D., was born at Columbus, Qhio. ln 1869 he graduated from the Columbus High School. and three years later from the Qhio VVesleyan University. He completed his theological course in Boston Theological Seminary, and the following year married Miss Alice Van Fossen. Por four years he served as pastor in the Min- nesota Conference, and in 1881 was elected Professor of Latin and Lit- erature in Hamline University. ln 1885 he received the degrees of A. M. and Ph. D. from Ohio VVesleyan, and four years later was elected to the chair of History at Hamline. After spending a year in travel he took up his work in this department. He was for a time acting Librarian and still has supervision of the library, and it is largely through his efforts that it has grown from a small nucleus to a well equipped library of twelve thou- sand volumes. He is Chairman of the Board of Examiners of the North- ern lVlinnesota Conference, Secretary of the Post-Graduate Association of the Minnesota Conference, and an active worker in the interests of good government in St. Paul. He received the degree of D. D. from Hamline University in IQOI.

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Loren Harrison Batchelder. A. M., LL. D , was born of Puritan an- cestry in Montpelier, Vermont. He prepared for college at the Vermont Methodist Seminary.. and in 1874 graduated from Middlebury College. After graduation he was elected Professor of Mathematics and Chemis- try in the Newark Conference Collegiate Institute at Hackettstown, New jersey, where he also was admitted to the Bar, having pursued his law studies while teaching. In 1882 he married Miss Gulick of Elmira, New York, and the following year was elected Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Hamline. From 1889 to 1900 he was the Professor of Analy- tical Chemistry and Lecturer on Electricity in the summer school of the Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts, Chautauqua, N. Y. As the Dean of the Faculty, he has taken a prominent part in the upbuilding of the Uni- versity. He is chairman of the Athletic Board of Control, and as such directs the athletic affairs of the institution. Gur athletic standing among the colleges of Minnesota and neighboring states is due in no small meas- ure to the stand he has ever taken in behalf of wholesome amateur sports. In IQO6 the Board of Trustees, in recognition of his services to the insti- tution, conferred upon him the honorary degree of LL. D. -16-

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Henry Leslie Osborn, A. B., Ph. D., was born at Newark, New Jer- sey. He prepared for college in the Preparatory Department of Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, New Jersey, and graduated from Wes- leyan University, Middletown, Conn., in 1878. He was a member of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity and of the Phi Beta Kappa. From 1875-1881, he was assistant in Biology at Wesleyaii University, 1881-4, graduate student and Fellow in Biology at Johns Hopkins University, receiving the degree of Ph. D. in 1884, 1884-7, Professor of Zoology at Purdue Uni- versity, Lafayette, Ind. In 1886 he married Miss Effie M. Loag of New York, and the following year was elected Professor of Biology and Geol- ogy at Hamline University. Dr. Gsborn is President of the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Society of American Naturalists, a contributor to Science, the American Naturalist, Biological Bulletin, Zoologischer Anzeiger, and Zoologisches Jahrbuch.