Illinois Wesleyan University - Wesleyana Yearbook (Bloomington, IL)

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Ellyn lllllealrgamx IHHB Qlnllvgv nf Blum VVIIIV,ifIrI'IVllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiilillllllllfzuU,,V Jluhgr twiuvn EV. illrvirra, IRYLA., 16153. ilirau nf Blain Srlgnul ' judge Owen T. Reeves was horn in Ross county, Ohio, in 1829. After a preliminary education in the common schools, he graduated in the classical course from Ohio VVes1eyan University, Delaware, Ohio. He was one year tutor in Ohio IfVesleyan, one year principal of Bereta Seminary at Berea, Ohio, and one year principal of the High School at Chillicothe, Ohio. The next two years he studied law in an office at Chillicothe, and was admitted to the Ohio har. Coming to Bloomington in 1854, he commenced the practice of law in the spring of 1855. The same year heivbecame a member of the Board of Trustees of Illinois Wesleyan University. In 1857 Mr. Reeves secured a charter for the Bloomington public schools, and served four years on the Board of Education. I-le was secretary of the VVesleya11 Board of Trustees from 1857 to 1876, and at the present time is President of the board, and a member of the Executive Committee of the VV'esleyan. In 1874, the Law School was organized by Judge Reeves and Judge Reuben M. Ben- jamin. Judge Reeves succeeded Judge Benjamin in 1891 as Dean and has had charge of the Law School since. 17

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Uhr Mralvgana, 15113 Ellynniuua E. Svrntt. . Thomas B. Scott, the athletic coach, came to us from Grand Prairie Seminary, where he had charge of the Normal Department, and had been general manager and coach in ath- letics. From his home in Canada, Mr. Scott went to Grand Prairie Seminary and entered the institution as a student. After graduation from the Seminary he entered Northwestern in IQ02 and received his B.S. degree in 1906. Vifhile at the University he was prominent in athletics, having been a member of the fool- ball and track teams during his tour years, course. He was the only member in his class to receive the miniature gold football fob for fonr years' work on the gridiron. Mr. Scott is also prominent in social life. I-le is a rnem- ber of the Delta Upsilon, and was one of the nine men in the University to be elected to the senior honorary fraternity, Deru, an honor conferred for all-round school work. In 1906 he was elected to the Department of Peda- gogy, and manager of athletics in the Grand Prairie Seminary of his native town. Mr. Scott's idea of athletics can best be expressed in his own words, I ani in athletics for the ' sport, and from the good that comes from them in the' way of physical and moral training. Jillian Abigail li. Kern 16 Abigail B. Rees, instructor in Art, was iJO1'11 in Bloomington, Ill. Her first ,training was received in the grammar school at Nor- mal University. Besides graduating in art from St, Clair College, Wiscorisiii, 'she has taken three special courses with noted Chi- cago artists, viz.: Miss Magda Heurcmann, the miniature specialist, and Messrs. Aulich and Campana. She is prepared to teach free- hand dirawing, water-color and china painting. Miss Rees is a member of the National Art Society.

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C5112 mrnlrgana, IEIHH 'illruhvn itll. l3rnit1111i11, 1BlI.A., E219 , , Judge Reuben M. Benjamin, KLA., was born in Columbia county, New York, June 29, 1833. I-lis father was a soldier in-the war of ISI2, and his grandfather was a Captain in the Revolutionary army. His preliminary train- ing was .receivedlat Kinderhoolc Academy, New York, and he was graduated with honor from Amherst College in 1853. He was prin- cipal of Hopkins Academy at Hadley, Mass., 1853-54, a student at Harvard Law School, 1854-551 and a tutor in Amherst College, 1855-56. Judge Benjamin was made dean of the Law School of Illinois l1Vesleyan Univer- sity upon its -organization in 1874. In 1880 the degree LL.D. was conferred upon him by the Illinois Wesleyan University. Judge Ben- jamin is the author of Principles of Con- tract C1889D, and Principles of Sales CIS96D, which works are in the nature of a code, with carefully selected illustrative cases, and have been used successfully as text-books in a number of law schools. Judge Benjamin is an honorary member of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity, the local chapter bearing his IIZIIHC. 3111116013111 ZH. illuunzll, !JH.iX.,,ElIlG- 18 Jonathan H. Rowell was born in Haver- hill, New l-lampshire, February 10, 1833. He came to McLean county, Illinois, in 1849, and after teaching school live years entered Eu- reka College, where he graduatcd,in 1861. He was professor of mathematics in 'Eureka College in the winter of 1860-61, being ap- pointed to that chair before his graduation. I-le was graduated i11 1865 from the Law School of Chicago University, and immedi- ately began practice in Bloomington. Mr. Rowell was a member of Congress for eight years from March 4, 1883. He then resumed the practice of law in Bloomington, which he still continues in partnership with Mr. Jacob P. Lindley. Mr. Rowell is an honorary mem- ber of Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity.