University of Kansas - Jayhawker Yearbook (Lawrence, KS)

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SAMUEL A. RIGGS. S. A. RIGGS was horn at Hanging Rock, Ohio, March 1, 1835. He attended Mari- etta College, Ohio, for :1 term, and then went to jefferson College, Pennsylvania, from which institution he graduated with second honors. He then studied law ill tl1e Cincinnati Law School. Here he graduated in 1858 and was admitted to the Hamilton County har. He was niarrit-d in lxfvl to Miss Kate Earle. Mr. Riggs is one of the leading lawyers in Kansas and one of the lecturers in the University Law School. FRANK HEYWOOD HODDER. AMERICAN HISTORY AND CIVICS. FRANK HEYXVOOI7 IIOIDDER was horn at Aurora, Illi11ois, November 6,186o. He graduated from Michigan University in 1883 and later attended the Universities of Giittcnberg and Freiberg. He holds the degree of Ph. M. Professor Hodder was for three years Assist- ant Professor of Political Economy at Cornell University. He has been Associate Professor of American History and Civics in the University of Kansas since 1891. He was married in 1892 to Miss Florence Moon, a graduate of Cornell University. Professor Hodder is a mem- ber ofa number of learned societies, among them the American Historical Association, the American Economic Association, and the American Statistical Association. He is alsoa mem- ber of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. EDWIN MORTIMER HOPKINS. ASSOCIATE IN ENGLISH. E. M. HOPKINS was born in Kent, New York, September 16, 1862. He entered the College of New Jersey tllrincetonj in 1884, and graduated from that institution in 1888, with the degree of A. IS. On graduation he was appointed by his alma mater to a fellowship in Mathematics, and after two years of post graduate work in Mathematics and English, received his degree of A. M. Professor Hopkins was appointed Assistant in English in the University of Kansas i11 1889, and-in 1892 Associate Professor in English. He was married i11 ISQO. ERASMUS HAWORTH. PHYSICAL GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY. ERASMUS HAWORTH, the recently elected Associate Professor in Physical Geology and Mineralogy, was born April 17, 1855, in VVarren County, Iowa. The so11 of a farmer, he began his education in the country schools, but completed his scholastic training in the U11i- versityof Kansas, where he received the degrees of Ii. S. 1881, and M. 1884. Later he attended johns Hopkins, where he received the degree of Pl1.D.1888. Before beginning his present work Professor Haworth was Professor of Natural Sciences, Penn College, Iowa. He married Miss Ida E. I'IUIllSlTH1ll on March 16, 188o. Professor Haworth is a member of Beta Theta Pi fra- ternity, and is the author of a great nnmber of scientific papers dealing principally with miner- alogical subjects. 23