Michigan State University - Red Cedar Log Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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€. K K Grange, u. %., Professor of ' etLMiiiar ' Scit ' iice. was born in London, lini land. Apiil 9. 1S48. His fatlu-r intending iiiin for ilu ' Hrilisli navv secured for liiin a cadetslii|i. lie spent one winter in the W ' esi Indies and lierniudas. most of the lime on the llagsliip Nile. In 1873 lie graduated from th e (Ontario clei ' - inarv College and remained there for one year as demonstrator of anatonu ' . In 1874 he secured tlie professorshi] ' ) of ' eterinar Science at the Ontario . gi-icultural College at Guelph. At the same lime and for a number of ears subsequent iie held the commission of etcrinarv surgeon to the Wellington P ' ield Batterv. He returned with the rank of captain. For some time he heltl the position of live stock veterinary inspector of Ontario. In the winter of 1883 he was engaged In liie L niversil ' of Minnesota to deliver a series of lectures before a farmer ' s lecture course in velerinarv. He came to M. A. C. in 1883. Ilrst as lecturer, then as professor of Veterinar ' Science. Shorth ' after he was made consulting eterinarian of Michigan. In 1S93 he was special agent of the United Stales government and had ciiarge of tiie velerinarv exhibit at the World ' s Fair. He is the author of a number of bulletins issued by the veterinary department of the College. He has recenth j ' made hacteriolog - a subject for study in the veleiinary clas sivelv in the United States. Canada and Europe. Dr. fjiange has traveled exlen- Rerman K. Uedder, c. e., Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering was born October 7. 1866 at St. Johnsville. X. Until sixteen he attended the public schools and during vacations worked on the farm or in his father ' s store as clerk. He then took classical and commercial studies at the Clinton Liberal Insti- tute of Fort Plain. X. ' . l ' [ion giaduating from ihe ci il engineering course at Coinell in 1S77 he was awarded a fellowship in that branch. Professor Wdder began the business of bridge construc- tion immediately after graduation, returning to Cornell in the fall of 87 to study on his fellowship, but w IS appointed instructor of civil engineering. He atieiwards spent two summer vacations in the bridge business, acting as contracting agent in Pennsyhar.ia after the great floods of 1889. In 1890 he took charge of tf)]iographical survevs fo. the Ithaca. X. Y. Waterworks Co. and continued teaching at Cornell until the spring of 1891. in the fall of which year he assumed his present position at this College.

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Ceci R, Caft, m. $., I ' rofe.ssor of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening. Since I ' rof. Taft assumed his (iri here the department of which he is superintendent has been freatly aided in its worlv hv liic rebuilding of the greenhouses and forcing house and the completion of a horticultural labora- tory, the fust of the kind in this country. Prof. Taft was born August 22. 1S59. at Mendon. .Mass.. and enjoyed the usual public and high schoo l education. In 1882 he graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural College and then from the College of Agriculture of Boston Universit}-. He at once secured a position as assistant professor of horticulture at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, which he held till 1885. and from 1SS3 to 1885 he was also bursar, and from 1SS6 to 188S assistant in zoolog v of that institution. I lis next work was that of professor of horticulture at the Missouri State University College of Agriculture. Prof. Taft came to the Michigan Agricultural College in 1888 and since then, in addition to the works heretofore iTientioned. has been a member of the Jixecutive Hoard of the State Horticultural Society for seven years, was chairman of the catalogue committee for Michigan of the American Pomological Society, and has from time to lime issued many interesting and valuable bulletins from his department.