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

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■.? - I. H. BUTTERFIELD. CLINTON D. SMITH.

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GdSOn K CCWiS, 2a Clcut. i$tb U. $. infantry, Professor of Military Science and Tactics, was born in Oxford county. Ontarii). February i. 1863. In 1869 he moved with his parents to Mani.stee. Mich., where he attetided the public schools, lie taught a district school for two winter terms and in 1883 entered the U. S. Military Academy at West Point as a cadet from the Ninth Congressional District of Michigan. He graduated in 1887 and entered the infantry branch of the service. He was stationed at the Michigan Agricultural College July i. 1892. Lieutenant Lewis has been ordered to Texas, and leaves us this term. He and his estimable wife have won many waitn friends among us, and though we are sorry to see them leave, we are sure that thev will make friends wherever thev go. fi. B. BandbOltZ, Cieut. m U. $. mrantrv. Enters upon his detail at the Michigan Agricultural College next term. He was born at Constan- tine, Mich., Decendier 18. 1864: studied in the common schools there and in Detroit: graduated from the Constantine high school in 1881 and took a position with a Chicago commission house. During the winter of 1885-6 he took a post-graduate course at the Michigan Military Academy. and in June was appointed to West Point. Graduating from there in June. 1890. he joined the 6lh U. S. Infantry at Fort Thomas, Ky.. in October of the same year. He was afterwards ordered to Fort Ontario. Oswego. X. Y., thence to Mt. Vernon Barracks, near Mobile, Ala., but is now at Fort Thomas. Being a .Michigan man it seems tilting that Lieutenant IJandholtz should be detailed here, and we pledge him our cordial support.

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T. B. BUtterfiCid, secretary. Was h(jni at Utica. .Micli.. in 1840. He atteiulfd ilie common schools, academy and Stale Normal School, and soon after went overland to California. He then returned to Michigan and was engaged in farming and stock-raising in Lapeer county until 1893. In 1889 he was appointed deputy collector of customs at Port Huron, which position he resigned to accept his present one. Mr. Butterfield is also Secretary of the State 15oard of Agriculture and is a prominent member of most of the leading agricultural associations of the State. Clinton D. Smith, m. $., Professor of Agriculture, was born al Trumansburg. N. V.. in 1856. His early etlucation was received in the district school and academ) ' . He graduated from the scientific course of Cor- nell University, with the degree of I . S. in 187.:;. and M. S. in 1875. For a short time he followed the teaching profession in New York City, then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1879. 1H80 he engaged in the dairy business in Illinois and pursued this line of work uiuil 1S89. when he became assistant at the Cornell Experiment .Station. In 1890 he was appointed director of the Arkansas Experiment Station, and the same year accepted a new appointment as director of the Experiment Station and Professor of Agriculture in the Univer- sity of Minnesota, which position he held luitil 1893, when he came to the Michigan Agricul- tural College. In 1893 he organized the lirst special dairy class of this College, and in 1894 he organized a second. January i. 1895. he was appointed director of the Michigan Experiment Station.