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

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i. . t»t, « ». — — ■— .■ ■■ ■ » CHARLKS I.. WEIL. WAI IEU P.. BARKOWS.

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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.

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Charles C. Oleil, « « per CO s PC Cx ' ' Professor of Michaiiical Engineering, was born at Nortii Andover. Mass.. in 1865. He graduated rfrom the hi rh school of that place in 1881. then entered a business house in Boston for a year, and f . j again resumed his studies and began practical engineering and siiop work. In 1888 he graduated Ct . ■ from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and soon afterward secured a position as draughts- man with H. P. Worthington Co., of Brookl3n. which he resigned to accept a place as instructor r ■ in the Lehigh University in 1891. Professor Weil entered upon his work here in September. Q 1893, and since that time has overseen the building and equipment of the foundry and black- ' ' , smith shop, the remodeling of the wood shop, and has started the mechanical institutes. ,y 1 I 7 Walter B. Barrows, b. $., I = Professor of Ziiohjgy and Physiology, was born January 10. 1855, at Grantville. Mass. He attended E ' ' • T the public schools of Reading. Mass., and graduated from the high school in 1872, entering the Massachusetts Insiilute of Technology the same year. From there he graduated in 1876 and immediately became assistant in Ward ' s natural sc ience establishment of Rochester, N. Y. In 1879 he sailed from Buenos Ayres, Argentine Repubhc, under contract as a normal school teacher, but was transferred to the National College at Concepcion as assistant professor of chemistry and physics and served during his second year ' s vacation as geologist on an exploring expedition to the Pampian Sierras. Returning to the United States with many valuable specimens, he was at once appointed instructor of science at the State Normal School, Westlield, Mass., which position was - i5 yjresigned the following year to accept one as instructor of biology at the Wesleyan University, w4f Middleton. Conn., where he remained until 1886, during the last two years also acting as r; , Vy?R instructor in botanv at Trinity College. Hartford, Conn. Being appointed assistant ornithologist ; ;t of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, he went to Washington, D. C. in 1886. which position was •;- resigned in 1894 to assume his present work at the Michigan Agricultural College. Prof. Barrows was one of the charter members of the American Ornithologists ' Union, is an active member of most . of our leading scientific societies and has recently been elected to the Zoological Society of France.