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

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Major William H. Kell. U. S. A. Major W'illiam H. Kell, U. S. A., Who succeeded Maj. C. A. Vernon, U. 81. A.. as Commandant at M. A. 11.. 011 March 21. 1904, has a record of which he may well be proud. He enlisted as private in Com- pany itFCi First Ohio Infantry. April 17. 1861. He served later in Company 71,7 0f the Second and Company E. of the l'lighteenth Ohio Infantry, until June 10, 1865. 011 December 12, 1872, he. was ap' pointed. Second Lieutenant. TITVventywsec- 011d Infantry and While serving in this eapaeity was made Brevet First Lieuten- ant for gallantry in action against the Indians at Clear Creek, Mont, on the 15th and 16th of October, 1876. He was made First Lieutenant, June 25, 1879 and served as Regimental Adjutant, Twenty- seeond Infantry from February 1, 1887 to February 9, 1891. On May 19, 1891, he was made. Captain and served as Acting Assistant Adjutant General of the First Pirig'ade, second. Division, Fifth Army Um-ps during the Cuban campaign. A board of officers recommended him for Brevet Major for service at El Caney. Wiha. 011 July 1. IHDS. He connnanded the Third Hatalion, Twenty-semnd Infan- try during; the Philippine campaign of 1.119 and was retired with the rank at Major on December 15. 1899. It was with sincere regret that the eel- legxe 10st Major Vernon. whose etlit-ienl service here is I'estitierl by the marked im- provement 0f the drill under his iiianage- nient. We hope that Major Kell may find his work pleasant and we feel sure that he will mntinne to make the drill as pleasant, and profitable as it has been in the past. R. U. Fmtlilm. F rank S. Kedzie l'i-ofesor Kedzie, the youngest of three sons of Dr. Kedzie, all of Whom were teaehers of Chemistry, was horn at V er- nmntville, May 12, 1857. There. being no district or grammar school near the college in the ,60is, his earlier instrnrtion 0211119 from private in- struetors engaged from the senior and junior classes. He was a member of the first Class who received instruction in the present chemical laboratory, graduating with the class of 1877 at M. A. C. The succeeding two years were. spent under Dr. H. 15. Baker, in the utIii'e 0f the Slate Hoard of Health; he then returned to the laboratory for further work. 111 1880, he was given the degree of .VI. 9. and appointed assistant in ehemis try. Seven years later he was made as- sistant professor. 111 18310 he went to Berlin and spent: a time as a student with Prof. A. W'. Von llofinann. He was appointed adjunct professor in the next year and returned in Berlin for- t'nrithet study in 119118. 111 1902. mi the retirement of Dr. Ked- zie, he was made professor of chemistiw. His until'ing' efforts to give, the best of his knowledge to those under him has placed him among the, furmmst as an in- stI-Ilrtor. . U. FOWLER.

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Maude Gilchrist Miss Maude Gilchrist is a native of Iowa, being a graduate of the Iowa State Normal School of which her father was president. FOI' further education she went to W'ellesley College but returned to the Iowa State Normal School to act as instructor in science. This position she maintained for three years when she was called to Wellesley to teach botany. During vacation she took special work at Harvard University under Dr. Groodale, and also at the Iowa Agricultural College. In 1896 she went abroad, spending :1 year in Grijttingen University, and upon her re- turn, accepted a position as lady princii pal in the Illinois Womans College at Jacksonville. Her past work has given her wide experience in the manner of teaching, and especially so, Where a large number of young ladies are in attendance, and this has placed her at the head of the woman's department, which position she has proved herself capable to fill. ZOE HEVTON Addison M. Brown , Addison lilaiuapeuce Brown, the present Secretary of the State Board of Agricul- ture and 0f the Agricultural College, w: s both at Schoolcraft, Kalamazoo county, Mlchigan, Feb. 15, 1859. His parents were both natives of Vermont. His father, E. Lakin Brown, settled in Michigan, in 1831 arid was identified to a considerable extent With the growth and development of the state. He was a member of the Senate 0f1.855, when the act establishing the Agricultural College was passed. i Thesuhject of this sketch was edua 03th In the public schools of his native Villageend in 1.883 was graduated from the University of Michigan in the classi 021.1 .cours-e. RFHPEd upon the farm and fa- miliar With all its operations, it was not :trange that Mr. Brown should have gone 4ng COHQIR 1.2101; to the farm, Which he . I Carries nu m absentito. For some ten yEaPs he served as Director of the School Board at Schoolcraft, during which time the school was put upon the University list, where it has ever since re? mained. .In 1898 Mr. Brown was elected to the State Senate to represent the Ninth Sena- torial District, comprising the counties of Kalamazoo and Calhoun. During this session as Chairman of Committee on the Agricultural College and member of the University Committee, he was active in securing a large appropriation for the former and in obtaining a large increase in the permanent appropriation for the latter. His interest has always been largely identified with educational affairs of his locality and the state. His present position dates from June L 1902, when he took up his residence at the College and entered upon the duties of his office.

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Ulysses P.?Hedrick. M. S. Professor . 0f horticulture, was hem in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, January 15, 1870. He received his early education in the com, mon schools of Indiana and Michigan and graduated frony Harbor Springs High School in 1887. lie entered the Michigan Agricultural College in the class of '92, but being; emnpelled to remain out a year, did not graduate until 189?. I hiring his freshman year- he was president of his Mass. and was made a member of the l'nion Literary Society. After graduation he remained at his Alma. Mater, taking post graduate work for two years, assist- ing in the green houses and in the horti- cultural department one year respectively, receiving his M. S. degree in 1895. For two years afterwards he occupied the pro- fessorship of botany and horticulture in the Oregon Agricultural College. He- turning from Oregon, he was appointed inspector of orchards and nurseries in Michigan for six months, after which he went to Utah, teaching botany and horti- eult ate in the Agricultural College. There he married Miss Amy Plummer. Late in the summer of 1899 he accepted the as- sistant IJIi'OfPSSOI'Ship of horticulture at the M. A. 0., being promoted to his pres- ent position on July 1, 1902. EDNA RUPERT. Charles E. Marshall '1 i1: 0. E. Marshall was born on a farm in 1866. near Port Clinton, Ottawa county, Ohio. His boyhood days were spent on the farm until he was eighteen, when he went to New York State. He graduated train the State Normal of New York in 1889. and accepted a position as principal of the Ellieottsville Academy. He en- tered the medical depurtmenthf the Uni- versity. of Michigan and after two years spet-m-llzed in bacteriology, hygiene and organic eheinistry. He was assistant in lineterinlogy for several years at the Uni- VUl'Slt'X. when he was called to M. A. UN 21s asmstuut in bacteriology 0f the experi; ment station. . In 1898 he went to Germany and stud- ied for several months. In 1903 he again went to Europe and took up special work, having: taken his degree 01' doctor of phil- osophy from the University of Michigan the previous year. In 1903 D1: Marshall returned to M. A. H. and resumed his work in bacteriology. M. A. C. has since erected one of the finest and best, equipped laboratories for the study of bacteriology that can be found in this country. a step which has largely been the result of Dr. Marshallts labors in his t-hnsen profession. A. A. N1 sK 1;.