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

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Robert SfShaw: Prof. Robert S. Shaw, son 01' Prof. Thonms Shaw. Wle horn in 1871 at Hie Riverside sfoek farm in Wentworth, 011- iario. Canada. The management of this estate of hveuty-iive acres, equipped With cattle, swine and sheep was left to him at an early age, owing to the entire absorp- tion of his fathers time in publishing the Canadian Live Stock Journal. Thus we see him as a young; man engaged in 1110 work .which in after years he was to take up and make 11 study of. He is :1 gradur Me of the Ontario Agricultural Foliege. hut laier received his degree of 13. S from Since his graduation he has been reach ing a greater part of 1110 time. and 1his principally in the west. ,lhn-ing this time his, best energies were espei-inlly di- rected to the production ui 34mins grasses and forage crops. and also ille establish- ment of cattle and sheep feeding in the irrigated valleys. Ilis past work having' been of such a practical nature, we mnmm but feel assured that agrivnltm-e will be 0110 of Hie besi' studies 101w nmininineii :11 0111' College. A. A. FIsK. ihe Toronto University. Joseph A. Jeffery Joseph A. JPWI'OIV. professor of soil physics and agl-onomy, was born in Penn sylvania in 1859, moved to Wisconsin, at- tended the public schools, taught rural school, graduated from the Wisconsin State Normal, and again took up fondling; for seven years as smwrinfendent 0f high schools. Wishing for higher education, he now entered the University, graduating from fhere in 1896. He was assistant pro- fessor of agricultural physics two years at his Alma Mai'er, from VVhif'h position he came in the Michigan Agricultural Col- lege in 1899. Since cmning to M. A. 0.. Prof. Jeffery has continued to do eiiivieni work along his Chosen line. and more. has imparted liberally of his knowledge in the boys at the college and to the farmers Hn'mig'hout the state. He has grown steadily in popularity, is a successful iii siituie worker, and is ihoroughiy in touch With agricultural science in general. ITis genial friendliness and sincere desire to help will muse him f0 be long remembermi by those who know him. F. H. Li le' LETTER.

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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;.

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Ernest E. Bogue Ernvst itlwrott Hogtw wus lmrn in Orwell. Ashtalmlzt ML. 0. Htl gradu- :1t0t1at;.N0w Lynn Institutv, :1 indomic t-onrso. B. Sr. in INNS. Six ymtrs later he gi-ztduulmt at Ohio Stutv linivm'sity ill lmrt'ionlt'm-v mid forestry and in 1896 he I'Ut'PiVHi the degree of M. S. from tho samo institution. He was pi'ufessnr of botany :iml vntunmluw' in the Oklahoma Agricul- t'uml and Mwhmtimt tintiege amt botanist :mti Ollttlllttlittgist of tho Ukhthtmm leva-ir mont Stnt'imi. from Mm-Ph of 18! ; until July of 1mm, Duringr this t'iim- '10 has strivvn to im- prove the cmn-se in forestry uttered by the :rnitogo and hats Slltttfetttiljtlr in nmking tho mile at. M, A. U. equalled by no other 001- htgu of its kind in the United States. Mr. Iiugue has for his aim forestry in the truest sense, and while he wishes to hvtp tho farm wtmdiots his wni Uthr-t is for- ostry as n pmfossion. The forests on tho tittiltlgv grounds hthO hoen imprm'mt by having,r tho tlm-uying t'imv her taken away, the weed trees cut and seedlings nf whitv pines, Invnstt. hmnior'k. ash, rod wothu-s. eta. sot in Their phtvcs. The field stmt'h of the P0140 Marquette track is living reforestod by smttiiings 0f the sanw species as those planted in the fm'ost, with mtultms. hwchus 111111 nlhm-s in addition. Just m-mss the river from the 'tttnims and vast 0f the railroad track. is :1 nursery whvro seedlings of the more vzttlunhhl :lllti mt-vl' sorts, such t'tS the timid tgtiintns. inrvnso 111112112 lutlgvpnlv pinos. :11'0 grown. Altng'o't'hor. Mr. Hoguu has revo llit'imiixod the notion 013M. A. U. stlitimits :Is to the vzlhw nt' n mursu in forestry. t1. A. Rmch. William S. Holdsworth Vt'illium H. Iluittswnrth. pt-uft'ssm' ttt' Ut-uwiiig. wzls llot'il in Lmnhm, ldng'lnmt Ull thi'um-y ZS, ISBU. Shortly lwfore the Vivil XVzu'. his pain t-nts with ntiwr immingnts nmvetl to this minim :111d svttimi in northern Mich- Igtm. How, he led :1 life simih'tr to that of frontier httis with plenty Hf hnrtl work 21ml sm'h training: :is mnhi he nhtztimld in thv public schtmis of that t'imtt. After mtu-h hnrtl wm'k ill' gl-mluzttt-ti from M. A. C. in 1874 mid mmtinlwtl his mim-ur i'itHl II'Y making 21 spovinl study of airt. Sint'o then he htts spmlt t-mtsithlmhhx t'imv us :I drnnghtsmzm 21ml from thv prur- tit-ttl vxpt'i-imlt'u thus gained ilt' is in :t tmsititm to instill into thv minds Ht his sttmlllts some M the usseul iuls with which to fortify themselves when thtw got mtt' intu 1110 world. S. tltsns.