Northern Illinois University - Norther Yearbook (DeKalb, IL)

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- . . . vmrvfvm- Y . . ,FV 24 Y' H13 N U R I H1313 degree, and then spent the next year with Dr. XN7m. Rein at the University of Alena. Prom ISSQ-'92 he was in charge of the Practice School in the VVinona State Normal of Minnesota, ' ' ' ' ' -' 't'c teacher and super- nd from 1897 '99 was in the Illinois State Normal University as cri 1 3 H- intendent of the Practice School. In 1897 he spent a year at the University of Chicago on leave of absenceg 1889 called to the N. I. S. N. S. as Supervisor of Practice. NEXVELL DARROXV GILBERT was born in the state of New York. In infancy he was brought to Mendota, Illinois, by the removal of his parents. He received his public school education at Mendota and Freeport. He graduated at the Illinois Vtlesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, in '79. On leaving college he took the superintendency of the Clin- ton fIll.j schools. After three years in this position he wentto Utica QIll. D, and later to May- wood QIll.j. Prom this place he was invited to Austin to take charge of its public schools. ' ' f He remained in Austin twelve years. In 1899 he was called to De Ixalb to take charge o the public schools. VVith his first years work in De Kalb he completes his twenty-first year of continuous supervision of schools. JOHN A. KEITH was educated in the public schools of various towns of Southern Illinois. In the spring of ,QC he entered the Illinois State Normal University and graduated from it ini1894. During this time he was out of school for one year, 'QI-'Q2, as principal of the schools at Camargo, Ill. Prom '94 to '96 he taught in the Practice School at Normal, Ill., and in the Pall of '96 entered Harvard University, from whence he graduated in YQQ. He entered the Northern Illinois State Normal School in its first year as Professor of Pedagogy and Assistant in Psychology. EDVVARD C. PAGE received his preparatory and freshman work at Old Sandstone, Mt. Morris, and in 1888 he graduated with the degree of A. B. from the Northwestern .,....,,.,.,,,,..,,. , ,,.,,,,,,, 9 ,,,,:,.,M, -VW-W-mmm P i l H 1 1 l

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, , , . ,ns-r-rg'-'sum-rx , , I . . 4 ,...- , ,,q,,,,q, f Y-...-,.,-.,..,...-...--....,. H.. -.....-......i.:.L,......lDa' . V , , . ., - , .gs -3-. .- - - . .. , g,,.q .-1 ,. 5-.v,.:.: ., . :.-f.-:: .. . . .- ,- , X, - 2 V? THE VORTHER BIOGRAPHIES OF THE FACULTY JOHN WILLISTON COCK was born Apr1l 2oth 1844 near Onelda Madtson county Nlew York Some two years after h1s blrth h1s parents removed to One1da where they remamed unt1l the Sprlng of 1851 mov1ng then to central Ill1no1s a few mlles from Bloommgton He had the advantages of d1str1ct and vlllage schools up to hls elghteenth year He also learned somethmg of farmmg through several summer GYPCFICDCCS acqu1red a falr degree of sk1ll at the ordmary rout1ne of oflice work 1n ra1lway serv1ce and learned somethlng of merchand1s1ng throu h a rather short apprentlceshlp as a clerk In 1862 he entered the Ill1no1s State Normal Un1vers1ty graduatm 1n 1865 He began h1s work as a teacher at Brlmheld Peorla county where he served as prmclpal of v1llage schools for one year I 1866 he became pr1nc1pal of the Grammar Department of the Practlce School 1n h1s alma mater 'I'h1s pos1t1on he held for two years when he was promoted to the Normal Depart ment In 1869 he was appomted to the chalr of Readmg and Elocut1on wh1ch pos1t1on he hlled for several years succeedmg 1n 1876 to the department of Mathematlcs and Phys1cs He cont1nued ID that pos1t1on ur1t1l 189o when he was elected Pres1dent res1gn1ng the posl t1on m 1899 to take charge of the new Northern Ill1no1s State Normal School DR CHARLES A MCMURRY was born at Crawfordsv1lle Indlana and moved to Bloom mgton Ill IH 1865 He entered the pr1mary department of the Ill1no1s Normal and grad uated from 1ts H1gh School course 1n 1876 In the fall of 76 he entered M1Ch1g3H Un1vers1ty and spent two years there He taught 1n county and v111age schools ln Ill1no1s 1879 and 80 and the next year at Denver as pr1nc1pal of a Grammar school 1883 84 he went to Ger many and studled ln the Un1vers1ty of Halle In 1887 he returned and took h1s doctors .L 2 3 1 v x 9 1 . , a 1 A s 0' . . . . . v . . I . . 0, on . . 4 5, . I b ' 1 1 ' n ' 9 ' . - , ' - v , . . . . . . V . . . or . - , I n 0 , , - 1 1 - v ' ' . . . . . , ' 9 . . , . . . . . , ', f -J:-.va-,. ,v,,., .. , Q., , H ,, ,, , , ,,,,,,k,, wma-Q--sms-,MW-,-.-a--.-,-1-f.f . , .. l Y, U, , A . .

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'Q' -M . nuff ' THE IVORTHER 25 University, where he received first grade general honors and special honors in History and Literature at graduation. He took a three years' post graduate course in History, Political Science and Literature in the Chicago University. His first experience as a teacher was received in the rural schools of Ogle county, Ill., after which he served two years in the Academy of Northwestern University. For the next five years he filled the position of Assistant County Superintendent of Schools of Ogle county. The last five years Mr. Page has been a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago, and is at present Prof. of History in the N. I. S. N. S. PRED. L. CHARLES was educated in the public schools of Austin, Ill., graduating from the High School there in 189o. He entered the Northwestern University and graduated in '94 with the B. S. degree. He became a Fellow in Zoology and received his Masters degree in VQS. Erom '95-'97 he taught Biology and Physiography in the Lake View High School, Chicago. During the summers of '93, ,Q4 and iQ7 he studied at the Marine Biolog- ical Laboratory, VVoods Holl, Mass. He was Eellow in Zoology in the University of Chi- cago, '97-'98, and Instructor in L. V. H. S., Chicago, '98-'QQ. In 1899 he was called to the chair of Biology in the N. I. S. N. S. JOHN A. SWITZER was born in Brooklyn and spent his early life there. WVhen he was ten years old the family moved to Philadelphia, where he completed his Grammar School education. In 1888 Mr. Switzer began his college work at the University of VVisconsin, spending one year in the department of Civil Engineering. Study was then interrupted by two years, work in a machine shop near Philadelphia, during which time he organized and taught a night school. The next year he entered Cornell as a Sophomore and completed the course in Electrical Engineering in ,QS. One more year was spent at Cornell in graduate