Northern Illinois University - Norther Yearbook (DeKalb, IL)

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23 TH If N O R T H fi R Illinois State Normal University, but after two years began university work at Ann Arbor, Mich., receiving, however, a diploma from the State Normal School with the class of '93. For two years she taught history in the seventh grade of the Austin QIll.j public school, and then returned for her third year in the University of Michigan, graduating in '97 from the Ph. B. course and receiving a states certificate and teachers diploma in Latin. The fol- lowing two years found her at the head of the Latin department in the Bloomington High School, which position she resigned to become teacher of Latin and German in the N. I. S. N. S. SXVEN E. PARSON is a native of Sweden and received his elementary education in the People's School fEolk-Skolanj. He came to this country when he was fourteen and by the end ofthe first year could not only understand English, but could speak it. Prom the age of fifteen to seventeen and a half he attended the village school at Cary Station. McHenry county, Ill. At the end ol this time he passed the teachers examination For several years after this he taught district schools and village schools. He entered the I. S. N. U in '86, leaving it the next December on account of ill health. Upon recovery he became Principal of the Delialb High School and remained there two years. Re-entering Normal in 1889, he graduated in '92, and in the Pall ot the same year became Principal of the Grammar department there. He has done some work in the department of Pedagogy of the University of Chicago, and is at present head of the department of Mathematics in the N. I. S. N. S. ELMA 'WARXVICK graduated from the East Denver High School, Denver, Col., in '95 and from the Department of Library Economy in Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Ill.. in '97-. The next year she was cataloguer at Scoville Institute, Oak Park, Ill., and from September, '97, to May, '99, was periodical and accession clerk at the University of Illinois, Champaign, Ill. She came as librarian to our Normal from the XVither's Public Library at Bloomington, Ill. GRACE E. BABBITT, our assistant librarian, was educated in the city schools of Chicago. the Brown school and the High School. She attended one session of Summer School Library Science at Madison, XVisconsin. She spent a year in the library of the Normal at Bloomington studying the work, and' came to us from there. --aan-a

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L, 5 30 THE NORTHER ISFU-XC LEONFXRD ELLWOOD HE men who stand high in any field of activity, whether they be among the professions, in business circles, or wherever they are found, are men who have literally made ' f h' hose name appears at themselves what they are. Such has been the record o im w the beginning of this biography. Sixty-six years ago, in the state of New York, Colonel Isaac L. Ellwood was born. At an early age he began to earn his own living. Although his education had been very limited, his untiring energy, his striking personality and his unbounded determination all gave evidence that his limited academic education would be supplemented by that broader educa- tion which comes alone from contact with the world and that success would be his. He spent several years of his youth driving a team on the Erie canal, for which he received ten dollars per month. Later he worked as clerk in a store. After passing a few years in Cali- fornia during the gold excitement Mr. Ellwood, in 1855, returned to Illinois and, with the small capital he had managed to accumulate, opened a hardware store in the village of DeKalb. VVhen Mr. Joseph Glidden invented what is to-day known as the Glidden barbed wire, M . Ell ood, realizing the great need of fencing material, saw that if this invention could r w g onl be brought to the attention of the public the venture could be made to yield large Y is prohts. Finally he borrowed enough money to push the enterprise. He bought a half- . . . I t ' the invention and through his keen foresight, combined the early paten s on interest in , , barbed wire and on the machinery for its manufacture. He was thus enabled, with the t build u a igantic enterprise The growth of this introduction of additional inventions, o p g , enterprise has been marvelous. VVithin only a few years, out of what was an experiment, has developed the works of the Isaac L. Ellwood Manufacturing Company, which produce i l V ' - M' :M- '11v--wwf-Y-.--mw.q. ,..,,..3.,.nf-: 1 . r -Q-v--rv-w:+-w-fxwv--wr-if-P1---1 1--ww-K--vs s-,ff,N...t wif-Qanuvxw-11..,.v--L-M.. .-L -' s-- -f,A- v... .....,-........mwm.m.--..