University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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Jfacult 2). 1kinlev pb. ©. I ' A Dean of the College of Literature and Arts, Professor of Political Economy and Social Science, Secretary of the Board of Administration, was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1861, and came to this country in 1873. He prepared for college at Phillips Academy. Anrlover, Mass., and graduated from Yale in 1884, receiving the degree of A. B. and Ph.D., 1893, from the University of Wisconsin. He was Principal of the North Andover High School for six years. After a year ' s work at Johns Hopkins he was elected In- structor in History and Political Economy in that institution and Instructor in Political Economy and Logic in the Woman ' s College at Baltimore. In 1892 he went to the University of Wisconsin as I- ' ellow and Instructor in the School of Economics. He has written articles upon the Ethical Basis of Labor Legislation, Immigration, Relation of the Church to Social Reform, Influence of the Independent Treasury on Business; is author of The Independent Treasury System of the United States. He is a member of the American Economic Association, American Statistical Association, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and several others.

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jfacults Stephen Hlfreo Forbes, pb ID. Dean of the College of Science, Professor of Zoology and Entomology, was born May 29, 1844, in Stephenson County, Illinois. He obtained his early education in the country schools and at Beloit Academy; enlisted as private at seventeen, receiving a captaincy at twenty. Read medicine and attended lectures at Rush Medical College in 1867. Taught himself botany while teaching in the public schools, and was appointed Curator of the Museum of the Illinois State Natural History Society at Normal in 1872. Became Professor of Zoology in the Illinois State Normal University in 1874. Founded the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History in 1878, and was made its director, which position he still holds. He has been State Entomologist of Illinois since 1882, Professor of Zoology at the University of Illinois since 1884 and Dean of the College of Science since 1888. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, charter member of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, active member of the American Ornithological Union, of the Washington Entomological Society, of the St. L,ouis Academy of Sciences, and several other societies. Was Director of the Aquarium of the United States Fish Commission at the Columbian Exposition. He has conducted a Natural History survey of Illinois since 1878, and numerous Zoolog- ical expeditions. He has published seven reports as State Entomologist of Illinois and about two hundred other contributions to zoological science.

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jfacult lEuocne Davenport, fID. Hgr. ATA Dean of the College of Agriculture and Professor of Animal Husbandry, was born on a farm in Woodland County, Michigan, in 1856. He taught school before entering Michigan Agricultural College, from which he graduated in 1878, taking the degree of B. S. He received from this same college, in 1881, the degree of M. S., and in 1896 M. Agr. He resided on a farm from 1878 to 1888, then returned for graduate work and was elected Professor of Agriculture in 1889, which position he held for two years. He resigned this position in order to attempt the establishing of a School of Agriculture in Brazil, South America. After one year abroad he returned to his farm in Michigan, which he still owns and operates. He was elected Dean of the College of Agriculture and Professor of Animal Husbandry of the University of Illinois on January 1, 1895. He was also elected Director of the Experiment Station in 1896. Professor Davenport is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Michi- gan Academy of Science.