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

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Arthur Newel Talbot, C. E. Arthur Newel Talbot, Professor of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering was born at Court- land, Illinois, in 1857. He attended the High School at Sycamore, Illinois, and was graduated from the University of Illinois in 1881. Between 1881 and 1885 he was engaged in a varied line of railroad engineering in Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Idaho and Minnesota, being engaged by the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe, the Denver Rio Grande and the Northern Pacific Railroads. Since that time he has extended his engineering experience in various directions. In 1885 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Engineering and Mathematics in the University of Illinois, and five years later he was made Professor of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering, in charge of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He is a contributor to engineering literature, and is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and of the Western Society of Engineers. Arthur William Palmer, Sc. D. Arthur William Palmer, Professor of Chemistry, was born in London, England, in 1861, and came to Illinois, with his parents, when he was five years old. He attended the public schools of Elgin and Springfield. He graduated from the Chemical Course of this University in 1883, and the following year he was appointed First Assistant in Chemistry. Two years were spent at Harvard taking post-graduate work in his specialty. From 1886 to 1888 he was Chief Assistant in Chemistry here, and the next year he spent, as a student, in the German Universities of Berlin and Gottingen. He returned here in 1889 as Assistant Professor of Chemistry, and the following year he was given his present title. Frank Forrest Frederick Frank Forrest Frederick, Professor of Art and Design, was born in Methnen, Massachusetts, in 1866. The great part of his education was obtained in Boston, where he graduated from the Massachusetts Normal Art School. He was a teacher in the free evening Industral Art School of Boston, and, in 1890, was appointed to his position here. He completed his studies abroad and there made a special study of the organization and management of art schools. He is editor of the educational department of The Art. He is also a contributor to various art magazines, and is the author of a book on Architectural Rendering in Sepia. 10