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

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David Kinley, Ph.D., 4TA, BK David Kinley, dean of the college of lit- erature and arts and professor of economics, was born at Dundee, Scotland, in i 86 1. He graduated from Yale University in 1884. and received the degree of Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1893. He was appointed professor of economics at the University of Illinois in the latter year. Dr. Kinley is vice president of the American Economic association and a member also of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, of the Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters and of the Acad- emy of Sciences of Washington, D. C. He has contributed a number of articles on economic subjects to leading periodicals. Eugene Davenport, M.Agr., ATA Eugene Davenport, dean of the college of agriculture and professor of animal husbandry, was born on a farm at Woodland, Michigan, in 1856. He grew up under conditions that gave the closest contact with farm life from pioneer days to the present. He graduated from Michigan Agricultural College in 1878 and then devoted the next ten years exclu- sively to farming. In 1888 he returned to his alma mater for further study, and at the end of the year he was elected professor of agriculture there. He resigned this position to undertake the founding of an agricultural college in the state of San Paulo, Brazil, where he remained for about one year, re- turning home in 1893. Professor Davenport came to the University of Illinois in 1895. 16

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Nathan Clifford Ricker, M.Arch, TBn. Nathan Clifford Ricker, dean of the col- lege of engineering and professor of archi- tecture, was born at Acton, Maine, in 1843. He came to Illinois in 1867 and entered the State University in 1870, pursuing an architectural course as far as practicable at that time. Immediately after his graduation in 1873 ne ' e ft f° r Europe to study archi- tecture, but he returned in the same year to fill the position of instructor in architecture at his alma mater. In 1876 he became professor of architecture, and in 1878 he was made dean of the college of engineer- ing. Professor Ricker has published a work on Trussed Roofs, has prepared several thousand pages of blue-print lecture notes and drawings and has translated several works on architecture from the French and from the German. Stephen Alfred Forbes, Ph.D., $rA Stephen Alfred Forbes, dean ot the col- lege of science and professor of zoology, was born in Stephenson county, Illinois, in 1844.. He obtained his early education in the country schools and at Beloit Academv. He enlisted as a private in the United States army at seventeen, receiving a captaincy at twenty. He has been director of the Illinois state laboratory of natural history since 1878, state entomologist of Illinois since 1882, professor of zoology at the University of Illi- nois since 1884 and dean of the college of science since 1888. Professor Forbes is a member of the St. Louis Academy of Sciences, of the Washington Academy of Science and of several other societies, entomological and zoological. He has made about two hun- dred contributions to zoological science. 15

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James Brown Scott, A.M., J.l.D. |ames Brown Scott, dean of the college of law and professor of equity and of law of real property, was born at Yincardine, Ontario, Canada, in 1866. He received his prelimi- nary education in the schools of Philadelphia and graduated from Harvard University summa cum laude in 1 890. He took his master ' s degree in 1 89 1 and continued his studies at Berlin, Heidelberg and Paris, re- ceiving a doctor ' s degree in civil and canon law from the University of Heidelberg in 1 894. While abroad Dr. Scott visited Egypt, the Holv Land, Greece and other countries of interest. During the war with Spain he served as a private and as a corporal in the Seventh California regiment. In 1899 he was appointed to his present position at the University of Illinois. Violet Delille Jayne, Ph.D., r B. Violet Delille Jayne, dean of the woman ' s department and associate professor of the English language and literature, received her degree of A.B. on graduation from the Uni- versity of Michigan in 1887. She spent a year in 1 891-92 specializing in the German language at the University of Zurich. She was head of the English department at Wheaton Seminary in 1892-93 and held the same position at the California State Normal School from 1893 to 1896. In 1897 she was appointed assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois, and in 1898 she was made an associate professor. Miss Javne was awarded the degree of A.M. by the University of Michigan in 1 896 and that of Ph.D. by the University of Minnesota one year later. 17