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

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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

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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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Faculty SAMUEL WALTER SHATTUCK, Professor of Mathematics, B.S., Norwich University, ' 60; A.M., Norwich University, ' 67; C.E., Norwich University, ' 71. EDWARD SNYDER, Professor of the German Language and Literature, emeritus, A.M., Norwich University, ' 69. IRA OSBORN BAKER, ATA, TBII, Professor of Civil Engineering, B.S., University of Illinois, ' 74; C.E., University of Illinois, ' 78. CHARLES WESLEY ROLEE, Professor of Geology, B.S., University of Illinois, ' 72; M.S., University of Illinois, ' 77. DONALD McINTOSH, Professor of Veterinary Science, V.S., University of Toronto, ' 69. ARTHUR NEWELL TALBOT, TBII, Professor of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering, B.S., University of Illinois, ' 81 ; C.E., University of Illinois, ' 85. ARTHUR WILLIAM PALMER, Professor of Chemistry, B.S., University of Illinois, ' 83; Sc.D., University of Illinois, ' 86. FRANK FORREST FREDERICK, Professor of Art and Design, Massachusetts Normal Art School. 18