University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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He is, the author of the work, An Introduction to Attic Greek, a system used by him at this University with pro- nounced success. The love and respect which the alumni and student body have for the venerable Doctor is sufficient testimony to his life of usefulness and success. , Rswmom Pj. wxuex-rent, ffl. H. VEWTON H. WINCHELL, M. A., was horn in N. Y., in l 1839. He graduated from Ann Arbor in 1866. He was compelled to teach during his college life, and thus spent eight years in completing his college course. I-Ie was at different times superintendent of the public schools of Adrian, Port Huron, and Kalamazoo. He was employed two years on the State geological survey of Michigan. Thence he went to Ohio, and in 1872 was called to Minnesota by the Regents of the University. Accepting the position of State Geologist, he spent one-half of his time in teaching and the rest in directing tie geological survey of the State. In 1878 he was relieved from teaching and has since devoted himself wholly to the survey and the preparation and acquisition of a museum. Professor Winchell is a prolific writer, furnishing scientific articles for newspapers, and those of more permanent char- arcter are found in the standard scientific periodicals of the day. As editor of the American Geologist he is well known to the scientific world. Since the geological survey of Minnesota has been inaugu- rated his scientific papers have been published in the Annual Reports of Progress of the Survey. Of these reports nine have been published, to each of which he has been the principal contributor. Besides this series of annual reports he has is- sued eleven miscellaneous publications and circulars relating to the survey. l In 187-L he accompanied General Custer to the Black Hills, and his geographical report and map of the Black Hills, pub- lished under the auspices of the NVar Department, comprised :slip fgst account of the interior of the Black Hills ever pub- is ie . Professor Winchell received the degrees of B. A. and M. A. from his alma mater, the University of Michigan. He is a fel- low of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- ence, a corresponding member of the New York and Buffalo Academies of Science, and President of the Minnesota Acad- emy of Natural Science. sox-ni G. moons, B. H. IOHN G. MOORE. B. A., was born in Germany in 1848. f He passed his younger years in the Fatherland, coming to this country in the fall of '61. His love for his adopted country manifested itself in his early enlistment during her desperate struggle for existence. He was a soldier in the 11 I

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The coming of Cyrus Northrop marked a new era in the history of this institution, and the University and the State of Minnesota are to be congratulated that a man of such ripe experience in educational and public affairs was secured for the presidency. All students have for him the highest respect possible, and in addition to regarding him as an eloquent speaker and sue- cessful President, honor him as a grand and noble xnan. His lectures on moral, literary, and political subjects are not only highly instructive, but inspiring, leaving in the minds of the students an ideal of the culture and manliness toward which so many of us are striving. That supreme confidence which was reposed in him to such a marked degree at Yale is felt here, and it is a prediction of a career of usefulness to himself and of great benefit to the State through its University. Amar-zz Brqooas, D. D. JABEZ BROOKS, D. D., was born in England in 1823. When a youth his parents emigrated to America and set- tled in Wisconsin, in 1842, at Southport, now Kenosha. After finishing his preparatory studies at this and other places in the West. he entered the sophomore class in Wesleyan Uni- versity, Middletown, Conn., in l8-17, and graduated three years later. He maintained himself while pursuing his studies by teach- ing and other work. While in college he taught in the Middle- town Classical School and in the Newbury Seminaiy. After graduating he came to Wisconsin and conducted, until 1852, a seminary at Watertown. Ile next occupied the chair of Greek and Mathematics in Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis. From Lawrence he received the degreeof D. D. In 1,854 he was elected, principal of the preparatory department of Hamline, at Red Wing, and during 1854-'55 he was pastor of the M. E. Church at that place. 'ln 1,857-'58 ill health coni- pelled him to retire from teaadiing. In l8iS9 he resigned the presidency of Hamline, which he had held for nine years, and accepted the professorship of Greek in the University. Professor Brooks has always taken a leading part in the educational affairs of the State. While President of Hamline he was a member of the State Normal School Board, a mem- ber of the first Agricultural College Board organized in Minne- sota, and he took a prominent part in organizing the State Teachers' Association, of which society he was president in 1868. During the same period he was a member of the gen- eral eonference of the M. E. Church and a Commissioner of In- dian Affairs. Dr. Brooks is well and favorably known through the State as an eminently successful preacher and lecturer. Several of lns lectures and addresses have been published. e Throughout his active career of so many years he has been a correspondent for both denominational and secular pa- pers. j 10 M

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184th New York Volunteers, and served until the close of the war. After an extensive tour throughout the South he re- turned home and spent the years 1866, '67 and '68 fitting for college in the Mexico Academy, Oswego County, N. Y. He was granted a scholarship by the State of New York, and pursued his way through Cornell, where he graduated in 1873. After two years spent as instructor in German at Trumansburg Academy, Tomkins, N. Y., he came to the University as Pro- fessor of German. Though a firm Democrat, Mr. Moore was from the first an intense Unionist. Believing that the Republican party is a party of restriction, and only -in the ranks of the Democratic party can the greatest personal liberty compatible with good government and good order be found, he has always belonged to the Democratic party, which he joined on abroad and com- prehensiveview. He isafree trader theoretically, and believes in letting the past take care of itself. Professor Moore is an active member of the Board of Edu- cation of this city, and his popularity is fully attested by the fact that in a ward overwhelmingly Republican he lacked but few votes of receiving aldermanic honors. Professor M0ore's long and useful connection with this institution proves that the authorities appreciate those eminent qualities for which he is so much respected by the student body. GHRISYIYOPHER wsseem Fpagn, SD. H. ill-IRISTOPHER WEBBER HALL, M. A., Professor of. Ge- I' ology, Mineralogy and Biology, is of New England origin. .His birthplace, Wardshoro, is a small town in Vermont. Af- ter two or three terms spent at the Leland and Gray Semin- ary, a college preparatory course was taken at Chester Acad- emy: which was completed in 1867. Mr. Hall then entered Middlebury College, from which he graduated in 1871. He then ,taughtayear at Glenns Falls, N. Y. In 1872 he came to Minnesota, and after teaching three years, went to Germany and pursued his scientific studies at the University of Leip- zig. Here he spent two years and a half under such eminent teachers as Zirkel, Credner. Wiedemann and Leuekart. Shortly after his return from Europe he was called to the l'niversity of Minnesota, where he entered upon the work of teaching in 1878, and has thus been busily engaged to the present time. ' For some time after coming to the University, Professor Hall was assistant geologist on the geological and natural history survey of Minnesota. During the last four years he has been engaged on the work of the United States geological survey, which organization has entered the State, and is pros- ecuting its investigations in a most energetic and thorough manner. I The especial study on which the Professor has been at work and is now closing up, is an investigation on the gmnitcs, gneisses and crystalline schists of central Minnesota and the valley of the Minnesota River. 12