University of Nebraska College of Law - Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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20 THE DIGEST fessorship in December, 18925 but again in 1894 he began 1'e- searches in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. In 1891 he was elected a member of the Philological Society of London, and also of the American Philological Society. I-Ie is also a member of the Modern Language Association, of the American Dialect Society, of the American Forestry Association, an honorary member of the Whig Society of the Princeton University, of the North American Bee Keepers? Association, and the Society of Electrical Engineers of the University of Nebraska. In 1895 the degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by VVil- liams College, the same year in which he was elected Chancellor of the University of Nebraska. I-Ie is also Director of the United States Agricultural Experiment Station at the University, and during the summer of 1896 traveled in England, I-Iolland, and Germany, studying the Work done in the Stations in each country. Personally he is an agreeable man, and this, coupled With his abilities as a teacher and administrator, has distinguished him in the educational circles of Nebraska. In addition to numerous shorter articles and reviews, he has published 4'ZElfric's Anglo- Saxon Version of Alcuini Interrogationes Sigewuli Presbyteri in Crenesin, QIfIalle, 188305 'L An Old and Middle English Reader '9 by Zupitza QBoston, 1886l, HAn Introductory Course in Old Englishfi prepared by Professor lrVilkin and K. C. Babcock QMinneapolis, 1891j5 HA Chart of English Literature with Refer- encesf, which has passed through several editions, the last in New York and London, 18923 and c'An Old and Middle English Reader, with Introduction, Notes and Glossaryw QNeW York and London, 18935. Dr. MacLean was married May 20, 1874, to Clara S. Taylor, a daughter of Charles J. Taylor, of Great Barrington, Mass. They have no children.

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Cibcmcellor George CE. Zllocteon, SSSS. D. Dr. George Edwin MacLean, the iifth Chancellor of the Uni- versity of Nebraska, was born in Rockville, Conn., August 31, 1850, son of Edwin W. MacLean and Julia H. QLaddj MacLean. His father, a man of public spirit, was a successful merchant, postmaster of Rockville, a member of the I. O. O. F., and later a deacon of the Congregational church of Great Barrington, Mass. The earliest American representatives of the family settled in Hartford and Vernon, Conn., before the Revolution. The gene- .alogy in Scotland reaches back to the eleventh century with a legendary line for several centuries beyond. The Ladd family first came to this country in 1632. Dr. MacLean received his pre- paratory education in Vlfesttield Academy and Williston Sem- inary, Massachusetts. He entered WVilliams College, from which he graduated in 1871. He completed a course of study at Yale Theological School in 1874, and accepted the pastorate of the Presbyterian and Congregational society in New Lebanon, N. Y. From 1877 to 1881 he was minister of the Memorial Presbyterian church, Troy, N. Y. Going abroad in the latter year he studied at the University of Leipzig until 1883, with the exception of two semesters at the University of Berlin. He devoted his at- tention especially to philology and history, Biblical exegesis, and old English literature. He collated several old English manu- scripts in the British Museum, Oxford, and Cambridge. He made the degree of Ph. D. at Leipzig. After an extended tour through Europe, he returned to the United States, and shortly thereafter accepted the chair of the English Language and Literature in the University of Minnesota. At the expiration of seven years' service he obtained a leave of absence, spending eleven months in studying in the British Museum, and in making cycle tours through England. Facilities were everywhere aiforded him for becoming acquainted with English life and thought, es- pecially at the universities. Ho resumed the duties of his pro-

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Zuoge ZI'ia'noab 23. Reese, Dean He was indeed the glass VVherein the noble youth did dress themselves. Judge Manoah Bostic Reese, familiarly known as the good Dean, is a native of Illinois and was bornin Macoupin county, September, 5, 1839. His parents were not wealthy, and his early education was limited to the opportunities furnished by the district school in that, then, new and sparsely settled country. In 1856 his parents, with the family, moved to Clark county, Iowa, and located on a farm, where he remained until after he attained his majority. During this time he attended the public schools within his reach, and when about twenty-one years of age entered a seminary at Gsceola, Iowa, which he attended about two years. Qn the first day of January, 1862, he was married to Miss Carrie Burrows, formerly of Mooresville, Indiana. He en- listed in the army of the United States during the lVar of the Rebellion, but owing to an injury he had received in his youth he was not allowed to serve. Upon his return home he at once began the study of law in the oflice of I-Ion. James Rice at Osceola, Iowa. I-Ie was admitted to the bar in 1865 and immediately entered upon the practice, form- ing a partnership with his preceptor. In 1871 he removed to the State of Nebraska, finally locating at llfauhoo, in this state in 1871. In 1875 he was elected and served asa delegate to the constitutional convention which formed the present constitution of Nebraska. In 1876,,18'78, and 1880, he was successively elected to the ofiice of district attorney for the then fourth judicial districtg and in 1883 he was elected as one of the judges of the supreme court of the state, holding the oiiice for six years, during the last two of which he was the chief justice. His opinions while a member of the court were characterized by evil dent fairness and strength, rather than by the elaborate marshal- ing and discussion of authorities. j