University of North Dakota - Dacotah Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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EARLE J. BABCOCK, B. S. PROFESSOR or CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY. AND DEAN 014' THE COLLEGE 01v 11mm: ENGINEERING. Professor Bahuock was born at St. Charles, Minn, June 11th, 1865. He attended the public schools in his native town, and later Carleton Cole lege, and graduated from the University OT? Min- nesota in 1889. He became instructor iii Gharge of Chemistry and Mineralogy at North Dakota University in 1890, and Professor 01' Chemistry and Geology in 1891. In 1898 he was appointed Dean of the School of Mines. He has had Charge of the geological work of the State since 1890, and was State Geologist. from the organization of the survey in 1895 until 1902. In his connection with the State Geological Survey, Professor Babcock has worked extensively for the development of the mineral resources of the State, and was the author of the first hi-ennial report. of the survey. JOSEPH KENNEDY, M. A. PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY AND mu'cxmox, AND DEAN 014 THE AOIHIAL COLLEGE. Born July 14, 1858, at Oshawa, Minn. His early education was received in country schools and in the High School at St. Peter. Later he entered the University of Minnesota and graduated from that institution in 1886. He held the posi- tion of Principal of Schools at Hillsboro, N. D. from 1886 to 1889, When he became County Super- intendent of Schools in Traill County. In the fall of 1892 he came to the University as Assistant Professor of Pedagogy and Principal 0f the Pre- paratory Department and later became Professor of Pedagogy and Principal of the Preparatory and Normal Departments. He received the degree of M. A. from his Alma Mater in 1902. Professor Kennedy has been identified With institute, sum, mer school, and lecture work in this State since 1888. Na T;

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b 1HamItg. ALL DEPARTMENTS EXCEPT THAT OF LAW. HORACE B. WOODWORTH, B. A. vuomsson 0F HISTORY. Professor Woodworth is a native of Vermont, and spent the Ih'st thirty-nine years of his life in New England, living on a farm. His early school- ing was strictly rural, and When he first began teaching, at the age of seventeen, his only educa- tion was such as he had gained for himself on the farm, supplemented by three months in the dis- trict school. He graduated from Thetford Acad- emy in 1850 and from Dartmouth College in 1854, after Which he served successively as Principal of Glilmanton Academy, N. H., Associate Principal of Thetford Academy, and Principal of Chelsea Academy, Vt. He graduated from Hartford Theo- logical Seminary, Conn, in 1861, and subsequently served as pastor of a number of Congregational churches. He then went to live on a farm in South Dakota. until 1885, when he began his work at the University of North Dakota. JOHN MACNIE, M. A. PROFESSOR ms THE FRENCH Axn SPANISH LAN- GUAGES AND LITERATURES, AND SECRETARY OF THE FACULTY. Professor Macnie was born in Scotland in 1844. He received his education in various schools in England and on the Continent, and graduated from the University of Glasgow. After coming to the United States in 1867, he taught Greek and Latin for a number of years. in a well known Preparatory School in Newburg, N. Y., and was afterwards Principal of an endowed academy in Connecticut. He came to this University in 1885, and until last year was Professor of both the French and the German Languages. He has pub- lished a Treatise upon the Theory of Algebraic Equations, and a text-book 0n Elementary Geometry, the latter being used very extensively in High Schools and Colleges.

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1E0. S, THOMAS, M. A., Ph. D. rnomsson 01v THE GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES AN 1mm OF THE COILEGE OF ARTS. Dr. Thomas's boyhood days were spent in his native City, Richmond, Va., where, in private schools and in Richmond College he obtained his earlier education. He entered the University Of Virginia in 1874, at the age of eighteen. During the academic year of 1877-78 he served as acting Professor of Greek in Richmond College in the absence of the regular professor. He graduated With the degree of M. A. from the University Of Virginia in 1879. He was Professor of Greek and Latin in the Louisiana State University from 1879 to 1882, Later he studied in the Universities of Berlin and Leipzig, receiving from the latter the degree of Ph. D. Dr. Thomas was Professor of 1888 to 1891. tion in 1893. MELVIN A BRANNONJ M. A. PROFESSOR 010 BIOLOGY AND CFRATOR OF THE MUSEUM. Professor Brannon was born at Lowell, Indiana, Sept, 11th, 1865. His early education was received at various common schools in Indiana. From 1889 to 1890 he Was a student at Wabash College, re ceiving the A. B. and A. M. degrees from that institution in 1889 and 1890, respectively. From 1890 to 1894 he held the position of teacher of Natural Sciences in the Fort Wayne High School, Indiana. He spent the summers of 191, ,92, 793 and 94 in Woods Hole Marine Laboratory, as a student doing research work in Algology, repre- senting the Missouri Botanical Gardens. Pro- fessor Brannon has filled his present position since 1,894. He also spent the summers of 95 and ,96 doing research work in bacteriology at the Uni- versity of Chicago. EV'. w Latin in the University of South Dakota from He was elected to his present posie