University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine - Scalpel Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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JOHN WILLIAM ADAMS, A.B., V.M.D. Professor of Veterinary Surgery and Obstetrics

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louis Q.iKIein,W. . . i m? OCIS A. KLEIN, born in Philadelphia, May 10, 1871, educated in LL! the public schools and Brown Preparatory School. Dr. Klein ,Q graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary De- partment in 189!,. winninglthe B. Lippincott prize, awarded to the student having the highest average during his three years' ' course. He w-as in general practice at Lewistown, Pa., the first year following his graduation, and then accepted a position as veterinarian on the Vanderbilt estate at Biltmore, N. C. One year later he entered the service of the United States Bureau of Animal Industry, and while stationed at Philadelphia in 1900 was elected Lecturer on Meat Inspection in the University of Pennsylvania, resigning this one year later to accept the position of Professor of Veterinary Medicine and Sanitary Science in the Veterinary Department of the Iowa State College. In 1904 he went to South Carolina to accept the position of Professor of Veterinary Science in the Clemson Agricultural College, and act as veterinarian to the State Experiment Station. In September, 1907, Dr. Klein returned to Pennsylvania as Deputy State Veterinarian under the late Dr. Leonard Pearson. This position he held until recently, when he was appointed Professor of Pharmacology and Veterinary Hygiene in the University of .Pennsylvania Veterinary Department. In January he was elected Dean of the Department, to succeed the late Dr. Pearson. Member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Pennsylvania State Veterinary Medical Association, Keystone Veterinary Medical Society, American Public Health Association, and honorary member Iowa State Veterin- ary Medical Association. I 7

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gllljli iw. Zlhams, QI. E., W. . E. OHN XM ADAMS, born in VVinona, Carroll County, Mississippi, . ' November 8, 1862, son of jo-hn Charles and Helen Marr tDotyj li Adams. He is of Scotch-Irish ancestry. His family moved to Minnesota during the Reconstruction period, in October, 1868. He was educated in the public schools and graduated from the Lake City QMinnesotal High School in june, 1881. He then entered the classical course of the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1886, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Wfhile a student in this University he taught four years in the Minneapolis evening schools. From 1886 to 1889 he was teacher of Rhetoric and English in the Shattuck Military School, at Faribault, Minnesota. , Dr. Adams graduated from the Veterinary Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1892, and in the summer of that same year continued study in the Royal Veterinary High School of Berli,n, Germany, also studying as a gradu- ate student in the Royal Veterinary School of Saxony, in Dresden, until 1893. ln 1893 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Veterinary Surgery and Cbstetrics in the University of Pennsylvania, and was made full Professor in 1896, which position he still holds. Member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Pennsylvania State Veterinary Medical Association, Pennsylvania lVorlc Horse Parade Asso- ciation, Keystone Veterinary Medical Society, and Honorary Secretary of the Veterinary Medical Society of the University of Pennsylvania. I9