University of Wisconsin Madison - Badger Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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BIOGRAPHICAL. 23 hook. Academy, New York, where he remained for nearly two years, when he enlisted as a private in Company F, 27th N. Y. V. I. After serving two years, he was commissioned as Captain of Company M, ist N. Y. Vet. Cavalry, and participated in the battles of the Shenandoah, under Gen. Sheridan. In 1864 he was appointed Inspector General of Cavalry in the 19th corps. He was commander of the raid on Lewisburg and Covington, Va., in 1865, and was senior officer in command in the engagement at White Sulphur Springs, Va. In this engagement he, with only two regiments, overcame the forces under Gen. Jno. McClausland, and captured more than a thousand prisoners, including the General himself. At the close of the war he entered the sophomore class in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and graduated in the classical course in 1868. He was elected assistant Professor of Greek and Professor of Latin in the Chicago University during the same year, and afterwards filled the chair of Rhetoric and English Literature for two years. In 1871 he graduated from the Chicago Theological Seminary, and received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. In 1879 was elected Professor of English Literature in the University of Wisconsin. He received the degree of LL. D. from the University of Chicago in 1880. He has published an edition of Xenophon’s Memorabilia, and the Dialogues of Lucian. He was one year editor of the Michigan Magazine, has published numerous articles in educational and political periodicals, and is also a prominent lecturer. EDWARD S. HOLDEN, B. S., A. M., was born in St. Louis, 1846. Graduated from the Scientific School of the Washington University, St. Louis, in June, 1866; cadet at the U. S. Military Academy, 1866-70. He was Second Lieutenant 4th U. S. Artillery from 1870 to 1872, when he became Second Lieutenant U. S. Corps of Engineers. In 1873 he resigned, and was commissioned Professor of Mathematics in the U. S. Navy, which commission he resigned in June, 1882. He was assistant Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at West Point, 1871-2, and instructor in Practical Military Engineering, 1872-3. In 1873 he was appointed Astronomer of the U. S. Naval Observatory at Washington. In 1881 he left this position to become Director of the Washburn Observatory, which position he now holds. Professor Holden

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22 THE TROCHOS. tific School of Harvard University. In 1868 he was elected Professor of Agriculture in the University of Wisconsin, and the following year Analytical Chemistry was included in his department. In 1873 he received the appointment of chemist to the State Geological Survey. His chair was changed to that of Chemistry in 1880, and the same year Gov. Smith appointed him State Analyst. His experiments upon the University farm have been published by the Regents. Among his writings are: “ The Chemistry of Bread Making,” published in Transactions of State Agricultural Society; “Some of the Relations of Science to Agriculture,” “ Laws of Heredity applied to the Improvement of Dairy Cows,” read before the Northwestern Dairymen’s Association ; “ Some of the Wants of American Farmers,” “ The Conservation of Forces applied to the Feeding, Watering and Sheltering of Farm Stock,” “ Hard Times—A Cause and a Remedy,” a discourse delivered at the State Fair, Milwaukee; “Objectsand Methods of Soil Cultivation,” “Chemical Principles of Stock Feeding,” and “Health in Farmers’ Homes.” WILLIAM H. ROSENSTENGEL, A. M., was born September 10, 1842, in Barmen, Rhenish Prussia. His early education was received at Barmen Realschule. He was teacher in Elberfeld and Rade vorm Wald. In 1865 he came to America and located at St. Louis, Mo. Here he taught from 1866 to 1879, being second assistant in the St. Louis Central High School for nine years. In 1879 he was elected Professor of German Language and Literature in the University of Wisconsin. His honorary degree, A. M., was received from Williams College. He has published : “ Hilfsu. Uebungsbuch beim Unterricht in der Deutschen Sprache,” “ German Irregular Verbs,” “ A German Reader for High Schools” (second edition, 1883), “ Die Entstehung der Neuhochdeutschen Sprache,” “German Literature” (1884). He is an associate editor of the “ Erziehungsblaetter,” an American-German journal of education, and writes upon German language and literature. JOHN C. FREEMAN, B. D., LL. I)., was bom February 14, 1842, in Broome Co., N. Y. He prepared for college at Homer, N. Y. At the age of sixteen years he was made principal of the Kinder-

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24 THE TROCIIOS. was in charge of the government expeditions to observe the total solar eclipse of 1878 in Colorado, and that of 1883 in the South Pacific Ocean. He is the author of various astronomical memoirs, published in the scientific journals, annals of the naval observatory, etc., and is a member of various scientific societies. The degree of 13. S. was conferred on him in 1866, and that of M. A. in 1879. ROLAND I). IRVING, Ph. D., was born April 27, 1847, at New York City. Having received his early education at home, he entered a private school at New Brighton, Staten Island, N. Y., where he remained until entering Columbia College, in 1863. He entered the school of Mines in the same college in 1866, graduating with the degree of M. E. in 1869, and with the degree of M. A. in 1870. During the summer of 1867 he was Assistant Engineer in the Lykens Valley Colliery, Pa., and the following year was Assistant Geologist in the Ohio survey. He accepted a position as Metallurgist in the Gold Smelting Works of Greenville, N. J., in 1870, and in the same year was elected to the chair of Geology, Mining and Metallurgy in the University of Wisconsin, which was changed in 1880 to that of Geology and Mineralogy. He was Assistant State Geologist of Wisconsin between 1873 and 1879, and Expert Special Agent 10th Census, in charge of explorations on Lake Superior, during the two years following. Columbia College bestowed the degree of Doctor of Philosophy upon him in 1880. He has been United States Geologist, in charge of Division U. S. Geological Survey in North-Western States, since 1882. For four years he has been President of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences. Besides short articles on Geological subjects in the American Journal of Science, Transactions of Wisconsin Academy, and School of Mines Quarterly, he has published “ Geology of Central Wisconsin,” containing 233 pp., XIII plates, 3 atlas plates, in Geology of Wisconsin, Vol. II, in 1877; “The Mineral Resources of Wisconsin,” with map, in Trans. Am. Institute of Mining Engineers, Vol.VIII, 1880; “ Geological Structure of Northern Wisconsin,” in Geology of Wisconsin, Vol. Ill, 1880; “ Geology of the Eastern Lake Superior District,” containing 187 pp., XXII plates, VI atlas plates, in Geology of Wisconsin, Vol. Ill, 1880; “ Crystalline Rocks of the Wisconsin Valley” (in conjunction with C. R. Vanhise), containing 89 pp., IX plates, in Geology of Wisconsin,