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

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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,

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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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BIOGRAPHICAL. 25 Vol. IV, 1882; “ Mineralogy and Lithology of Wisconsin ’ in Geology of Wisconsin, Vol. I, 1883; “The Copper Bearing Rocks of Lake Superior ’ containing 475 pages, XXIX plates, in U. S. Geological Survey, Vol. V, 1883; “The Copper Bearing Rocks of Lake Superior,” third Annual Report U. S. Geological Survey, 1883. FLETCHER A. PARKER was born in Ashland County, Ohio, Dec. 26, 1842. He fitted for college in Ashland, being for a time under the instruction of Lorin Andrews, who was afterwards President of Kenyon College. He attended the Northwestern University, and Western Union College, but at the close of his Junior year in 1862, enlisted as a private in the Chicago Mercantile Battery. In 1864 he was promoted to the position of First Lieutenant in the First Louisiana Heavy Artillery, a regiment organized in New Orleans to man the defenses of the city. In 1864 he resigned and, on returning to civil life, resolved to devote himself to the study of music, for which he had shown a predilection from childhood. Having received some instruction in this art in his native town and the neighboring city, Cleveland, he enrolled as a student in the Boston School of Music, and graduated in 1868, completing the course in vocal and instrumental music, and theory. After teaching a short time in Boston and Brooklyn, he returned to the West, and located at Bloomington, 111., where he remained until 1878. During his residence in Bloomington, he was absent nearly two years in Europe. Here he studied music under the celebrated teachers of Stuttgart, Germany, and for a short time filled the position of Professor of Piano in the Royal Normal Academy of Music, London, which position was offered him permanently, but declined. He was also offered a like position in his musical Alma Mater, but the position was not accepted. On returning to Bloomington, in 1875, he was appointed Dean of the College of Music, Illinois Wesleyan University. In 1878 he accepted the position of instructor in music in the University of Wisconsin, and was made Professor in 1880. Prof. Parker has been connected with others in the preparation for publication of several music books for use in Church and Sunday-school, and some years ago published several miscellaneous compositions.