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

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26 THE TROCIIOS. DAVID B. FRANKENBURGER, Ph. B., was born October 13, 1845, at St. Lawrence, Penn. His early education was received in his native place. In 1855 he came to Wisconsin, and settled in Green County. For several years he worked upon the farm, attending school during the winter months of the year. In 1864 he entered Milton Academy, and two years later entered the University of Wisconsin. After graduating in 1869, with the degree of Ph. D., he was instructor in the University for two years. In 1871 he graduated in the Law Department, and entered the practice of law in Milwaukee. He is now Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in the University of Wisconsin. His poems, entitled “ Old Home on a Rainy Day” (1878), “ The Bells that Hung at Bethlehem ” (1871), “ Our Welcome Home,” were read before the Alumni. Besides other poems, he has published “ Like Vapor it Passeth Away.” HENRY P. ARMSBY, Ph. D., was born in Northbridge, Mass., 1853. He entered the Worcester Free Institute in 1868, and graduated in 1871, receiving the degree of B. S. For one year after graduation he was assistant in Chemistry. The next two years he took a postgraduate course in Agricultural Chemistry, at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College. After acting as instructor in Natural Sciences in the Pittsburg, Mass., High School, in 1875, studied Agricultural Chemistry in the University of Leipzig, Germany. Returning thence in 1876, he was for one year assistant in Chemistry at Rutger College, N. J. In 1877-81 he was the chemist of the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station. In 1881-3 he was employed as acting Principal of the Storrs Agricultural School, at Mansfield, Conn. In the summer of 1883 he received the Professorship of Agricultural Chemistry in the State University of Wisconsin.. While at the Connecticut Experimental Station, the degree of Ph. D. was conferred on him by Yale College. Professor Armsby is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of both the Connecticut and Wisconsin Academies of Sciences. EDWARD T. OWEN, A. B., was born at Hartford, Conn., March 4, 1850. He prepared for college at the Hartford High School, and graduated at Yale College in 1872. After graduating he remained in

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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.

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-i BIOGRAPHICAL. 27 New Haven for one year, pursuing a course of English literature and history. In August of the following year he went to Gottingen, Germany, where he attended lectures on German Literature, Gothic Old German, Anglo Saxon, and History of Philosophy. After leaving Germany he went to Paris, where he attended lectures on Old French, and took up the study of French literature. He remained in Paris one year, and returned to America in 1876. In 1878 he was called to fill the position of Dr. Feuling, who was Professor of Modern Languages and Comparative Philology. He also gave instruction in Anglo Saxon. During the same year he was made Professor of French Language and Literature. While absent during the present year in Mexico he took up Spanish. EDWARD A. BIRGE, Ph. D., A. B., A. M., was born Sept. 7, 1851, at Troy, N. Y. He fitted for college in the Troy High School, and graduated from Williams College, Massachusetts, in 1S73. He then entered Harvard University, where he studied in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Natural History in 1876. He also received the degree of Master of Arts from Williams College. In 1876 he was called to the University of Wisconsin as instructor in Natural History, and was elected Professor of Zoology in 1879. In 1880 he went to Leipzig, Germany, where he remained one year, returning to the University of Wisconsin in 1881. He has published a revision of Orton’s Zoology (1882); “ Notes on Cladocera,” in Wisconsin Academy’s Transactions, Vol. IV (1878); “ Embryology of Panopaeus,” “ Biological Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University” (1883); “ Ueber die Zahl der Ganglioncellen des Froschruckenmarks,” Archiv fur Physiologie (1882), (translated in Trans. Wis. Acad., Vol. IV, 1884); “ Ueber die Reizung des Motor-ische Ganglioncellen des Ruckenmarks,” Archiv fur Physiologie, (1882) ; articles on M Entomostraca,” in the Standard Natural History (1883) . His magazine articles number about fifteen. ALLAN D. CONOVER, B. C. E., was born in Madison, Wis., 1854. He graduated at the Wisconsin State University in 1874, with the degree of B. C. E. The season of 1875 he spent in government work on the Wisconsin river. The next two years he taught in the Engineer- r