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

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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

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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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28 THE TROCIIOS. ing courses of his Alma Mater. In 1877-8 he engaged in general engineering, with an office in Madison. He again taught Engineering and Mathematics in the University in 1878, since which time he has remained there, receiving the Professorship of Engineering in 1879. Prof. Conover has been City Surveyor of Madison for the years 1882-3-4. In 1874-5 Professors Conover and Nicodemus were the topographers of the State Geological Survey, and prepared all their atlas maps for publication. At present he is a member of the Western Society of Civil Engineers,' and is consulting engineer of the State Railroad Commission. LUCIUS HERITAGE, A. M., was born at Walworth, Wis., Dec. 21, 1848. When he was about two years old his parents moved to Mil-ton, Rock Co., Wis., where his early education was received. After he entered the Milton Academy he spent part of the year in study and part in working with his father in the manufacture of cane sugar. At the death of his mother, which occurred when he was 16 years of age, he partially abandoned the idea of getting an education, and learned the wheelwright trade, working in Milton and Janesville. He, however, again entered the Milton Academy, both as a student and an assistant teacher, and graduated in 1872. After graduating he remained in Milton Academy until 1875, when he was called to the St. Paul High School as teacher of Latin and Greek. He afterwards accepted a position in Milwaukee, where he remained until 1876. While in Milwaukee, he was offered a situation in the Whitewater Normal School, but wishing to continue his studies, did not accept it. In 1876 he went to Germany, where he spent two years, studying at Gottingen, Halle and Leipzig. When he returned he was called to the University of Wisconsin as instructor in Latin, and was made assistant Professor in 1882. In 1883 he again went to Germany, where he is continuing his studies at present. CHARLES A. VAN VELZER was born at Baldwinsville, Onondaga County, N. Y., September 2, 1851. After studying at the Academy there, he entered Cornell University 1872, and graduated in 1876, with the degree H. S. He was the college representative at the Inter-Collegiate Literary contest in New York, December, 1876, when he