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

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BIOGRAPHIES. 21 Wisconsin, in 1888. He was connected with the Wisconsin Geological Survey and prepared reports upon The Qeology of the Upper Flambeau Valley and upon The Economic Relations of Wisconsin Birds. The summer of 1,880 was spent at Johns Hopkins seaside laboratory, and that of 1882 as assistant to the U. S. Geological Survey in Northern Dakota. Mutt Geo. Brakerhoff Ransom, Passed Assistant Engineer, U. S. N., was born in East Chazy, Clinton County, N. Y., june 28, 1851. He was graduated from the Normal School at Oswego, N. Y., june 7, 1869, after having pursued the advanced English course. He was graduated from the United States Naval Academy as I1 Cadet Engineer, May go, 1874. He was promoted to the grade of Assistant Engineer in 1875, and to Passed Assistant Engineer in 1880. He was an instructor in the Steam Engineer- ing Department of the Naval Academy from 1880 to 1883. He has served nine and a half years aboard ship, having cruised upon the home, South Atlantic and Asiatic stations. His last cruise, from 1885 to 1888, was a voyage around the World. He was detailed to the University as Professor of Steam Engineering, Sept. 1, 1888, and is to remain here for three years unless otherwise ordered. David Ellsworth Spencer, B. L., Wasiborn at Berlin, VVis., Feb. 22, 1863. He was graduated from the elementary course at the State Normal School at Oshkosh, and entered the University of Wisconsin in 1882. He taught the graded school at Ironton, Wis., in 1883 and I884, but afterwards returned to the University and was graduated from the modern classical 7 course in 1887. After graduation, he attended the College of Law for one year, but was called to the University at the beginning of the present college year as instructor in Rhetoric.

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20 THE BADGER. entered the University of Wisconsin in the fall of the same year, graduating from the modern classical course in 1887. During the year of 1887-8, he taught at West Bend, Wis. At the beginning of the present college year, he came to the University as instructor in Elocution. aaa 1 joseph jastrow, Ph. D., was born at Warsaw, Polish Russia, in 1863. In 1866, he came to America, settling in Philadelphia, where he received his early education. He entered the University of Pennsylvania, from which he was graduated in 1882, with the degree, A. B. I-Ie received the degree, A. M,, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1885. In 1882, he entered the johns Hopkins University, where he took advanced courses in Psychology and Logic. During the college year of 1885-6, he was Fellow in Psychology at johns Hopkins. In june, 1886, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred upon him by the johns Hopkins University. During the spring term of 1888, he delivered course of lectures on Psy- chology in the University of Wisconsin. In june, 1888, he was called to the newly-created chair of Experimental and Comparative Psychology in the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Iastrow has published several magazine articles on Psychological subjects. Franklin H. King was born in the town of La Grange, near White- water, NVis., june 8, 1848, and until twenty years of age lived upon a farm, attending the district school during the winter. He was graduated from the Whitewater State Normal School in 1872, and in 1873, became instructor in the natural sciences in the High School, at Berlin, Wis., where he remained three years. In 1876, he entered Cornell University, remaining until 1878, when he was called to the chair of Natural Sciences in the River Falls State Normal School. This position was held until his acceptance of the. chair of Agricultural Physics in the University of F

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422 THE BADGER. FELLOWS. LOUISE M. MCMYNN, A. B.. - - N Fellow in Greek. HARRIET Tl. REMINGTON, B. L., - Fellow in German. 'lOl-IN S. ROESELER. B. L. flinglishj, , ' Fellow iD,HiStO1'j'. WALTER A. ROGERS, B. C. E., - - Fellow in Engineering. HARRY L. RUSSELL. B. S., - - b Fellow in Biology. RESIDENT GRADUATES. - - - Madison . Baraboo - Lomira. Wauwatosa Poynette. JAMES P. PAINE, B. C. E. fU. W.j, Mech. and Elec. Eng., Madison EDWARD W. SCHMIDT, A. B. qU.w.y, Greek, . Madison. FRANK sCHWA1.BA.cH, C. fCOl'IlSu,, Chemisriy and Assaying, ------ Madison. La .