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

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BIOllR.MMIIKS. 21 Bio( rapl7ies of T ember5 of tl e paeulty ttjat Ipaue eofr e to tt e Uoiuersity sirjee i )e publicatior) of tl e last Badijer. . Cl.ARA K. S. Bai.I.aru was born of English parents in Belfast, Ireland, Aug. 27, 1858. The family moved to Maidstone, Kent, where they lived till ISTi), when they came to this country. Miss Ballard was educated in the public schools of Boston, studied three years at the New England Conservatory of Music, attended the acad- emy at Peacham, Vermont, and afterwards studied French and Latin at the Berlitz School of Languages, Boston; entered the Allen Gym- nasium in 1886, and was graduated from the Normal course in 1889. In the fall of the same year she came to Madison and established a gymnasium in connection with the University at Ladies ' Hall, and at the beginning of the present year was elected Instructor of Gym- nastics in the L niversitv of Wisconsin. Mr. Craig was born in 1868 in the countr - village of Russell, Russell Co., Ontario, being the youngest son of W ' m. Craig, E.x. M. P. The surroundings of his boyhood developed in him a strong love for the study of natural science. After having spent a year at Kemptville High School, he attended the Ontario Agricultural Col- lege, in 1887 became an associate of that institution, and a year later graduated from the L niversity of Toronto, obtaining the de- gree of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (B. S. A.). Before he left college he was appointed resident editor of .the Canadian Live Stock Journal, and shortly afterwards assumed the position of man- aging editor. After two years of editorial work he resigned to ac- cept the professorship he now holds.

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20 THE BADGER. janitors. PATRICK K. WALSH, University Hall. JAMES M. ASHBY, Ladies ' Hall. JAMES R. RIDER, Science Hall. TIMOTHY rURCELL, Library Hall. JOHN JONES, Agricultural Hall. JOHN DOESCHER, Astronomical Observatory. JOHN CONOHAN, Machine Shop. HENRY SCHOFIELD, North Hall. JOHN CONOHAN, Jr., Chemical Labratory. LUCIUS LAWRENCE, University Carpenter. Wk.vkmwww TW WW. W . ' SS Jgf TOWJ SSllffia

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22 THE BADGER. Charles Homer Haskins is a native of Meadville, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of Johns Hopkins Universit}- in the class of 1887. F rom 1887 to lS9t) he was a graduate student at that institution, holding from 1888 to l81tU the position of Instructor in History, and receiving in 1890 the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Besides his doctor ' s dissertation, which is to be published in the current volume of the papers of the American Historical Association, Dr. Haskins has contributed to the Revue Historique and the publications of the Bureau of Education. A. A. Knowlton was born in Boston, Mass., Jan. 4, J 859. His father lost his life in the Civil War; and his mother dying soon after her husband ' s death, he was thrown upon the world at a very early age. Until his seventeenth year he worked on a farm, and up to that time was self-taught. After teaching school and practicing land surveying, he entered Phillips Exeter Academ -, taking the full four years ' course and graduating in 1882. In the autumn of that year he entered Bowdoin College, from which he graduated in 1880. Having taught at Providence, R. I., for two years, he went abroad for further study, and after an extended tour on the Continent, ma- triculated at the University of Berlin, where he remained one year, pursuing studies in Mediaeval History, Political Science, and Litera- ture, with special work in German Educational Methods. In the summer of ' 89 he matriculated at Leipzig, carrying on the same line of work as at Berlin. In August of 1890 he took his degree of Ph. D., after which he returned to America. iLcC LA - A-.V- S ' - ' VY , Edw. RD Kremers was born in Milwaukee, F eb. 23, 18(i4:. L p to ' 79 he attended the public schools of that city, after which he spent three years at the college of the Reformed Church, near She- boygan, Wis. In the autumn of 1884 he entered the junior class at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. The next year he came to Madison, where he finished his course and graduated in 1886. He then held the position of assistant in the Pharmaceutical Department for one year; in 1887 he entered the General Science Course, from