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

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'Qs THE UN1V.15Rsf7'Y 'BADGER pp gp yy 23 Civil Engineering there, he went to Corncll University to study under Professor Anthony, then at the head of the departments of Physics and Electrical Engineering. He remained at Cornell University two years and was elected successively to the positions of Fellow and Instructor in Electrical Engineering. During this time he entered with Prof. Anthony into experiments with alternating current motors. These experiments con- tinued during later years and developed interesting results. Leaving Cornell University in 1887, with two others he organized the Western Engineering Company of Lincoln, Nebraska, which carried out the installa- tion of several important electric light and railway plants. One of the earliest electric plants supplying power to large motors was installed by him during this time. The company finally sold its interests to the Edison Electric Company, and Prof. Jackson became Assistant Chief Engineer of the Sprague Electric Railway and NIotor Company which was then related to the Edison interests. I-Ie remained in the employ of the Edison interests as Engineer until his appointment in 1891 to the chair of Electrical Engineering which he now occu- pies in the University of VVisconsin. He is a member of various engineering societies, the author of a text- book ondynamo construction, and is also a contributor to numerous technical journals and society pro- ceedings. 0 Ilmilliilltll HYHOII 'lb6l1lZQ. ILLIAM ARNON HENRY was born june 16, 1850, at Norwalk, Ohio. He was a student in the classical department of the Ohio Wesleyan University from 1869-70, and had charge of the public schools of New Haven, Indiana, from 1871-2, and those of Boulder, Colorado, from 187 3-6. He was grad- uated from Cornell University in 1880, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Agriculture, and in the same year he was appointed Professor of Botany and Agriculture in the University of Wiscoiisiii. Relinquishing the botanical instruction in 1882, he became Professor of Agriculture. In 1881, by the direction of the legislature, he conducted investigations in the manufacture of sugar from sorghum cane. Upon the establishment of the Wisconsiii Experimental Station in 1883, Professor Henry was made its director. In 1890 he was elected Dean of the College of Agriculture.

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22 - THE UNIVERSITY 'BADGER - '95 His frequent contributions to leading magazines and journals, his establishment of numerous economic societies and his connection with them show him to be an earnest executor as yvell as an illustrious ad- visor. fMore than any other man he was identified with the formation of the American Economic Association in 1885. Witli several others he established the American Branch of the Christian Social Union, an organiza- tion to encourage the study of social science, especially among the clergy and theological students. He has taken an active part in the Chautauqua movementg is the director of the School of Political Economy in the Chautauqua College of Liberal Arts, and has lectured for several years at the annual summer assembliesfj All his Work proves him to be a most thorough student of practical affairs. In his writings his clear style and independent thought, shovving broad experience and careful investigation, convince his readers that truth has been his guide and vvin for him the confidence of the great thinkers of the day. Through the influence of Dr. Ely the Department of Economics, Political Science and History has become one of the most pop- ular in our institution, attended by graduate students, not only from neighboring universities, but also by many from the East and South. Though established only txvo years ago, the school shoxvs its progress in its instructional force and its rapidly increasing library. Through the efforts of their director, the students of this department have been privileged to listen to eminent lecturers on special phases of the science. Dr. Ely's ability as an executor and educator has been of inestimable benefit to the entire institution, and by his presence and untiring energy he has made the Department of Economics, Political Science and History one of its chief strongholds. ' Eugalb Gialeb 3achson. UGALD CALEB JACKSON, Professor of Electrical Engineering, was born of Quaker parents, in 1865, at Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. He received his early education in the common schools of his native to xvn. Later he entered the Hill School at Pottstown, Pennsylvania, where he was prepared for the Pennsyl- vania State College, in which his father occupied the chair of Mathematics. After completing the course in

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24 THE UNIVERSITY 'BADGER 795 The College of Agriculture embraces three distinct lines of effort, Hrst, agricultural scientific investigation conducted under the auspices of the Experiment Station, second, teaching agricultural science and practice to those who come to the University for instructiong and, third, the carrying of instruction to the farmers, through the medium of the Farmers' Institutes. Our Experiment Station issues an annual report and quarterly bulletins. Of the former 15,000 copies are printed annually, while the editions of the latter consist of 10,000 copies. Nine annual reports and thirty-seven bulletins have now been issued by the Experiment Station. Professor Henry is staff correspondent of the Breeders' Gazette, Chicago, his contributions being mainly on stock feeding. In the volume entitled Special Report on the Diseases of Cattle and Cattle Feeding, one of Secretary Rusk's last publications, the subject of Cattle Feeding was prepared by Professor Henry. Beware 1k1'en1ers. . DWARD KREMERS, Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, was born at Milwaukee, February 23, 1864. He attended the public schools of Nlilwaukee until 1879 3 afterward spending three years at the College of the Reformed Church, near Sheboygan, Wfis. In 1884 he entered the Junior class in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and in the following year came to the University of lkfisconsin, where he was graduated from the Pharmaceutical Department in 1886. He held the position of assistant in that Department until 1887, when he entered the General Science Course, Hnishing in 1888. In the same year he went to Germany and matriculated at the University of Bonn. Prom 1889-1890 he studied at Gottingen, where he took his de- gree of Ph. D. Returning to the University of Wiscoiisin in 1890 he took charge of the Pharmaceutical Lab- oratory, and is novv at the head of the School of Pharmacy.