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

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CHARLES ALBERT CURTIS. HARLES ALBERT CURTIS, Captain U. S. A. Qretiredj, was born at Hallowell, Maine, October 4, 1835. He graduated from the Military College of Vermont in 1861 with the degree of B. A. He also received the same degree from Bowdoin College. During the Civil War Captain Curtis served in the Army of the Potomac and on the Rio Grand del N orteg later he was engaged in operations against hos- tile Indians in New Mexico, Colo- rado, Arizona, and California. From 1869 to 1880, Captain Curtis was detailed for duty at the Military College of Vermont, he being pre- sident of that institution during the last five years of his stay there. He was commandant of the cadets and professor of natural science at the Bishop Seabury Mission fShat- tuck Schoolj from 1880 to 1885. From 1885 to 1889, Captain Curtis acted in the same capacity at the East Florida Seminary. Captain Curtis is an author of very considerable merit. Many serial and short stories from his pen having been published by Harpers and the Century Company. ROBERT ALMER HARPER, Ph.D. OBERT ALMER HARPER, Pro- fessor of Botany, was graduated from Oberlin College in 1886 with the degree of B. A. During the school year 1888-1889, Professor Harper Was a graduate student with Professor Brooks at johns Hopkins University. He re- ceived the degree of M. A. at Oberlin in 1891 and during the same year was elected professor of botany in Lake Forest Uni- versity. Professor Harper was absent on leave in Germany from 1894 to 1896, during which time he studied with Bre- feld at Munster and Strasburger at Bonn. At the latter university Professor Harper received the degree of Doctor of Philos- ophy. Upon his conclusion of graduate work abroad, Professor Harper returned to his position at Lake Forest and came from there to the University of Wisconsin last September.

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JOHN BUTLER JOHNSON, C.E. OHN B. JOHNSON, Dean of the Col- lege of Mechanics and Engineering, was born in 1850, at Marlboro, Stark County, Ohio. He taught in the public schools of Indiana for several years and entered the University of Michigan in 1874, graduating four years later in the Civil Engineering Course. He served as a United States Assistant Engineer on the United States Lake Survey and upon the Mississippi River until 1883, when he was elected to thc position of Professor of Civil Engineering in Washington Uni- versity, St. Louis, which position he has continued to hold until elected to the position he now holds in the University of Wisconsin. While occupying his chair in Washing- ton University, Professor johnson found time to do a large amount of additional work. He engaged somewhat in consult- ing practice and designed a number of water-works and sewerage systems. For eleven years he conducted the Index Department of the journal of Engineering Societies, in which current articles of engineering interest were described. For eighteen years he was a member, and for two years chairman of the Board of Managers of that Iournalz Two volumes of the Index Notes have been republished in book form. He has also written a number of engineering works, among which are T lzcory and Practice of Snrvcying, Engineering Conlraczfs and Spccyications, and The Materials of C'ons!rncz'ion. I-Ie was a joint author with Professor F. E. Turneaure of Modern Framed Slrzcclnres, All these works have taken very high rank in engineering litera- ture, and are regarded as the best works in the language in the ir respective fields. These works and his continuous contributions to engineering periodical and society literature, including several upon the Mississippi River and its problems, have made his name known and respected in the entire English-speaking world, and even on the Continent his works are very highly regarded by the professors in the leading Engineering Schools. Professor johnsonls interest in developing the science of the strength of mater- ials led him to establish a large and well equipped testing laboratory in St. Louis as a private enterprise, and it was in this laboratory that he made some iifty-thousand tests of timber for the United States Government. Professor johnson is a member of the Insiilulion ay' Civil Engineers, London, which is the oldest and largest engineering society in the worldg of the American Socicly of Civil Engineers, of the Arnerican Society of Mechanical Engineers, and past president of the Sociczjf for inc Promotion :yt Engineering Education, besides being a member or past president of many other scientlc and technical organizations of minor importance, Z9

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BERNARD VICTOR SWENSON, ERNARD VICTOR SWENSON, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, was born in Chicago in May, 1872. He graduated from the Chicago Manual Training School in 1889 and in September of the same year he entered the University of Illinois. He took two courses, Mechanical and Elec- trical Engineering, completing them in four years During the following sum- mer he had charge of the University' of Illinois' Mechanical and Electrical Ex- lxibit at the World's Fair. In 1893, he was appointed assistant in physics at the University of Illinois, and in 1894 was instructor in Electrical Engineering there. The summer of 1894 was spent in Europe by him in study and travel. In February, 1895, he became an Associate Member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and in june, 1895, was elected to the Assistant Professorship in Electrical Engineering at the Univer- sity of Illinois, in which position he con- tinued until called to the University of Wisconsin last fall. ANDREW ALEXANDER BRUCE, LL. B. NDREW ALEXANDER BRUCE was born in 1866 among the hills of Southern India. His early education was obtained in English board- ing schools and in Bath Collegeyone of the English public schools. At the age of fifteen, he was left an orphan, and a few months later came to America. On landing at New York he found himself cast entirely upon his own resources. The next few years were passed in Minne- sota. In 1886 he entered the University of Wisconsin and was very active in many branches of college life during his collegiate course. After graduation he was employed for a time in the law department of the Wis- consin Central lines. Later he began the practice of law in Chicago, becoming prominent in the enforcement of new reform laws and in the Hull House move- ment. In 1897 he became Professor of Railroad, Constitutional, and Adminis- trative Law in the Chicago Law School. He left this position for the one he now holds, that of Assistant Professor of Law in the University of Wisconsin.