University of Massachusetts Amherst - Index Yearbook (Amherst, MA)

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THE INDEX: VOL. XXX I V As professors and instructors, we have such men as Prof. Washburn, ' 78, formerly President of the Rhode Island Agricultural College ; Prof. Charles S. Phelps, for merly at Storrs, Conn., who is widely known throughout the state, especially among grangers; Prof. Horace E. Stockbridge, ' 7S, Professor of Agriculture in Florida; David P. Tenhal- low, ' 73, Professor of Botany and Vegetable Pathology at McGill University in ' Montreal ; Green, ' 79, Professor of Horticulture in the University of Minnesota; Chapin, ' 81, Professor of Biology in an Ohio University; Taft, ' 82, Professor in a college in Michigan, and Stone, ' 82, now President of Purdue University. Among our more recent graduates, E. A. White, ' 95, at the Con- necticut Agricultural College ; and R. D. Hemenway, ' 95, Director of the School of Horticulture, of Hartford, Conn., Avhich, according to the officials at Washington, has the largest and most systematically con- ducted system of school gardens in the United States, may be mentioned, and there are to be added to this list the names of Wellington, ' 73 ; Brooks, ' 75 ; Paige, ' 82 ; Stone, ' S6 ; Cooley, ' 88 ; Smith, ' 94 and Howard, ' 94, who are all now members of the Faculty of their Alma Mater. In veterinary science, we have such men as Frederick M. Osgood, ' 78, Professor and Surgeon at Harvard Veterinary School, and Charles H. Higgins, ' 94, Pathologist to the Dominion of Canada. In entomology, Charles P. Lounsbury, ' 94, who is Government Entomologist at the Cape of Good Hope, Africa; A. H. Kirkland, ' 94, Entomologist of the Bowker Fertilizer Co. ; Burges, ' 95, Assistant State Entomologist in Illinois; Harold Frost, ' 95, who is widely known as an expert in Entomology and tree pruning, and many others. In practical life, G. A. Parker, ' 7( ' ), Superintendent of Keney Park, Hartford, Conn., stands preeminently above all others in the United States as landscape gardener and park superintendent. He has not only the- best collection of park reports in the country, but has what is unquestionably the most extensive and best arranged special library of this class in the world. He constantly receives letters from all over the

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A .-lSS. ' J cm ' Sli TTS A GI-ilCUL TURAL COLLEGE The Alumni of the Massachusetts Agricultural College To attempt to give an accurate account of the work of the alumni and the various professions and vocations in which they are engaged, would require much time and far greater space than we can take in this book ; but the extent and scope of their work can, perhaps, be shown to some extent by grouping them in classes and mentioning some of the leaders in each class. In professional life, in the practice of law, some of our alumni have achieved great prominence ; for instance, James H. Webb, ' 73, of New Haven, is a man of great influence in the state of Connecticut and one who, on the Constitutional Convention of last year, had, perhaps, greater influence than any other. He is not only a noted attorney, but an instructor of Law at Yale Law School. Lemuel Holmes, ' 72, of New Bedford, is Judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court and Judge Lyman, of Northampton, Mass., is our instructor in Rural Law at the College, as well as judge. A. AV. Dickinson, ' 74, who died a few years since was well known in the courts of New Jersey. Among our alumni prominent in the medical profession, are Dr. Joseph E. Root, ' 76, of Hartford, Conn., who is a man noted as a physician, surgeon, and specialist in nose and throat troubles, many persons coming long distances for treatment in his specialty. He is Secretary of the Hartford Medical Association and also a member of the Board of Health, has written several books, and holds a high social position. Dr. Joseph N. Hall ' 78, Denver Col., is a noted specialist in heart troubles and Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the University of Colorado. Dr. John A. Cutter, of New York City, also deserves mention.

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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE world and is consulted on subjects in his line by the leading specialists all over the United States and Canada. He is State Park Commis- sioner and holds several positions in the American Park and Outdoor Art Association, as well as in other associations for the advancement of park work. Dr. Edward W. Allen, ' 85, Vice-Director of the Office of Experiment Stations, Washington, D. C, is one of our alumni who is well known all over the United States, at least among experiment station workers; Charles S. Plum, ' 82, Director of the experiment station of Purdue University; Wheeler, ' 87, Director of the Rhode Island Experi- ment Station; Hills, ' 81, Director of the Vermont Experiment Station; Lindsey, ' 83, Chemist at the Hatch Station at Amherst and others. William H. Bowker, ' 71, President of the Bowker Fertilizer Company, has revolutionized the fertilizer business. He is known the world over. Among our prominent journalists, Herbert Myrick, ' 82, stands at the head as an editor of agricultural papers and magazines. He is also a publisher and author. Daniel G. Hitchcock is editor and proprietor of the Warren Herald. Among the prominent florists, are E. D. Shaw, ' 72, and W. R. Pierson, ' 01, Cromwell, Conn., who with his father has the largest floral establishment in New England. We have no space even to mention the names of the successful civil engineers, chemists, druggists, mechanics, electricians, dentists, teachers and superintendents, traveling men, ministers, business men, manu- facturers, seedmen, farmers and market gardeners, stock raisers, creamery managers, gardeners, horticulturalists, landscape architects and gardeners, book keepers and farm superintendents. Even a brief account of them all would fill a volume. In fact, the scope of the work that is being done by our alumni is equal to that of any other college, even though older, and each alumnus who has gone out from the college is, in his sphere, to a greater or less extent, a center and an advertise- ment for the Massachusetts Agricultural College. This fact among our alumni can be shown no better than by the statement that, out of thir-