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 1857-1895. 
 
 ViLLiAH ti. Wilder, Editor. 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 
 
 BLOOMINGTON. ILL. 
 1895. 
 
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 Preface. 
 
 In the annual catalogue published in April. 1894, it was stated that 
 during the summer months a complete Alumni Record of the Illinois 
 Wesleyan University would be published. The plan and scope of the 
 publication has been enlarged to an illustrated historical sketch of the 
 organization and a record of its alumni. To make the publication of 
 interest and of permanent value, extended correspondence, great 
 patience, and an amount of labor astonishing to the uninitiated were nec- 
 essary. The summer vacation passed before the materials were all 
 gathered. With other duties it was impossible to prosecute the work 
 during the collegiate year; hence the delay, which is perhaps justified by 
 the wider scope and more extended information furnished. Much credit 
 is due Prof. M. P. Lackland, who has materially aided in securing infor- 
 mation from the alumni. 
 
 The object of the book is manifold : 
 
 To put essential data relating to the birth and evolution of the Uni- 
 versity in permanent form while many of the chief actors are yet living to 
 verify the record. Forty-two years have now passed since the first 
 charter was granted, and in a short time it would be impossible to secure 
 the most reliable data concerning some of the most potent influences 
 which have contributed to the founding and endowment of the institution. 
 
 To furnish the alumni, now found in the various professions and vo- 
 cations in almost every country in the world, knowledge of their Alma 
 Mater and growing brotherhood, and thereby foster a filial and fraternal 
 spirit. 
 
 To answer the legitimate demands for information concerning the 
 men and women who have completed its courses of study and taken 
 its degrees. As a tree is known by its fruit, so educational institutions 
 are known. The reader may herein find data for a rational idea of the 
 character and value of the products of the institution. He should bear 
 in mind, however, that values are to be found in qualities rather than 
 in quantities. 
 
 To interest others in the institution in order that the demands now 
 
 upon it may be fully met and its sphere of usefulness enlarged. Investi- 
 gation will show that the Illinois Wesleyan University has all the condi- 
 tions to warrant largest gifts for buildings, scholarships and endowments. 
 Its record is a most honorable one. It has kept within its means, and 
 at the same time held to a high standard of scholarship. It is most 
 favorably situated in the geographical center of Illinois and of its patron- 
 izing conferences, the Central and the Illinois, in which are ninety-two 
 thousand, one hundred forty-two communicants of the church which 
 controls its property. It has, therefore, a large and devoted constitu- 
 ency, which is also becoming wealthy, to perpetually advance its interests. 
 This fact alone is a guaranty that the funds of the university will be 
 conscientiously and economically used. Its experimental laboratories 
 are equal to the largest demands of to-day. Its buildings are good, 
 though inadequate to furnish accommodations for resident students nov/ 
 in the department of Letters. Its outstanding obligations are insignifi- 
 cant. Its interest bearing endowment is small, but constantly increas- 
 ing, while its prospective endowment has rapidly increased within the 
 last few years. Its most urgent demands to-day are for a new science 
 hall, a new hall for a ladies' home, and a larger endowment. Never was 
 the outlook for the growth of the institution so bright as at this hour. 
 The attendance in the various colleges has steadily increased during the 
 seven years past, one thousand, six hundred twenty-five students having 
 been catalogued for the year 1894-95. 
 
 We send the book on its mission hoping that it may receive chari- 
 table consideration and some favor among the thousands of persons who 
 have received instruction in the halls of the Illinois Wesleyan University, 
 and of others who have contributed to its success. 
 
 September 4. 
 1895. 
 
Object of the Founders. 
 
 "The object of this institution shall be to provide a ryistem of educa'ion 
 adapted to the wants of the country, and based upon the system of religion and 
 morality revealed in the Scriptures." Art. 3. Constitution of Illinois Wesleyan Uni- 
 ivrsily. adopted December 18. 1850. 
 
 The object of the founders of the college was to provide for the 
 highest education of such youth as should choose to come under its in- 
 fluence. They sought not for products impractical and useless, living 
 encyclopedias, the result of a system of education whose end is informa- 
 tion and whose method is simply the communication of positive knowl- 
 edge ; nor for those products of the schools who are mere instruments 
 for other men. incapable of independent thought or action, the results of 
 a system whose end is ••the practical" affairs of life; they sought rather 
 the products of a system whose end is the harmonious development of 
 the individual being in its entirety. Since "the finest fruit the earth 
 holds up to its Maker is a finished man," character was the end in view. 
 " Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things 
 in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous." 
 
 Though the state has made provision for higher education for a 
 portion of its youth, the duty of the Christian people to found and richly 
 endow such colleges for the highest education is not less, but rather 
 greater, because of that fact. It is here contended that the state has 
 not yet undertaken to furnish the highest education, and, from the nature 
 of education and the constitutions under which it operates, it may never 
 
 assume such prerogative. The highest is not reached in perfect physi- 
 cal and intellectual development, since the ethical and religious sides of 
 man's nature lie as certainly in the field of education as do the physical 
 and the intellectual. The system that finds no place for the ethical and 
 religious even in ••the practical" is partial or imperfect, and, by so much, 
 is unscientific. The highest and the best things even for ••the practical," 
 purity of thought and righteousness of life, are not furnished in secu- 
 larism or pure intellectualism. 
 
 The highest education must meet the postulates of man's ethical 
 and religious nature as perfectly as those of his intellectual. This ne- 
 cessitates the consideration of the nature of the Ground of the universe ; 
 its claims upon man; man's nature; and his relation to the Ground of 
 the universe. The only foundation for ethics is the trinity of beliefs, 
 God, freedom and immortality. All the assurances from skepticism that 
 we may deny God, freedom and immortality, and yet save morality and 
 religion to human society are groundless. Any so called system of ethics 
 without God as the fundamental reality is as baseless as a science of 
 psychology without a soul. Morals as certainly depend upon God as 
 reason depends upon God. A being immutable in nature is the only 
 adequate foundation for moral law. Conscience is not illusive, and its 
 authority is absolute. To deny belief in God and immortality is to leave 
 ethics without a rational ground, while to prate about the ethical in 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 nature and deny the authority of conscience is merest prattle. The 
 phenomena of the moral and religious consciousness cannot be ignored 
 in a system of complete education. 
 
 The air of the school of highest instruction should not be purely 
 secular; its ideal should be the ideal of perfect manhood after the mode 
 of Jesus of Nazareth. Instruction in science, in letters, in history and 
 in philosophy should be given from the standpoint of the fundamental 
 ideas of the Christian religion. The duty of the church to establish 
 and richly endow institutions of highest grade is imperative to save sci- 
 entific thought from materialism, philosophy from skepticism, and moral- 
 ity to the world. The insidious persuasive influences of materialism 
 have already provoked even public-school men to send forth strong and 
 brave apologies for spirituality. The trend of materialism must be 
 strong to evoke such voices in contending that there is a spirit in man. 
 
 How much more should the organizations of Christian people whose 
 faith made the republic possible be awake; for it is only through them 
 that philosophy with God as its postulate, science with God as its con- 
 clusion, and culture with religion as its culmination, will underlie our 
 thinking, permeate our teaching and guide our living. In the language 
 of Hon. W. E. Gladstone. "It is supremacy, not precedence, that we 
 ask for the Bible; it is contrast, as well as resemblance, that we must 
 feel compelled to insist on. The Bible is stamped with specialty 
 of origin, and an immeasurable distance separates it from all com- 
 petitors." 
 
 While the university was placed under the control of the Methodist 
 Episcopal Church, it was intended that it should be positively and 
 broadly Christian rather than purely secular or sectarian. Such has 
 been and is its character. 
 
History of tme Corporation. 
 
 [Prepared in part by Judge Owen T. 
 
 As early as 1849 some of the public spirited citizens of central Illi- 
 nois began the agitation of establishing a college at Bloomington. The 
 first record of such agitation found by the compiler is in the minutes of 
 the Illinois conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the year 
 ending September. 1849. It is simply a record that Rev. John S. Bar- 
 ger and Rev. Thos. A. McGee were appointed a committee to confer 
 with the citizens of Bloomington. Illinois, on the subject of a seminary 
 of learning at that place. 
 
 It is impossible to identify the first meeting held with a view to the 
 organization of the university, but a meeting was held in Bloomington, 
 December 2, 1850, at which the committee appointed by the Confer- 
 ence was doubtless present, and another in the same place December 1 1 , 
 1850, at which time the organization was completed. The Constitution 
 was adopted December 18, 1850. The minutes of the Illinois confer- 
 ence for 1850 show that Peter Cartwright, D. D.. John S. Barger, 
 W. D. R. Trotter, A. M., J. C. Rucker and V/. J. Newman were ap- 
 pointed by the conference as a committee to visit the Illinois University 
 at Bloomington. 
 
 The Illinois conference com.mittee on education of that year re- 
 ported on the Preparatory Department of the Illinois Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity. Rev. Reuben Andrus, Principal. This report declares that •• no 
 
 Reeves, Deain of Law School.] 
 
 people are better furnished with good literary institutions than those in 
 Illinois, and none are better able to educate their children; our duties 
 and interests both prompt to the improvement of our opportunities." 
 
 At that time the Methodists of Illinois Conference had organized 
 Illinois Female College at Jacksonville, seminaries at Georgetown and 
 at Paris, Waynesville Academy at Waynesville, and very soon after- 
 wards started seminaries at Danville, Marshall and Quincy. 
 
 The system of seminary schools had been a necessity because of 
 the want of public schools, but upon the development of the public 
 school system of the state, it became the policy of the church to estab- 
 lish colleges. That they were fully awake to their responsibility and 
 duties is indicated from their published reports. 
 
 A paragraph taken from the report on education to the conference 
 held at Springfield in 1854 is of interest: 
 
 "The Methodist Church, in the west and south-west, stands in a 
 position of incalculable responsiblity to the great wave of population 
 overspreading the valley of the Mississippi. Destiny seems to point out 
 this valley as the depository of the great heart of the nation. From 
 this center mighty pulsations, for good or evil, must in future flow, 
 which shall not only .affect the fortunes of the republic, but reach in 
 their influence, other and distant nations of the earth. The advances 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 herein reported which are being made by the Methodists on the subject 
 of education in the bounds of the IIHnois Conference, flatter the idea 
 that, in so far as our section of the church is concerned and especially 
 the division of it embraced in the Illinois Conference, cheering success 
 will attend our future efforts to contribute our share towards the general 
 education of the great masses. In addition to all other motives con- 
 spiring to lead us forward in this noble work, patriotism or the love of 
 country is not the least. The nature of our constitutions and laws de- 
 mands it. The tenure and price of our liberties are involved in it. The 
 sovereignty invested in the whole people imperiously requires it; and 
 recent events, as they have been connected with the civil questions 
 which have agitated the nation, some of which questions have sprung 
 from the tide of foreign emigration setting in upon American soil, call 
 loudly for the work of education to go forward — the education of nothing 
 less than the whole American mind: an education, too, that shall be 
 American in all its essential principles." Illinois Conference Minutes, 
 1854. 
 
 At the annual meeting of the trustees in July, 1851. Rev. William 
 Goodfellow and Rev. Reuben Andrus were elected professors, and Rev. 
 Erastus Wentworth was elected president. Dr. Wentworth did not 
 accept, but Goodfellow and Andrus conducted the school, beginning in 
 September. 1851. 
 
 At the annual meeting in July, 1852. Rev. John Dempster was 
 elected president of the university, and while his name remained as 
 president for two years, he never performed any of the duties of the 
 office, the presidency of Garrett Biblical Institute having been tendered 
 him. which he accepted. At the same meeting. Goodfellow was elected 
 professor for another year, but Andrus declined a re-election. Rev. 
 C. W. Sears was elected to a professorship at this time, and he and the 
 
 Rev. Mr. Goodfellow conducted the school the next year, with Mr. J. W. 
 Sheefy as principal of the primary department. 
 
 At the session of the legislature held in January and February. 
 
 1853. the university received a special charter, which vested the owner- 
 ship and control of the institution in the Illinois Annual Conference of 
 the Methodist Episcopal Church — its first organization being under the 
 general incorporation statute. 
 
 Soon after the organization of the first Board of Trustees, the 
 question of a site for the university buildings began to be discussed, and 
 after a number of proposals had been made, a ten-acre lot lying north 
 of the Chicago & Alton Railroad was chosen, and a deed received for 
 the same from James Allin. Later, but not until a contract had been 
 let for a building and the materials for the same had been collected on 
 the ground, the location proved so unsatisfactory that proposals were in- 
 vited for another site, and on the 24th day of June. 1854, the present 
 site was selected ; the building material collected on the Ailin lot was 
 removed to the present site, and the present preparatory building was 
 erected. At the close of the school year in June. 1854. Prof. Sears re- 
 tired, and the school was continued under Prof. Goodfellow. with Mr. 
 Lyman Shaffer as assistant, until the close of the fall term December 12. 
 
 1854. when the school work was suspended. About this time the trus- 
 tees elected Rev. Peter Akers. D. D.. to the presidency of the univer- 
 sity, but he never accepted the office. Dr. Akers declined because an 
 endowment of $15,000 was not raised to endow the President's chair. 
 In August, 1855, Rev. C. W. Sears was elected president, and under 
 his management the school was again opened October 1. 1855. and was 
 continued to July. 1856. when President Sears resigned and the trustees 
 decided to suspend the school until a sufficient sum could be raised to 
 pay the indebtedness which they had already incurred. 
 
iMCOKPORATIOrS. 
 
 AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT INCORPORATING ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 Section 
 
 Incorpo- 
 rators. 
 
 Name and 
 Style. 
 
 Number of 
 Tniatees. 
 
 Section 
 Objects. 
 Section 
 
 Visiting 
 Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 I. Be it enacted by the People of the Stale of lllincis. represented in 
 the General Assembly, that James Allin. J. E. McClun. Linus Graves. 
 Thomas O. Rogers. H. H. Fell. Ezekial Thomas. W. H. Allin. Isaac 
 Funk. John Moon. Jesse W. Fell. C. D. James 5ilas Waters. C. P. 
 Merriman. David Trimmer. John Magoun. James Miller. John W. 
 Ewing. Jesse Birch. A. Goddard. W. C. Hobbs. David Davis. Peter 
 Cartwright. John S. Barger and Henry Coleman, and their successors. 
 be and are hereby created a body corporate and politic, by the name 
 and style of '-The Trustees of the Wesleyan University." and ty that 
 style and name to remain and have perpetual succession. The univer- 
 sity shall remain at or near the city of Eloomington. in the county of 
 McLean, and the number of trustees shall not exceed twenty-four (24). 
 exclusive of the president, principal or presiding officer of the college. 
 who shall be. ex officio, a member of the Board of Trustees: Provided. 
 however, that no other professor or instructor shall be a member of 
 said board. For the present the aforesaid individuals shall constitute the 
 Board of Trustees. 
 
 n. The object of said corporation shall be the promotion of the gen- 
 eral interest of education, and to qualify young men to engage in the 
 several employments and professions of society, and to discharge hon- 
 orably and usefully the various duties of life. 
 
 III. Said university shall be under the patronage of the lllincis Annual 
 Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which shall have the 
 privilege of annually appointing a visiting committee consisting of 
 seven, who shall have a seat with the Board of Trustees in the transac- 
 tions of business. And any other annual conference that shall unite in 
 the patronage of said institution shall have the same privilege ; Provided 
 the whole number of visitors so appointed shall not exceed twelve : and 
 
 Term of 
 Office. 
 
 provided, also, there shall be a quorum of the regular trustees exclusive 
 of said visiting committee or committees, as the ca3e may be. in all 
 meetings of the Board of Trustees. 
 
 Sectio.n IV. Said trustees, a* their first meeti.ng, as provided for in the 14th sec- 
 tion of this act. shall, by lot. divide themselves into three classes of 
 eight trustees each, and the the term of office for the first, second and 
 third classes shall be one, two and three years, respectively, after the 
 day of such classification. 
 
 At the expiration of the term of office of any of said classes, the re- 
 maining trustees then in office, or a majority of them, shall elect 
 trustees equal in number to the outgoing trustees, and who shall hold 
 their office for three years from and after their election, and until their 
 successors shall be elected and qualified; Provided, always, that any 
 person or persons who may have been or shall be a trustee of said in- 
 stitution shall be eligible to election if any vacancy shall occur in said 
 Board of Trustees, ty removal or death or refusal to act or resignation, 
 said trustees shall have power, at any regular meeting, of filling said 
 vacancy by electing a person or persons to serve out the unexpired 
 term or terms, as the case may be. 
 Section V. The corporate powers hereby bestowed shall be such only as shall 
 be essential or useful in the attainment of the object hereinbefore speci- 
 fied, and such as are usually conferred on bodies corporate, to-wit, to 
 have perpetual succe.ssion, to make contracts, to sue and to be sued, to 
 plead and to be impleaded, to grant and receive by its corporate name, 
 and to do all other acts a.s natural persons may; to accept and acquire. 
 
 Corporate in all lawful ways to use, employ, manage and dispose of such property. 
 
 Powers. ^^^ ^11 moneys belonging to said corporation, in such manner as shall 
 
 seem to the trustees best adapted to promote the objects aforesaid; to 
 
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ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 have a common seal, and to alter or change the same, and to make 
 such by-laws as are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of 
 the United States and this state, and to confer on such persons as may 
 be considered worthy such academical or honoraiy degrees as are usual- 
 ly conferred by similar institutions. 
 Section VI. The trustees of said unisersity shall have authority from time to 
 time to prescribe and regulate the course of studies to be pursued in 
 said university, and in the preparatory department attached thereto ; to 
 fix the rate of tuition, room rent and other necessary expense: to ap- 
 point instructors and such other officers and agents as may be needed 
 in the management of the concerns of the institution, to define their 
 powers, duties and employments, to fix their compensation, to displace 
 or remove either of the instructors, officers and agents, or all of them. 
 
 . , as said trustees shall deem the interest of said University requires, to 
 
 Authority ■' ^ 
 
 of fill all vacancies among said instructors, officers and agents, to erect 
 
 rus ees. ng^gs^ai-y buildings, to purchase books, chemical and philosophical 
 apparatus, and other suitable means of instruction, to put in operation 
 if deemed advisable a system of manual labor for the purpose of pro- 
 moting the health of the students and lessening the expenses of educa- 
 tion, to make rules for general management of the affairs of the 
 institution, and for the regulation and conduct of the students, and to 
 add as the ability of the corporation may justify, and the interest of the 
 community shall require, additional departments for the study of the 
 sciences, as applied to agriculture and the arts, or of any or all of 
 the liberal professions. 
 
 Section Vll. If any trustee shall be chosen president of the university his 
 former place as trustee shall be considered vacant and his place filled 
 by the remaining trustees for the time being: shall have power to re- 
 move any trustee from office for any dishonorable or criminal conduct; 
 
 Q„. provided that no such removal shall take place without giving to such 
 
 Vacated trustee notice of the charges exhibited against him. and an oppor- 
 
 and tunity offered him to defend himself before the board, nor unless two- 
 
 D 1 thirds of the whole number of trustees for the time beinp shall concur 
 
 Removal. ° 
 
 in such removal. The trustees for the time being, in order to have 
 perpetual succession, shall have power, as often as a trustee shall be 
 removed from office, die. resign, refuse to act or remove out of the 
 
 state, to appoint a resident of this state to fill the vacancy in the Board 
 of Trustees occasioned by such removal from office, death, refusal to 
 act. resignation or removal from the state. 
 Section VIll. The trustees shall faithfully apply all funds collected by them, 
 according to the best of their judgment, in erecting suitable buildings. 
 in supporting the necessary instructors, officers and agents, in procur- 
 ing maps, charts, globes, philosophical, chemical and other apparatus 
 necessary to aid in the promotion of sound learning in the institution: 
 provided that in case any donation, devise or bequest, shall be made 
 
 Funds- 
 How 
 
 for particular purposes accordant with the object of the institution. 
 
 Applied, and the trustees shall accept the same, every such donation, devise ^r 
 
 bequest shall be applied in conformity with the express condition of the 
 
 donors or devisors: Provided, also, that lands so donated or devised 
 
 shall be sold or disposed of as required by the eleventh section of 
 
 this act. 
 
 Section IX. The treasurer of said university always, and all other agents 
 
 when required by the trustees, before entering upon the duties of their 
 
 appointments shall give bond respectively for the security of the corpo- 
 
 T ration, in such penal sum. and with such securities as the Board of 
 
 Treasurer ^ 
 
 Etc. Trustees shall approve : and all process against such corporation shall 
 
 Bond, be by summons, and the service of the same shall be by leaving an 
 
 attested copy with the treasurer of the college at least thirty days before 
 
 the return day thereof. 
 
 Section X. The said university and its preparatory department shall be open 
 
 Ocen to *° ^" denominations of Christians, and the profession of any particular 
 
 All De- religious faith shall not be required of those who become students. All 
 
 lions!" persons, however, may be suspended or expelled from said institution 
 
 whose habits are idle or vicious, or whose moral character is bad. 
 
 Section XI, The lands, tenements and hereditaments to be held in perpetuity 
 
 by virtue of this act by said institution, shall not exceed six hundred 
 
 and forty acres: provided, however, that if the donations, grants or 
 
 devises in land shall from time to time be made to said corporation 
 
 over and above said six hundred and forty acres which may be held 
 
 o . P _ in perpetuity, the same may be received and held by said corporation 
 
 tate for the period of ten years from the date of every such donation, grant 
 
 tions. or devise, at the end of which time, if the said lands over and above 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 Quorum. 
 
 the six hundred and forty acres shall not have teen sold, then and in 
 that case the said lands so donated granted or devised shall revert to 
 the donor, grantor or the heirs of the devisor of the same. 
 Section XIl. Eight trustees shall be sufficient to constitute a quorum for the 
 transaction of business, and should there be at any time an insufficient 
 number for a quorum they shall have power to adjourn from day to 
 day. or for any longer period, until a quorum shall be bad. It shall be 
 lawful for the president of the Board, any three of the trustees, or a 
 majority of the professors of the the institution for the time being, to 
 call at any time a meeting of the Board of Trustees whenever he or 
 they, as the case may be. may deem it expedient, by giving at least 
 three days" notice of such meeting by personal service or by publication 
 in some newspaper published in the county. 
 Section XIII. The acts and proceedings of the trustees of the Illinois Wesleyan 
 University, heretofore had under the general law authorizing the incor- 
 poration of the institutions of learning be. and the same are hereby 
 legalized; and the individuals designated in the first section of this act 
 Acts Lc- ^^^ hereby constituted the successors to the board heretofore organized 
 ^alized. under said general law. and are authorized and required to take the full 
 and entire management of all things pertaining to the future mainte- 
 nance and support of said institution. 
 Section XIV. The first meeting of said trustees under this charter shall be 
 held in Bloomington. on the first Wednesday in March next, or at any 
 time thereafter on a day fixed or agreed upon in the manner pointed 
 Meeting. Out in the preceding section, and all subsequent regular meetings of 
 said Board shall be held at such stated periods as said trustees, in their 
 discretion, may from time to time by their by-laws and regulations de- 
 termine. 
 
 Section XV. This act shall be deemed a public act. and shall be in force 
 
 from and after its passage. 
 Approued February 12, 1853. 
 
 AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE ILLI- 
 NOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. APPROVED FEBRUARY 12. 1853. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in 
 General Assembly, that the first section of the act entitled An Act to In- 
 corporate the Illinois Wesleyan University, approved February 12.1853, 
 
 Body Cor- j^g ^^ amended that the trustees therein named and their successors in 
 porate. 
 
 office, shall be a body corporate and politic by the name and style of 
 
 "The Trustees of the Illinois Wesleyan University." 
 
 Section II. Be it further enacted that sections third and fourth of said act be 
 
 so amended that said university shall be under the patronage of the 
 
 Election Illinois and Peoria (now Central Illinois) Annaal Conferences of the 
 
 Trustees Methodist Episcopal Church, and such other annual conferences of said 
 
 Confer- ^^''^''^h as shall hereafter unite in the patronage of said university ; and 
 
 ence. that the trustees of said university shall hereafter be elected by said 
 
 Nomina- conferences electing an equal number of trustees: and that the joint 
 
 tion of visiting committee appointed by said conferences shall have the right 
 President. . , . , ,..,.., . , . , . 
 
 to nominate the president of said university, but no vote in his election. 
 
 Section III. So much of said act of February 12. 1853 as conflicts with this 
 
 act is hereby repealed. 
 
 Section IV. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved January 30. 1857. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 13 
 
 Oliver 5. Munsell. 
 
 President of the Illinois Wesleyan 
 University. 1857-73. 
 
 The Rev. Oliver Spencer Munsell. 
 A. M.. D. D.. son of Leander and Han- 
 nah Munsell. was born in Miami county. 
 Ohio, June 8, 1825. 
 
 When he was not quite seven years 
 old, his parents removed to Paris, Ed- 
 gar county, Illinois, where was his home 
 until manhood. His education was 
 begun in the old time subscription 
 school, for there, as yet, the free school 
 had no existence. Later his prepara- 
 tion for college was made under private 
 tutors, and in September, 1841, he en- 
 tered the sophomore class of Asbury 
 University, Greencastle, Ind. Being in 
 poor health, he was compelled to leave 
 college at the close of the winter term 
 in his senior year, but returned in the 
 spring of 1845, and was graduated with 
 honors, taking the degree of A. B. 
 
 Mr. Munsell was of a Methodist 
 family, but a moralist in all religious 
 matters, and was successful in resisting 
 all positive religious impressions until 
 under the personal influence and in- 
 struction of President (later Bishop) 
 
 Simpson, he learned that the true basis of morality was found in 
 
 Oliver S. Munsell, President, 1857-1873. 
 
 the teaching of the Christian religion, 
 and on the first day of February. 1842. 
 he gave his heart to God. and joined the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church. His father 
 had educated him specifically for the 
 profession of law, and upon graduation 
 at Asbury, young Munsell at once en- 
 tered upon its study under the tutorship 
 of Mr. Emerson who afterwards adorned 
 a seat on the Supreme Bench of Illinois, 
 and in the autumn of 1 846 was admitted 
 to practice at the bar. Though admit- 
 ted to practice he never followed the 
 profession, as a revolution had taken 
 place in his thoughts and plans. In 
 September of the same year he was 
 licensed to preach and joined the Illi- 
 nois conference of the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church. In 1851 he was elected 
 Principal of the Danville Seminary 
 which he organized in the old Methodist 
 church in Danville and afterwards con- 
 ducted successfully in the Seminary 
 building until 1854. when, on account 
 of failing health, he resigned and sought 
 a less sedentary life. In the autumn 
 of 1856, at the earnest solicitation of 
 intimate friends in the bounds of the 
 Rock River Conference he was trans- 
 ferred to the Rock River Conference 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 and stationed at Mt. Morris, the seat of the Rock River Seminary, whose 
 large body of students offered him a genial field of labor, and one which 
 so providentially aided to fit him for what was destined to be his chief 
 life work. 
 
 In July. 1857. he was elected president of the Illinois Wesleyan 
 University, which, after brave struggles for an existence, had suspended 
 operation in 1856. He shared in the belief that Methodism and Cen- 
 tral Illinois needed such an institution as the one planned, and that 
 Bloomington was the proper place for its location. The outlook at that 
 lime v/as not a promising one. and a month later the panic of 1857 oc- 
 curred, which rendered the undertaking most difficult. 
 
 The assets of the institution consisted of ten acres of ground, beau- 
 tifully situated in the north part of the city of Bloomington. the walls of 
 a plain but substantial three story brick building, and an encumbrance of 
 nearly five thousand dollars, which was increased to $9,853 by the con- 
 tract for the completion of the building; a few old notes, practically 
 without value, an uncompleted scholarship subscription for the endow- 
 ment of the President's chair, and an uncompleted general subscription 
 conditioned on securing $50,000. Upon the $4,200 indebtedness the 
 trustees were paying twenty-two per cent. 
 
 Notwithstanding. Mr. Munsell accepted the position, and unasked. 
 contracted wiih the board to conduct the school three years at his own 
 expense, provided full financial control and the selection of teachers 
 should be vested in him. a responsibility afterward shared by his brother. 
 Edward B. Munsell. M. A., who that year became a member of the fac- 
 ulty. Some time before this Rev. Charles W. C. Munsell, of the Illinois 
 Conference, a brother of the president-elect, was elected financial agent 
 for the university, who, with the president, by untiring zeal and energy in- 
 spired such confidence among the people of the patronizing territory 
 that success was soon assured. They advanced money for the comple- 
 
 tion of the building, finished and furnished it, and opened the school in 
 the following September with seventeen pupils. The faculty consisted 
 of the president. Rev. Oliver S. Munsell, M. A., Rev. J. T. Tomlin, 
 M. A., and Edward B. Munsell, M. A.; the total enrollment for the 
 year 1857-8 was sixty students. ■• 
 
 The financial condition of the country made it impossible to suc- 
 cessfully complete the scholarship subscription begun by President C. W. 
 Sears, which if completed, would, in the end, have been a great disad- 
 vantage to the institution, if not ruinous. It was therefore deemed advis- 
 able to start a new subscription specifically for the endowment fund condi- 
 tioned upon the raising of cash and notes of hand to the amount of 
 $25,000 within three years. The subscription was so drawn that if it 
 was secured it would be available to bind the old conditional subscription 
 for the payment of half the amount subscribed, and by means of which 
 it was desired to liquidate the existing debt. The president took the 
 field, with his brother, for this purpose, and with untiring zeal pushed the 
 canvass until an amount was secured which bound enough of the original 
 subscriptions to liquidate the indebtedness upon the institution. 
 
 At the expiration of the three years' contract, the trustees assumed 
 the financial responsibility of the college; but, at the suggestion of the 
 Munsell brothers, adopted the rule which was inflexibly maintained until 
 1866, and measurably enforced until 1873, that the professors must ac- 
 cept pro rata the income for the year in full satisfaction of their claims. 
 To this rule. Dr. Munsell says, the university owes its life. 
 
 The growth of the instititution demanded additional buildings, and 
 in 1868 subscriptions amounting to $40,000 were taken to erect the 
 present main hall. It is a brick structure (with the exception of the first 
 story, which is stone), four stories in height, and 70x140 feet. The 
 corner-stone was laid in 1870, and the building was dedicated in June, 
 1871, having cost $100,000. 
 
PREPARATORY BUILDING. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AHD ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 Fully awake to ths imp:;rtarics of physical laboratories and natural 
 history collections. President Munsell brought to his aid the wisdom and 
 services of Richard H. Holder, a skillful ornithologist, Prof. Georgs Vasey 
 the distinguished botanist. Mr. Walsh of Rock Island, C. D. Wilber and 
 Prof. Joseph Henry. LL.D., of the Smithsonian Institute, and succeeded 
 in securing the nucleus of the present magnificent collection of natural 
 history. Mr. Munsell. having transferred his conference membership 
 to the Central Illinois Conference, was elected to the General Conference 
 in I860, which honor was conferred upon him again in 1854. and still 
 again in 1872. and in the last conference he served as first assistant 
 secretary. In 1863. he received the appointment by President Lincoln 
 as a member of the board of visitors to the military academy at West 
 Point, and was elected president of the board which numbered among 
 its members Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
 
 Mr. Munsell was an earnest student, especially in the department 
 of Ethics and Metaphysics, and in addition to regular correspondence for 
 the Methodist Quarterly Review and the Southern Methodist Quarterly 
 Review he published a text-book on Mental Philosophy which was 
 placed in the conference course of study of his church, and remained as 
 a text-book prescribed by the bishops of the church for many years. It 
 was also used in many of the colleges of the country. He also foand 
 
 time to write a work on Ethics which has never been published, but pro- 
 nounced by those who have examined the manuscript to be one of the 
 ablest and most comprehensive treatments of the subject. 
 
 President Munsell is a man of superior intellectual ability, and was a 
 clear, forcible and inspiring teacher, especially in his chosen department. 
 Mental Science. His career at the Illinois Wesleyan University is a 
 most honorable one. A study of the catalogues of the institution shows 
 that during the first year of his administration there were three sopho- 
 more students, four freshmen and thirteen ranked as irregular, and forty 
 in the preparatory school. In 1857 there was not even the beginning of 
 a library, museum, or physical laboratories, while in 1872 and 1873 we 
 find the preparatory building in good condition, the new building com- 
 pleted, a faculty of ten regular professors, including professional lectur- 
 ers, and a roster of nine graduates, thirteen seniors, seventeen juniors, 
 twenty-six sophomores, thirty freshmen, twenty-two irregulars, and a 
 hundred thirty-five preparatory students, with courses which com- 
 pared very favorably with the best colleges in the west. The organization 
 of the school of law and a school of medicine had been contemplated, 
 and lectures were delivered by the chief men of these professions before 
 the university for one or two years during this administration, out of 
 which lectures came the organization of the law school in 1874. 
 
ILLINOIS WES LEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 Samuel Fallovs. 
 
 President or tme Illinois Wesleyan University. 1873-75. 
 
 Bishop Samuel Fallows. D. D.. was born in England and came with 
 his parents to this country while yet a boy. Soon after his graduation at 
 
 the University of Wisconsin 
 he was offered the vice-presi- 
 dency of the Galesville Uni- 
 versity in Wisconsin, and for 
 two years he taught there with 
 success. Then he entered the 
 ministry as pastor of the Meth- 
 odist church at Oshkosh and 
 soon gained fame as an elo- 
 quent pulpit orator. When the 
 war broke out he went to the 
 front as chaplain of the Twenty- 
 second Wisconsin Infantry. 
 On the field he imbibed the 
 spirit of the conflict and he 
 organized the Fortieth Wis- 
 consin Infantry, composed en- 
 tirely of graduates and stu- 
 dents of the various institutions in that State. Such a band of educated 
 fighters had not been known in the army, and it was nicknamed "the 
 God and morality" regiment. 
 
 As pastor of the Summerfield Methodist Church in Milwaukee, 
 then the leading Methodist church in Wisconsin, Bishop Fallows re- 
 entered upon his clerical duties at the close of the war, and later on he 
 
 SAMUEL FALLOWS. 
 
 was made pastor of the Spring Street Methodist Church in the same 
 city. During his pastorate there Governor Fairchild appointed him. in 
 1871. to the office of state superintendent of public instruction, and 
 afterward the people elected him twice to the same important office. 
 
 In 1873 Lawrence University conferred upon him the degree of 
 doctor of divinity. He was offered the chair of logic and rhetoric in the 
 State university about this time, but he declined, preferring to wcrk in 
 the pulpit. Traces of his splendid work as superintendent of public in- 
 struction are visible in the Wisconsin public schools to the present time. 
 
 In 1873 Bishop Fallows was elected to the presidency of the Illinois 
 Wesleyan University. Here he manifested superior qualities as an edu- 
 cator, reconstructed and strengthened the courses of study, thoroughly 
 organized the School of Law and established the Non-resident and Post- 
 graduate department, which has drawn the attention of so many eminent 
 men to the University. His administration, though short, was brilliant. 
 In 1875, having resigned the presidency of the institution, he united with 
 the Reformed Episcopalian Church and became rector of the St. Paul's 
 Church of Chicago, and was soon afterwards elected Bishop. His career 
 in that denomination and in the city of Chicago is as honorable as it is 
 widely known. 
 
 His resignation was a complete surprise to the university, and was 
 universally regretted by its friends and patrons. His suavity of manner, 
 thorough scholarship, extended experience and prestige as an educator 
 and orator had awakened the hope that a new era had dawned, and that 
 under his wise management and masterful presentation of the cause of 
 Christian education large gifts would be secured and money would flow 
 more readily into the treasury of the institution. 
 
 In addition to his ecclesiastical duties, he holds a responsible office 
 in connection with the Illinois State Reformatory, and is the active 
 president of the People's Institute. 
 
/6' 
 
 HlSIURICAL 5KB rCH AND ALUMNI RbCORU. 
 
 V. H. H. Adams. 
 
 Prcsident of the Illinois Wesleyah 
 
 UMIVERSITY. 1875-60. 
 
 President William Henry Harrison 
 Adams.B.A.. M.A.. B.D.. D.D..wasboin 
 in Effingham county. Illinois, in 1840. 
 being descended from English ancestry, 
 of the same line as JohnQuincy Adams. 
 He enlisted as a private in Company A, 
 I Nth llllinois Volunteer Infantry, and 
 In 1863 was promoted as first lieuten- 
 ant and served as such until near the ex- 
 piration of his term, when he was bre- 
 Vetted captain, and later still, as major 
 of the regiment. He claimed to have 
 drilled the first two thousand colored 
 troops, formed them into companies 
 and offered them for service. 
 
 He prepared for college in the com- 
 mon schools of his native State and in 
 the preparatory school of the North- 
 western University, and was graduated 
 from that institution in 1870. He was 
 licensed to preach at an early age and 
 served as a student pastor in the vicinity 
 of the university during his college 
 course. After graduation in 1870, he 
 was admitted to the Illinois Conference 
 and was stationed at Monticello: after- 
 
 wards, at Clinton, and was in the third year of his pastorate at 
 
 W. H. H. Adams. President. 1875-1880. 
 
 that place when called to the presidency of 
 the Illinois Wesleyan University. Au- 
 gust 17, 1875. His administration be- 
 gan under gravest discouragements. 
 The panic of 1873 depreciated values, 
 prostrated business and indirectly added 
 greatly to the indebtedness of the in- 
 stitution for its main building; but with 
 zeal and energy rarely surpassed he de- 
 voted himself tD the task of saving the 
 institution from its financial embara^s- 
 ments. 
 
 In a very short time he won the con- 
 fidence of the patronizing conferences. 
 To the ministry he imparted his own 
 boundless faith, which aroused that 
 energy and unanimity of action am.ong 
 them so necessary to render possible 
 the founding ot a Christian college. 
 
 His keen insight into human nature, 
 his intuition of character, his knowledge 
 of forces controling in society, his clear- 
 ness, vigor, accuracy and fluency of 
 speech, his affable manner and ready 
 wit were all elements of his great power 
 in the pulpit, on the platform, in ths 
 class-room, in society and a; the hearth- 
 stone. He became a favorite of the 
 people who sought his services on great 
 occasions. As a platform speaker and 
 
ILLINOIS WBSLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 a man of rare skill at dedicatory services, he became widely known. In 
 the latter service this writer never saw him excelled. 
 
 How admirably he succeeded in saving the instiution from its 
 crushing debt may be seen from the following report of a special com- 
 mittee appointed June. 1888. and made to the board of trustees in Sep- 
 tember of the same year: 
 
 The actual amount of tl:e endowment of this institution is $72.989. 1 1. con- 
 sisting. 
 First, of notes well secured, drawing interest, with some cash on hand 
 
 ready to be loaned, and in hands of treasurer . . . $41,931 36 
 Second, in original notes, and not secured ..... 27.406 75 
 
 Third, of real estate, valued at 2.740 00 
 
 Fourth, interest notes not due and educational notes . . . 911 00 
 
 Making a grand total of $72,989 11 
 
 A bonded indebtedness of 22.000 00 
 
 Assets consisting of promissory notes and of subscriptions, good and bad 16.310 79 
 
 The Cramp fund of about $25,000 not available, is not considered 
 
 in this report. 
 
 Dr. Adams was admired and loved more sincerely and universally 
 than any other man who has ever been connected with the Illinois Wes- 
 leyan University. To know him was to love him. In scholarship he was 
 clear but modest; in power of interpretation, reaady and masterful; 
 in society, on the platform and in the pulpit, a magnet that irresistibly 
 drew men unto him and his cause; in method of expression strikingly 
 original and pleasing. When the history of the university is known as 
 it has been made, it will not be a surprise to learn that President Adams 
 
 laid down his life for the Illinois Wssleyan University. 
 
 His heroic zeal and self-sacrificing nature are worthy of the tribute 
 paid him at the time of his death by James Miller : 
 
 ••He knew no moral code which required him. to consult his own 
 interests in responding to the call of God and ministering to the world's 
 need. He valued neither money, nor health, nor pleasure, nor the edu- 
 cational rules of self-preservation, when the cry for help greeted his ear 
 and touched the sensitive chords of his sympathetic heart. His hand 
 was always open to minister to the needs of the poor. No discouraged 
 student struggling with a hard lot of poverty to obtain an education ever 
 appealed to him in vain. No widow or orphan child in distress ever 
 turned to him for sympathy and aid without finding in him a friend. No 
 brother minister, discouraged with the burdens and cares of an unfruitful 
 field, ever sought his sympathy and encouragement without finding a 
 •warm response. He lived to bear the burdens of others. He wrecked 
 his constitution, ruined his health, shattered his nervous organization, 
 and sacrificed his life for the sole satisfaction of doing good, and making 
 himself helpful to others. His sympathy knew no limits of creed, caste, 
 or clan. He was humanitarian in all his impulses. He was filled with 
 a divinity and charity as universal as humanity. He was forbearing. 
 magnamimous and forgiving toward his enemies, and when jealousy and 
 calumny pursued him into comparative obscurity, he reached forth the 
 hand of brotherly kindness toward those who had smitten him, and from 
 behind the veil which hides the spirit world from ours, he sends back the 
 olive branch of peace, and the whispering breath of an undyinj charity." 
 
Wm. H. Wilder. President from 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 V. H. ViLDER. President froh isss. 
 
 At the annual meeting of the board of trustees in June. 1888, 
 Rev. William H. Wilder. M.A.. D.D., was elected president. 
 
 Since 1888 grounds for an athletic park have been secured at a 
 cost of $2,000 : lots for a janitor's residence and a gym.nasium at a cost 
 of $1,900; perhaps $15,000 has been expended in the improvement of 
 buildings and grounds, putting them in excellent condition. 
 
 The Shellabarger and H. S. Swayne chemical laboratories have 
 been added to the science departments; $1,800 has been expended in 
 cases for the natural history collections, $1,000 of which was the gift of 
 an alumnus. Rev. William Luke Cunningham, of Point Pleasant, New 
 Jersey, Besides smaller valuable contributions for the museum, the 
 university has received the George W. and Rebecca S. Lichtenthaler col- 
 lection, valued at $25,000. In addition to the above, cash and notes 
 amounting to $7,500 have been taken for the improvement fund. The 
 endowment fund has been increased by farm lands from Hiram Buck, 
 D.D.. valued at $27,500, not yet available; $58,500, $55,000 of which 
 was necessary to meet the conditions of the deed executed by Hiram 
 and Martha Buck; $6,000 by bequest from Jonathan Totten ; and 
 $600 by bequest from Miss Mary Williams, The total endowment July 
 1, 1895. was $187,999, including the Cramp fund. 
 
 LA!30R.f\T0f^!ES. 
 
 all modern conveniences, and is supplied witn a full line of apparatus for 
 accurate and advanced work. The Qualitative laboratory is thoroughly 
 equipped with all apparatus necessary for furnishing to each student a 
 separate outfit for performing the experiments in chemistry, and for 
 qualitative and blow-pipe work. Perfect ventilation is secured in both 
 laboratories by an ingenious apparatus placed therein by Mr, Henry S. 
 Swayne. 
 
 The Henry S. Swayne Private Laboratory, a personal gift to Dr, 
 Graham from Mrs. Swayne. in recognition of her husband's friendship 
 for him. has been given excellent quarters in rooms adjoining the other 
 laboratories, and the university reaps the full benefit of the gift of this 
 thoroughly equipped and highly expensive laboratory in all special and 
 research work, and is enabled to offer to her students unexcelled advan- 
 tages for special work in this branch. 
 
 Five rooms are devoted to the work of biology and physics, one 
 being for class-room use. one for storage of plants and animals, and 
 containing a large aquarium, and three for laboratory purposes. A room 
 has just been fitted up for the work in physics, making very commodious 
 quarters. These laboratories are well equipped with tables and material 
 for work. The material is supplemented by a good working library. 
 The outfit of microscopic material in biology gives students in this line 
 as good facilities for work as are offered by the best institutions. 
 
 The MusEun. 
 
 The She'.labarger laboratory, donated by Mr, David S, Shellabarger, 
 of Decatur, and a few other friends of the university, has greatly in- 
 creased the facilities for advanced cherriistry work. It is furnished with 
 
 The history of the museum is interesting as well as varied. The 
 first catalogue, for the years 1851-2. states that "there are on the 
 shelves of the cabinet about 1.700 specimens." This, presumably, re- 
 fers to scientific specimens. From this nucleus has grcwn a collection 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 SECTION OF SHELLABARCIiR LABORATORY. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 that now fills to overflowing the two large rooms devoted to that purpose, 
 worth many thousands of dollars. 
 
 We will briefly summarize the additions from time to time, as re- 
 vealed by the file of catalogues. In 1860 the next statement is found 
 concerning the collections, when -'the nucleus of an interesting and 
 valuable cabinet of mineralogy, geology and zoology, has been secured.'" 
 In 1863 large and very valuable additions were made to the Museum 
 of Natural History, particularly in the departments of geology and pale- 
 ontology, by a contribution from the State Cabinet of Geology at Spring- 
 field. The collections of that year were said to number 6.000 specimens. 
 
 The next catalogue, 1863, states that the collections have been 
 largely increased since the last announcement, summing up four thou- 
 sand specimens in geology and paleontology, one thousand one hundred 
 salt water and one thousand fresh water and land shells, a large botani- 
 cal collection, one hundred specimens in ornithology, etc. The next 
 year, 1864, there was an additional hundred birds, a valuable entomo- 
 logical collection, and a fine collection of minerals from the Smithsonian. 
 
 In 1876, Dr. George Vasey added a collection of woods of the 
 State, and in 1872 there was received a collection of Patent Office 
 models. 
 
 In 1880-81 additions were made of a collection of plants from Colo- 
 rado from the Wheeler Geological Survey, plants from Utah from the 
 Powell Geological Survey, a fine collection of corals and mollusca by pur- 
 chase, and a collection of marine mollusks from the Smithsonian Institute. 
 
 In 1886 President W. H. H. Adams added 625 specimens of 
 shells, fossils, ore, etc., while 695 specimens of various kinds were re- 
 ceived from the United States National Museum. The additions for the 
 year 1887 were 1.200 specimens, chiefly of pottery, minerals and fossils 
 from the United States National Museum. No attempt was made to 
 arrange the material for a couple of years, as there were no cases and 
 
 no wav consequently for arranging it. In 1891 Rev. William Luke Cun- 
 ningham. Ph. D., of Point Pleasant, New Jersey, an alumnus of the uni- 
 versity, contributed $ 1 ,000 for the preparation of cases. These were 
 made and placed on the second floor of the main building, in the room 
 formerly occupied by the library, the library going into the quarters 
 vacated by the collections. The specimens were immediately cleaned 
 and arranged for exibition and made a good display, entirely filling the 
 cases, though many of the shells, stones, fossils, etc. had been rendered 
 worthless by the loss of their labels, with no way of determining or identi' 
 tying them. Meanwhile many small collections kept coming in. filling 
 the cases to overflowing. 
 
 The year 1893 was momentous in the history of the museum, and 
 marks an epoch in its growth. In that year the museum became the 
 recipient through bequest of the George W. and Rebecca S. Lichten- 
 thaler collection of shells, sea algas, and ferns. 
 
 A brief sketch of Mr. Lichtenthaler and his life will be appropriate 
 here, inasmuch as he left to the museum a collection that has no equal 
 in this section of the country, 
 
 George W. Lichtenthaler, one of the best known of American 
 conchologists. and one of the most earnest and energetic collectors of 
 natural history specimens, passed away at San Francisco on Tuesday, 
 February 20, 1893, death being caused by fatty degeneration of the heart. 
 He was 60 years of age. 
 
 Mr. Lichtenthaler was born in Pennsylvania, and came to Bloom- 
 ington. 111., at the age of twenty-two. For five years he was a drug clerk, 
 then bought out the stock, conducted business for himself for seventeen 
 years, after which he retired with a snug fortune. During this time 
 he imbibed a taste for natural history, and after his retirement devoted 
 his entire time and the proceeds of his large estate to the gathering and 
 collecting of shells, ferns and algas. Mrs. Lichtenthaler died twelve 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 years ago. leaving no children. After death Mr. Lichtenthaler turned 
 his mind more than ever to his chosen work. His wife's death was a 
 great blow to him. and he was no doubt greatly moved to collecting to 
 
 forget his sorrow. His affection 
 for her is shown in his desire that 
 the vast collection should be 
 given a name that would incor- 
 porate the name of ■ Rebecca S. 
 Lichtenthaler.' 
 
 •• Mr. Lichtenthaler was an 
 amateur collector, never having 
 sold specimens or labored for 
 hire. His was a labor of love. 
 If he could not exchange he would 
 give of his duplicates to those 
 who would make use of them. 
 Many people of this community 
 treasure collections from distant 
 climes given by him, and many a 
 lad with a love for nature has 
 had this love fanned into a flame 
 through his encouragement, and 
 has gone from the presence of this 
 CEO. w. LICHTENTHALER. great-hearted man not only with a 
 
 greater love for nature's works, but with a liberal gift of shells or other 
 specimens carefully preserved. Many a case has he recounted to me, 
 sitting by my fireside, of boys he has helped to knowledge and position, 
 by pointing the way and lending substantial aid. 
 
 ••Had he desired, he might have been famous as a traveler, by 
 putting his observations into print. But he disliked and shunned pub- 
 
 licity, and we know of nothing he has written. He was one of those 
 workers who cared little for making new genera or species, and who 
 collected not wholly for himself, but also for his fellow workers and for 
 public museums. In his travels he has been in nearly every country in 
 the world, and has been several times along the entire west American 
 coast, was at home in the Sandwich Islands, has traversed the coast of 
 Europe from North Cape to Gibraltar, and has been up and down both 
 coasts of Africa, as well as around the Indian Ocean. In these travels 
 many of the rarest specimens known to science were brought together, 
 and are left among his great collection. 
 
 ■•He was one of the early members of the 'American Association 
 of Conchologists, ' being enrolled as a member May 15, 1890. His spe- 
 cial study was shells of the Pacific Coast. He was an active and 
 enthusiastic member, and did much to promote its work. His gift of 
 Pacific Coast shells to the collection of the Association was a large and 
 valuable addition. 
 
 "Few men have as wide a personal acquaintance with men of 
 science as he had. Devoting all his energy and time to travel and 
 collecting, and having been all over the American continent, he met 
 them everywhere. His retiring disposition led him to make little men- 
 tion of his achievements, and his great work was not known to many of 
 the people of his home. But to a few of his friends and acquaintances 
 who could appreciate his work he unburdened his heart, and would re- 
 count his travels and experiences, and give descriptions of museums and 
 countries, for hours at a time. He was an interesting conversationalist, 
 and would relate his experiences in a manner that always commanded 
 attention. 
 
 '■ His main work was in conchology. His collection embraces many 
 highly polished specimens, and he spared no expense to have always the 
 finest and best that were to be had. While on a trip to France a few 
 
ILLINOIS WBSLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 VIEW OF CORNER JN CUNNINGHAM MUSEUM. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 years ago he heard of an English firm who cut gastropods longitudinal'y 
 lo show their spiral arrangement, and he has case after case of shells of 
 this exquisite workmanship. All his specimens a-e authoritatively cor- 
 rect, having been labeled by the highest authorities, and we are glad 
 that he has left the collection where it is accessible to the pub'. ic for 
 comparisons. 
 
 •• His collection embraces shells, crustaceans, echinoderms. coral- 
 lines, corals, fossil shells and plants, minerals, ferns and marine algas. 
 There are from six to eight thousand species of shells, and at a low 
 estimate twenty-five thousand specimens, from all parts of the world. 
 There are eight hundred species of marine algge. and four hundred 
 species of ferns. The latter include a nearly complete collection of the 
 ferns of North America, a complete collection from the Hawaiian 
 Islands; also many from India, China, Japan, Australia. New Zealand. 
 South America. Europe, etc. He stated that he had two species not in 
 any other collection. 
 
 •• Probably the bulk of the specimens in this collection will have little 
 attraction for the ordinary visitor, and many could not possibly be put out 
 for public inspection without certain ruin. 
 
 ■• Many are unattractive, many so minute that they must be exam- 
 ined with the microscope, while many are beautifully polished. The 
 most of them are of his own collecting, but a large number were secured 
 through his exchange of duplicates, while he bought many outright. A 
 few are very rare and their value cannot be determined. He spent a 
 week in Michigan searching for a rare species, and succeeded in getting 
 three specimens. 
 
 • The ferns and algae are in books provided for such purposes, the 
 plants being gummed to the leaves. There are three volumes of the 
 algas, containing about a thousand specimens, collected from all parts of 
 the world, and all identified. Besides the type specimens thus prepared 
 
 in books, there are many duplicate specimens on separate papers, which 
 he kept for exchange. 
 
 •■ It will th-js be ssen that the collection of plants d^es not occupy 
 much space, and is put up in a very compact form. These types could 
 not be thrown open to the public, as the thumbing and turning of the 
 leaves would soon break the specimens to pieces, but they are accessible 
 to students cf the subjects. 
 
 "This collection, his entire work for twenty years, he t)equeathed 
 to the 111 nois Wesleyan University, together with $500. to put it in 
 suitable shape for preservation. Its value in money can only be esti- 
 mated by what it would cost to replace the collection. Allow $1,000 a 
 year for twenty years, and as much more for expenses (a low estimate), 
 and allow for purchases and means of preservation, and $50,000 would 
 be very reasonable. 
 
 •■The university already possessed a fine conchological collection 
 of several thousand species. A large part of these were given by the 
 Smithsonian Institute, mostly marine shells, and several donations of 
 land and fresh water shells make enough to fill three large cases. 
 There is in the university a large collection of fossils, shells and brachio- 
 pods from the government. The herbarium contains three thousand 
 species, with thousands of duplicates. These are largely phanerogams. 
 Add to these Mr. Lichtenthaler's great collection of shells, ferns and 
 sea algas, and it is readily seen that the collections give opportunity for 
 study equalled by few institutions." 
 
 New cases, after the best pattern, were made for this collection, 
 and were put in the room formerly occupied by the Adelphic society, 
 adjoining the room already filled with material. The collection makes 
 a beautiful display, and is seen and admired daily by many visitors. In 
 the corner of the room is an alcove, in which is stored the collection of 
 plants, embracing some six thousand species. 
 
ILLINOIS WhSLtYAN UNlVbHSIlY. 
 
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 LICHTENTHALER MUSEUM. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD,. 
 
 Since the addition of this great collection in 1893. numerous smaller 
 collections have been coming in. which have received mention from 
 time to time in the annual catalogue. Summing up. we find that the 
 museum contains the following donations of material with the names of 
 the persons making the gifts : 
 
 Major J. W. Powell.-— A large collection of Zuni and Moqui utensils, pottery. 
 articles of dress, etc. 
 
 A large collection of minerals and fossils, collected on the Powell geological 
 survey. 
 
 A large collection of photographs of western scenery of geological interes'.. 
 
 Dr. Ceorge Vasey. — A collection of the woods of Illinois. 
 
 The Vasey herbarium, containing most of the phanerogamia of Illinois. 
 
 A collection of plants from Colorado from the Wheeler geological survey. 
 
 A collection of plants from Utah from the Powell geological survey. 
 
 Dr. Benjamin D. Walsh.— (K valuable collection of about 1. 000 insects. 
 
 Richard H. Hotder. — About 200 finely mounted specimens in ornithology. 
 besides many specimens in mammalogy and herpetology. 
 
 William H. H.Adams. — A collection of 625 specimens of shells, fossils, and ores. 
 
 Illinois Geological Survey. — A collection of fo.ssils illustrating the geology of 
 Illinois. 
 
 The Smithsonian Institution and United States National Museum.— A fine collection 
 of native and foreign minerals. 
 
 A large collection of marine invertebrates. 
 
 A collection of 70 mammal skins. 
 
 A collection of 180 North American bird skins. 
 
 The Ceorge W. and Rebecca S. Lichtenthaler Collestion. — The collection em- 
 
 braces some 10.000 species of shells. 1.000 species of marine algae. 500 species 
 of ferns, with many mosses, lichens, etc. 
 
 Edward M. Hoblit and J. Dun'ght Funk. — A collection of bird eggs. 
 
 Charles S. Lyies. — A miscellaneous collection of birds, reptiles and mam- 
 mals from Idaho. 
 
 N. Walworth Marsh. — A collection of bird eggs and skins, all well prepared 
 and properly labeled. 
 
 Willbur Wright. — A collection of bird eggs. 
 
 Clarence E. Snyder. — A collection of Lepidoptera. 
 
 Percy D. Getty. — A collection of fifty sets of bird eggs, all in excellent con- 
 dition and properly identified and labeled. 
 
 The Curator, Morton J. Elrod. — A large collection of miscellaneous material, 
 including plants, insects, birds and mammal skins, alcoholic specimens, photo- 
 graphs and curios, collected on a recent expedition to Idaho and the National park. 
 
 Henry W. Shryock. — Fifty fossils from Richland county. 111. 
 
 H. E. Robbins, Pueblo. Colo. — A series of embryo chicks. 
 
 Herbert S. Cadwell. — A collection of butterflies. 
 
 Albert Pike — A United States dagger, picked up in a field in McLean county. 
 
 The Curator. Morton J. Elrod. — A collection of fresh water shells from the 
 Des Moines and Raccoon rivers. 
 
 J. W. Wilson. Canadian Geological Survey. Ottawa. Can. — A collection of min- 
 erals from Canada. 
 
 Prof. Henry Montgomery . Salt Lake City. Utah. — A collection of fifty minerals 
 from Utah. 
 
 The museum is thus seen to contain a great deal of material for 
 study, and furnishes an excellent opportunity to do special work along 
 many lines. 
 
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 BEHR OBSERVATORY. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKfrCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 ATHLETIC PARK — MAIN BUILDING IN THE DISTANCE. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 The 06SERVAT0RT AND CmNASlUM. 
 
 In October, 1894, Mr. C. A. Behr, of Chicago, presented the uni- 
 versity an excellent reflecting telescope eighteen and one-half inches in 
 diameter. The instrument is provided with right ascension and declina- 
 tion circles, a driving clock, and a two-inch finder; a parallel wire 
 micrometer, a position micrometer, and a complete outfit of shades, 
 eye-pieces, etc. A visual and photographic spectroscope has been de- 
 signed, a duplicate of the one now in use in the Potsdam observatory, 
 Germany. This instrument, with a splendid six-inch refracting tele- 
 scope, enables the university to offer excellent opportunities for study 
 and investigation. The observatory building is situated on the northeast 
 corner of the campus, and is furnished with many modern improvements. 
 
 The gymnasium building, a modest brick structure, is located one- 
 half block east of the campus. It is well equipped with all the apparatus 
 necessary for instruction in physical culture. 
 
 The Libraries. 
 
 •• in the first catalogue of the Illinois Wesleyan Universitv, pub- 
 lished the year of its establishment, we find it stated that there was at 
 that time the nucleus of a miscellaneous and scientific library consisting 
 of about one thousand volumes. This, with botanical and natural history 
 specimens and scientific apparatus, occupied what is now the cloak room 
 on the second floor of the preparatory building. 
 
 A short time after this the library was divided between the two 
 literary societies and removed to the Munsellian and Belles Lettres 
 
 halls, which occupied respectively the north east room on the ground 
 floor, and the south room on the third floor, of the preparatory building. 
 Later we find the library increased in size, altogether once more, and 
 reposing on shelves arranged for its accommodation in what is now the 
 natural history museum, on the second floor of the college building. 
 Here, in a convenient, pleasant room, and under the direction of Mrs. 
 Sue M. D. Fry, it was used by a large number of the students. But in 
 the fall of 1891, as this room was needed for the museum, the library 
 was again moved, this time into its present quarters on the third floor 
 of the preparatory building. 
 
 It is all that could be desired, in being a large, pleasant, well 
 lighted room, with windows on three sides and a most charming view 
 to the north and east. 
 
 Catalogues record the fact that there were important additions 
 made every year to the original one thousand volumes. About the year 
 1857 Dr. 0. S. Munsell was instrumental in making this one of the dis- 
 tributing points for state and national publications. These books are 
 well bound in leather and are exceedingly valuable for reference. 
 
 The books of the non-resident library are a very important addition. 
 These books are all new and the result of recent research of the best 
 scholars in science, literature, history, language and philosophy. 
 
 Others of the more recent additions are, the Lichtenthaler library, 
 which came to the university at tne same time that the collection of 
 shells and mosses was received ; the library of the Rev. N. R. Davies, 
 which was donated to the Wesleyan in 1893; the well-selected set of 
 ■books of the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A.; bound volumes of current litera- 
 ture which are added year by year from the reading room. There is 
 also continually being added literature from the different departments 
 to supply materials for seminary courses. 
 
 Altogether there are about seven thousand volumes at present in 
 
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 VIEW OF A SECTION OF THE LIBRARY. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 the library, which is open to the students most of the hours during the 
 day. Competent monitors are in charge, under the general supervision 
 of the librarian, and books may be used there for reference or even 
 taken from the library under certain conditions. 
 
 Although most of the books are well chosen and are used by many 
 students, yet there is no department of the uni\/ersity that is in greater 
 need of additional material." -Wesley ana, 1 895. 
 
 small membership fee is required for franchise privileges, and. as there 
 are 125 members, this fee, together with the interest on principal loaned 
 by the association, and the $50 granted by the executive committee. 
 places in the hands of the literary committee over $100 to be expended 
 annually for literature, thus making it possible to support a first-class 
 feading room ; and likewise, should the board make permanent the 
 annual appropriation, assuring future excellence for all time. 
 
 THE: Wilder Readinq Roon /"Issociatio/m, 
 
 The Wesleta/n Lectuf?e Course. 
 
 In the fall of 1889. nearly $400 was subscribed by the faculty and 
 students and a few friends of the institution for the purpose of fitting up 
 a reading room and purchasing literature therefor. Shortly after holi- 
 days the room was ready for use. and an excellent selection, consisting 
 of all the best magazines and periodicals, was placed on the tables. 
 The organization proved to be a thoroughly active one, and has been of 
 great benefit to the college. It soon became evident to those who had 
 the interests of the association at heart, that the advantages enjoyed by 
 the members should be thrown open to the students. Consequently a 
 proposition was made to the board of trustees to turn over to the college 
 the use of the room for college purposes, and to grant the use of the 
 literature to all students, provided the board would give the association 
 space in the new library room and would give $50 per year toward its 
 support instead of furnishing a janitor as before. This the executive 
 committee of the board agreed to do for this present year, with the prob- 
 ability that the arrangement will be made permanent at the meeting of 
 the board in June. While no charge is made for use of literature, a 
 
 In the fall of 1890, the managers of the People's Lecture Course. 
 who for years previous had provided high class literary entertainments for 
 the city, became disheartened by lack of patronage, and abandoned the 
 field. Drs. Wilder and Graham, believing that this was the Wesleyan's 
 opportunity to gain control of the course, became personally responsible 
 for a course involving an outlay of $1,200; they then laid the matter 
 before the Reading Room Association. The course was enthusiastically 
 endorsed by the association, and the enterprise proved successful. A 
 good course was given, and the management at the close of the year 
 had $12 of margin. 
 
 The next year a much more expensive course was undertaken, and 
 each year since then the best talent obtainable has been brought be- 
 fore the students and people of the city at very low prices. Each year 
 a small sum has passed into the treasury after all bills were settled : 
 and over $400 has been placed on interest to aid in the support of the 
 reading room. The management of the course has been advantageous 
 in many ways, and has brought the university into closer touch and 
 sympathy with the people of the city. 
 
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 READING ROOM — MAIN BUILDING. 
 
ILLINOIS WES LEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 Adhission of La-dies. 
 
 In 1870 the board of trustees, upon the recommendation of the 
 faculty, admitted ladies to all the rights and privileges accorded to gen- 
 tlemen. The wisdom of that action has never been questioned by any 
 one who has taken pains to inform himself upon tne subject in its relation 
 to the Illinois Wesleyan University. We believ^e co-education of the 
 sexes is American. Christian and rational. The writer was in a position 
 to judge of the effect the admission of ladies had upon the young men, at 
 the time, and now occupies the most advantageous position for observing 
 the working of the principle in its effect upon both sexes, and he does not 
 hesitate to say that co-education refines the young man and makes him 
 more gentlemanly without weakening him. and strengthens and broadens 
 the young woman without rendering her in any sense masculine. In 
 fact we heartily endorse the sentiment expressed by Lady Henry Somer- 
 set in her recent address before the World's W. C. T. U. 
 
 She said : "Closely related to the movements that occupy our 
 thought is one which in the United States has been worked out to an 
 assured success, and that is co-education. It is my deliberate convic- 
 tion that for the hysteria into which so many men and women novelists 
 have fallen, and for the keyed-up public mind that is willing to exploit 
 their product, there is no remedy so sane and sound as the education of 
 our young people together, from the kindergarten until they complete 
 their course in technical or professional schools. If anybody dared to 
 speak the truth about boys' public schools in England, there would be a 
 social convulsion compared with which not even the lamentable disclos- 
 ures of the past winter are to be mentioned. When we try to segregate 
 girls and women into school or harem, boys or men into school or gov- 
 ernment, we have frustrated God's grace, and we must pay the penalty." 
 
 
 HENRIETTA HALL. 
 
 The VonAN'S Educational Association. 
 
 The admission of women to all departments of the university 
 awakened greater interest in the education of young women among the 
 patrons of the college generally and especially among the women them- 
 selves. A more rational conception of the education of women and of the 
 
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 importance of the higher education was held. This took definite form 
 in 1874 in the organization of the Woman's Educational Association 
 of the Illinois Wesleyan University. The object of the organization 
 is set forth in the annual catalogue of the university of that year; 
 
 •The right of this society to exist may be explained in a few words. 
 Women being admitted to the Illinois Wesleyan University, the authori- 
 ties have indicated their wish to place in the board of instruction com- 
 petent women as professors. In view of this, many of the friends of the 
 institution have deemed it proper to express their approval, by liberally 
 endowing at least one chair. The reasons for endowing this chair are: 
 First, the need of more funds for the adequate support of professors ; 
 secondly, the establishing of this woman's professorship beyond all con- 
 tingency, for all time to come. Accordingly, on the 3d of June, 1874, 
 with the approval of the executive board of the university, a society was 
 formed, and the necessary officers were appointed : and it was subse- 
 quently approved by the board of trustees and visitors. 
 
 Objects.- The objects of this society are: First, the endowment 
 of a Woman's Professorship: and secondly, the raising of a fund to pro- 
 vide a home, and assist young women to educate themselves — especially 
 such as are preparing to teach, or are called to missionary work. 
 
 Plans. Terms, etc. — Gifts for these objects may be made accord- 
 ing to the wishes of the donors. 
 
 For ten dollars a year a woman may become a member. 
 
 For ten dollars per year, for five years, a life member. 
 
 For five hundred dollars, a life manager. 
 
 For one thousand dollars, a life patron. 
 
 By the payment of appropriate amounts, gentlemen may become 
 nonorary members, life managers, or life patrons. 
 
 Gifts may be made on terms and time to suit donors. " 
 
 The association at once opened a boarding hall under the direc- 
 
 tion of Mrs. C. A. Hart as superintendent. "In September. 1875, the 
 association leased the building known as 'Major's College,' and opened 
 a ladies' boarding hall on the Mt. Holyoke plan, and thus put in practice 
 its second object, namely: the establishment of a Christian home where 
 young ladies of any denomination, desiring to educate themselves, can 
 have board at the lowest possible rates." 
 
 Subsequently the association purchased the •• Major's College " 
 property, which consisted of a beautiful block of nearly three acres and 
 the college building. In 1884 Charles and Henrietta Cramp gave four 
 thousand dollars to liquidate the indebtedness on the property. The 
 association, however, agreed to pay them an annuity on the amount 
 during the natural lives of Mr. and Mrs. Cramp, The hall was after- 
 wards known as Henrietta Hall in honor of Mrs. Cramp. It was under- 
 stood, also, that the Cramp fund, mentioned elsewhere in this book, 
 should apply, when available, upon the endowment of the professorship 
 selected by the association. 
 
 Several thousand dollars were expended in remodeling, repairing 
 and finishing the hall: thirteen hundred twenty-three were raised toward 
 an endowm.ent of a chair which was to be selected when the am.cunt 
 reached five thousand dollars. 
 
 The ladies most active in the work of the association were Mrs. 
 Prof. Jacques, Mrs. Jennie Fowler Willing, who for a short time was 
 professor in the institution, Mrs. Sue M, D. Fry, Mrs. A. R. Riggs, Mrs. 
 Olgah Updegraff, Miss Sarah Raymond, Mrs, Jackman and other elect 
 women of Bloomington, who ungrudgingly for years gave time, energy, 
 substance and devout prayers unto God for the advancement of the 
 object of tfe association. For a number of years, Mrs. Fry, the only 
 woman on the faculty of the college of letters, lived in the hall and was 
 the wise and accomplished head of the Christian home. The capacity 
 of the hall to accommodate young women was fairly taxed for some 
 
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 time and the women of the association deserved the congratulations of 
 the trustees and public upon the success of their enterprise. 
 
 After a few years, the building being old and not susceptible of easy 
 convertion into a hall after the ideas of modern architecture and ap- 
 pointments, the expenses became heavy on account of repairs. Mrs. 
 Fry, whose presence was an essential factor in the home life, no longer 
 lived in the hall, young women ceased to desire to board there, and as 
 the success of the boarding hall depended upon attendance by young 
 women, the association finally disbanded in 1892. the hall having been 
 
 virtually abandoned by the association as a home some time before. 
 Before the association disbanded, however, its property and obliga- 
 tions were turned over to the board of trustees of the university. The 
 old building has been torn down and the campus platted and accepted 
 by the city as the Wesleyan subdivision of the city of Bloomington, and 
 the lots are now being sold. Plans are being formed for a new hall to 
 be erected in the spring and summer of 1896. A photogravure of the 
 perspective view is shewn above. The estimiated cost of the building is 
 fifteen thousand dollars, exclusive of furniture. 
 
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 HISIVHICAL SKhlCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 The College of Law. 
 
 The Law Department of the University was organized and put in 
 operation April 1. 1874. by Judge R. M. Benjamin and Owen T. Reeves. 
 The first class was graduated in June. 1875. consisting of seven mem- 
 bers. Among the early instructors in this department, beside the per- 
 sons above named, were the Hon. Robert E. Williams and Judge 
 Lawrence Weldon. 
 
 In this department, the method of teaching law mainly by daily 
 recitations from approved text-books, accompanied by familiar exposi- 
 tions and pertinent references to reported cases and the statutes of the 
 State, was first introduced. This method of instruction proved highly 
 satisfactory in its results and attracted marked attention, to such an 
 extent that now in most if not all the law schools of the country the 
 method has come into partial use. In this department, this method of 
 instruction has grown in favor with the bench and bar. as well as 
 in the estimation of the students, and the high standing of the de- 
 partment has been gained largely by its method of teaching, combined 
 with the efficiency of its corps of instructors. 
 
 Nearly three hundred students have been graduated since the de- 
 partment was organized, many of whom are now occupying leading 
 positions at the bar. and some, important judicial positions. Judge Reu- 
 ben M. Benjamin was the dean of the department from its organization 
 to June. 1891, and was succeeded on his voluntary retirement by the 
 present dean. Owen T. Reeves. 
 
 Beside the dean and Judge Benjamin, the faculty consists of Judge 
 Colin D. Myers, John J. Morrissey, Jacob P. Lindley and Rolland A. 
 Russell, ail graduates of the department and thoroughly competent in- 
 structors. Judge John M. Scott, ex-chief justice of the supreme court of 
 
 the State, has rendered the department valuable service by delivering 
 each year a course of most interesting lectures to the students, judge 
 Lawrence Weldon. an early instructor, has also delighted the students 
 each year with a course of lectures of great interest. 
 
 The attendance of students in this department has steadily increased 
 of late years, and the department promises increased usefulness in the 
 thorough preparation of young men for the legal profession. 
 
 Non-resident a/md Gf?aduate DEFARTnE/MT. 
 
 Under the inspiration and guidance of President Fallows, the uni- 
 versity, in 1874, arranged a series of courses for non-resident students, 
 looking toward the earning of the degrees of Ph. B.. M. A., and Ph. D. 
 The object of this step was to furnish lines of systematic study for those 
 professional men and women whose duties and environments are such 
 as to make a resident course of study an impossibility, and yet who 
 earnestly desire systematic study. 
 
 The department was placed in charge of Prof. Jacques, and the 
 fees were set at $25 for the Ph. B. course, and $30 for the Ph. D. 
 course. The first student to enroll was Rev. G. G. Roberts, of Mohawk 
 Valley, Ohio, on October 3, 1874. During the first eight years of its 
 existence enrollm.ents were not numerous, averaging six a year for the 
 first five years. 
 
 After being in control for a couple of years. Prof. Jacques gave way 
 to Prof. Crow, and the latter seems to have remained in charge until 
 1882, when Prof. C. M. Moss, now of the University of Illinois, was made 
 dean. At once the enthusiasm and energy of the new dean manifested 
 themselves in decided improvement of the courses and in greatly in- 
 creased enrollment. A Canadian branch was established by him, and 
 
1LLINUI5 WtSLbYAN UNlVtHSllY. 
 
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 Rev. Dr. Francis R. Beattie, of Bradford. Ontario, was placed in charge. 
 to be succeeded a few years later, on the removal of Dr. Beattie from 
 Canada, by Dr. T. M. Maclntyre, president of the Presbyterian Female 
 College at Toronto, who still has control there. Shortly after establish- 
 ing the Canadian course, Dr. Moss also established an English depart- 
 ment, placing it under the supervision of Rev. Dr. Joseph Fennemore. 
 at present of Hastings, England. The latter department has met with a 
 fair degree of success, and the Canadian department has been, and is 
 now. remarkably prosperous, there being over sixty strong, earnest stu- 
 dents of that country actively pursuing the work. 
 
 In the spring of 1891. the connection of Dr. Moss with the univer- 
 sity being severed. Dr. R. O. Graham, the present dean, was chosen to 
 take his place. It is not too much to say that the prosperity and success 
 of the department has been as great under the present administration as 
 during any previous period. The courses of study have been thoroughly 
 revised and systematized, and the standards of requirements for entrance 
 and for graduation have been greatly advanced. Nearly one hundred 
 matriculates enter the courses every year, and over four hundred mature, 
 earnest and talented men and women are today taking advantage of the 
 opportunities offered thereby for pursuing a thorough and systematic 
 course of study at home, knowing that rigid examinations will test the 
 thoroughness of their work. The majority of these students are teachers, 
 who have been for years in the class-room and who have learned the 
 need of advancement beyond the field covered by the normal schools, 
 of which most of them are graduates. As none who have not already 
 reached the age of twenty-four years can enter upon any of the courses, 
 and few indeed beyond that age ever undertake a resident course, the 
 department interferes in no way with resident work, and both dean and 
 faculty always encourage those who come within the circle of their influ- 
 ence to enter upon resident study, here or in some other good college. 
 
 rather than upon a course of home study. However, the letters that 
 come to them from scores of students whose way to resident work had 
 been completely barred, have convinced those in charge that great good 
 is being accomplished by the department, and that no other plan as yet 
 proposed is so successfully and satisfactorily meeting the needs of this 
 large and worthy body of students, against whom the gates of the college 
 world have been closed. 
 
 The Pf=?EFARATORT Departhent. 
 
 From the beginning the university has maintained a Preparato-y 
 Department. With the exception of the two years. 1865-7. when Rev. 
 William R. Goodwin was principal, this department was under the gen- 
 eral direction of the faculty until 1883. when, by action of the board of 
 trustees, it was organized into a distinct school, and Rev. Hyre D. Clark 
 was chosen principal. 
 
 Since that time its courses have been definitely set forth and so 
 strengthened that its curricula now comprises four year's work and 
 several courses leading to corresponding courses in the College of 
 Letters and Science. 
 
 The department has been an important factor in the work of the 
 institution, many of her most eminent graduates having been enrolled 
 among its students. 
 
 Within recent years the board has given much attention to this 
 school and has so equipped it that it now ranks among the foremost 
 preparatory schools of the country. Its large patronage from its immie- 
 diate vicinity indicates its efficiency and merit. The principal and three 
 assistants give their entire tim.e to this school, while most of the college 
 professors assist in their respective departments. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 BIRD S-EYE VIEW OF THE CAMPUS. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 41 
 
 The average enrollment has been 163, with the exception of the 
 year 1893-4, when there was a general financial depression. The en- 
 rollment has increased each succeeding year for the past six years, the 
 number last year being 250. 
 
 This school will continue to hold an important place among the 
 departments of the university, and will afford facilities for laying well the 
 foundation for the intellectual and moral development of the youth who 
 may come under its influence. 
 
 The College Papef^. 
 
 The first paper published in connection with the institution was the 
 Alumni Journal, under the direction of Harvey C, DeMotte and Bradford 
 S. Potter. It was admirably conducted by these men, who for so long 
 a time were identified with the university, from 1870 to 1876, when it 
 became known as the Students' Journal and was conducted by the 
 literary societies. Since 1882 the journalistic spirit of the students has 
 been manifested in the Wesleyan Bee, 1882-7; The Journal, 1885-6, 
 George W. Sikes, of newspaper fame, being its editor; at the same 
 time The News, and the Bee, 1 886, James Shaw, editor ; The Elite Jour- 
 nal. 1887-92; The Athenian, 1890, Wesleyan Echo, 1891-4; and The 
 Argus, the present college paper. 
 
 From the time of the Alumni Journal. 1876, to the Argus, the pub- 
 lications, representing a society or a faction in the university, at no time 
 perhaps reflected the actual life of the institution, though at times they 
 were ably conducted. 
 
 That the college paper might be truly representative and advance 
 all the interests of all the students, in the spring of 1894 the faculty in- 
 
 vited seven representative students from the junior and senior classes to 
 a conference looking toward the organization of a permanent publishing 
 company. Such an organization was effected, and Clarence E. Snyder 
 was appointed by the faculty as editor-in-chief. He was ably assisted by 
 Joseph K. P. Hawks as business manager ; Frank A. McCarty, literary 
 editor; Ruth Henry and J. Riggs Orr, local editors; Irene Bassett, ex- 
 change editor, and Edson Hart, subscription agent. The Argus is a 
 twenty-four page paper, published bi-weekly and in magazine form. 
 Position on the editorial staff is considered an honor, and only juniors 
 and seniors are eligible. For the college year 1895-6 the staff is 
 Albert L. Wood, editor-in-chief ; Leslie Baker, literary editor ; James 
 P. Bicket and Ada Harrison, local editors; Irene Bassett, exchange 
 editor; Edson Hart, business manager; Willard E. Wooding, subscrip- 
 tion agent. 
 
 The University Press. 
 
 Among other improvements and additions made to the university 
 the past summer, not the least important is the university printing office. 
 The outfit comprises an old-style Gordon jobber, 14x20, run by an elec- 
 tric motor, together with a number of fonts of handsome book type and 
 many artistic job faces, a paper cutter and the other usual appurtenances 
 of the printer's art. 
 
 The publishing com.pany, to be known as •• The University Press," 
 is composed of members of the faculty, and the office will be conducted 
 in the interest of the university. 
 
 For the mutual benefit of students and the university, text-books 
 and stationery will hereafter be kept on sale at the university. The 
 books will be sold at the prices heretofore current, and the profits will 
 be devoted to the building up of the university library. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 OUR FOUNDERS. 
 
 There are few colleges in America that do not represent sublime 
 faith, most rigid economy and patient self-denial on the part of their 
 founders. The law of perfection through suffering has a two-fold appli- 
 cation, to the institution and also to its founders. The greatest and best 
 institutions of human society have some chapters of keenest suffering 
 and purest sacrifice. The free State, the free Church and the Christian 
 college took root simultaneously in the soil of the New World, and the 
 freedom of the State has ever been conserved by the college. Harvard 
 rose at the founding of a free State by devout and pious men who pro- 
 foundly believed that their liberties would be best perpetuated to the 
 generations unborn by sanctified learning. 
 
 This faith and spirit characterized the men who tamed the wild 
 prairies of Illinois. As at Plymouth Rock, here the Church preceded 
 the State and made it possible, whereupon the college was conceived in 
 the throes of heroic sacrifice. 
 
 it would have afforded the editor purest pleasure to have presented 
 the portraits of all these chief actors in the birth throes of the Illinois 
 Wesleyan University, but acceptable photographs of some of the most 
 worthy were not to be obtained. 
 
 COL. JAMES ALLIN. 
 
 The man most actively identified with the organization of McLean 
 county, who gave Bloomington its name and gave the land upon which 
 the original town was built, who was also identified with the first move- 
 ment to establish the university and contributed largely to its success, 
 was Col. James Allin. 
 
 Born in North Carolina in 1788, he settled at Edwardsville, Illinois, 
 in 1819, having spent several years of his youth in Kentucky. In 1821 
 he removed to Vandalia, Illinois, where he continued to reside until 
 1829, when he removed to what was known as Blooming Grove, now 
 Bloomington, where he resided until the time of his death in 1869. 
 Upon his arrival at Blooming Grove he erected a double -log house, one 
 end of which he used for a residence and the other for a store. 
 
 In 1831 he was influential in securing the organization of McLean 
 county, gave twenty-two and one-half acres of land at the north end of 
 Blooming Grove for a site for the county seat of the new county, and 
 named the new town Bloomington. 
 
 He was a man upright in character, far-sighted in business, public- 
 spirited, and posessed of many elements of popularity and real leader- 
 ship. He was elected State Senator in 1836, and later served another 
 term. He was one of the earliest promoters of the university, and car- 
 ried into his duties as trustee the zeal and enthusiasm which character- 
 ized his efforts in founding the city. His public spirit and liberality 
 perhaps prevented him from improving the opportunity to accumulate 
 a fortune, and he died comparatively poor but universally respected, 
 with the conciousness that he had served well his day and gene- 
 ration. 
 
 An im.perious will enabled him to succeed where others failed, and 
 to live when others died. It is related of him that when so critically ill 
 as to have called a council of physicians, and noting their solemn tones 
 and despair written in their countenances he said: '■ I know what your 
 decision is. It is that I am going to die; but I won't die." And recover 
 he did. At another time, when his son William was very ill and it was 
 thought that he could not live, James said to him; William, I would 
 not die if I were you; I would not give way." Indomitable will may 
 inspire another to successes otherwise impossible. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 WILLIAM H. ALLIN. 
 
 The subject of this sketch has been described as a " man of medium 
 size, slenderly built, healthy complexion, rather light hair, sharp-pointed 
 nose and dark, penetrating eyes. He was very polite in his manner, 
 and was a favorite with all with whom he had to do." 
 
 He was a son of James Allin, and assisted, as did his father, in the 
 organization of the university as a trustee. He was a thoroughly honest 
 man, according to the testimony of those who knew him, and was intel- 
 ligent, discreet and energetic in business and a staunch supporter of the 
 university, 
 
 HON. JAMES MILLER. 
 
 James Miller whose grandfather was a Presbyterian minister in 
 Ireland, was born of Scotch-Irish parents, 1795, in Rockingham county, 
 Virginia. In 1811 his parents moved to Madison county. Kentucky, 
 where jamas grew to manhood and entered business. His education 
 had been with a view to farming as an occupation, but manifesting de- 
 cided taste and talent for trade, he became a most successful merchant, 
 being associated with John Magoun in 1835 and later with John E. 
 McClun, in the city of Bloomington. 
 
 At the early age of twenty he performed the responsible duties of 
 the office of collector and sheriff. Though born and educated in a 
 slave-holding community, he was not in sympathy with the institution of 
 African slavery, and determined not to bring up his children in a pro- 
 slavery atmosphere. Accordingly he came to Bloomington. Illinois, in 
 1835. and invested largely in land. He was prominently identified with 
 the chief enterprises which contributed to the development of the 
 county and city. His ability and integrity were recognized by the people 
 of the State, who elected him to the high office of treasurer in 1856, 
 and so efficiently did he fulfill the trust reposed in him. that he was 
 
 elected to succeed himself in 1858. He honored his office and State. 
 At the age of twenty he became an avowed Christian, and, though 
 his environment, socially, commercially and politically, prompted to a 
 different course, he united with the Methodist Episcopal church, to 
 which he adhered until his death, 1872. If the testimonies of those 
 who knew him are trustworthy, he honored the church by his member- 
 ship, and adorned the doctrine of Jesus Christ. During his long and 
 useful life he held perhaps all the offices in the church to which laymen 
 were eligible in his day, and in them all was respected, zealous, faithful. 
 and efficient. He was especially active in the organization of the uni- 
 versity, and was one of its chief founders. 
 
 JOHN MAGOUN. 
 
 John Magoun was born June 14. 1806. in Plymouth county. Massa- 
 chusetts, of a most respectable family, whose first American ancestor 
 was John Magoun. a free-holder in Massachusetts in 1666. Left father- 
 less in his teens, young John went to Boston, where he alternated 
 between teaching school in the winter and working at the mason's trade 
 in summer, which trade he learned thoroughly and practiced honestly. 
 
 In 1835 he came west, and in 1836 joined the Hudson colony. 
 that entered twenty sections of land ten miles north of Bloomington. 
 For a number of years he worked at his trade, and assisted in laying the 
 brick of the first court house building in McLean county. For a short 
 time he engaged in business with James Miller at Clinton. Illinois, and 
 then later with Judge John E. McClun, at Bloomington, and later still 
 with McClun and others in the banking business, becoming a partner in 
 the People's Bank. He was a man of fine business ability and accumu- 
 lated considerable property, which he used more for the benefit of the 
 public than to gratify any selfish desires. He was a devoted Christian 
 and member of the Methodist Episcopal church, and was fully identified 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 with the university from its inception to the day of his death in 1878. 
 
 Though unmarried, he was a true lover of humanity, and was in- 
 variably affable and courteous in his dealings with his fellow- men. 
 Deserved kind words are too often unspoken until after death has claimed 
 those deserving them, but it was written of Magoun while he was yet 
 living: " Few men have lived in any community so distinguished for 
 kindness of heart, for charity and purity of life ; gentleness of spirit and 
 kindness of heart were characteristics of his entire life. No man ever 
 lived whose heart has been more warm and open to the wants of the 
 poor: crowds of the distressed and destitute have always waited upon 
 him. and the worthy and needy applicant has never been turned away 
 empty. Eyes has he been to the blind, and feet to the lame : he has 
 been a father to the poor, and the cause which he knew not he has 
 sought out. He has sought neither honor nor position in the world, but 
 has striven only to do good and make all with whom he came in contact 
 happier and better." 
 
 I doubt not these words truly characterize John Magoun. He 
 seems to have been a veritable living Greatheart to the multitudes of 
 imfXDtent, and, at the same time, a prince among the most stalwart men. 
 
 In business, misfortune overtook him in the failure of the People's 
 bank in 1876. which was so disastrous to many patrons of the university. 
 While his prosperity was swept away and he was left practically penni- 
 less, he bequeathed to the world the memory of a spotless character 
 and built for himself the most enduring monument in the lives enriched 
 by deeds of kindness and mercy, and gifts to the Illinois Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity which will forever cherish and perpetuate the memory of his 
 gentle and manly spirit and his truly Christian life. His personal influ- 
 ence, discriminating judgment and liberality contributed largely to the 
 life and growth of the university, and will cause him to be remembered 
 when others who amassed princely fortunes are forgotten. 
 
 JOHN EDWARD M CLUN. 
 
 John Edward McClun was a native of Virginia, having been born 
 in Frederick county, 1812. His father was a devout member of the 
 Society of Friends, and his maternal grandfather was a soldier in the 
 war of the Revolution, and yielded up his life as a sacrifice in the cause 
 
 of American Independence. John 
 was the youngest of a family of seven 
 children, all boys, and was left to the 
 care of his mother when but a child, 
 his father having died when John 
 was about eight years old. Of his 
 mother he said: "If 1 have any- 
 thing commendable in my character, 
 I certainly owe it all under God to 
 my mother. She taught me to be 
 honest, and I have tried so to live; 
 she taught me always to be employed 
 at something, and 1 have tried to be 
 industrious; she taught me to speak 
 evil of no man or woman so far as I 
 could avoid it, and the observance of 
 that rule has wonderfully smoothed 
 the asperities of my life ; she taught 
 me the fear of the Lord, and 1 have 
 JOHN E. m'clun always been able to realize through 
 
 a long life that God was around and about my pathway." 
 
 If the testimony of the books was not accessible, the world had 
 abundant evidence to believe that Judge John E. McClun was born well 
 and received good instruction in childhood. Blessed is the child of 
 such a mother! 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 His advantages for an education were exceedingly limited, yet by 
 diligent application he became a fair scholar, and at the age of twenty he 
 was able to teach a respectable school which he did for three years, 
 when he determined to go west. In June. 1836. he entered the store of 
 David Duncan as clerk at Waynesville, Illinois, where he remained until 
 the spring of 1837. when he went into the mercantile business on his 
 own account at Bloomington. He prospered in business and was rec- 
 ognized as one of McLean county's most substantial citizens. From 
 1842 to 1846. he was under contract with the government to conduct 
 all mail routes passing through Bloomington; from 1849 to 1852 he 
 served as county judge; from. 1852 to 1857 he served his district in the 
 legislature of the State, and was a member of the State board of agri- 
 culture. In politics he was an old line Whig and naturally a Republican 
 until 1872. when he supported his friend and neighbor. Judge David 
 Davis, as a Liberal Republican in his candidacy for the nomination for 
 president. 
 
 He was a devout Christian and active member of the First Meth- 
 odist Episcopal church, serving it in the capacity of class-leader, steward, 
 trustee and superintendent of the Sunday school for twenty years. He 
 took a deep interest in the organization of the university, and as trustee 
 gave it intelligent and efficient service as long as he lived. His gifts 
 were liberal and well timed, his faith in the possibilities of the institution 
 great, and his devotion to its interests constant. 
 
 JONATHAN TOTTEN. 
 
 Jonathan Totten was born in 1821. in Morris county. New Jersey; 
 died in Bement. Illinois, April 3, 1894, He was married to Maria 
 Schureman in 1843, and ten years later settled in the vicinity of what 
 is now Green Valley, Tazewell county, Illinois. Here he lived for thirty 
 years, during which time, by unremitting industry, strict economy and 
 
 moral integrity he acquired a competency. He was an earnest and in- 
 telligent Christian and a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, 
 and was largely instrumental in the establishment of the church in Green 
 Valley, to which he bequeathed the sum of $2,000, the principal to be 
 intact and the interest available perpetually. Inspired by Dr. Buck's 
 first generous gift of $12,500 to the endowment fund of the Illinois 
 Wesleyan University, Mr. Totten, after a conversation with Dr. Buck. 
 set apart the sum of $6,000 to go toward the endowment of a chair of 
 Natural Science in the university, which sum has been turned over to 
 the trustees by his executor. Like a good steward, he has thus invested 
 his Lord's money where it will go on blessing the world through genera- 
 tions to come. 
 
 JESSE E. BURCH, TRUSTEE AND TREASURER. 
 
 In 1850 a young man of quiet demeanor, intelligent, well educated 
 and devout, entered the city of Bloomington and began the practice of 
 law. He had been graduated from Asbury College, Greencastle, Indi- 
 ana, some few years before, and, fully appreciating the value of a Chris- 
 tian college to the Church and State, he soon became deeply interested 
 in the effort to establish the Illinois Wesleyan. Well poised in mind, 
 suave in manner, manly, dignified and scrupulously honest in his rela- 
 tions with men, and consistent, earnest and sincere as a Christian, he 
 became a wise counsellor to the university as trustee, and a valuable 
 and trusted treasurer, in which capacity he served the institution until his 
 death in 1876. Such is our recollection of Jesse Burch. 
 
 It was said that he was an excellent office lawyer though he never 
 accumulated riches. His most valuable services to the university did 
 not consist of gifts of money but rather of faithful and disinterested zeal 
 in caring for its funds and contributing that kind of service so essential 
 to its life that money cannot buy. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 Charles V. C. Humsell. 
 
 FrNAMCIAL AceNTOF THE: UNIVERSITY FROM 
 1857 TO IS73. 
 
 Judge Reeves says truthfully that for 
 many years in the critical period in the 
 history of the university. Rev. Charles 
 W. C. Munsell devoted most intelligent 
 and unremitting attention to its financial 
 interest, and the university is indebted to 
 him largely for its financial prosperity. 
 
 Charles W. C. Munsell was born in Ohio 
 in 1822. and came to Illinois in 1832. In 
 childhood he began to lay the foundation 
 of that education which served him so 
 well as financial agent of the Illinois Wes- 
 leyan University during the years of severe 
 labor for successful birth. Before he was 
 twelve years of age. he was employed in a 
 store and counting-room, and by the time 
 he reached young manhood was thoroughly 
 versed in the forms and methods of busi- 
 ness. 
 
 He was admitted to the ministry of the 
 Methodist Episcopal church in the Illinois 
 Conference in 1846. He served succes- 
 sively and successfully Shelby ville Circuit, 
 Shawneetown. Georgetown Circuit, Mar- 
 shall, and Danville. In these charges he 
 met with great success, especially in look- 
 
 ing after the financial and material interests of the church. 
 
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 Charles W. C. Munsell. 
 
 While at Danville in 1850. he became 
 much interested in the educational enter- 
 prises of the church and raised the funds 
 necessary for establishing the Danville 
 Seminary, which for a number of yeais 
 was an important school in Eastern Illi- 
 nois. He was also chiefly instrumental 
 in raising funds for the Shelbyville Semi- 
 nary, which for fifteen years was one of 
 our chief schools. In 1856 he was elected 
 trustee of the Illinois Wesleyan University 
 and appointed its financial agent by Bishop 
 Simpson. This year marks the beginning 
 of a task which required tact, zeal, faith 
 in a large measure in man, in God, and in 
 His cause. The monetary panic of 1857 
 and the distraction of the Civil War made 
 the task a most difficult one. The school 
 was without money, without buildings, save 
 the mere walls of the first structure reared 
 on the present campus, and in debt $4,200, 
 on which the trustees were paying twenty- 
 two per cent interest. It had been sus- 
 pended, its local friends disheartened, and, 
 but for the faith and skill of Charles W. C. 
 Munsell and his brother, who at that time 
 was chosen president, it could never have 
 met its obligations. Agent Munsell found 
 a few old notes and other scholarship notes 
 of three or four varieties, which if met 
 
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 would not aggregate half enough to meet the outstanding obligations. 
 An attempt had been made to raise one hundred thousand dollars in ten 
 annual installments, but nothing was binding until half the amount was 
 secured which would make good the first five installments subscribed : 
 but this condition proved to be a fatal defect in the subscriptions, few of 
 which were ever paid. Many friends had been alienated because they 
 had been sued by the contractors on notes turned over to them. De- 
 spair seemed to settle down upon all but the Munsell Brothers and a few 
 faithful men in Bloomington. In 1864. at the time the fifth installment 
 of the subscriptions became due, a crisis was reached. Mr. Munsell 
 called the creditors together, stated the facts and proposed to go to the 
 individual subscribers and ask them to pay as large amount as possible 
 of their subscriptions on short time on the simple condition that the 
 entire debt was cancelled by a given date. The creditors accepted the 
 proposition, as did many of the subscribers, and in July, 1864, the debts 
 were canceled, the creditors were paid principal and interest, but nothing 
 was left of the old assets except three or four notes that never were 
 collected. 
 
 In 1866, Mr. Munsell was largely instrumental in awakening an in- 
 terest in an offering to the Illinois Wesleyan University, it being the 
 centennial year of Methodism. It was under the inspiration of these 
 offerings and the prosperous condition of the school so far as attendance 
 was concerned, that the main building was projected, toward the comple- 
 tion of which Mr. Munsell contributed a large share. Too great praise 
 cannot be given Mr. Munsell for his intelligent and self-sacrificing prose- 
 cution of this great work, especially when we remember that for ten 
 years he labored wholly at his own expense, not receiving compensation 
 for correspondence or traveling expenses, and for fifteen years without a 
 salary. Mr. Munsell is a man of fine sensibilities, unassuming and 
 modest in m.anner, and pure in private and public life. 
 
 LUCY ABIGAIL WILLIAMS. 
 
 Miss Lucy Abigail Williams, one of the elect women of the nine- 
 teenth century, and a patron of the Illinois Wesleyan University, was 
 born in Vermont in 1816. and died near Pittsfield, Illinois, in. 1893. 
 Having secured a good academic education, she taught school in Troy. 
 New York, and in Illinois for several years after emigrating to that State 
 with her parents in 1838. In 1874 she was left without relatives and 
 alone with the management of an estate which would have been large 
 but for her generous nature. This she managed with great skill and 
 ability, while her benefactions were numerous, never missing an oppor- 
 tunity to do good both to the souls and to the bodies of men. She was 
 a most generous supporter of all local church and charitable enterprises. 
 She gave also largely to the connectional interests of the Methodist 
 church, of which she was a member. She was truly an elect woman 
 of God, and for generations to come people will remember her life, and 
 hold sacred her memory. Her last gift to the Illinois Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity was by bequest. $600, and a pro rata interest in the residuum 
 after bequests are paid. Her influence for sanctified learning is not to 
 be measured by her pecuniary gifts, though these were not inconsidera- 
 ble. If one woman in every ten in America were such in character and 
 action as was Miss Williams, the treasuries of charitable and benevolent 
 institutions would be full, the educational institutions which stand for 
 scholarship and most godlike character would be richly endowed with 
 millions of money and equipped with buildings, laboratories, museums, 
 libraries, and all holy environment that money can procure. 
 
 For deep conviction of the savableness of mankind, faith in the 
 divinity and efficiency of the Christian religion to regenerate the race, 
 clear conception of her relation to God as his steward, sympathy in the 
 presence of the suffering and oppressed, and power of discriminating 
 the merits of philanthropic appeals, she was one of a thousand. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 Isaac Funk. 
 
 FOUMDER or THE ISAAC FUNK FROFESSOR- 
 
 SMiP OF Chemistry and Zoolocy. 
 
 Honorable Isaac Funk was born of Ger- 
 man parentage in 1797, in Clark county, 
 Kentucky, in 1823 he emigrated to Illi- 
 nois and entered a tract of land at Funk's 
 Grove, where, by industry, honesty, and 
 self-denial, he accumulated a vast fortune, 
 and developed a sterling character which 
 became widely known because of his life 
 and work in the Prairie State. Mr. Funk 
 was blessed with good health, with a pow- 
 erful physical organism and an indomitable 
 will. This constituted the capital which 
 entered into his immense farm and stock 
 interests. He was a man of strictest integ- 
 rity, and valued his word as highly as his 
 bond, saying often to his boys, •• Suffer 
 your right hand to be cut off, but swear 
 not falsely, and keep your promises." He 
 was soon regarded by all who knew him 
 not only as strictly honest, but of such in- 
 defatigable energy and indomitable will, 
 that he was capable of fulfilling all his 
 pledges. With this capital he did an ex- 
 tensive business in buying and selling stock. 
 Often would he agree to furnish so m.any 
 cattle at the Slock Yards in Chicago, for 
 
 a certain price six months or a year later, when he had 
 
 Hon. Isaac Funk. 
 neither cattle nor money with which to buy; then returning 
 to the prairies he would buy cattle wherever they could be 
 
 found, giving his word that they would be 
 paid for at a certain date. These he would 
 gather together in herds and graze until 
 ready for the market, when his pledges 
 were invariably redeemed. Whatever 
 profits were realized he at once put into 
 lands, and often when these were too small 
 for his ambition he bought land solely on 
 his original capital, integrity. At a later 
 day, when money was a little more abun- 
 dant, he would borrow for similar invest- 
 ments, and to meet one of these obligations 
 upon an appointed day due at Springfield, 
 Illinois, he sent $3,000 in gold in saddle- 
 bags by his son Jacob, who reached the 
 father's residence in McLean county at 
 12 o'clock at night before the payment 
 was due in Springfield the next morning, 
 when his son George arose, saddled a fresh 
 horse and completed the journey in order 
 that Mr. Funk's word might be literally 
 redeemed. This incident throws light upon 
 the character of the elder Funk, and the 
 sons as well, as many capitalists of today 
 would be little concerned about so prompt 
 a redemption of a pledge, and many sons 
 woula be incapable of performing the ser- 
 vice. 
 
 While not educated after the manner of 
 the schools, Mr. Funk had a thoroughly 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 49 
 
 disciplined mind, an extraordinary memory, and an iron will, in busi- 
 ness he was both sagacious and far-seeing. He was one of the founders 
 of the First National bank, Bloomington, Illinois, the last paper he exe- 
 cuted being the articles of its organization, in January. 1865. 
 
 In religion, he was a devout believer in Christianity and adhered 
 to the doctrines and polity of the Methodist Episcopal church, to 
 which he rendered liberal and loyal support. His body lies in the 
 churchyard at Funk's Grove, where a Methodist church stands as a 
 monument testifying to his faith in the religion of Jesus Christ. 
 
 He was an old time Whig in politics, and served one term in the 
 House of Representatives of his State in 1840, and in 1861 he was 
 elected to fill the vacancy in the State Senate, made by the resignation 
 of General Oglesby. who had gone to the defense of the Union. Mr. 
 Funk was re-elected and served as a member of the General Assembly 
 until his death in 1865. 
 
 His loyalty to the Union was intense, and often manifested itself 
 in the support of the government by speech and money. Nothing would 
 arouse him so quickly and stir him so profoundly as an expression of 
 sympathy with the States in rebellion, and as occasion was often pre- 
 sented during the war. this strong passion did much to awaken patriotism 
 and disarm disunion at home. There is one event worthy of record here. 
 
 In 1863, while the Senate was considering a bill having for its ob- 
 ject the aid of the Sanitary Commission, Mr. Funk, inspired by the love 
 of country, delivered in support of the bill a most telling speech whose 
 immediate effects were indescribable. Sympathizers with the Southern 
 Confederacy had busied themselves and were exerting a powerful influ- 
 ence for its defeat, though not outwardly attacking the bill. 
 
 ■■Mr. Speaker: I can sit in m.y seat no longer and see such boys" 
 play going on. These men are trifling with the best interests of the 
 country. They should have asses' ears to set off their heads, or they 
 
 are secessionists and traitors at heart. I say there are traitors and se- 
 cessionists at heart in this Senate. Their actions prove it. Their 
 speeches prove it. Their gibes and laughter and cheers here nightly. 
 when their speakers get up in this hall and denounce the war and the 
 administration prove it, * ■* * * ■* 
 
 ■■Mr. Speaker, you must excuse me; I could not sit longer in my 
 seat and calmly listen to these traitors. My heart, that feels for my 
 poor country, would not let me. My heart, that cries out for the lives 
 of our brave volunteers in the field, that these traitors at home are de- 
 stroying by the thousand, would not let me. My heart, that bleeds for 
 the widows and orphans at home, would not let me. Yes, these villains 
 and traitors and secessionists in this Senate are killing my neighbors' 
 boys now fighting in the field. # * # * * 
 
 ■■* * They should be provided with hemp collars. They 
 
 deserve them. They deserve hanging. I say. The country would be 
 better off to swing them. I go for hanging them, and I dare to tell 
 them so right here to their traitor faces. Traitors should be hung. It 
 "would be the salvation of the country to hang them. For that reason I 
 would rejoice at it. 
 
 ■■ Mr. Speaker, I beg pardon of the gentlemen in the Senate who 
 are not traitors, but true, loyal men, for what I have said. I only in- 
 tended it and mean it for secessionists at heart." 
 
 Under the influence of President Munsell, Mr. Funk promised to 
 give $10,000 to the Illinois Wesleyan University. His children knowing 
 of that promise, after his death set apart $10,000 for the endowment of 
 the " Isaac Funk Professorship," which was the first attempt at the en- 
 dowment of an individual chair. 
 
 If forgotten as a farmer, or citizen, or business man, or patriot, 
 Hon. Isaac Funk will go down to a thousand generations as the first 
 great benefactor and patron of the Illinois Wesleyan University. 
 
Hiram Buck. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 51 
 
 HlRAH BUCt\. D. D. 
 Trustee and Chief Foumder. 
 
 Among all the friends and patrons of the Illinois Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity none can be found whose love for the institution has been more pure 
 and constant, whose ambition for it has been more lofty and worthy, or 
 whose gifts have done more to awaken an interest in its permanent 
 growth and endowment than the Rev. Hiram Buck. D. D.. who for 
 many years resided at Decatur, Illinois, and at which place he died. 
 August 21, 1892. He was born in Steuben county. New York, March 
 1, 1819, and having experienced the new birth of the soul at Moscow, 
 New York, in 1836, at the age of seventeen, he dedicated his life to the 
 service of God and humanity, and united with the Methodist Episcopal 
 church. He was admitted to the ministry of that church in 1843 at the 
 annual session of the Illinois Conference held at Quincy. Illinois, within 
 the bounds of which conference he dedicated one hundred churches to 
 the worship oi Almighty God, a record that will not be made of another 
 man, no matter how great his skill in such services. His entire life 
 was unselfishly devoted to the church and the special interests of the 
 Illinois Conference, and such devotion was rarely excelled even by the 
 pioneer with whom he was contemporary. He was at once recognized 
 as a man of ability and took high rank in his conference, serving its 
 most important charges as pastor, and at the early age of thirty-three 
 Bishop Ames appointed him to the presiding eldership in which office 
 he served twenty-three of the forty-nine years of his notable ministry. 
 
 •• He brought to this office the learning and eloquence of an able 
 preacher, the tact and skill of a wise administrator, and the broad and 
 generous sympathy of a noble and unselfish nature. As a presiding 
 elder he served with honor to himself and the church the Danville. 
 Bloomington, Champaign and Decatur districts, beginning and ending 
 
 his work as presiding elder on the Danville district, in the performance 
 of the functions of this important office, he commanded and merited the 
 confidence of bishop, presiding elders, preachers and people. The full 
 measure of his large ability and unquestioned integrity were brought to 
 the maintenance and execution of every trust reposed in him by the 
 church. 
 
 In caring for the interests of the preachers of his district, he was 
 unsurpassed by any of his contemporaries in office. Ever watchful, 
 tender-hearted and sympathetic, his brethren learned to trust and love 
 him as a true friend. 
 
 ••The invincible logic, intense fervor, thrilling eloquence and often 
 melting pathos of mjn/ of his sermons made the quarterly meeting 
 occasions times of great interest and profit to both preachers and people. 
 His commanding presence, his over-mastering oratory, his passionate 
 enthusiasm and his transparently honest earnestness will long be remem- 
 bered by those who :aw and heard him in the prime days of his full- 
 orbed manhood. 
 
 ******* 
 
 He was four times elected to represent the Annual Conference in 
 the General Conference of the church, viz.: In 1856. 1872. 1876 and 
 1880. and in this we may well recognize not only his popularity with his 
 brethren in his ministry, but his native genius for government, his pre- 
 ordained destiny to be a leader of men and great movements, and his 
 eminent fitness to be entrusted with the most sacred interests of the 
 
 church. 
 
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 Dr. Buck was the ardent and unwavering friend, advocate and 
 patron of higher education, and in the prim.e of his best manhood he 
 turned aside from the regular work of the ministry to devote his time 
 and energies to the advancement of our educational work. The institu 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKEICH AND ALUMNI Rl^CORD. 
 
 tions of his own conference lay nearest his heart, and their financial 
 embarrassment awakened his deepest sympathy. In 1863 he was ap- 
 pxDinted financial agent of the Illinois Female College at Jacksonville. 
 and in 1869 agent for the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloomington. 
 In this capacity he served the former in.stitution one year and the latter 
 three years. 
 
 •'During the last twenty-five years of his life these two institutions 
 have continued to draw increasingly upon the sympathies of his heart 
 and the best thought and energy of his tireless brain, until thought and 
 sympathy, accumulating energy and generating action, finally crystallized 
 themselves in the munificence of princely gifts, which will make his 
 name immortal, his influence perpetual, and his example an inspiration 
 to many others, to consecrate their worldy substance to the cause of 
 Christian education. While the ardent friend of education in general, 
 and of Christian education in particular, the Illinois Wesleyan University, 
 because of its location, its management, its aims and its future possibili- 
 ties, lay nearer his heart than any other similar institution of learning." 
 — Illinois Conference Minutes. 1 892. 
 
 Soon after President Wilder became president. Dr. Buck informed 
 him that he had determined to give finally a large portion of his estate 
 to the university. After mature reflection, knowing the great need of 
 greater endowment for the university, and believing that it is wise for a 
 person to administer on his own estate and his duty to provoke others 
 also to good works, he executed a warranty deed of land valued at 
 $12,500. now worth $15,000. in favor of the trustees of the university. 
 reserving a life interest for himself and Mrs. Buck. This gift was 
 further conditioned in that the university should raise $25,000 more for 
 the same purposes by January I, 1892. This condition was fully met in 
 September. 1891. when a similar deed was executed of land valued at 
 $15,000 on the condition that the university should raise $30,000 more 
 
 endowment purposes by January 1, 1893. This last condition was fully 
 met a few months after his death, in August. 1892. As we review this 
 review thjs remarkable ministry of devotion to God and the Methodist 
 church, which was so fruitful for nearly half a century, these final acts 
 appear a grand climax in the life of this man of God. His gift of 
 $30,000 secured directly to the university endowment $55,000 more, 
 not including $6,000 from Jonathan Totten, who was moved by Dr, 
 Buck's course to bequeath this amount to the university. A number of 
 others also under the same influence are known to have made similar 
 provision. What this gift may contribute to the ages to come to the 
 good of human society by promoting sanctified learning is beyond human 
 conception. Most fitting end of a noble earthly ministry. 
 
 Hiram Buck has immortalized himself in these gifts especially, and 
 hereafter it must be written of him : — The chief founder of the Illinois 
 Wesleyan University. No more worthy object could have engaged his 
 attention and received his beneficence than this which stands for the 
 highest Christian education. 
 
 REV. COLIN D. JAMES. 
 
 Among the ministers especially interested in the movement in 1850 
 to found an institution of learning at Bloomington was Colin D. James. 
 an honored member of the Illinois Conference. He was born in Vir- 
 ginia, 1808, and died in 1888. honored and loved by all who knew him. 
 His father having been a practicing physician and a local preacher in the 
 Methodist church, he had advantages for an education superior to those 
 of the average youth of the day. which were well improved. As a preacher 
 he has been described as "exceedingly practical, sententious. pithy, earn- 
 est and devoted." Though he served but one term of three years as 
 trustee, his services were highly appre:;iatsd. and continusd Ion:' after 
 his official relation was severed. 
 
! LI. I NO IS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 Mrs. Martha A. Buck, 
 
 TRUSTEE: SINCE 18<52. 
 
 Mrs. Martha A. Buck was elected trustee 
 in 1892 for the unexpired term of Dr. 
 Bucl<. whose death occurred that autumn, 
 and is now serving her second term. Shar- 
 ing the large interest that Dr. Buck him- 
 self had in the institution from its struggling 
 infancy, that interest has been intensified, 
 having taken an active part in the business 
 of the board of trustees. In the death 
 of Dr, Buck the university lost a warm 
 friend, a wise counselor a sagacious 
 trustee, and skillful in execution, but 
 found a friend in Mrs. Buck, as de- 
 voted to its interests and determined to 
 advance its prosperity, enlarge its sphere 
 of usefulness and enrich the society of the 
 commonwealth. She was born in Bour- 
 bon county, Kentucky, and came when 
 only three years old to Illlinois with her 
 father. John Hammitt. who was the sec- 
 ond white settler in Coles county. She 
 was married to Hiram Buck. September 
 17. 1846. Her industry, intelligence, and 
 excellency of womanly character were 
 valuable contributions to the success of 
 her husband's ministry and the accumula- 
 tion of property. Of this union there were 
 
 no children born, but Mrs. Bu:k. oul of her kindiess of hear 
 
 Mrs Martha A. Buck. 
 
 gave th=; the ad/antag3s of a Christian 
 home, where every want was kindly met. 
 to four nieces who were all reared to 
 young womanhood and well provided for. 
 two of whom later she ministered unto as 
 tenderly as a fond mother until death 
 claimed them. Her home is now bright- 
 ened by the presence of two orphan child- 
 ren of one of these nieces, for whom she 
 provides as if they were her own. 
 
 Mrs. Buck is a woman of fine pres- 
 ence, keen wit. well informed as to the 
 great philanthropical. educational, social 
 and religious topics of the day. and in 
 many ways unknown not only to the public 
 but to her friends, contributes to the needy 
 and worthy. 
 
 She is a staunch supporter of the Wo- 
 man's Foreign Missionary Society, and 
 has educated at least one native girl in 
 one of the foreign fields. Since her e'ec- 
 tion as trustee of the university she has 
 become much interested in its proper en- 
 dowment and is now especially interested 
 in the erection of a new hall for ladies and 
 Wis th; first to subscribe five hundred 
 dollars toward the building. Her relation 
 to this enterprise is sufficient guaranty to 
 all who know her that every detail will be 
 worked out in wisdom to completeness. 
 
HISTORICAL SKBICH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 VlLLIAH SVAIM PREMTICE. 
 Trustee and One or the Chief Patrons. 
 
 Rev. William Swaim Prentice. D. D.. 
 a descendant of Captain Thomas Prentice 
 who came from England and settled at 
 Newton. Massachusetts, in 1650, was born 
 in 1819 in St. Clair county, Illinois. He 
 availed himself of the best advantages af- 
 forded in the schools of that early day. and 
 when but a youth obtained an appointment 
 as clerk in the United States Land Office 
 at Vandaiia. at that time the capitol of the 
 State. He was soon afterwards employed 
 in the State Auditor's office, and came to 
 Springfield upon the removal of the Capi- 
 tol to that place, where he made his home 
 from 1867 until the time of his death. 
 He was intimately acquainted with all the 
 public men of the State during his young 
 manhood, and was a favorite of Ho.i. 
 Stephen A. Douglas, through whom he 
 secured an appointment under the govern- 
 ment at Washington. D. C. He was also 
 greatly interested in military affairs, and 
 rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 
 the State militia and served as Aid upon 
 the Governors staff. 
 
 He entered the ministry in the Illinois 
 
 conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1849. and 
 
 WiL.i lAM S. Prentice. 
 
 soon rose to a commanding position not 
 only in the councils of his conference but 
 of his denomination. In skill as an ad- 
 ministrator, and especially in the office of 
 presiding elder, which office he filled for 
 twenty-four years, he excelled. He was 
 exceedingly modest, and in whatever he 
 believed to bs right he was as firm as a 
 pillar mortised in rock. He had the art 
 of influencing and controlling men in the 
 affairs of the Church developed in a larger 
 degree than any other man 1 have known, 
 and yet was seldom heard upon the confer- 
 enc floor, or in the deliberative body. As 
 another has said, "He was a man of su- 
 perior judgment. Give brother Prentice 
 the premises, let the subject be what it 
 might, and he would give you dispassionate 
 and clear judgment, whether you fell into 
 his conclusion or not, and you saw ample 
 reason for coming to his conclusion. He 
 was a man than who no man ever lived 
 was truer to his friends." 
 
 His mind was thoroughly disciplined, 
 and his powers were brought into unusual 
 control, and were rrade to answer the de- 
 mands of reason and an enlightened con- 
 science ; for this reason his opinion was 
 sought as that of no other man in his con- 
 ference contemporary with him. 1 think 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 all who knew him will readily concede that he was the greatest Pre- 
 siding Elder in the history of the Illinois conference. 
 
 From the earliest days of the Illinois Wesleyan University he was 
 one of its wisest counselors and truest friends. For about thirty years 
 he was intimately associated with Dr. Buck in planning for its develop- 
 ment, and may be truly considered as one of its founders. It was unto 
 this man that President Munsell often went in the hours of its extremity 
 for wisdom in directing the affairs of the institution ; and in Dr. Prentice 
 President Adams confided more than in any other man; and if the truth 
 were known, it would doubtless appear that Dr. Prentice influenced him 
 more than any one other individual. The Illinois Wesleyan University will 
 ever rejoice in his memory, and consider that it honored himself in 
 conferring upon William S. Prentice the degree or D. D., in 1875. 
 
 REV. JOHN S. BARGER. 
 
 A character long to be remembered by the students who were at 
 the university previous to 1876 was that of John S. Barger, trustee from. 
 1850 to 1862. one year financial agent, a frequent visitor and an enthu- 
 siastic supporter until called to his reward. His son. Rev. James H.. 
 received the first degree conferred by the trustees, and later Richard S., 
 another, received its academic honors. 
 
 He was born in Virg'nia in 1803, and died in 1876. Like many of 
 the great men of Illinois, though born in Virginia he spent his youth in 
 Kentucky, where he began his ministry. Having had the best advan- 
 tages short of a full collegiate course of study, he was fairly well educated. 
 He was tall, and most dignified in mien, and always bore the marks of a 
 true Christian gentleman. His pulpit efforts were scholarly, exceedingly 
 devout, clear, logical and doctrinal. For several years prior to his death 
 he lived in Bloomington and was a frequent visitor at the university. 
 
 THE FLORENCE CAMERON SCHOLARSHIP. 
 
 In the fall of 1890 a beautiful young woman enrolled in the Fresh- 
 man class, having prepared for college in the Greenfield high school. 
 Quiet in demeanor, amiable in disposition, and thoroughly earnest in her 
 
 studies, she soon won the affection 
 of both faculty and students : but it 
 was not her destiny to complete a 
 collegiate course of study and exer- 
 cise her developed powers in doing 
 good on earth. She fell a victim 
 to heart disease August 1, 1891. 
 Her mother, Martha Elzina Cam- 
 eron, the widow of George W. 
 Cameron, who died in Greenfield, 
 Illinois. October 16. 1886. was left 
 without husband and childless, and 
 as a memorial to Florence, gave 
 $1,000 to the trustees of the 
 Illinois Wesleyan University, to 
 establish the Florence Cameron 
 Scholarship, the income from 
 which is to be used perpetually to 
 aid worthy young women in secur- 
 ing a Christian education. This 
 is a beautiful memorial to a pure and spotless young womanhood worthy 
 of kindest remembrance; a memorial, too, of munificence for the com- 
 ing generation of young women, and not wasted in frivolous display. 
 Mrs. Martha Cameron is a woman of fine business ability and a firm 
 friend of the university. 
 
 FLORENCE CAMERON. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 Oven T. Reeues. 
 
 President of Board of Trustees and 
 Dean of law School. 
 
 Judge Owen T. Reeves. B. A.. M.A.. 
 LL. D.. President of the joint Board of 
 Trustees and Dean of the College of 
 Law. was born in Ohio in 1829. He 
 attended the common schools and la- 
 bored upon his father's farm until he 
 was seventeen years of age. when he en- 
 tered Salem Academy to prepare for 
 college, and was graduated from the 
 Ohio Wesleyan University in 1850. in 
 1850 to 1851 he was tutor of languages 
 in the University, and the following 
 year he was principal of Berea Semi- 
 nary in Cleveland. Ohio. In 1853 he 
 was Principal of the Chillicothe High 
 School and a student of law under the 
 direction of W. T. McClintock. Hav- 
 ing been admitted to the bar in 1854. 
 he began the practice of law in Bloom- 
 ington, Illinois, where his integrity, in- 
 dustry, and ability soon brought him 
 into recognition as one of the leading 
 men of his profession in the State. 
 
 In 1862 he raised and commanded 
 the 75th Illinois Volunteers. He was 
 elected circuit judge in 1877. which 
 
 position he filled with devotion and rare ability until 1890. His 
 
 Owen T. Reeves. 
 
 connection with the Illinois Wesleyan 
 University began in 1854, almost im- 
 mediately upon his arrival at Bloom- 
 ington, having bsen employed to fill out 
 an unexpired term of one of the teach- 
 ers. He was elected trustee in 1855, 
 and secretary of the Board of Trustees 
 in 1857. and remained in the office 
 and performed its duties until 1876. 
 He has thus been officially connected 
 with the university almost from its or- 
 ganization, and has been a member of 
 its executive committee since 1855, 
 serving as secretary of the Board, 
 chairman of the executive committee, 
 or President of the joint Board of 
 Trustees until this time without pecuni- 
 ary compensation. 
 
 Judge Reeves has been retained in 
 this connection so long because of his 
 wisdom which is not abating, and of the 
 value of his services, which is of greater 
 moment daily. Such long continued, 
 unselfish devotion should never be over- 
 looked though it is often unappreciated, 
 a fact which renders it the more beau- 
 tiful, valuable, and praiseworthy. 
 
 Truth also demands the record of 
 the fact that others have served on the 
 local Board of Trustees and rendered 
 
ILLINOIS WES LEY AN UNIVERSITY 
 
 important service from year to year gratuitously: even at this time tiiere 
 are men devoting time and energy of thought which most men would 
 turn to account in their private business, and all this wilhout money 
 consideration, or the desire for, or thought of it. The secretary and 
 treasurer of the board tor some years past have received a small salary, 
 but little if any more than enough to cover actual office expenses. But 
 among all the faithful, no one his served more faithfully or more 
 efficiently with a sublimer faith in the possibilities cf the institution than 
 has Judge Owen T. Reeves. It would be impossible to ccmpule the 
 time he has given to its interests since 1855. having made its interests 
 his own. and at the same time he has given largely cf his means. 
 
 At a banquet given on the twelfth of June. 1895. in honor of Judge 
 Reeves, in recognition of his long service ss a member of the beard of 
 trustees. Rev. Preston Wood. Sr. in response to the sentiment, "/uld 
 Lang Syne." uttered words of praise well earned by the living and the 
 dead when he said : 
 
 •• It is a saying that los?s none of its fo-ce by frequent reoeftion, that 
 youth lives m.ostiy in the future ana age in the pss^, and tnis, 1 presume, 
 is the reason for the assignment of this topic to myself— 'Auld Lang 
 Syne.' 
 
 ••We have all. ho'»vever. lately lived chiefly in the precincts of the 
 past; delivering decoration day addresses, and preaching memorial ser- 
 mons. We have moved amid the sacred scenes where sleep the brave: 
 have laid their floral tributes on their graves and fanned them with the 
 breath of praise and of 'waving bs.iners.' and have sympathized with 
 the sublime sentiment, that there is no better place for • the ivy to shed 
 'ts leaves than at the foot of the o?k that nourished V.' 
 
 •• My theme today links the present to the past, the living to the 
 dead: and whilst I bring bouquets for the one, I am privileged to bear 
 garlr.nds for the other. 
 
 •• Early in the fifties my interest in the things that pertained to the 
 well-being of the Illinois Wesleyan University began. It was a babe in 
 swaddlings then, and a puny babe at best : but it had its nursing fathers 
 —clerical and lay- and it never lifted up its voice and wept but they 
 •had compassion on the child.' 
 
 ••Am.cng the clergy was that sagacious sen cf Scctch descent. 
 Reuben Andrus: that eloquent Irishman, Thomas Magee : the pure- 
 m.inced George Futlege: the two Peters— Akers and Cartwright; a 
 litt'e la;er en. the knightly Hiram Buck: and that crystallization of 
 common sense. William S. Prentice, and others. Some of these men 
 gave out of their penury to this institution until if everything that they 
 had left had been put up fcr sale and sold at par. it had not aggregated 
 the sum of their beneficence. 
 
 •• Among the laity, the ever courteous Judge McClun: Jesse Birch. 
 the embodimient of business integrity — that man whcm it was a privi- 
 lege to know : John Mag-oun. gentle as the daybreak and generous as 
 its light: and among others that I need not name, that stalwart man 
 whose native eloquence in defense of country and of flag shook our 
 Senate halls as they have never been shaken since— miaking •treason 
 odious' and traitors tremble in their citadel — Isaac Funk. These are 
 some of the men of • Auld Lang Syne:' these among the men who 
 m.ade this university possible: they have gone before, and. if •a monu- 
 ment you ask. look around.' 
 
 "Of the survivors of that noble band — that frequent forlorn hope — 
 is on2 who was always safe in counsel as he was brave to act — cne who 
 is the hcrored guest ct this banquet. Judge Owen T. Reeves. 
 
 •• 1 rejoice with you that he still retains a bright • old age. uncon- 
 scious of decay.' May heaven crown him with its benediction as we 
 crown him with our prayers: and may he be long spared to guide us in 
 cur counsels and to inspire us by his actions as in • Auld Lang Syne! 
 
5S 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 Judge Reeves has been officially connected also with the Law 
 School of the university since its organization, and has contributed 
 largely to its development and success. As dean of the school, he most 
 wisely and ably directs its affairs. 
 
 Rev. PETEf^ CAf^TVRlQHT. 
 Trustee. i850-i87i. 
 
 But few persons into whose hands this sketch will fall have not 
 heard of that man of pioneer fame. Peter Cartwright. He was one of 
 the original trustees and remained an active member until 1871. 
 Though born in Virginia in 1785. his youth and early manhood were 
 spent in Kentucky, where at a meeting held jointly by the Presbyterians 
 and Methodists he was converted in iSOi, and soon afterwards entered 
 the ranks as an itinerant minister, being ordained by Bishop Asbury. 
 In 1823 he came to Illinois and settled his family at Pleasant Plains. 
 
 For fifty years he was an acknowledged leader among men in 
 laying the foundations of the Church and the State of Illinois. A de- 
 scription of his personal appearance written by Rev. J. L. Crane, who 
 knew him intimately, harmonizes well with the writer's recollection of 
 him : 
 
 ••Dr. Cartwright was about five feet ten inches high, and had a 
 squarely built, powerful frame, weighing nearly two hundred pounds. He 
 often said that he had a constitution that could wear out two or three 
 threshing machines. His complexion was dark, he had high cheek 
 bones, and a small, piercing black eye. His hair was never very straight, 
 and as his head was very large he presented at times a very bold and 
 formidable look. His hardships and exposure seemed but to add to his 
 manly vigor and produce almost perfect health ; and he appreciated the 
 
 blessing of heaven so greatly that he had a high regard for the muscular 
 part of his Christianity. Added to and above all his superior physical 
 strength he had a sort of moral and kingly power that belongs to all 
 real heroes, without which the grandest muscular development is but as 
 wood, hay and stubble. His gesticulation, his manner of listening, his 
 walk and his laugh were peculiar, and would command attention in a 
 crowd of a thousand. There was something undsfinable about the 
 whole man, that was attractive to the majority of people, and made 
 them linger in his presence, and made them want to see him again." 
 
 The writer will never forget the impression he received the first 
 time he saw Peter Cartwright. It was in childhood and at a week day 
 quarterly meeting at which Dr. Cartwright presided. 1 sat by my 
 parents in the pew, and the preacher arose in the old-fashioned high 
 box pulpit to preach. The subject was the "Fall of Jericho." The 
 blasts of the seven trumpets of rams' horns were made intensely realistic 
 by his powerful voice, piercing black eyes, and massive head with its 
 apparently coarse and unkempt hair as it appeared over the top of the 
 pulpit. 'Whatever the message was, the messenger was frightful and 
 terrible to the child worshiper. 
 
 There was much more than the physical to Dr. Cartwright, though 
 unique in presence and address. As Mr. Crane has written, the great 
 truths of Christianity had engaged his attention and occupied his thoughts; 
 and to this day, what can be more stimulating to mental activity and 
 more conducive to mental health or mental power. The soul which 
 gives itself to these truths cannot stagnate, neither can the mind become 
 inactive or move in a little circle of sense. To such a mind the world 
 or universe never becomes as small as itself. " His mind naturally and 
 readily perceived the strong points of a subject and did not waste its 
 energies on side issues, and hence he soon became acknowleged as a 
 man of superior mental power. His acquaintance with books was not 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 commensurate with his intellect ; yet he seemed to possess a knowledge 
 of all the important facts of history, ancient and modern. He had a 
 remarkable perception of men, and seldom had occasion to change his 
 first impression of a man's character. He said he could read in ten 
 minutes, a man who talked much Public men had a very high re- 
 gard for his mental and moral power." 
 
 Tradition would warrant the belief that Dr. Cartwright was opposed 
 to colleges and an educated ministry: but in this case, as it is often, 
 tradition is misleading. He detested shams and pedants and readily 
 detected them ; he denied that intellectual insignt was a valid guaranty 
 of moral character, and held that high intellectual illumination and cul- 
 ture might co-exist with ethical night. Mere book knowledge was not 
 highly esteemed, and woe unto him who paraded it in his presence as 
 the essence of superiority. His heart and thought were not against the 
 schools, but in full accord with the fundamental ideas underlying all 
 efforts to found them and to perpetuate the knowledge of letters. An 
 ignorant opponent of education could never have represented the Illinois 
 Conference in thirteen quadrennial legislative assemblies of his church, 
 or held the office of presiding elder for fifty consecutive years, or re- 
 ceived in his honor the jubilee services of his entire conference, the 
 distinctive honors awarded to no other person in history. 
 
 JAMES C. FINLEY, TRUSTEE, 1850-1855. 
 
 It is with pride that we can speak of Rev. James C. Finley. M. D., 
 as a member of the first class of trustees of the university, and one of 
 its most intelligent patrons. He was truly one of God's elect, and the 
 election was jusfified by his nobility of character. Born of Presbyterian 
 parents in New Jersey, 1802, he grew up in that stalwart faith and 
 received a liberal classical education at Princeton college. After his 
 
 collegiate course he studied medicine under the celebrated Dr. Rush of 
 Philadelphia. He practiced medicine in Cincinnati. Ohio, for a short 
 time, and entered upon his professional career at Jacksonville, Illinois, 
 but discontinued the practice in 1835 to enter upon the ministry of the 
 gospel. 
 
 In answer to a deep conviction that he should preach, he joined the 
 Mississippi Conference in 1837, having become a member of the Meth- 
 odist church upon his arrival in Jacksonville in 1835. In 1841 he was 
 transferred to the Illinois Conference and was elected to the presidency 
 of McKendree college, over which he presided until 1845. Again in 
 1864 he was called to McKendree College as professor of Greek. One 
 has written of him that his ■■whole organization was of the finest quality. 
 Eyes, skin, hair, step, all proclaimed the intellectuality and sensitiveness 
 of the man — a soul set to the most exquisite music of life." 
 
 In scholarship he was accurate, in philosophy thoroughly versed, 
 and the Greek testament was his delight. The influence of his life is 
 ennobling and refining. 
 
 EDWIN C. HYDE. 
 
 Edwin C. Hyde, one ot the honorable citizens of Bloomington. 
 served as a member of the board of trustees from 1868 to 1874, Mr. 
 Hyde was one of the charter members of the University Charge, now 
 Grace Methodist Episcopal church, and has been closely identified with 
 the interests of the university. He is a native of New York, but in 
 youth removed with his parents to Delaware. Ohio, where he received a 
 fair English education at the Wesleyan University. He came to Bloom- 
 ington. Illinois in 1854 and soon after this time commenced business 
 as a merchant tailor. In the early days of the university, Mr. Hyde 
 rendered valuable service and remains one of its warm friends. He is 
 an earnest and enthusiastic Christian, and grows old gracefully. 
 
6 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 David Davis. 
 
 Trustee and Patron. 
 
 The history and character of Judge 
 David Davis. M. A., LL. D.. are too well 
 known and too fully represented in en- 
 cyclopaedias and histories to justify ex- 
 tended mention in this work. He was 
 born in Maryland in 1815 and died in 
 Bloomington. Illinois, June 26. 1886. He 
 was a representative product of American 
 institutions, and as a man. citizen, lawyer 
 and jurist is a good example to American 
 youth. In youth he perceived the royal 
 elements of human nature, felt his respon- 
 sibilities in being, and allied himself more 
 or less directly and publicly with those 
 forces in society without which no individ- 
 ual can perfect himself. He recognized 
 his relation to his Maker as that of a re- 
 sponsible servant and was a regular attend- 
 ant at the services of the Presbyterian 
 church, and lived a consistent life, not 
 only in the more lowly, but also in the ex- 
 alted positions to which he was called by 
 the will of the people. He sought the 
 college in order to secure that most 
 eminent fitness, to live nobly, wisely and 
 well. Kenyon College, Ohio, has the dis- 
 tinction of numbering David Davis among 
 
 its graduates, he having completed the course of study there in 
 
 David Davis. 
 
 1832 ; his law course, however, was taken 
 at Yale. He was admitted to the bar in 
 Illinois in 1835. and practiced at Pekin 
 for one year, when he moved to Bloom- 
 ington and succeeded to the practice of 
 Hon, Jesse W. Fell, with whom he was 
 intimately associated for many years. His 
 success in practice, which was marked 
 from the first, was due more to the mas- 
 tery of his subject, concentration of en- 
 ergy, and integrity of character than to his 
 power of oratory. He served one term in 
 the legislature of Ilinois, having been 
 elected in 1843; he was also a member 
 of the convention which formed the con- 
 stitution of the State in 1847, and served 
 with eminent ability as circuit judge from 
 1848 to 1862, when he was appointed a 
 justice of the Supreme Court of the United 
 States by his life long friend, Abraham 
 Lincoln. 
 
 To Mr. Davis belongs the honor and 
 distinction of being the chief individual 
 instrument in securing the nomination and 
 election of Abraham Lincoln as president 
 of the United States, a service itself de- 
 serving perpetual recognition. No doubt 
 Lincoln fully appreciated this service; but 
 it is equally clear that the appointment 
 to wear the ermine was not because of 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 it. but rather on substantial merit. Lincoln knew Davis' character 
 and judicial learning, though at that time his reputation as a lawyer 
 and jurist was confined to his own State. Apropos to his fitness for 
 the responsibilities and honor of the Supreme Court, the author of 
 ••Good Old Times in McLean County" quotes from the "American 
 Law Times: " ••Judge Davis is a natural lawyer, a character so truly 
 great that to doubt him would be impossible. His mind is all equity, 
 and as vigorous as it is kind. He is progressive, and yet cautious: a 
 people's judge, and yet a lawyer's." In 1872 Judge Davis received the 
 nomination for president of the United States at the hands of the labor 
 reform party. In reply to a letter informing him of such nomiination he 
 said: •'Be pleased to thank the convention for the unexpected honor 
 which they have conferred upon me. The chief magistracy of the re- 
 public should neither be sought nor declined by any American citizen." 
 At the same time at the Cincinnati convention of Liberal Republicans 
 his name was prominently urged and he received ninety-two and one- 
 half votes. In 1877 he was chosen by the representatives of Illinois to 
 succeed John A. Logan in the United States senate, and he resigned 
 his position as justice and entered the senate. After the death of Presi- 
 dent Garfield, Mr. Davis was chosen president of the senate, which 
 offfce he filled with dignity and acceptability. 
 
 Judge Davis was one of the early patrons of the Illinois 'Wesleyan 
 and served as trustee. His counsel was always wise and his gifts liberal. 
 The university was the first to honor itself by conferring the degree of 
 Doctor of Laws, which also was conferred by Beloit College and 
 Williams College. 
 
 DEWITT C. BENJAMIN. 
 
 From 1856 to 1877, one of the frequent visitors at the Wesleyan 
 and one always noted because of his scholarly bearings, was Rev. DeWitt 
 
 C. Benjamin, a brother of Judge Benjamin, ex-dean of the law school. 
 He was born in Red Rock, New York, and came west and settled on a 
 farm near Hudson, Illinois, where he died in 1876. He received his 
 early education at the Academy of Kinderhook. New York, and at an 
 early age became very proficient in Latin and Greek. At the age of 
 sixteen he was converted and united with the Methodist Episcopal 
 church, and was licensed to preach in 1841. His labors in the ministry 
 continued a number of years after he moved west. His studious habits 
 were kept up throughout his life, while his love for learning made him a 
 most valuable patron and trustee of the university. He gave liberally 
 of his means and unsparingly of his time and labor to its necessities. 
 
 One son. DeWitt C. and two daughters. Martha and Mary, were 
 graduated from the Wesleyan, having taken its preparatory and college 
 courses of study. He was a careful, painstaking scholar, and a Chris- 
 tian gentleman whose services were highly valuable. 
 
 THOMAS p. ROGERS. 
 
 Another prominent man in the commercial, social and political 
 history of Bloomington and McLean county, and one of the first advo- 
 cates and patrons of the university, was Thomas P. Rogers, M. D. His 
 ancestry was from the north of Ireland, and the excellencies of the North 
 Ireland stock were prominent characteristics of his life. 
 
 He is represented as having been a man of commanding presence, 
 gentlemanly and scholarly, an active politician and a leader in the circles 
 in which he moved. He served as trustee of the university from 1850 
 to 1855. Dr. Rogers was most highly esteemed by his generation and is 
 well and favorably remembered by those who were associated with the 
 university in its formative period. He was especially respected for his per- 
 sonal merits by the late venerable Hiram Buck, with whose views, 
 politically and socially, he was in general sympathy. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 JOSEPH C. ENGLISH. TRUSTEE. 18S2-1892. 
 
 Hon. Joseph G. English, whose long and continued faithful service 
 on the board of trustees of the Illinois Wesleyan University is a good 
 example of what one may accomplish by industry and honesty. He was 
 
 born in Indiana in 1820. of the old 
 Mayflower stock, and began life 
 with what he called two .splendid 
 advantages: good health and pov- 
 erty. In youth, thrown upon his 
 own resources, he formed habits of 
 industry, was scrupulously honest, 
 and developed a spirit of self-reli- 
 ance which seldom fails to bring 
 abundant rewards. His opportini- 
 ties for an education were those 
 furnished in the log school house 
 in those pioneer days of Indiana 
 life. Notwithstanding, he has se- 
 cured, in spite of the lack of schools, 
 extensive, accurate and useful 
 knowlege. H is business career be- 
 pan as a clerk for his board and 
 clothing. 
 
 In 1843 he married Miss Mary 
 Hicks, of Perrysviile. and became associated with his father-in-law in 
 the mercantile business at that place, where he remained until 1853, 
 when he moved to Danville. Illinois, and engaged in the dry goods busi- 
 ness in partnership with John L. Tinchner. a man of great business 
 sagacity and public spirit. In 1856, these gentlemen engaged in private 
 
 JOSEPH C. EN3LISH. 
 
 banking and met with signal success, and in 1863 they organized the 
 First National bank of Danville, with Mr. English its first president, who 
 has served in that capacity until this day. Through his integrity, sa- 
 gacity and untirin? energy he has made the institution one of the most 
 important banking corporations in the State of Illinois. 
 
 While he has attended rigorously to business, eschewing politics, 
 though often importuned to accept nominations for offices of honor and 
 trust, he has been public spirited, and has given great energy to enter- 
 prises which have contributed to the growth and worth of Danville. He 
 was chiefly instrumental in securing for his city the Big Four and Chi- 
 cago 8i Eastern Illinois railways. He has been a director of the latter 
 road for eighteen consecutive years. He organized the Danville & 
 Grape Creek railway, which is now a branch of the Chicago &. Eastern 
 Illinois. Upon the failure of the Grape Creek Coal and Coke company, 
 he was appointed receiver by the district court, and is still acting in 
 that capacity. 
 
 He was not only one of the charter members of the Kimber Meth- 
 odist Episcopal church, but its chief supporter. In 1872 he was elected 
 lay delegate to the General Conference, and again in 1884. where he 
 exhibited that accurate knowledge and sound judgment which constitute 
 the wisest church legislator He has long been treasurer of the Preach- 
 ers' Aid Society of the Illinois Conference, and he has been one of the 
 warmest friends, wisest counselors, and largest contributors to the suc- 
 cess of the Illinois Wesleyan University, whose trustee he has been for 
 so many years. In all he undertakes, Mr. English has the faculty of 
 adapting means to ends, and brings things to pass. He is a genial com- 
 panion, courteous in his treatment of his fellow men and ever willing to 
 extend aid to the deserving. It is no disparagement to the splendid 
 abilities of Mr. English to say that his most excellent wife contributed 
 largely to the nobility of his character and to his success in business. 
 
ILLINOIS WES LEY AN UNIVERSITY 
 
 63 
 
 ADKAHf\n Mann. 
 
 Trustee hmd 0^^E of the Chief Founders. 
 
 Abraham Mann was born in 1829 in 
 Leighton Buzzard. Redfordshire, England. 
 and came to the United States with his 
 parents in 1834 and settled on a farm 
 near Rossville. Illinois, in the spring of 
 1835, having tarried for a short time in 
 Herkimer. New York. 
 
 He attended school one year at Craw- 
 fordsville, Indiana, but at the age of twelve 
 was sent to England and educated in a 
 private school at Ruggleswade. In 1851. 
 he returned to America and settled upon 
 ••Speedwell Farm." where he has since 
 resided. Being a large land holder, he 
 has been extensively engaged in stock 
 raising, his herds being the best to be 
 found anywhere in the West. 
 
 Mr. Mann is a typical English Ameri- 
 can, well read in the history of his 
 adopted and also of his native country, and 
 thoroughly post 3d in current literature, 
 especially that which pertains to political, 
 economic and social science. Since the 
 days of his young manhood, he has been a 
 prominent factor in the affairs of Vermilion 
 county, and identified with the interests of 
 the Methodist Episcopal church at home 
 
 and abroad. For many years he has been a member of the 
 
 Abraham Mann. 
 
 board of trustees of the university, and a 
 member of its standing committee on 
 finance. During all these years he has 
 ungrudgingly given money, time, and his 
 wisest ccunsel in .the interest of the insti- 
 tution. But a few years ago he gave the 
 uuiversity a well improved farm of eighty 
 acres, s.tuated near Rossville. in 1882 
 he was married to Margaret Ann Dale. 
 who has been a help-meet indeed, enter- 
 ing heartily into his plans of public benefi- 
 cence. Mr. Mann is considered one of 
 the most useful and valuable members of 
 the board of trustees. 
 
 REV. PRESTON WOOD. SR.. AGENT AND 
 TRUSTEE. 
 
 Rev. Preston Wood, an exceedingly 
 valuable member of the board of trustees 
 and one of its shrewdest financiers as well 
 as wisest counselors, was born in Picker- 
 ing, Yorkshire, England, in 1825. He 
 entered the British Wesleyan Conference in 
 1 845. in which he served until 1 85 1 . when 
 he came to the United States of America. 
 his parents having preceded him. In 
 1852 he joined the Illinois Conference, 
 and Hillsboro, Waverly. LeRoy. Decatur 
 and Atlanta were served by him before 
 1861, at which time he became chaplain 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 of the 38th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 
 which fxjsition he resigned in October, 
 1862. on account of injuries received at 
 Fredricktown. Missouri. Re-entering the 
 ministry, he served most efficiently the 
 charges at Clinton. Lincoln, and Carlin- 
 ville. In 1869 he was appointed presiding 
 elder of the Danville district, and served a 
 full term. From 1873-76 he was presid- 
 ing elder of the Bloomington district. In 
 1877-78 he was agent of the Illinois Wes- 
 leyan University, when he was again ap- 
 pointed presiding elder, in which office he 
 served a full term on the Griggsville dis- 
 trict: and in 1884-89 a full term on the 
 Springfield district. 
 
 Mr. Wood was not only a prudent and 
 efficient financial agent of the university. 
 but served also as financial agent for the 
 Preachers' Aid Society, and has from its 
 organization been one of its chief pro- 
 moters. He was elected to the General 
 Conference in 1872. and was appointed to 
 the Ecumenical Conference at Washing- 
 ton, in 1891. 
 
 As a minister, he is scriptural, clear. 
 and forcible, and at times most powerful. 
 As a presiding elder, but few have ever 
 filled that office in his conference who 
 have surpassed him in administrative abil- 
 
 ity, in sagacity and fidelity. His long experience upon the 
 board of trustees has given him a knowledge of the business 
 
 JEKVIS C. EV.ANS. 
 
 interests of the university not shared by many, and no one 
 uses that knowledge more wisely in the promotion of its inter- 
 
 ests as a member of the finance commitse. 
 In 1853 he was married to Jane Chris- 
 tian, of Hillsboro. Of this union there are 
 six children: Captain William Thomas, 
 U. S. A.: Mary W., wife of W. S. Phillips 
 of the Illinois Conference: Mrs. Anne W. 
 Galford. of Elkhart. Illinois: Catherine, a 
 teacher at Jacksonville, Illinois : Preston, 
 Jr., member of the Illinois Conference of 
 the class of 1891: and Albert L.. member 
 of the class of 1896. editor-in-chief of the 
 Wesleyan Argus, and orator representing 
 the university in the State contest in 1895. 
 
 JERVIS G. EVANS. TRUSTEE AND AGENT. 
 
 Rev. Jervis G. Evans. D. D.. LL. D.. 
 President of Hedding College, Illinois, 
 was educated in the Peoria Wesleyan 
 Seminary, Judson College and the Ohio 
 Wesleyan University. He joined the Rock 
 River Conference in 1824. He spent 
 tventy-three years in the pastorate, four 
 years as presiding elder, one year as agent 
 of the Illinois Wesleyan University, one 
 year as agent of the Grand Prairie Semi- 
 nary, served thirteen years as president of 
 Hedding College : served thirteen years as 
 secretary of his conference, the Central 
 Illinois, and has represented it in the Gen- 
 eral Conference of 1876, 1884, 1892: 
 
ILLINOIS WESLtYAN UNlVtRSITY. 
 
 65 
 
 was also delegate to the Centennial Conference at Baltimore in 1884. 
 He has published the Christian Citizen ; the Uses of Tobacco : Lotteries: 
 The License System : Examination of the Liquor Traffic, and An Open 
 Letter to Dr. Dorchester and various other lectures. 
 
 Dr. Evans has rendered valuable service to the university as 
 trustee, agent and conference visitor. 
 
 JAMES LEATON. TRUSTEE AND PATRON. 
 
 Many men. intellectual and highly cultured, have contributed to the 
 university, but few if any have brought greater natural gifts more sys- 
 tematically developed than did Rev. James Leaton, D. D. He was 
 born in Lincolnshire, England, May 17, 1817. "His father, who came 
 to America in 1832, was a gentleman farmer of considerable estate. 
 He was a gentleman, not only of fortune in his native country, but of 
 classical culture and social influence. The qualities of intellectual 
 acuteness, courage, sternness and energy were marked in his character. 
 The mother was a woman of excellent mind, but her superiority con- 
 sisted more in those noble qualities of heart that made her a benediction 
 wherever she went. She was of gentle nature, decidedly pious and 
 profoundly interested in the spiritual welfare of her family. These, to 
 some degree diverging parental qualities, had a peculiar blending in the 
 son, and on the side of nature prepared him for those intellectual and 
 spiritual attainm.ents and achievements that made him prominent in the 
 church of which he became a member." 
 
 James was intended for the ministry in the Church of England, 
 and with that end in view was educated in Crowland Abbey. While he 
 gave a long life in perfect consecration to the ministry, he refused to 
 answer the call of his parents to enter upon the functions of the holy 
 calling and became critical and skeptical. He was too honest to enter 
 upon a course of life to which he did not give his whole heart, hence, 
 
 thoroughly educated and with highly disciplined mental powers, he began 
 to teach. While teaching near Springfield. Illinois, he was led to attend 
 the ministry of Rev. Dr. Peter Akers, of blessed memory. Under the 
 power of this prince of Biblical scholars and pulpit orators, he perceived 
 the truth, bowed in submission to it, and felt that the call of his parents 
 to preach the Word was now the call of God. Accordingly he was 
 admitted to the Illinois Conference in 1843. His broad, liberal educa- 
 tion in the English, Latin, Greek and Hebrew languages, extended 
 knowledge, for that day, of the natural sciences, scholarly instincts and 
 habits, and his thorough consecration to duty, gave him a power of no 
 mean degree in the pulpit and made him one of the leaders of his gene- 
 ration. Three times he was chosen to represent the church in the 
 General Conference; once in 1856 by the Southern Illinois Conference, 
 of which he was a member by transfer for a short time, and twice by 
 the Illinois Conference, in 1868 and 1876. 
 
 He was also honored by an appointment as delegate to the Centen- 
 nial Conference of 1884, and though in advancing years he honored the 
 conference by his representation. He was also appointed in 1890 as a 
 member of the Ecumenical Conference of 1891, but before it convened 
 he was transferred to the church triumphant. 
 
 He was very methodical in whatever he did, and was correspond- 
 ingly exact. His pulpit efforts were always of a high order both in con- 
 ception and form, and were biblical, and expository, though highly 
 enriched by illustrations from the treasures of science, art, and philoso- 
 phy. In 1887 he was appointed conference historian. He was untiring 
 in his search for historic data, and gathered material of greatest interest, 
 manifesting some of the characteristics of a genius for his work. He 
 published one volume, the " History of Methodism of Illinois, '" and pre- 
 pared the manuscript for two other volumes bringing the history down to 
 1852, which have not yet been published. He was a model secretary. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 which office he filled for many years, and his services as editor of the 
 Conference Minutes were no less excellent. He was an ardent advo- 
 cate of the highest education, and cast his full influence in the support 
 of the Illinois Wesleyan. with which he was officially connected as 
 trustee at the time of its organization and afterwards also as an official 
 visitor. McKendree College, for which he was at one time financial 
 agant. recoznizing his ability and scholarly attainments, conferred upon 
 him the degree of M. k.. pro merito. and the Wesleyan conferred upon 
 him the divinity doctorate. 
 
 JESSE MEHARRY. TRUSTEE AND PATRON. 
 
 Jesse Meharry. one of the younger members of the board of trustees, 
 is a prosperous farmer and stock raiser of Tolono. Illinois. He is a 
 native of Indiana, a son of Thomas Meharry and a nephew of Hugh 
 Meharry. Sr., and a special friend of the education of the freedman. 
 
 Mr. Meharry attended the public schools of his native State, and 
 attended the old Asbury University, but did not complete the course of 
 study, having left the institution when perhaps a junior. He is as quiet 
 and unobtrusive in manner as General Grant was reputed to have been, 
 and is blessed in a marked degree with common sense. But few lay- 
 men in the Illinois Conference are better versed in Methodist history 
 and doctrine, or are more broadly read in the general literature of the 
 day, and none are m.ore devoted to the cause of Christian education. 
 He is a most generous supporter of all the enterprises of the church, 
 and a warm friend of the youth who honestly strive to better their con- 
 dition in life and develop godly character He is a sympathetic, prudent 
 and wise counselor, and is most highly valued for services rendered the 
 university during its present administration. He is noted for his hospi- 
 tality, and in his elegant home we often find rest and new inspiration for 
 the vexing problems ever arising. One cannot grow faint-hearted there. 
 
 DAVID T. DOUGLAS. TRUSTEE AND PATRON. 
 
 David T. Douglas, M. D., trustee of the Illinois Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity, was born at Morristown, New Jersey, 1842. He attended the 
 common schools at Morristown and Monroe until sixteen years of age, 
 when he entered the Roman Catholic parochial school and studied for 
 one year. Afterwards he spent three years at St. Peter's Episcopal 
 school. At the age of twenty-one he began reading law in the office of 
 William B. Guild, Newark. New Jersey, and was admitted to the bar 
 of New Jersey in 1864. In June, 1864. he enlisted in Company B, 
 57th New Jersey Volunteers, and was elected second lieutenant. Hav- 
 ing come to Illinois in 1866, he began the study of medicine with Dr. E. 
 Dooley of Selma, Illinois, and soon after entered Rush Medical College, 
 Chicago, Illinois, graduating from that institution in 1871. He began 
 the practice of medicine at Selma, and a few years afterwards moved to 
 Colfax, where he built up a large and lucrative practice, and has accu- 
 mulated a competency of this world's goods. 
 
 He has been a very devoted, conscientious and enthusiastic Chris- 
 tian and member of the Methodist church since 1866. In 1879 he was 
 elected trustee by the Central Illinois Conference, and has rendered a 
 continuous service until this day. 
 
 Dr. Douglas is a man of keen perception, strong conviction, gener- 
 ous nature, and is identified with most of the public enterprises of his 
 community, and is thoroughly loyal to the great enterprises of his church. 
 
 CHARLES O. m'cULLOCH. TRUSTEE. 
 
 Rev. Charles O. McCuUoch, B. A., M. A., is serving his second term 
 as trustee of the university, elected by the Central Illinois Conference, 
 Mr. McCulloch is a graduate of Hedding College, and has been a leader 
 in his conference since 1888, when he led his delegation in the General 
 Conference of that year, He was also honored with a re-election in 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 C7 
 
 1892. He has now the distinction of serving nine consecutive years in 
 the presiding eldership. He is scholarly, gentlemanly, deeply spiritual, 
 and possesses that most desirable quality of common sense in a large 
 degree. His varied experience and intimate knowledge of the univer- 
 sity render him a most valuable patron of the institution. 
 
 JOSEPH B. AYRES, TRUSTEE AND PATRON. 
 
 Joseph B. Ayres was born in the city of Bloomington in 1831, 
 reared upon a farm, and has accumulated a handsome property which 
 
 he uses as a gift of God with- 
 out abusing. He is as stal- 
 wart in character as he is in 
 form, and is widely known as 
 a patron of higher education 
 and a devoted friend of the 
 Illinois Wesleyan University. 
 His children have all been 
 educated in the university of 
 which he is a trustee, three of 
 them having completed its 
 course of study. He brings to 
 the office of trustee integrity 
 of character, extended busi- 
 ness experience, and ready 
 perception of the real condi- 
 tion and needs of the univer- 
 sity. Mr. Ayres has been re- 
 josEPH B. AYRES. elected to the office of trustee 
 
 and has rendered constant service since 1883. He is now mentioned 
 by the Republican party as a probable candidate for State senator. 
 
 Be/njamin Ff^a/nklin Fu^k. 
 
 Trustee amd Patron 
 
 Benjamin Franklin Funk, son of Isaac Funk, was born at Funk's 
 Grove, Illinois, in 1834. He attended the illlinois Wesleyan University 
 for a number of years, and completed the work of the sophomore year. 
 In 1862 he enlisted in Company G. 68th Illinois Volunteers. He has 
 served three terms as mayor of the city of Bloomington. 1871, 1875 
 and 1884. and it is said justly that no man has given Bloomington a 
 better administration of affairs than obtained under Mr. Funk's mayor- 
 alty. He was trustee of the Illinois Asylum for the Blind from 1883 to 
 1893; and in 1892 he was elected congressman for the Thirteenth dis- 
 trict, but was defeated for renomination by internal factions. 
 
 Mr. Funk possesses many of those qualities of head and heart which 
 made his ancestor. Hon. Isaac Funk a prominent character of his dsy. 
 His life has been devoted to the farm, and he has been most success- 
 ful as a stock raiser. His name has been associated with most of the 
 public enterprises of Bloomington and McLean county for many years, 
 and he has from his young manhood been a loyal patron of the Illinois 
 Wesleyan University. In 1874. he was elected a trustee, and in 1876 
 he became president of the board of trustees which office he filled most 
 acceptably until his election to congress. 
 
 As a presiding officer, Mr. Funk is dignified, alert, discriminating 
 and impartial. He has a stalwart form, and is said to resemble his 
 illustrious father in appearance and manner. He has resided in Bloom- 
 ington for many years in a beautiful residence on North Main Street. 
 He has been a member of Grace church perhaps since it was known as 
 the University Charge and is its most liberal supporter. When in many 
 perilous as well as embarrassing places, he has been among the first to 
 lend to the university the needed assistance. 
 
EEMJAMin Franxlin Funk. 
 
ILLINOIS WES LEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 69 
 
 Wesley B. Harvey. 
 
 Trustee prom \e,n. 
 
 Wesley B. Harvey, one of the earliest 
 settlers of Tazewell county. Illinois, was 
 born in Licking county, Ohio, near New- 
 ark, December 15, 1824. His father. 
 James Harvey, was a native of Maryland, 
 who in early life moved to Virginia, and 
 from there to Ohio. He and a brother 
 rendered val'ant service to their country 
 in \\\= war of 1812. and he was also a sol- 
 dier in the Black Hawk war. In 1828 he 
 settled in Tazewell county, being one of 
 the first seven families that located in 
 what is now Washington township. Though 
 the lands at that time were not subject to 
 entry, he cultivated two hundred and forty 
 acres within a mile and a half of the pres- 
 ent site of Washington, trusting to the 
 local customs of the country to protect 
 him in his right. He resided upon that 
 tract until 1834. when he removed to 
 Deer Creek township, where he spent 
 twenty years. He died at Groveland in 
 1859, having spent three years in Peoria. 
 Like most of the early settlers, his 
 means were lim.ited. and none but those 
 who have passed through the ordeal can 
 rea!i::e the hardships endured. Coffee and 
 
 tea were luxuries used only on rare occasions. 
 
 Wesley B. Harvey. 
 
 All clothing for summer and winter were made by hand. 
 The covering for the head was manufac- 
 tured from the skin of raccoons, while the 
 shoes were made from the skin of deer 
 and cattle, tanned in neighboring tanneries. 
 The people lived in log cabins and were 
 quick to supply by ingenious devices all 
 actually necessary art'cles for the comfort 
 of the home. The furniture was largely 
 home-made. Carts, wagons, and even 
 the farm implements were the product of 
 the unskilled mechanic. 
 
 The paternal grandfather of Wesley B, 
 was born on a sailing vessel on the Atlantic 
 ocean, while his parents were enroute to 
 this country from Scotland. Wesley B. 
 is the second of a family of eleven chil- 
 dren, three sons and eight daughters, all 
 of whom but one lived to mature years. 
 His boyhood was spent on the frontier 
 farm, and he received only such limited 
 schooling as fell to the child of that day. 
 At the age of twenty-one. as he expresses it, 
 empty-handed and unaided he began the 
 work of his life. For some years he en- 
 gaged in farming with more than ordinary 
 success, but was compelled to retire from 
 the farm on account of poor health, and 
 has since been engaged in real estate. 
 A Republican in politics, he has been 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 to some extent connected with public offices of the city and county, by 
 whose suffrages he has occupied several positions of honor and trust. 
 For ten years he served as supervisor of his town. For twenty years he 
 •held the office of the justice of the peace. and for two terms was mayor 
 of the city of Washington. In 1850 he was elected to represent his dis- 
 trict in the State Legislature, serving on several important committees. 
 
 in December. 1849, Mr. Harvey was married to Miss Eliza Bar- 
 rett, who was born in Illinois and died at Washington in 1891. leaving 
 no children. The second marriage of this subject occurred in July. 
 1892. and united him with Mrs. N. F. Shepard. a native of New Jersey, 
 who came to this State in childhood. 
 
 Out of conditions considered adverse by most young men, Mr. 
 Harvey developed a strong, self-reliant character : industrious and eco- 
 nomical in habits; keen and far seeing in business: conscientiously 
 exact and righteous in his dealings with his fellow men: and has accu- 
 mulated what most of us would regard a fortune in worldly possessions. 
 His services as a member of the board of trustees of the university have 
 been, and are. highly valuable. He has frequently contributed money 
 as well as time and energy to its advancement, the largest gift being 
 $15,000 in 1891. He is a pure minded, public spirited man of unim- 
 peachable character, a benefactor to his race. 
 
 THOMAS DONEY. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Doney. M. A., D. D., is not a member of the board 
 of trustees, and yet has rendered such long and efficient service as 
 visitor from the Central Illinois Conference as to make it eminently 
 proper to bear testimony hereto that service. He has for several years 
 been a member of the standing committee on faculty, has also consci- 
 entiously performed his duty as visitor, and for the past six years no one 
 has exercised a better influence in the board of trustees and before the 
 
 entire body of students by his visitations than has Mr. Doney. The 
 winter of 1895. at the request of the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. Associa- 
 tions he held a series of meetings in the university hall in which he 
 proved himself to be a splendid preacher and a teacher well adapted to 
 guide young, people in spiritual things. 
 
 He led his delegation in the General Conference in 1892. and is 
 a real leader among his people. He is an Englishman by birth and 
 spent some months of the present year in his native country. 
 
 HYRE D. CLARK, TRUSTEE AND PRINCIPAL PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Rev. Hyre D. Clark, M. A., D. D., the vigorous and successful 
 presiding elder of the Galesburg district, is a graduate of Allegheny 
 College. Soon after his graduation he was elected principal of the pre- 
 paratory school in the summer of 1883. which position he held for one 
 year. In 1884 he joined the Central Illinois Conference, and has served 
 nearly all its best charges. He will lead the delegation of the Central 
 Illinois Conference in the next General Conference at Cleveland, having 
 been elected on the first ballot by an unusually large vote. 
 
 As a scholar, Mr. Clark is both thorough and accurate, and as a 
 preacher he is scholarly, versatile, clear and vigorous in thought, and at 
 times manifests great oratorical power. During most of the time since 
 1884 he has been a member of the joint board of trustees and visitors, 
 and is now serving his second term as trustee. Since the appointment 
 of the standing committee on faculty four years ago. Mr. Clark has been 
 a member of that committee. He is careful and conscientious in all 
 his work as a member of the board, and brings to the university a sound 
 mind and a loyal heart. As principal of the preparatory school he dis- 
 played accurate scholarship and the characteristics of a teacher. It 
 would have been the pleasure of the university to have retained him at 
 the head of this most important department. 
 
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 Peter Whitmer. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 Peter VHiinER. 
 
 Trustee from i878. 
 
 Peter Whitmer, president of the Pecple's bank. Elccmir^cn. Illi- 
 nois, and trustee of the Illinois Wesleyan University. w£s born on a farm 
 in Franklin county. Pennsylvania, in 1828. He attended the district 
 school until sixteen years old. when he began an apprenticeship of five 
 years at saddlery and harness-making. For two years he traveled in 
 the West, and then located at Bloomington. Illinois, in 1855, having 
 entered business with M. L. Moore, and later with Park & Hoops; soon 
 after, however. Mr. Whitmer engaged in the lumber business, in which 
 he was most successfull. for seventeen years. In 1885 he was elected 
 president of the People's bank, which office he still holds. He was 
 also president of the Chair Factory from 1873 to 1885. 
 
 Mr. Whitmer is justly looked upon as a man of strictest integrity 
 and of keen and far reaching insight in business. He has been promi- 
 nently connected with the public affairs of this city for many years, and 
 is one of the most valuable members of the board of trustees. Whether 
 in business or in society, he is always suave, courteous and gentlemanly. 
 He is one of the most consistent members of the Christian church. He 
 has rendered continuous service on the board since his first election. 1 878. 
 
 JAMES T. ORR. PATRON. 
 
 Rev. James T. Orr. while not trustee of the university, has been a 
 member of the joint board as visitor from the Illinois Conference for 
 many years. He has known the institution since its organization and 
 made a contribution to its endowment the first year of his ministry which 
 was a large per cent of his entire earnings for the year. Thoroughly 
 acquainted with its business, he is one of its most efficient supporters. 
 For several years he has been a member of the Faculty committee. 
 
 JOSEPH S. GUMMING. TRUSTEE AND PATROr'. 
 
 Joseph S. Gumming, A. M.. D. D., was born in Abingdon, Vir- 
 ginia. April 28, 1832. His father, then a member of Holston Confer- 
 ence, came to Illinois in 1834. and was a member of the Central Illinois 
 Conference when he died, in 1889. 
 Joseph S. was educated at Rock 
 River Seminary. Mt. Morris. Illi- 
 nois, at that time the only school for 
 young men m the Methodist church 
 north of McKendree College. Leb- 
 anon, Illinois. He taught school 
 most of the time during four years, 
 and kept up with his classes at the 
 same time. 
 
 In 1852. when a little more than 
 twenty years old. he was married 
 to Miss Margaret Reed Maris, of 
 Washington. Illinois, and in 1853 
 he joined the Rock River Confer- 
 ence. In 1868 Quincy College 
 gave him the degree of Master of 
 Arts, and in 1883 Iowa Wesleyan 
 University conferred upon him the 
 degree of Doctor of Divinity. He 
 was assistant secretary cf the Central Illinois Conference ten years, and 
 secretary five years. He was a member o' three General Conferences, 
 1868. 1872 and 1884. 
 
 Of the forty-one years of his ministry he spent twenty-three in the 
 regular pastorate, serving nearly a'l the best churches in his conferencs, 
 fourteen years on the district as presiding elder, and four years as 
 
 JOSEPH S. GUMMING. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 73 
 
 president of Hedding College. Abingdon, Illinois. He is now the de- 
 serving and popular pastor of the church at Moline. Illinois. 
 
 His patriotism is pronounced; his ideals in State pure and lofty. 
 He affiliated with the Republican party in pD'itics until 1834, when he 
 became a party Prohibitionist, being convinced that purer motives and 
 higher ends should control in national politics. 
 
 As a preacher he is clear, practical and thoroughly evangelistic; 
 as a pastor, methodical, systematic and untiring in his zeal for the wel- 
 fare of his flock. In business, he is prompt, accurate and wise. It will 
 be seen from this record that he has been officially connected with the 
 Illinois Wesleyan University as visitor or trustee during the greater part 
 of the time of his ministry, giving it untiring energy and a loyal heart. 
 
 His home has been a model minister's home, from which the wife 
 of his youth was taken in 1893, but which is still blessed by the presence 
 of a daughter. Two daughters reside in Monmouth, one other at Mo- 
 line, and the only son, Frank H., of the class of 1876, is the pastor of 
 the First Methodist church at Streator. Illinois. 
 
 JAMES p. DIMMITT, TRUSTEE AND FINANCIAL AGENT. 
 
 James P. Dimmitt. one of God's true noblemen, was born in Ohio 
 in 1812. Having secured a fair English education, he was obedient to 
 convictions of duty to preach, and was admitted to the Illinois Confer- 
 ence in 1842. As a minister he possessed a diversity of talents, pass- 
 ing with ease from the pastorate of a country circuit to the best charges 
 in the city or from the circuit to a district, or from a district to the 
 station, achieving success in whatever position he was placed, and at 
 times, as at First Church, Decatur, Illinois, overcoming the almost im- 
 possible. He was deeply religious, broadly charitable, always affable 
 and courteous, and at times rose to true eloquence in his pulpit efforts. 
 He was a man of God who sought to add to the sum of hum.an happiness. 
 
 DENNIS KENYON, TRUSTEE AND PATRON. 
 
 Dennis Kenyon, trustee, was born in Rhode Island in 1833, and 
 came to Illinois in 1840 and settled in Mt. Hope township, McLean 
 county, Illinois, where he has la'^e landed interests. In chil ihood he 
 attended the subscription 
 schools, which afforded him 
 all the educational advantages 
 received. In 1852 he entered 
 the mines of California, where 
 for a year and a half he was 
 engaged in search of gold. He 
 was commissioned lieutenant 
 in Company A, 1 17th Illinois 
 Volunteer Infantry, and served 
 until 1864. He is gentle- 
 manly and conscientious in his 
 dealings with his fellow men, 
 energetic, skillful and success- 
 ful in business. Since 1886 
 he has been a trustee of the 
 university and has given liber- 
 ally to its support. His coun- 
 sel is sought in all plans for 
 the prosperity of the institution. 
 Mr. Kenyon has filled many 
 local offices of trust, and exerts a great influence in State and national 
 assemblies in the interests of agriculture. While not liberally eiuca'ed. 
 he possesses a strong mind and is quick to perceive and ready to dis- 
 criminate between the false and true. Though business calls him away 
 from home, he never neglects home interests or forgets the little country 
 
 DENMI3 KENY3N. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 churc 1 to which he has hesn devoted as a consistent Christian for years. 
 Mrs. Kenyon is a well educated wcnan of culture and refined 
 tastes, fully in sympathy with her husbands interests in the university. 
 It is a pleasure to visit their home and receive their royal hospitality. 
 
 GEORGE R. PALMER. TRUSTEE. 
 
 Rev. George R. Palmer, editor and publisher at Onarga. Illinois, 
 Is one of the strong and serviceable men elected trustee by the Central 
 Illinois Conference, first in 1876. and remained in office until 1885, 
 having served three full terms. He was again charged with the duties 
 of trustee in 1890. and continues in office. 
 
 He is a man of commanding presence, six feet and more in height, 
 stoutly built and in excellent health; his reading has been extensive and 
 to a purpose, his perception is keen, his reasoning power is of a high 
 order, and his speech is fluent and powerful. As a preacher he is fluent, 
 instructive and efficient. His sermons show a thorough knowledge of 
 history and literature. He is a ready and fearless debater, shrewd and 
 witty, and in conversation he is most interesting. In politics he is an 
 old type Republican, exerts a commanding influence in the councils of his 
 party, and has been urged to stand for election to congress. 
 
 ZADOC HALL, TRUSTEE, 1863-78. 
 
 Rev. Zadoc Hall was born in Sussex county, Delaware, 1801, 
 and. at the ripe old age of eighty-eight, years he was gathered unto his 
 fathers on Easter day. His father died when Zadoc was but nine years 
 old. and his youth and young manhood was one of toil and struggle to 
 earn a livelihood and get an education. His education was limited, 
 though he was well versed in history and was familiar with the best 
 ecclesiastical thought. Under the ministry of Thomas A. Morris, after- 
 
 wards one of the bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Cchurch. he was 
 awakened and quickened into a life of conscious communion with God, 
 and from his early m.anhood it may be truly said that he •• walked with 
 God." Having entered the ministry, he came to Illinois from near 
 Zanesville, Ohio, where in his childhood the family had settled, and in 
 1832 becam.e a member of the old Illinois Conference. In the subdi- 
 vision of the territory of the conference he fell to the Rock River and 
 finally the Central, of which he was a member at his death. In 1834 
 he was appointed to the Blooming Grove (Bloomington) Circuit, and 
 with the aid of such laymen as James Miller and John Moore, erected 
 the first Methodist church in Bloomington. 
 
 In stature he was about five feet ten inches, and in 1870 stood per- 
 fectly erect. He was a m.an of refined tastes as well as of elevated 
 moral sentiment, modest, exceedingly kind of heart, and greatly attached 
 to the Wesleyan. 
 
 HENRY SUMMERS, TRUSTEE, 1855-61. 
 
 Of the many m.en whose truly heroic lives are woven into the in- 
 stitutions, civil and religious, of Illinois, and who contributed to the 
 founding of the university. Rev. Henry Summers is not the least. 
 
 He was born of German parentage in West Virginia, in 1801, and 
 at the age of twenty entered upon the ministry of the gospel. He was 
 twice chosen to represent his conference in the General Conference, 
 1852 and 1856, and for thirty-one years served as presiding elder, per- 
 forming the functions of his office with godly' judgment, devotion, and 
 skill. It was written of him at the time of his death in 1883 : "Of 
 courage, his life was a fountain; of pure, manly dignity, an unexplored 
 deep; so imbued with simplicity and inspired by true modesty, that 
 children were at home in his presence, and men of eminent name rec- 
 ognized in him a peer." 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 JAMES HARRISON BUNN. TRUSTEE AND PATRON. 
 
 James Harrison Bunn, trustee from the Central Illinois conference, 
 was born in Ross county, Ohio, in 1830. From childhood he has been 
 an active, enthusiastic, and consistent member of the Methodist 
 
 Episcopal church. He has seryed 
 in the various offices requiring 
 ability, foresight, and religion of its 
 laity, beginning as a class leader at 
 the age of nineteen ; was a most 
 successful superintendent in Ohio, 
 and also at La Salle, Illinois, before 
 his residence in Peoria, which he 
 begun in 1854. He has been a 
 member of the official board of the 
 First Church, Peoria, for thirty- 
 nine years, and superintendent of 
 the Sunday school for nine years. 
 He is president of the American 
 Bible Society for Peoria county, 
 and is an able director of the Y. M. 
 C, A. of his city. He represented 
 the Central Illinois conference in 
 the General Conference of 1892 
 He is a liberal supporter of the 
 enterprises of his local church, of its general benevolent and educational 
 interests. He has for many years been an efficient and worthy trustee 
 of the Illinois Wes'.eyan University, serving on some of its most im- 
 portant committees. 
 
 He is engaged in the grain business in Peoria, where he has acquired 
 a competency which h3 uses liberally in doing good to his fellow men. 
 
 JO^'ATHAN TOTTEN. SEE PAGE 45. 
 
 GEORGE RUTLEDGE, TRUSTEE, 1864-70. 
 
 Among the foremost men who laid the foundations of the present 
 civilization in Illinois was Rev. George Rutledge, who was born in Vir- 
 ginia, in 1811. Left fatherless at the age of thirteen and being the 
 eldest child of the family, great responsibilities toward his mother and 
 her fatherless children were met with unusual fidelity. 
 
 The advantages offered for an education were well improved and 
 he gained a good English education. He was converted at the age of 
 twenty and began preaching in the Baltimore Conference in 1833. but 
 in 1835 was transferred to Illinois, where he was eminent in labors with 
 Akers, Cartwright, Buck, Prentice, and others, of whom the world was 
 not worthy. He was a man universally esteemed by all who knew him., 
 and most by those who knew him best. He came nearly causing his 
 inner life to conform absolutely to his outer expression and profession; 
 hence he was proverbially kind and charitable, of even temperament. 
 and of clever judgment. 
 
 He was jealously devoted to the educational polity of his church, 
 believing that all truth is from God and that the youth of the church 
 should be educated under the purest environment, if manhood is to be 
 in harmony with the law of God. The Illinois Female College at Jack- 
 sonville never had a more zealoas advocate or warmer friend, and unto 
 him a great debt of gratitude is due from the present generation for 
 truly heroic struggles in behalf of that institution. He was as true to 
 the Wesleyan, and as trustee and visitor brought to it sound judgment 
 and a fervent spirit. He had one son complete its course of study, 
 Rev. Wm. N., of the class of 1868. who is an honored member of the 
 Illinois conference. His character and services called for a special 
 sermon before his conference, which was preached by Dr. Hiram Bu:k 
 and v/as considered one of the greatest sermons ever delivered before 
 that body. 
 
George P. Davis. 
 
ILUNCIS W MBYAN UNIVhRSITY. 
 
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 Qeorje p. Davis, 
 
 TrvUSTEE RND Patron 
 
 Hon. George P. Davis. M. A., is a native of Illinois, having been 
 born in Bloomington. in 1842. He is an only son of the late David 
 Davis, the well known jurist and statesman. At the early age of ten 
 Mr. Davis was sent from his ancestral city to a private boarding school 
 which was under the supervision of Deacon Hyde, at Lee, Massachu- 
 setts, but remained for two years only, when he returned to Bloomington 
 and spent one year in the Illinois Wesleyan, whose preparatory school 
 t ad been opened but a short time before. He was then placed in the 
 preparatory department of Beloit College, Wisconsin, and having com- 
 pleted its course, entered Beloit College and pursued his studies until 
 r ady for the junior year, when he went to Williams College and was 
 graduated in the class of 1864. After graduation he returned to Bloom- 
 i igton and began the study of law in the office of W. H. Hanna : but 
 at't-^r two years of study and office work, he entered the law school of 
 Michigan University and took its LL. B. degree in 1867. Having be=n 
 admitted to the bar. he entered at once upon the practice of law wiih 
 Mr. Hanna, but within two years abandoned the practice, finding that 
 the care of his father's extensive business required all his time and 
 energy. 
 
 In 1869 he was married to Miss Ella Hanna. of Attica, Indian^. 
 Three children have blessed this union: Mrs. Dr. E. Wyllis Andrews, 
 of Chicago, and two sons, David and Mercer. Mr. Davis resides in the 
 elegant mansion erected by Judge Davis in the eastern part of the city 
 of Bloomingcon. He is now serving his third term as trustee of the 
 university, is a member of the finance and of the tuildings and grounds 
 committees. His long and varied experience with public buildings, his 
 extended private business in addition to his natural qualifications admi- 
 
 rably fit him for the services of inestimable value which he renders the 
 institution. The present administration has not had the support of a 
 
 more liberal patron. 
 
 CHARLES AND HENRIETTA CRAMP. PATRONS. 
 
 Charles and Mrs. Henrietta Cramp, whose names have appeared 
 in the publications of the University since 1884, were first interested in 
 the institution by President Adams and Mrs. Olga Updegraff, who for a 
 number of years rendered most excellent service as agent for the Wo- 
 man's Educational Association, and later as superintendent of Henrietta 
 Hall. 
 
 Mr. Cramp, the eldest of ten children, was born in Surrey. Eng- 
 land. 1827. In 1832 his parents emigrated to Canada and from there 
 to New York in 1834. Still obedient to the spirit of enterprise, they 
 settled in southern Illinois, near Bunker Hill, in 1834. where Charles 
 grew to manhood. 
 
 In his youth he was subjected to all the privations and perils of 
 those pioneer days, and the education gained was from contact with 
 men and a few standard books, without the guidance of a teacher, 
 though it is said that all other members of his father's fan-.ily were sent 
 to the schools. One brother is an honored member of the southern Il- 
 linois conference. In 1841 he moved to Shipman, Illinois, and in 1865 
 10 a farm near Macon. Illinois. He has been successful in all his busi- 
 ness enterprises, and wherever he lived his influence has been most 
 potent for the social, moral, and religious development of society. The 
 year 1849 marks two most significant events in his life, his recognition 
 of the claims of God upon his affection and service and his union in holy 
 wedlock with Henrietta Hopson. with whom alone he has walked until 
 this day. 
 
 Henrietta Maria Hopson was born in Saulsbury Center, Herkimer 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 county. 1815. She was given an excellent education which she put to 
 the best uses. She was a precocious child and advanced phenomenally 
 in her studies : at the age of fourteen and for several years afterward 
 she taught school at the place of her birth. After coming to Illinois 
 and her marriage to Mr. Cramp she taught and adm.itted colored chil- 
 dren on the same terms given to white. She is a broad, liberal minded 
 woman, and whether in the school room or on the farm making cheese 
 with her own hands from one hundred and sixteen cows, gentleness, re- 
 finement, energy, and goodness have characterized her life. 
 
 In 1884 Mr. and Mrs. Cramp gave four thousand dollars toward 
 the purchase of the Major's College property, and in grateful recognition 
 of this benefaction the Woman's Educational Association declared that 
 the hall should be known as the Henrietta Hall. They were watchful 
 of the interests of the Association so long as it existed and were an in- 
 spiration to it in all its work. It was about this time also that President 
 Adams interested them in an effort to increase the endowment of the 
 university. His presentation ot the merits of the cause led them to be- 
 lieve that they could not find a cause in aiding which they would do 
 greater good, and perpetually, after their death. Hence they executed 
 a warranty deed to four hundred acres of rich farm land situated near 
 Macon. Illinois, in favor of the trustees of the university, to aid in en- 
 dowing the Charles Cramp Professorship of Belles Lettres. the trustees 
 agreeing to pay an annuity to the the donors during their natural lives. 
 Soon after this transfer of property our friends bought properly in 
 Bloomington. where they have since resided, and most all the time 
 have kept one or more students in college. Some of them have gradu- 
 ated and are filling prominent stations in life with honor to their alma 
 mater, but the greatest credit is due to these godly people who made an 
 education possible to them. To live well and to inspire others and make 
 It possible for them to do so is the greatest achievement. 
 
 WILLIAM N. DEVER. TRUSTEE AND PATRON. 
 
 William N. Dever, born in Marion county, Ohio, 1832. came to 
 Illinois in childhood, and availed himself of the best advantages afforded 
 at that early day for an education. By patient industry and economy 
 he has acquired a competency 
 of this world's goods. He has 
 spent most of his life upon the 
 farm, having spent six years 
 as a hardware merchant. He 
 is an earnest and devoted 
 member of the Methodist 
 Episcopal church, and regards 
 the university as one of her 
 great enterprises. He has 
 served for many years upon 
 the board of trustees. He 
 married L. E. Marrs in 1858, 
 but of this union there are no 
 children. Two orphan chil- 
 dren, however, have found in 
 them friends next to parents, 
 haying been cared for as ten- 
 derly and carefully by the foster 
 parents as if they were their 
 
 own. Mr. Dever is very mod- william n. dever. 
 
 est and unassuming, but of positive convictions and of moral courage. 
 He has large landed interests in Illinois and Nebraska, but has resided 
 in Bloomington for several years and is a member of Grace church. 
 
 Mr, Dever was one of the largest individual contributors to the 
 $30,0C0 raised to meet the conditions of Buck's last gift of $15.C00. 
 
ILLINOIS WE5LL-YAN UNlVhh'SITY. 
 
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 HUGH MEHARRY, PATRON. 
 
 The name Meharry is a Methodist household word, especially in 
 Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, and among the colored people of America where 
 the benefactions of one or more of several brothers of that name have 
 strengthened the weak, succored 
 the destitute, and established en- 
 terprises whose humane influ- 
 ences will extend to remote 
 generations. Of these strong, 
 godly men, none were more con- 
 spicuous for common sense, busi- 
 ness sagacity and integrity, and 
 loyalty to the benevolent and ed- 
 ucational enterprises of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church than was 
 Hugh, the eldest. 
 
 He was born at Ccnnersville, 
 Pa., Feb. 12, 1797, but in child- 
 hood removed with his parents to 
 Adams county, Ohio, In early 
 youth he was left fatherless, his 
 father having been killed by the 
 falling of a tree, while returning 
 home from a campmeeting. The 
 mother, who was a woman of ex- much meharry, 
 
 traordinary strength of character, taught these boys the dignity and 
 nobility of labor, and the prime virtues of industry, sobriety, honesty, and 
 obedience to God. 
 
 In 1828, Hugh, guided by true business instinct, emigrated to Indi- 
 ana and settled near Shawnee Mound, where by industry, economy, and 
 
 foresight manifested in buying cheap lands at an early day. he became 
 wealthy. At a later day. but before capital was bold enough to invest 
 in thes3 low lands, he prospected in Illinois and invested largely in the 
 prairies of Ford and Champaign counties. It was by such means that 
 he was able-to give so largely to the Church and at the same tim.e gi\e 
 large farms to each of his several children. His greatest individual 
 benefaction was to Central Tennessee College. Nashville. Tenn.. for 
 which he endowed a professorship. The next greatest gift was a farm 
 of one hundred and sixty acres, located in McLean county. Illinois, 
 which he deeded to the trustees of the Illinois Wesleyan University. 
 His children, Mrs, Robert Blackstock, Frank and Charles Meharry. and 
 Mrs. John A. Kumler, have also liberally patronized the univcsity. 
 
 F"or several years before his death, the wife of his youth having 
 passed on before, he made his home with his children in Illinois. At 
 the advanced age of eighty-four years, while on a visit to his daughter, 
 Mrs. Kumler. at Bement, Illinois, he was gathered unto his fathers in 
 December, 1881. He was a friend to all the churches and a consistent 
 member of the Methodist Episcopal church for sixty-nine years. 
 
 THE ANDERSON SCHOLARSHIP. 
 
 Some few years ago the trustees authorized the president to estab- 
 lish perpetual scholarships on the cash payment of a sum not less than 
 one thousand dollars. Anyone contributing one thousand dollars for this 
 purpose may designate the name of the scholarship for all time to come 
 and also the beneficiary of the fund. We would call attention to this 
 fact, as it affords an opportunity for persons of small means to perpetuate 
 a beloved name and at the same time aid some worthy youth to get an 
 education who otherwise would be unable even to enter college. While 
 no special effort has been made to secure such gifts, a few persons have 
 availed themselves of the offer. Among the first to do so was William 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 W. Anderson, of Taylorville. Illinois, a man whose memory will long be 
 cherished by those who were fortunate enough to know him. He was 
 one of God's noblemen who was sent to the prairies of Illinois at an early 
 day to pre-empt them for the high- 
 est Christian civilization. In busi- 
 ness, he succeeded as but few of his 
 day and under his conditions. His 
 power of great physical endurance, 
 resolute will, calm judgment and 
 deep moral conviction made him a 
 conspicuous person in his commun- 
 ity. He was one of the most enter- 
 prising men of Christian county. 
 always on the right side of great 
 questions, and a pillar in the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal church. 
 
 For some years previous to his 
 death he had practically retired from 
 business, turning his large banking 
 and farming business over to his son 
 Fred, in whom he confided perfectly 
 and who promises to be a worthy 
 son of his father. May the mantle 
 of William W. Anderson, the patron of the Wesleyan. fall upon him. 
 
 WILLIAM N. COLER, TRUSTEE AND PATRON. 
 
 The name of W. N. Coler will be always remembered in connection 
 with Amie Chapel. At an hour when help was most needed, he gave 
 $5,000 toward finishing the chapel in the building erected in 1870, and 
 in recognition of the gift the chapel was called Amie, after his mother. 
 
 WILLIAM W. ANDERSON. 
 
 JOHN REED, TRUSTEE AND TREASURER. 
 
 Of all the local officers of the university. Colonel John Reed, Treas- 
 urer since 1878, will be remembered by the largest number of students. 
 He is a native of Ohio, havirg been born in Ross county in 1828. His 
 early education was obtained 
 in the common schools and 
 at Salem Academy, Salem, 
 Ohio. Having been brought 
 up to agricultural pursuits, he 
 followed farming until 1865, 
 when he entered upon a suc- 
 cessful mercantile career. In 
 1868 he moved to Blooming- 
 ton, Illinois, and forming a 
 partnership with Mr. Barger 
 under the style of Reed & 
 Barger, importers and jobbers 
 in queensware, glassware, etc., 
 did a most extensive and suc- 
 cessful business until 1890, 
 when Mr. Reed opened a real 
 estate office and has until this 
 time continued in that busi- 
 ness. He has held many of- 
 fices of trust, serving one term 
 as mayor of Bloomington, giv- 
 ing the city a clear, honest and able administration. He has been 
 identified with many public enterprises of the city, and in whatever 
 capacity he has served the public, energy and honesty have character- 
 ized his services. In politics he is a Republican and in religion a 
 
 JOHN REED. 
 
ILLINOIS WES LEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 81 
 
 Methodist, having been a member of Grace church since coming to 
 Bioomington. He is an enthusiastic member of the G. A. R.. having 
 served as colonel of the First Regiment. Ross County. Ohio, Militia, 
 and was called into national service July 13. 1863. 
 
 Colonel Reed has been tireless in his service for the university as 
 treasurer since his first election in 1878. He annually renders a ser- 
 vice worth ten times the small amount. $300, which he receives as 
 compensation. It is due him that the public should know that his ser- 
 vices have been practically gratuitous since his first connection with the 
 organization. 
 
 JOHN A. KUMLER. TRUSTEE AND PATRON. 
 
 No historical sketch of the university would be complete without 
 mention of John A. Kumler. M. A. Born of German parents in Butler 
 county, Ohio, April 20, 1838, he was given superior advantages for an 
 education which were fully improved. If birth and environment are potent 
 elements in the formation of character, John was twice blessed, for both 
 were in his favor, being well born and surrounded by the purest influ- 
 ences. But after giving full credit to these elements, much more in 
 this case is due to his constitutive power of self-determination. It is 
 but just to say. howerer. that upon coming into full possession of self, 
 he recognized the value of these preconditions and chose to deter- 
 mine his character in harmony with these initial tendencies. In youth, 
 lofty ideals were formed, and with pure motives, goaded by an exalted 
 ambition to conform outwardly and inwardly to these ideals, he recog- 
 nized God's claim to his affection and the energies of his being, became 
 a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and an honored disciple of 
 Jesus Christ, whom he strives to em.ulate in word, deed and spirit. 
 
 He entered Otterbein University, where he pursued and completed 
 the full classical course, with credit to himself, and his subsequent 
 
 career has honored the institution which conferred upon him the Bacca- 
 laureate and Master's degrees. After completing his collegiate course 
 of study he entered the law school of Michigan University, and. com- 
 pleting its course, received its degree of LL. B. He at once entered 
 upon the practice of law at Danville, Illinois, having formed a partner- 
 ship with Marquis D. Hawes, who 
 afterward, like Mr. Kumler, aban- 
 doned the practice of law for the 
 ministry of the gospel and became 
 somewhat noted for his abilities 
 and services. It is said of Mr. 
 Kumler that, as a lawyer, he pre- 
 vented litigation in the courts 
 rather than added to the courts' 
 business and the costs to client 
 and taxes to the State. He did not 
 long practice civil law, however, 
 but in obedience to the divine call, 
 became an advocate of man's 
 rights and equity under redemptive 
 grace and entered upon the minis- 
 try of the gospel in the IllinoisCon- 
 ference in 1868. Here his legal 
 knowledge and experience has 
 been an element of strength to 
 himself and of great value to the 
 
 church, as his opinions upon legal points have been and are in great 
 demand, and his advice when followed has proved its wisdom. 
 
 He has served many charges and has been invariably successful : 
 but his service to Me.ncdism in Bloom.ington in securing a church 
 
 JOHN A. KUMLER. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 location and building for the University Charge, now Grace Church, and 
 his Herculean task of freeing the Second Church, Springfield, from its 
 crushing debt, is especially praiseworthy. I am told by a friend that he 
 contributed two thousand dollars towards the liquidation of this debt. His 
 six years of service as presiding elder also called into action his special 
 acquisitions, and in this office none excelled him in conscientious and 
 careful devotion to the interests committed to him. He will represent 
 his conference in the General Conference in May. 1896. 
 
 Mr. Kumler was elected trustee of the university in 1879, and still 
 serves it faithfully, ever alert to increase its power and efficiency. As 
 son-in-law to Hugh Meharry, to whom he was also a trusted counselor 
 in business, some credit is doubtless due him for the generous gift of 
 Mr. Meharry. 
 
 In those days when the question with the infant school was '-to be 
 or not to be," many others contributed money and influence of whom 
 mere mention only can be made. Notable among them were Jesse W. 
 Fell, of Quaker stock, the accomplished and cultured gentleman, quick- 
 witted lover of his fellow men, and advocate of education, who served 
 as trustee from 1851 to 1856; his brother Kersey, the man who first 
 thought of making Abraham Lincoln president, trustee from 1850 to 
 
 1855: Reuben Andrus, the large-hearted Christian scholar; William C. 
 Goodtellow, trustee and teacher until 1855; Lewis Bunn. the youngest 
 but three of a family of twenty-one children, the honest, jovial and 
 genial blacksmith, trustee from 1850 to 1855; John VanCleve, of 
 Southern Illinois fame, where his name is as ointment poured forth; 
 William J. Rutlege, the generous and kind, a wal'ung encyclopedia of 
 Wesieyan poetry, trustee from 1850 to 1856. Hon, John Moore, the 
 sturdy English wheelwright, charming conversationalist, honest treasurer 
 of the Commonwealth of Illinois, trustee from 1851 to 1856; Clinton W. 
 Sears, arduous in labors, hopeful under greatest discouragements, and 
 conscientious and able as teacher or administrator from 1852 to 1856; 
 John Luccock, invincible in logic, the champion of truth, trustee from 
 1855 to 1861; George W. Fairbank, eloquent and godly; Richard H. 
 Holder, the naturalist who contributed so largely to the museum ; Ben- 
 jamin F. Harris. David McWilliams and George Funk, the great finan- 
 ciers ; James D. Sconce, the shrewd and honest farmer of long foresight ; 
 Charles W. Holder, Vergil S. Lindsey, David Smith, Melvin C. Soule, 
 Dwight L. Parker, John I. Riniker, C. S. Aldrich, I. P. McDowell, 
 J. B. Sargeant, John C. Short. Jacob Fullinwider, Philip Gilllett. F. M. 
 Chaffee. C. P. Merriman Jerome R. Gorin and others equally deserv- 
 ing and honorable. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 SonE Chief Professors and Instructors. 
 
 A Qe/neral Statement. 
 
 No attempt is made to analyze the characters of many of the men 
 who have been employed in the various departments of the university, 
 some of whom remained with it but a very short time, and others are 
 yet living and still making history. It is proper, however, to give a short 
 sketch of a few of those who have occupied chief positions in this insti- 
 tution or elsewhere and have contributed largely to the educational 
 forces of their day. 
 
 it would be a pleasure to speak of Rev. Reuben Andrus, M. A., 
 D. D., who was a gifted and eminent minister of the gospel, whose name 
 appears in connection with the department of mathematics in 1851-2. 
 and who was afterwards chosen president of DePauw University; of 
 William D. Godman, M. A., who succeeded him as instructor in mathe- 
 matics and taught in the Infant preparatory school until 1863; of Wil- 
 liam Goodfellow, M. A., an honored alumnus of McKendree College, the 
 first instructor in science, 1851 to 1854, who also served as trustee and 
 vice-president of the institution, an able, conscientious and efficient 
 teacher; of T. J. Tomlin, M. A., who succeeded Prof. Goodfellow in 
 the departmient of science upon his departure to Evanston to assist his 
 father-in-law. Dr. Dempster, in preparing the way for the Garrett Bibli- 
 cal Institute; of J. W. Sherfey. who was tutor from 1852 to 1854; of 
 Daniel Wilkins. M. A.; of Benjamin F. Snow, M. A., the gifted and 
 keen linguist; all of whom performed an honorable part in laying the 
 
 foundation of this school of learning, the memory of whom will be cher- 
 ished by those with whom they were associated until the latest day. 
 
 JOHN DEMPSTER, FIRST PRESIDENT. 
 
 Rev. John Dempster, D. D., distinguished as the father of the The- 
 ological School system of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in 
 Florida, New York, in 1794. His father, James Dempster, was a 
 Scotchman by birth, was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and 
 having associated himself with the Wesleyan movement accepted an 
 appointment from Mr. Wesley as missionary to America. John, while 
 without the superior advantages of collegiate training, was no mean 
 scholar in the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages, and was a man of 
 extraordinary mental power, being a master of logic and in metaphysical 
 distinctions and investigations. He entered the ministry in 1815 and 
 received an appointment in the Genesee conference. He commanded 
 the respect of the most highly cultured and intellectual classes ; filled 
 many of the most important appointments in New York city; discharged 
 the functions of a presiding elder; and labored as a missionary to Buenos 
 Ayres. South America, for six years. He is said to have been a man 
 of some peculiarities of habits and extraordinary power of will ; he was 
 possessed with a roving disposition and felt called of God to labor 
 toward the establishment of schools of learning for young ministers. To 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 this work after 1846 he devoted all of his energies, and in 1847 opened 
 a biblical institute at Concord, N. H., for which he traveled extensively, 
 collecting funds to sustain it, as well as performing the function of chief 
 instructor. Convinced that the demands of the hour called for the es- 
 tablishment of other church schools and feeling that the New Hampshire 
 Institute had gained the affections of the ministry, he resigned his posi- 
 tion and accepted the Presidency of the Illinois Wesleyan University, 
 He came West, but inasmuch as there were some indications of a de- 
 sire to establish a school for ministers in the vicinity of Chicago, he 
 gave his attention to that work and soon opened a school at Evanston. 
 cut of which has come the Garrett Biblical Institute. The founding of 
 that institution settled the policy of the Church concerning the educa- 
 tion of its ministry ; a work largely accomplished by John Dempster. 
 
 CLINTON WM. SEARS. SECOND PRESIDENT. 
 
 Dr. Dempster sustained the official relation of president of the in- 
 stitution until 1854. when, upon his resignation. Clinton William Sears. 
 M. A., who had taught the ancient languages in the university since 
 1852. was elected president. He was born in New York in 1820; re- 
 ceived a classical education at the Wesleyan University, having been 
 graduated in 1841. and afterwards studied in the Lane Theological Sem- 
 inary. Cincinnati. Ohio. He entered upon the ministry and served in 
 the bounds of the Genesee and Ohio conferences until his election to 
 the chair of ancient languages at the Wesleyan in 1854 ; he was also 
 elected as professor of ancient languages in Ohio University, but re- 
 mained at Bloomington. Upon retiring from the educational work he 
 reentered the pastorate and filled pulpits at Springfield. Illinois, and 
 Cincinnati, until he answered the call to defend his country, when in 
 1861 he became chaplain in the army. He is represented as having 
 been a man of excellent spirit, an accurate scholar, a winning teacher. 
 
 GEORGE R. CROW, PROFESSOR OF LATIN. 
 
 George R. Crow, M. A., is a native of Ohio and was educated in 
 the Ohio Wesleyan University, having completed its classical course in 
 1861. After graduation he engaged in teaching awhile and then moved 
 to Illinois and settling near Elkhart, engaged in agricultural pursuits, at 
 which he was eminently successful. In 1870, upon the recommenda- 
 tion of President Oliver S. Munsell, he was chosen professor of Latin, 
 which chair he occupied until 1879; for nine years he labored with un- 
 tiring zeal and great energy in the interests of the university, and con- 
 tributed largely of his means toward the erection of the building that 
 was completed during his connection with the institution. As a teacher 
 he was easily approached, truly sympathetic and earnest. Since 1883 
 he has resided on the Pacific coast, where he went for the sake of his 
 health, and he has been felt as a potent factor in developing the resources 
 of Los Angeles. 
 
 CHARLES M. MOSS. PROFESSOR OF GREEK, 1879-91. 
 
 Charles M. Moss, B. A., M. A.. Ph.. D. Professor of Greek in the 
 University of Illinois, prepared for college at Cazenovia Seminary, 1873;. 
 received the degree of B. A., Syracuse University, 1877; M. A., 1880; 
 Ph. D., 1881. In 1878-79 he was adjunct-professor of classics. Vic- 
 toria University, Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. In the fall of 1879 he was 
 called to the chair of Greek in the Illinois Wesleyan University, where 
 he remained until 1891. It was through Dr. Moss that the non-resident 
 and post-graduate department of the university was largely advertised 
 and built up after its organization by President Fallows. Dr. Moss was 
 dean of the department up to the time he left the university for his 
 present field of labor. He was an enthusiastic and inspiring leader of the 
 weekly meeting of the Christian Associations of the university, and a 
 frequent contributor to the periodical press 
 
ILLINOIS WBSLBYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 Harvey C. DeMotte. 
 
 Profossor of Hathematics. isei-fiit. 
 
 During nearly all the history of the Illi- 
 nois Wesleyan University, Harvey C. De- 
 Motte, M. A.. Ph. D., has been a prominent 
 factor in its growth and prosperity. He 
 was born in Greene county, Illinois, in 
 1838. His boyhood being spent upon the 
 farm as a tiller of the soil, his early edu- 
 cational advantages were not of a superior 
 character: but, naturally fond of books, he 
 determined to secure the best education 
 to be obtained by one in his condition. 
 With a stout heart and fixed purpose, he 
 entered school at Metamora. Illinois, in 
 1856, and soon afterwards found his way 
 to Bloomington. He was graduated from 
 the Illinois Wesleyan University in 1861; 
 having shown special aptitude as a tutor 
 and remarkable ability as a student in 
 mathematics, he was elected professor of 
 mathematics on the day preceding his 
 graduation. While in college he was 
 chiefly instrumental in the organization of 
 the Belles Lettres literary society, and 
 has always been its friend and helper. In 
 1862 he enlisted in the army in the de- 
 fense of the Union and served as first 
 lieutenant in the 63th Illinois Volunteers. 
 
 Upon his return from the service he resumed his duties as pro- 
 
 Harvey C. DeMotte. 
 
 fessor of mathematics at the university, 
 which he performed so ably and conscien- 
 tiously, as is known by most of the stu- 
 dents who have received instruction In its 
 halls. In 1884 he resigned the professor- 
 ship to accept the presidency of Chaddock 
 College, Quincy, Illinois. This position he 
 held until 1887, when he was elected 
 superintendent of the Soldiers' Orphans' 
 Home, Normal, Illinois. While Dr. De- 
 Motte was admirably fitted for the chair 
 of mathematics, it seemed that the super- 
 intendency of this great institution, a home 
 for the Union soldiers' orphans, afforded 
 him. his natural element. His superlnten- 
 dency was most economical, most wise 
 and popular. In the performance of his 
 duties he was most ably seconded by Mrs. 
 DeMotte. who was equally well adapted 
 to the position she occupied as matron of 
 the Home. Their kindness of heart, 
 suavity of manner and comprehensive 
 knowledge of child nature enabled them 
 to make a record in the home that will be 
 hard to surpass. Dr. DeMotte has always 
 b?en a csreful. industrious student. In 
 1877 the degree of Ph. D. in absentia was 
 conferred upon him on examination by 
 Syracuse University, and in 1883 Baker 
 University honored him with the degree of 
 
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 LL. D. He was a member of the General Conference of 1882 and has 
 often represented his own church in the lay electoral conferences. As 
 a scholar he was master in his own department : as a teacher he was 
 clear, inspiring and sympathetic: as a man he was universally respected 
 and truly loved by most of the students who received instruction at his 
 hand. Many a timid, almost discouraged youth has been made free 
 and courageous by his kindness and appropriate word of encouragement, 
 and none ever appaaled to hi.n for help and sympathy and were repulsed. 
 Mrs. DeMotte. a most accomplished woman, served as principal 
 of the model school from 1863 to 1867. She also rendered most valu- 
 able service to the institution as a member of the Woman's Educational 
 Association, and like her husband, has ever been loyal to the interests of 
 the University. Their only daughter Clara is now a member of the 
 junior class. 
 
 JOHN M. HAMILTON. 
 
 Ex-Governor John M. Hamilton. B. A.. M. A., a descendant of 
 the old Scotch family of Hamiltons which settled in Maryland and Vir- 
 ginia at an early day, was born in Ohio in 1847. At the age of sixtef n 
 he enlisted as a volunteer and served one year in the Union army, when 
 he returned horns, prepared for and entered college. He completed 
 the course at the Ohio Wesleyan University in 1868. ranking third in a 
 class of forty-six. He immediately began the study of law. but was com- 
 pelled to earn his living at the same time. In 1868 he was principal of 
 the academy at Henry. Illinois, and in the fall of 1869 was elected as 
 tutor in Latin at the 11 inois Wesleyan. 
 
 While Mr. Hamilton was a young man of scholar'y habits and 
 tastes, law was his chosen profession, upon which he entered in Bloom- 
 ington. He served four years in the State Senate ; he w.-i.<; .-also elected 
 lieutenant-governor, and succeeded to the highest office of the State. 
 
 John Veslet Powell. 
 
 Professor, laes-es. 
 
 Among the men who have honored the university by their connec- 
 tion with it, and whom the university delights to honor, is John Wesley 
 Powell, M. A.. Ph. D., LL. D. He was born, as his name would indi- 
 cate, of Methodist parents, in Mt. Morris, New York, in 1834, He is 
 the son of a Methodist clergyman. The lot of his youth was that com- 
 mon to the children of the clergymen of that denomination, and he had 
 no abiding place, but had excellent opportunities for observation in Ohio, 
 Wisconsin and Illinois. He studied in Illinois, Wheaton, and Oberlin 
 Colleges, but received his first degree from the Illinois Wesleyan, and 
 was afterwards honored by the degreee of Ph. D. from the University of 
 Heidelberg, and at the same time, 1886, with that of LL. D. from Har- 
 vard College. He enlisted as a private in the 20th Illinois Volunteers, 
 and rose to the position of lieutenant-colonel of the 2nd Illinois Artillery. 
 He served from the beginning to the close of the war, though he lost his 
 right arm in the bloody battle of Shiloh. At an early age he developed 
 strong inclinations toward natural science and became somewhat of an 
 enthusiast in geology and natural history, spending much time in making 
 collections. Several of the institutions of Illinois are richer to-day be- 
 cause of this inclination and interest in higher education, and especially 
 the Wesleyan. In 1865 he was chosen professor of geology at the Illi- 
 nois Wesleyan University, where he devoted all his energies toward 
 building up the science department of the school, and imparted the true 
 scientific spirit to a large body of men. He remained in this position 
 until 1868, when he resigned in order that he might continue his scien- 
 tific studies and exploration of the Rocky Mountain region. During 
 the summer of 1867 he organized a body consisting largely of his own 
 students, among whom were the Hon. L. H. Kerrick, president of the 
 
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 executive committee of the board of trustees, Rev. H. C. Ha'-tzell and 
 Dr. J. B. Taylor, for the purpose of rraking a geographical s^udy of 
 Colorado. While on this expedition he formed the idea of exploring the 
 Canon of the ColoradD. and was the first white man to behold the won- 
 ders and beauties of that region. He was soon employed by the Smith- 
 sonian Institute, under whose auspices he conducted other expeditions, 
 and still later under the government more directly. 
 
 His contributions to our knowledge of the Rocky Mountain region 
 are well known and invaluable. His scientific addresses, papers and 
 publications which include his careful reports of various surveys and 
 ethnological investigations have attracted wide attention and are of high- 
 est authority. Among the volumes that bear his own name are "Ex- 
 plorations of the Colorado River of the West and its Tributaries Ex- 
 plored in 1872" (Washington, 1875); "Report on the Geology of the 
 Eastern Portion of the Uinta Mountains, and a Region of Country Ad- 
 jacent Thereto" (1879): "Introduction to the Study of Indian 
 Languages, with Words, Phrases and Sentences to be Collected" 
 (1880): and "The Canons of the Colorado," 1895, beautifully illustrated. 
 
 In i 880 he was made member of the National Academy of Science : 
 was president of the Anthropological Society of Washington from 1879 
 to 1888: a fellow of the American Association for the advancement of 
 science; its vice-president in 1879 and its president in 1887. The 
 students who accompanied him in his first expedition congratulate them- 
 selves upon their happy experience with Major John W. Powell one of 
 the largest American contributors to scientific knowledge of our own 
 country, and the university on the fact that its first scientific impulse 
 was originally given and often quickened and guided by so distinguished 
 an explorer, scholar, teacher and gentleman, while his direct and indi- 
 rect contributions to the natural history collections of the university will 
 never be forgotten. 
 
 S. S. HAMILL, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND ELOCUTION. 
 
 Professor S. S. Hamill, B. A.. M. A., was born in Ohio in 1835. 
 He received his preparatory education at the academy in Monroe, Ohio, 
 and at the age of seventeen entered the freshman class in Miami Uni- 
 versity, Oxford Ohio, where he remained for one year, giving special 
 attention to the study of elocution. After teaching for some time, he 
 entered the sophomore class in Monmouth College, and taught elocution 
 and thereby paid his college expenses for two years when he was 
 elected instructor in elocution at Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois, with 
 the privilege of completing his course of study. There he took his de- 
 gree in 1859. For several years after graduation he taught elocution 
 to voluntary classes in the principal colleges of Pennsylvania, Ohio, 
 Indiana and Illinois. In 1870 he was elected professor of elocution and 
 English in the Illinois Wesleyan University where he remained until 
 1873, when he resigned to accept a similar position in the State Normal 
 School at Kirkwood, Missouri. He remained at Kirkwood for three 
 years, when he removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, and taught in Hughes and 
 Woodward High Schools. In 1877 he was called to the chair of Eng- 
 lish and Elocution in the Illinois College, but at the close of the first 
 year retired and removed to Chicago. 
 
 Professor Hamill's influence at the Illinois Wesleyan University 
 was of a most positive character, and is now felt throughout the entire 
 country through students who received instruction from him. Professor 
 Swing uttered the simple truth when he said, " Prof. Hamill not only 
 knows his subject through and through, but he knows how to impart it 
 others." It was during his professorship here that he published his 
 "Science of Elocution." 
 
 Mr. Hamill continues to teach private classes at 57, Washington 
 Street, Chicago, where he practices his own motto, " Principles, not 
 rules, the basis in theory: Nature, not imitation, the guide in practice." 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 Bradford S. Potter. 
 
 Professor of riATHEMATics. 
 
 he resigned to accept a pos'tion in the Missouri State Norma! 
 
 Bradford S. Potter. M. A., Ph. D., was 
 born in Walworth. Wayne county. New 
 York, in 1836. He prepared for college 
 at Walworth Academy and taught in the 
 public schools during the years 1853 and 
 1854. In 1854 he entered Genesee Wes- 
 leyan, now Syracuse University, as a 
 freshman : like many others he taught 
 more or less during the time of his col- 
 legiate course, serving as principal of 
 Webster Academy from 1856 to 1858. 
 Upon reentering college, in connection with 
 his studies he was employed as tutor in 
 Latin: again in 1859 he was compelled to 
 resort to teaching in order to be able to 
 defray his expenses, and was employed in 
 the Normal Department of Waterloo Acad- 
 emiy. He received his degree, however, 
 from Genesee Wesleyan in 1860; after- 
 wards he taught at New Albany, Indiana, 
 was principal for a time of Mexico Acade- 
 my, New York, but was soon called to 
 Baker University. Kansas, where he occu- 
 pied the chair of mathematics until 1867. 
 when he was elected professor of natural 
 science at the Illinois Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity. Here he remained until 1876 when 
 
 Bradford S. Potter. 
 
 at Kirksville. In 1879 he was called to 
 the principalship of the Normal School at 
 Shippensburg. Pa. In all of these posi- 
 tions he was a successful teacher and in 
 the latter proved to possess administrative 
 ability of decided merit. In 1884 he was 
 recalled to the university as professor of 
 natural science, and upon the resignation 
 of Dr. De Motte. who had accepted the 
 presidency of Chaddock College, he was 
 transferred to the department of mathe- 
 matics, which position he held until his 
 voluntary resignation in 1892. He re- 
 ceived the degree of Ph. D., from Alleghe- 
 ny College. Pa., on examination. Prof. 
 Potter is an accurate scholar and in math- 
 ematics and the experimental sciences, 
 has investigated broadly and thoroughly: 
 as a teacher he was clear, kind, and help- 
 ful to the student ; was universally re- 
 spected for his purity of motive, his kind- 
 ness of heart, and his discriminating 
 judgment. During all the time of his ser- 
 vice at the university he has been an active 
 and most useful member of the University 
 Charge and Grace Church. Ralph, the 
 son, is a member of the class of '91 : the 
 daughter. Mary, tcok her entire course in 
 the university, except the winter and spring 
 terjTis of her senior year. 
 
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 Jabez R. Jaques. 
 
 Professor. 1865-75. 
 
 Prof. Jabez R. Jaques. B. A.. M. A., Ph. D.. D. D., was born in 
 England in 1828, and died in Abingdon. Illinois, in 1892. He entered 
 Genesee (now Syracuse) University in 1850. and was graduated vale- 
 dictorian of his class in 1854. He was principal of Conference Semi- 
 nary from 1854 to 1857: pastor of First Methodist Episcopal church, 
 Rochester. New York; Professor of Ancient Languages in Collegiate 
 Institute, Rochester, New York, from 1863 to 1865, when he was called 
 to the professorship of Ancient Languages and German in the Illinois 
 Wesleyan University, where he remained until 1875, when he was 
 elected president of Albert College, Belleville, Canada. He served as 
 president of that institution until 1885. when, for a short time, he re- 
 turned to the pastorate in New York City, but accepted the presidency 
 of Hedding College, Abingdon, Illinois, in 1886. 
 
 In 1869 he was elected a member of the American Philological 
 Association, and in 1875 he received the degree of Ph. D. from Syra- 
 cuse University, New York. 
 
 As a student of Dr. Jaques. I can say, he was not without honors, 
 but his honors meant merit, and his merit seemingly far transcended his 
 reward. 
 
 SUSANNAH M. D. FRY, PROFESSOR OF BELLES LETTRES. 
 
 Among women, one of the .most distinguished sducat-rs is Mrs. 
 Sue M. D. Fry. M. A., Ph. D .who from 1876 to June, I89J. occuoied 
 the chair of Belles Lettres at the Illinois Wesleyan University. She 
 was born at Burlington, Ohio. 1841 . and was graduated from the Female 
 Seminary at Oxford, Ohio, in 1859. She imimediately began to teach, 
 being especially proficient in drawing, painting, music and literature. 
 
 For several years she taught in graded high schools. In 1868 she was 
 married to Rev. James D. Fry, who was a n. ember of the Ohio Con- 
 ference. She interested herself in the Ladies* and Pastors' Christian 
 Union, the Woman's For;ign Missionary Society and other philanthropic 
 movements in the Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, and in them all dis 
 played fine perception, facility, 
 clearness and accuracy of expres- 
 sion. In 1873 with her husband, 
 she traveled and studied for one 
 year in Europe, during which time 
 she contributed articles to the re- 
 ligious press which indicated de- 
 cisive talent. Upon her return to 
 America she devoted her time ard 
 talents very largely to representirg 
 the interests of the Woman's For- 
 eign Missionary Society before the 
 conferences. In 1876 she wjs 
 elected Professor of Belles Lettres 
 at the Illinois Wesleyan University, 
 and in this position during her four- 
 teenyears of teaching. distinguished 
 herself as a scholar and public 
 
 speaker of great ability, beirg especially strong in literature, histcry. 
 history of art and assthetics, and. as preceptress of the ladies' hall during 
 the first years of her connecMon with the university, she exercised an 
 influence second to but few who have been connected with the university 
 at any time: and to her more than anyone else is due 'he successes of 
 the Women's Educational Associations In 1878 her scholarship was 
 
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 recognized by Ohio Wesleyan University, which conferred upon her the 
 degree of Master of Arts. In 1881 she took the degree of Ph. D. from 
 Syracuse University. In addition to her duties as professor, she con- 
 tributed articles to various periodicals, addressed conventions and con- 
 ferences on educational and religious topics, and occupied a prominent 
 position in many organizations local and general. She read a paper of 
 decided merit before the Parliament of Religions in connection with 
 the World's Fair at Chicago ; was also a judge in the Liberal Art dfe- 
 partment of the Columbian Exposition and received the highest testimo- 
 nials from the commissioner of the department for efficiency of service. 
 Since severing her connection with the Illinois Wesleyan University she 
 has taught in the English department of the University of Minnesota 
 during the absence of the professor in charge, also in the department of 
 history in the St. Paul high school as a substitute, and is at the pres- 
 ent time editor-in-chief of the Union Signal in place of Miss Sudduth, 
 one of her former pupils, and of the class of 1880, who is now traveling 
 abroad. 
 
 JENNIE FOWLER WILLING, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 
 
 Another distinguished woman. Mrs. Willing, occupied the chair of 
 English literature in the university during the years of 1873 and 1876. 
 She is a sister of Bishop Charles H. Fowler, and was born in Canada 
 West in 1834. At the early age of sixteen she began contributing 
 articles to the press, and assumed the duties of teacher, displaying 
 marked abilities and strong character. Al nineteen she was married to 
 Rev. W. C. Willing, and in addition to her duties as the wife of an itin- 
 erant preacher, gave diligent attention to literature, writing more or less 
 constantly for the religious press, and discharging the functions of the 
 secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, public speaker, 
 organizer, editor of the Heathen Woman's Friend; in fact, she has been 
 
 more or less identified with the great movements of Methodism which 
 in her day have calisd forth the peculiar abilities of women. She re- 
 ceived the degree of M. E. L. from Jennings Seminary, and that of 
 Master of Arts from Northwestern University. 
 
 LEWIS C. DOUGHERTY, PRINCIPAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL. 
 
 Lewis C. Dougherty, who was principal of the preparatory school 
 of the Illinois V/esleyan University from 1886 to 1889 was educated at 
 Monmouth Academy and in the Illinois State Normal School, where he 
 
 pursued most of the studies of the high 
 school in connection with the Normal 
 course. Like most of the public school 
 men of the day, he taught more or less 
 before he entered upon his professional 
 oourse of study, and during the time he 
 vas pursuing it. He served as principal 
 of the Lacon schools two years, and of 
 the Minonk schools seven years, when he 
 was invited by President Adams to the 
 position of principal of the preparatory 
 school, which he accepted. Here he 
 proved to be a first-class instructor and 
 wise administrator, and a geiial Christian 
 gentleman. In the spring of 1889 he resigned to accept a position in 
 the schools of Rock Island, where he still teaches. 
 
 WILLLIAM H. WAITE, PROFESSOR OF LATIN. 
 
 William Henry Waite, M. A.. Ph. D., was elected professor of 
 Latin in 1883 and voluntarily resigned in June, 1890. He was a native 
 of Illinois and was born well, having had the best advantages for an early 
 
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ILLINOIS WES LEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 education. He prepared for college in the academy of the Northwest- 
 ern University, from which institution he received the degree of B. A. 
 As a student he was espscially strong in the ancient languages and 
 mathematics. He was soon called to a position in the high school of 
 Peoria. Illinois, and taught Latin and Greek until called to the university 
 in 1833. In 1893 he returned to Peoria to the position he formerly 
 occupied. He received from Allegheny College the degree of Ph. D., 
 and during the years 1893 and 1894 he traveled and studied in Europe. 
 Upon his return he was called to Michigan University as instructor in 
 Greek. As a scholar he is accurste and thorough: as a teacher he is 
 rigid and efficient, being a perfect 
 master in the class-room. 
 
 REUBEN M. BENJAMIN, PROFESSOR 
 SINCE 1874. 
 
 Judge Reuben M. Benjamin 
 B. A., M, A., LL. D., was born al 
 Chatham Center, New York. He 
 prepared for college in the academy 
 at Kinderhook, New York, and en- 
 tered Amherst, from which he was 
 graduated in 1853. In 1853-4 he 
 was principal of Hopkins Academy. 
 Massachusetts. In 185 4-5 he 
 studied law at the Harvard law 
 school; in 1855-56 he was tutor in 
 Amherst College ; in 1856 he came 
 to Bloomington, Illinois, where he 
 has since resided. He entered im- reuben m. benjamin. 
 
 mediately upon the practiC3 of his profession, first with Gridley, Wickizer 
 
 and Benjamin, later with Tipton and Benjamin, and later still with Weldon 
 and Benjamin. 
 
 In 1869, Mr. Benjamin was elected as a member of the convention 
 that formed the present constitution of the State, and rendered most 
 valuable service, serving on the com.mittees: Bill of Rights, Municipal 
 Corporations, and State Institutions. He was counsel also for the Peo- 
 ple in the celebrated Lexington case (C. &. A. R. R. Co. vs. the People, 
 67 111. Rep.), a case involving the question as to the right of railroad 
 corporations to charge more for a less than for a greater distance. He 
 was later employed as special counselor for the Railroad and Warehouse 
 Commissioners, and in this case helped to establish the constitutional 
 power of the legislature to regulate railroad and warehouse charges to 
 thus protect the public. 
 
 " It is probable that the people of the State are indebted for the 
 results of this agitation as given in the above decision to Hon. R. M. 
 Benjamin, of Bloomington, in a greater degree than to any other single 
 individual. As a member of the constitutional convention he made the 
 clearest and most convincing arguments in favor of the rights of the 
 people which were delivered in that body, and as special counsel for the 
 People in the cases of the C. & A. R. R. us. The People, and Munn us. 
 The People, has very materially contributed in establishing the princi- 
 ple contended for by him before the convention and established in above 
 cases." 
 
 In 1873 Mr. Benjamin was elected county judge of McLean county, 
 and continuously held the office until 1882. Upon the organization of 
 the law school of the Illinois Wesleyan University in 1874, Judge Ben- 
 jamin was elected dean, and held the office until 1892, when he volun- 
 tarily resigned the deanship that he might give greater attention to the 
 professorship, and study. In 1879 he published "The Student's Guide 
 to Elementary Law," which has proved to be a most valuable text-book. 
 
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 His department is that of Elementary ar.d Criminal Law and Real 
 Property. 
 
 Mr. Benjamin is a courteous, cultured C "ristian gentleman, of ex- 
 act and accurate scholarship. As a teacher he is clear, kind, instructive 
 and stimulating. 
 
 JACOB P. LINDLEY. PROFESSOR SINCE 1883. 
 
 Jacob p. Lindley. A. B., LL. B., was born in Morgan county, Indi- 
 ana, in 1850. He received his early education in New Providence 
 Seminary. Hardin county. 
 Iowa, and Poplar Ridge Semi- 
 nary. Indiana. He entered the 
 State University and gradu- 
 ated with a degree of A. B. in 
 1881. having taught for some 
 years in the public schools of 
 Iowa bifore entering upon his 
 college course. He entered 
 the law school of the Illinois 
 Wesleyan University in 1881 
 and graduated in 1833. Soon 
 after his graduation he was 
 employed as teacher in the 
 law school and taught Con- 
 tracts in the spring term of 
 1884. at which time he be- 
 came secretary and treasurer 
 
 . ^ , I I i_i^ ,.,oe JACOB P. LINDLEY. 
 
 of the law school. He was 
 
 elected aitorney for the city of Bloomington in 1892, which office he 
 
 still holds. He is a member of the Congregational church. 
 
 John M. Scott. 
 
 Lecturer in Law School Since i889. 
 
 Birth. — Was born in St. Clair county, Illinois, August 1, 1824. 
 
 Parents. — Samuel and Nancy Biggs Scott. 
 
 Race. — On father's side his people were of Irish extraction. 
 
 Education. — Common school, supplemented by private instruction. 
 
 Law. — Studied law in the office of Hon. William C Kinney, 
 Belleville, Illinois; was admitted to the bar in 1847, and came to 
 Bloomington, Illinois, in 1848, to commence the practice of law. 
 
 Offices. — In 1852 was elected Judge of the County Court of 
 McLean county, Illinois. In 1862 was elected Judge of the Circuit 
 Court of the circuit in which McLean county was situated; was re- 
 elected Circuit Judge in 1867 and held that office until elected Judge 
 of the Supreme Court of Illinois in 1870 ; was re-elected Judge of the 
 Supreme Court in 1879. During the eighteen years he was a member 
 of the Supreme Court by allotment he became three times Chief 
 Justice, viz.: in 1875, 1882, and 1886 ; was the first native citizen of 
 Illinois to become a member of the Supreme Court and the first to be- 
 come its Chief Justice. At the end of his second term as Judge of the 
 Supreme Court, viz.: in June, 1838, he declined to be a candida^^ for 
 re-election. His name first appears in the third volume of Oilman Re- 
 ports and from a short time thereafter his name appears in the Illinois 
 Reports as Attorney, Judge of the Trial Court, or as Judge of the Supreme 
 Court writing theopinions, up intoand including Vol. 126, Illinois Reports. 
 
 Personal. — In size medium — being five feet, eight and one-half 
 inches in height and neither stout nor very spare. When young, hair 
 was as black as it well could be and now it is yet full and white as it 
 can well be. 
 
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 Complexion.— Dark and inclined to be swarthy. Eyes hazel in 
 color and perhaps a little larger than in most persons. 
 
 Peculiar Characteristics.— Writes always with a quill pen; in all 
 later compositions the word ••that" is seldom used. Appreciates a 
 good story if it is clean ; detests a dirty story or a practical joke. Has 
 no taste for political life. Bearing in life quiet and friendly with all 
 whom he may chance to meet. 
 
 Opinions. — His judicial opinions speak for themselves. No one is 
 more sensible of the defects they contain than he is. Two cases may 
 
 be regarded as a fair average : 
 one is Dunne us. People, 1 17 
 111. 120. and the other is Field 
 us. Leiter, 1 18 111. 17. Others 
 are perhaps better and others 
 not so well written. 
 
 Professional Labor. — It will 
 be seen by what has gone be- 
 fore that his professional work 
 has been mostly judicial labor ; 
 practiced law for only a brief 
 time. 
 
 HOLLAND A. RUSSELL. CLASS OF 
 
 '87; PROFESSOR SINCE 1893. 
 
 Rolland A. Russell, B. A.. 
 M. A., LL. B.. Professor of 
 the college of law, was born in 
 ROLLAND A. RUSSELL. Shelby county. Illinois, where 
 
 he spent his youth on a farm. He entered the Illinois Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity in the spring of 1880. In 1881-82 he taught school: in 1883 
 
 returned to the Wesleyan and was graduated in 1887. From 1887 to 
 1889 he was principal of the Greenfield high school. He entered the 
 law school in 1889. and was graduated in 1891. having studied also in 
 the office of Benjamin & Morrissey of the city. He at once began the 
 practice of law, but was soon invited to a position on the faculty, which 
 he accepted. He teaches Kent and Gould on Pleading. 
 
 During his collegiate course Mr. Russell was considered a leader, 
 
 not only in his class but in 
 college affairs. He is modest 
 and unassuming, calm and 
 even-tempered, and is most 
 courteous and dignified in his 
 bearing. Had he been willing 
 to have yielded the profession 
 of law, he would have been in- 
 vited to a professorship in the 
 college. He is one of the 
 most worthy sons of the Wes- 
 leyan, destined to take a high 
 rank in his profession. 
 
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 professor of practice in the 
 college of law, was birn in Ohio 
 in 1847. and had the advan- 
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 until sixteen years old. when he 
 began clerking in a dry goods store. During the late war he ccrvcd in 
 
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 Company B, 32nd Ohio Infantry. At the close of the war he attended 
 the National Normal School, at Lebanon. Ohio, then taught school for 
 two years in West Virginia. Having graduated from Lebanon, he en- 
 tered the law department of Michigan University and completed its two 
 years' course in 1874. He began the practice of law at Bloomington, 
 Illinois, where his talents received early recognition. He was elected 
 
 judge of the county court, which 
 office he still holds. As a teacher, 
 he is clear, concise and inspiring, 
 and has the universal respect of 
 students and of citizens generally. 
 
 JOHN J. MORRISSEY, PROFESSOR OF 
 LAW SINCE 1880. 
 
 John J. Morrissey, LL. B., is a 
 native of Ireland, but received his 
 education in the United States, 
 having graduated from the law 
 school of the Illinois Wesleyan 
 University in 1880. His charac- 
 ter, bearing and natural endow- 
 ments strongly recommended him 
 for a teacher in the law school, 
 and at the meeting of the trustees 
 in June of the year of his gradua- 
 tion he was elected professor of 
 common law and equity pleading. He also entered into partnership 
 with Judge Reuben M. Benjamin, with whom he is still associated in 
 teaching and practice. He is a gentleman of pleasing and unassuming 
 manners, of elevated sentiment, of refined taste and of strict integrity. 
 
 JOHN J. MORRiSSEY. 
 
 JAMES B. TAYLOR, CLASS OF 1869. 
 
 James B. Taylor, M. A.. M. D., was born in Kentucky in 1850. 
 His youth was spent in Missouri, Kentucky and Illinois. He prepared 
 for college in the State Normal University and the Illinois Wesleyan 
 preparatory school, and graduated from the college in June, 1869. He 
 was one of the company of students who accompanied Major Powell in 
 his early exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. During his 
 college course he did some tutoring in Latin, and immediately upon 
 graduation began teaching in Kentucky and met with eminent success. 
 In 1875 he was called to his alma mater as professor of natural science. 
 Here he remained for two years, then on a leave of absence visited 
 Germany for special study, resuming his work at the university upon his 
 return. In 1879, having yielded to the conviction that he should follow 
 professionally in the footsteps of his father, he went to New York and 
 entered the medical college where he took the complete course and had 
 extended practice in the hospital. After graduating from the medical 
 college he returned to the city of Bloomington and began the practice of 
 medicine, his specialties being the eye, ear and throat. At the same 
 time he was retained by the university as professor and lecturer on 
 physiology and hygiene, giving one full year's course of five hours a 
 week to the subjects. This position he retained until 1892, when his 
 increasing practice rendered it no longer possible for him to direct the 
 course. Dr. Taylor will be remembered as a student of the highest 
 rank, accurate and thorough in all his investigations. He has given 
 special attention to biological studies and is considered an authority in 
 all matters pertaining to his specialties. He has contributed frequently to 
 medical and educational reviews, and has published a most admirable 
 pamphlet on Christian Science. While he stands high in his profession, 
 he was pre-eminently a teacher, rarely excelled either in matter or 
 manner, and his retirement from the faculty was the university's loss. 
 
Lawrence Weldon. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLBYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 Lawrence Veldo/m. 
 
 PROFfiSSOR. 1876-83. 
 
 Judge Lawrence Weldon, LL. D.,was born in Muskingum county, 
 Ohio, in 1829: removed, with his parents, to Madison county, Ohio, 
 when a child; was educated at the common schools, at the local acad- 
 emy, and at Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio : read law, and was 
 admitted to the bar in 1853: was a clerk in the office of the secretary 
 of state of Ohio in 1853 and 1854; in that year removed to Clinton, De 
 Witt county, Illinois, and engaged in the practice of law; in 1860 was 
 elected a representative in the State legislature, and was also a presi- 
 dential elector on the republican ticket: in 1861 resigned his seat in 
 the legislature to accept the appointment of United States Attorney for 
 the southern district of Illinois, tendered him by President Lincoln; re- 
 signed in 1866, and, in 1867, removed to Bloomington, Illinois, where 
 he continued the practice of his profession: in November, 1883, was 
 appointed, by President Arthur, an associate justice of the United States 
 court of claims. This position he fills with distinguished ability. 
 
 Though the university congratulated itself on having one cf its fac- 
 ulty chosen to this eminent position, his services in the law school were 
 so valuable that it was unwilling for him to sever entirely his connection 
 with its faculty; consequently he was prevailed upon to remain as lec- 
 turer. Residing in Bloom.ington for a few months annually, he is able 
 to perform the functions of the office. It will be seen that Judge Wel- 
 don has been associated with the faculty of the law school since 1876, 
 as professor or lecturer. As a lecturer he excels in clearness and befuty 
 of expression, having great wealth of illustration from history and litera- 
 ture ; as a teacher he begets an interest in his subject, and is patient, 
 luminous and thorough, is dignified and courteous, affable and aprroach- 
 able ; in character, irreproachable as to private as well as to his public life. 
 
 LYDE R. PORTER. ASSISTANT IN PREPARATORY SCHOOL. 
 
 Miss Lyde R. Porter, instructor in English in the preparatory 
 school, is a native of Bloomington. where she has spent her entire life. 
 She completed the courses of study in the public schools, including the 
 high school, attended the State Normal University for a short time, and 
 spent two years of study in the Wesleyan. The remainder of her life 
 has been given to teaching, mainly in the public schools of the city, until 
 
 in 1891 she was elected to the 
 position she now holds. She is a 
 most enthusiastic teacher, and in- 
 variably awakens the pupil and 
 begets an interest in the subject 
 taught. The student who will 
 not learn may fail to be quick- 
 ened in intellect and spurred to 
 intellectual energy under her tui- 
 tion, but if he gives any attention 
 to his studies he must advance. 
 Miss Porter belongs to a family 
 of teachers. Three of her sisters 
 have for several years maintained 
 positions in the city schools, and 
 whether as teachers or principals 
 LYDE R PORTER ^""^ recognlzed as most efficient, 
 
 Robert B.. of the class of 1871, 
 was her brother, and Miss Rachel Bauman, of the class of 1889, is her 
 niece and a daujhtsr of Rev. James V. W. Bauman. of the class of 
 1863. Miss Porter is patient and careful, and is especially strong in 
 English and history, bringing to the class-room a wealth of information 
 and illustration. She is a devout member of the Methodist church. 
 
Robert O. Graham. 
 
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 Robert 0. Graham. M. A.. Ph. D.. professor of chemistry and 
 geology, dean of the post-graduate college, was born in Western Penn- 
 sylvania, and prepared for college in the New Brighton high school and 
 Witherspoon Academy of his native State. He entered Amherst Col- 
 lege in 1873 and was graduated in 1877. During his collegiate course 
 he made a specialty of mathematics and chemistry. Before completing 
 his course he was elected professor of science in Monson Academy, a 
 preparatory school in New England, where he spent one year, but in the 
 meantime began the study of medicine with a view to its practice as his 
 life work. He soon, however, received a call to the professorship of 
 chemistry in the Westminster College. Pa., the chief institution of the 
 United Presbyterian Church in which comm.union he was reared. He 
 occupied the chair in Westminster College for eight years and through 
 his ingenuity, skill, and industry, built good working laboratories. 
 His eight years' experience in this professorship revealed to him not 
 only the needs of post-graduate study, but the special fields of investiga- 
 tion which would best prepare him for his professorship, hence he was 
 granted a year's leave of absence and entered upon graduate study at 
 Johns Hopkins University, where at the close of the year's study he 
 was encouraged by Professor Remsen to think he could complete the 
 course of study and receive the degree of Ph. D.. by remaining another 
 year. He then resigned his position at Westminster and took the de- 
 gree of Ph. D.. in 1888. His summers were spent in the natural gas 
 com.panies of the Pittsburg Testing Com.pany's laboratory. In the 
 summer of 1888, upon the invitation of President Wilder, he accepted 
 the professorship of chemistry and geology in the Illinois Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity, where he has made for himself a reputation as a most success- 
 
 ful teacher, enterprising citizen, and a 
 
 social qualities. During the first year attempts were n7clVfA»fpr 
 tional facilities in his department and the Shellabarger laboratory was 
 placed at his service, the old laboratory having been enlarged and thor- 
 oughly equipped as well. Since then, upon the death of Henry Swayne, 
 the Swayne private laboratory has been placed in the university, afford- 
 ing the Professor the best advantages for original research, and the ad- 
 vanced student in chemistry rare opportunities for instruction. 
 
 He is a member of the American Chemical Society, and Director 
 of the city library. It was under Dr. Graham's influence that the Wil- 
 der Reading Room was organized and established, and that the Wes- 
 leyan Lecture Course, so successfully managed for six years, was under- 
 taken. His services as expert chemist are in great demand in central 
 Illinois. As Dean of the Non-resident and Post-graduate department, 
 he shows rare skill and ability. 
 
 B. p. MARSH. PROFESSOR OF PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE. 
 
 B. P. Marsh. M. A,. M. D.. who ably taught physiology and hygi- 
 ene in the university from 1876 to 1880, is a native of New York State 
 and was born in 1841. He was graduated from Knox College in 1864 
 and afterwards completed a medical course of study at Chicago, having 
 studied at Hahnemann and Rush colleges. From 1868 to 1873 he was 
 principal of Bloomington high school. This position he resigned to 
 enter upon the practice of medicine, for which he had thoroughly pre- 
 pared. An only son. Walworth, graduated with the class of 1895. 
 
 Lecures also were delivered by John L. White, M. D.. from. 1872 
 to 1876. The lectureship was instituted by President Munsell with a 
 view to the organization of a medical department, but the conditions 
 have never warranted the organization of a distinct professional school, 
 though courses are now arranged in view of the medical profession. 
 
Morton J. Elrod. 
 
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 Norton J. fiROo. 
 
 Trofessor Since isaa 
 
 Morton J Elrod. B. A., M. A., Professor of biolcgy and physics. 
 was born in 1863 in Western Pennsylvania and removed with his 
 parents to Iowa in e.irly childhood. He was prepared for college in the 
 public schools of his State, and the Monroe high school, from which he 
 was graduated in 1882. whereupon he entered Simpson College. Iowa, 
 and was graduated in 1887. He was fortunate in having good health and 
 being compelled to rely upon his own resources to secure the money to 
 defray his expenses while in college. This necessity gave him three 
 years' experience in teaching, all in cne schcol, before his graduation. 
 His specialty in college was biology, and when required to bring fifty 
 specimens of flov ers properly analyzed, he presented a herbarium of 
 two thousand specimens. He served as assistan. in the science depart- 
 ment and did efficient w:rk in his college before his graduation. In 
 1887. the year after graduation, he was principal of the high school of 
 Corydon. Iowa. In the summer of 1888 he was invited by President 
 Wilder to the position of assistant teacher in the science departments in 
 the Illinois Wesleyan University, where his ability as a teacher vts 
 soon recognized, and in 1839 he was made adjunct-professor of nat.. al 
 science, and in 1891 was elected professor of biology and physics, i ;e 
 has developed fine skill as a taxidermist, and has used that ability rs 
 curator of the museum to great advantage to the university. For a 
 number of years he has been one of the editors of the Iowa School 
 
 Journal. 
 
 He is a member of the American Ornithologist Union, the Biological 
 Society of Washington, D. C: the American Association of Concholo- 
 gists, and the Wilson chapter of the Agassiz Association. He is also a 
 contributor to many of the leading papers and magazines of the day. 
 
 During the summers of 1894 and 1895 he organized exploring compa- 
 nies composed largely of students, and, spending sc me time in the Reeky 
 Mountains and the Yellowstone Park, he secured the recognition of the 
 new species andrya americara (Stiles) and enallagma carunculatum. 
 
 Those who know Professor Elrod need not be told that he is a gen- 
 eral favorite with the students, and that his popularity and fame at hom.e 
 
 and abroad are increasing. 
 
 MRS. MARGARET VAN LEER. 
 
 Miss Martha Langstaff. now Mrs. 
 Bert Van Leer, of this city, was 
 elected instructor in English and elo- 
 cution in 1890, and served two years. 
 She was a graduate of the Lexing- 
 ton high school, and a student in the 
 Northwestern School of Oratory 
 under Professor Cumnock, having 
 completed the required course of 
 study. She showed marked ability 
 as a reader and teacher of voice 
 culture and elocution. She was a 
 great favorite among students and 
 in Bloomington society. She was 
 married to Bert Van Leer in 1894, 
 and resides in this city. 
 
 She was preceded in her work of 
 instruction by some of the university's sens who have achieved distinc- 
 tion, among whom are James Oliver Wilson, who also was instructor 
 in this department at Drew Seminary: Samuel Van Pelt, the successful 
 president of Grand Prairie Seminary; J. h. Ci.lan and Robert McKay, 
 
 MARGARET VAN LEER. 
 
Melvin p. Lackland. 
 
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 MELVir^ F. LACl^LAhD, 
 
 F^?OFESSOR OF HATHEnATICS- 
 
 Protessor Melvin P. Lackland. B. A.. M. A.. B. D.. was born in 
 1851 in Tremont, Illinois, where his childhood and youth were spent 
 upon the farm and in the country schools. He entered the preparatory 
 school of the Illinois Wesleyan University in 1872, and was graduated 
 from the college of letters in 1878. He was a prominent member of 
 the Belles Lettres literary society, and was president of his class. He 
 studied one year a' Drew Theological Seminary, and completed his 
 theological course at Garrett Biblical Institute in 1681. He united with 
 the Centra! Illinois Conference of the same year and served ?s paster at 
 Sibley, Selm.a. Rcaonke until 1888. At the latter place he was also 
 principal of the public schools, having taught his first school before 
 entering the preparatory departm.ent of the university. Feeling drawn 
 to the wqrk of education, he entered Johns Hcpkins University in the 
 fall of 1883. and did special work in mathematics. He v/as afterwards 
 chosen professor of mathemaiics in Chaddock College and succeeded 
 President Hornbeck of that institution, where he remain=}d doing valiant 
 service until 1892, when called to the chair of mathemaiics in the Illi- 
 nois Wesleyan University. 
 
 ROBERT EBENEZER WILLIAMS. 
 
 Hon. Robert E. Williams was the firs^ University Lecturer on legal 
 subjects, and at the organization of the Law School became Professor 
 of Consti.utional, Internaticnal, ? nd Crim.inal Law. which position he 
 occupied with great acceptability until 1877. He was born in Pennsyl- 
 vania, in 1825, educated at Washington and Bethany Colleges, and be- 
 gan his legal practice in Bloomington, in 1850. In legal lore he is not 
 only one of the most eminent but also one of the m.ost profound lawyers 
 in Illinois, having practiced extensively in the Suprem.e Court of the State. 
 
 WILLIAM ARTHUR HEIDEL. PROFESSOR OF CREEK. 
 
 William Arthur Heidel. B. A.. M. A.. Ph. D., late professor of 
 Greek in the Illinois Wesleyan University, was born in 1868 at Burling- 
 ton, Iowa, of German-American parents. He attended the public 
 
 schools, and in 1884-5, his father 
 being pastor of the German Meth- 
 odist Episcopal church at Quincy, 
 Illinois, he attended Chaddock 
 College. In 1888 he was gradu- 
 ated from Central Wesleyan Col- 
 lege, Warrenton. iVIissouri. From 
 1888 to 1890 he was a graduate 
 student in the University of Ber- 
 lin, Germany. Upon his return 
 to the United States, in the fall 
 of 1890, he was was elected in- 
 structor in Greek in the Illinois 
 Wesleyan University, and profes- 
 sor of Greek in 1 89 1 . which place 
 he held until 1894, when he was 
 granted a leave of absence for 
 continued study in the University 
 of Chicago, having received an 
 appointment as Fellow in Greek. 
 He received the degree of Ph. D. 
 in June, 1895. He was offered the chair of m.odern languages in the 
 university, but declined, not caring to devote his attention to these sub- 
 jects, much to to the regret of the university. His gentlemanly bearing, 
 his Christian spirit, and accurate and broad learning, made him a favorite 
 among Bloomington people, who deeply regret losing him. 
 
 WILLIAIVl ARTHUR HEIDEL. 
 
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 Wii.BhRT Ferguson. 
 
ILLINOIS WES LEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 ViLBERT Ferguson, 
 
 fROFESSOR OF QREEK. 
 
 Wilbert Ferguson, B. A.. M. A., professor of Greek in the Illinois 
 Wesleyan University, was born in 1857 at Richwood, Ohio, where he 
 prepared for college in the public schools, having served an apprentice- 
 ship in the office of the local Gazette. In 1874 he entered the Ohio 
 Wesleyan University and was graduated in 1879, having taught for two 
 years in the meantime; one year in the grammar grade at Richwood, 
 and one year as superintendent of village schools at La Rue, Ohio. 
 
 The years following graduation were spent as one of the editors 
 and publishers of the Richwood Gazette. In the fall of 1882 he was 
 elected assistant professor of ancient languages in Adrian College, 
 Adrian, Michigan. The next year he was elected to the chair of Greek 
 in that institution, where he remained as professor in charge until 1894, 
 with the exception of two years, 1890 and 1891,whi;h he spent in 
 study at the University of Leipsic, Germany. In 1894, in the absence 
 of Professor William A. Heidel, he was invited to come to the Illinois 
 Wesleyan University as acting professor of Greek, and in 1895 he was 
 elected professor. 
 
 In one year he has fully justified the statements made by those 
 recommending him as a talented man, a ripe sc>.olar, and a successful 
 teacher. It is no disparagement to the other noble men who have occu- 
 pied the chair of Greek to say that at no time in the history of the Illinois 
 Wesleyan University has Greek been made more popular and the work 
 of the department of a better grade in extent or character. 
 
 He is pure minded, deeply in love with his profession as a teacher, 
 a close student of human nature, almost intuitively perceives the 
 thoughts of his students, and employs miost rational pedagogical methods 
 of instruction and class government. 
 
 MARTHA LUELLA DENMAN, PROFESSOR OF BELLES LETTRES. 
 
 Martha Luella Denman. B. A., Professor of Belles Lettres. is a 
 native of McLean county. Left an orphan in childhood, she found a 
 home with her uncle Smith Denman at Nokomis, Illinois. She attended 
 the public schools until fifteen years of age, when she entered the State 
 
 Normal, where she pursued a ^ 
 
 five years' course of study, com- 
 pleting both the normal and 
 high school courses. In the 
 meantime, however, she ac- 
 quired considerable experience 
 in teaching in the public schools 
 and showed marked ability in 
 that profession. In September, 
 1889, she entered Smith Col- 
 lege, Massachusetts, where she 
 remained in study for two years, 
 and then for one year was prin- 
 cipal of the high school at Hill:- 
 boro, Illinois. She entered the 
 senior class of the Michigan 
 University in 1892, and was 
 graduated in June, 1893. when 
 she was called to the university 
 as instructor in English. Here 
 
 she showed her eminent qualifi- martha luella denman. 
 
 cations and was elected to the Charles Cramp professorship of belles 
 lettres in 1894. She created great enthusiasm in the university upon 
 these subjects. Her influence upon the body of the students, especially 
 upon the young women, is most wholesome and refining. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 ROBERT BENSON STEELE. PROFESSOR OF LATIN. 
 
 Robert Benson Steele. B. A.. M. A.. Ph. D.. professor of Latin, 
 was bom in Lodi. Wisconsin, where, on a farm, he spent his childhood 
 and youth. He was graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 
 
 1883. From 1883 to 1885 
 he taught school in Wisconsin, 
 when he entered Johns Hop- 
 kins University for graduate 
 work. In 1886 he was elected 
 professor of Latin in Antioch 
 College. Yellow Springs, Ohio, 
 which position he filled for two 
 years. He re-entered Johns 
 Hopkins university in 1888, 
 having been appointed one of 
 the university scholars for that 
 year in 1889 he received the 
 appointment of Fellow in Latin. 
 In June of this year he re- 
 ceived the degree of M. A. 
 from his alma maier ox\ exam- 
 ination with a thesis on the 
 Greek in Cicero's Epistles. 
 He took the degree of Doctor 
 of Philosophy from Johns Hop- 
 kins University in 1890. and 
 was elected professor of Latin in St. Olaf College. Northfield, Minne- 
 sota: in 1891 he was called to the chair of Latin in the Illinois Wesleyan 
 University, where he has sustained his scholarly reputation. In the fall 
 of 1894 he was happily united in marriage with Elizabeth J. Reed. 
 
 ROBERT BENSON STEELE. 
 
 Professor Steele is not only a master in his own de^iartment, but is 
 perfectly at home in history. English literature, G'^ek and philosophy. 
 For several years he has had charge of the English classics in the pre- 
 paratory school and directed the study and composition required. 
 
 MRS. ELIZABETH J. STEELE. 
 
 Miss Elizabeth J. Reed, now Mrs, Professor Steele, is a native of 
 Illinois. She acquired an elementary education in the public schools, 
 and graduated from Hedding College, receiving the degree of B. A. 
 
 After ssveral years' experience in 
 the public schools as a teacher, 
 she taught in Abingdon College 
 for two years, after which she 
 spent some time in Vellesley 
 Collage, Massachusetts, in special 
 study of history and literature. 
 Upon her return she was em- 
 ployed as teacher of rhetoric and 
 literature in the high school 
 at Monmouth, Illinois, when she 
 was called to the Illinois Wes- 
 leyan University as instructor in 
 English in 1890, ani filled the 
 position with eminent ability until 
 1893. In June, 1893, she re- 
 ceived the d3gree of Ph. D., on 
 examination, from Allegheny Col- 
 lege, Pennsylvania. She was 
 married to Robert B. Steele, 
 in the fall of 1894, and remains a member of the university society. 
 
 MRS. ELIZABETH J. STEELE. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 CALVIN W. CRFrr', PRINCIPAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL. 
 
 Calvin W. Green. B. A.. M. A., Principal of the Preparatory 
 School, is a native of Ohio. He obtained his element.-^ry educati-n in 
 the country school, in the high school at Ottawa, rnd in the N-rmal 
 School at Ada, Ohio. He was 
 graduated from the Ohio Wes- 
 leyan University in 1885. Dur- 
 ing his college course he was 
 President Payne's private secre- 
 tary for more than a year, and 
 while yet in the Freshmen clfss 
 tutored in the preparatory school. 
 In 1886 he taught Mathematics 
 and Latin in Greenville college, 
 Kentucky, and in 1887 was prin- 
 cipal of Science Grove seminary, 
 Roberts, Ky.. where he remained 
 until 1889, when elected princ;- 
 pal of the preparatory school of 
 the university. 
 
 As a teacher Professor Green 
 is clear, quick, and precise, 
 mathematics and Latin being his 
 
 specialties. He, however, has "'"^'^ w. green. 
 
 demonstrated his ability as an all round teacher, and has taught most 
 successfully classes in history and English, and for one term taught the 
 college class in trigonometry. He has rare gifts as a principal, is firm 
 and yet kind. Under his efficient management the preparatory school 
 is not only thoroughly organized as a department of the university, but 
 most efficient in preparing students for the work of the college. Since 
 
 1890 he has taught annually in the McLean county Institute, to which 
 W3rk he is well adapted. He has been active, earnest, and successful 
 in promoting the interests of the Christian Associations of the university. 
 
 ALICE S. MILLER, ASSISTANT IN PREPARATORY SCHOOL. 
 
 Mrs. Alice S. Miller was born near Hillsboro, Ohio, and attended 
 the public schools. Hiving come to Illinois in 1858, she entered the 
 
 State Normal University, where 
 she pursued t h e professional 
 course of study with a view to 
 teaching. After completing her 
 course, she taught successfully in 
 the public schools of Bloomington, 
 Towanda, in the high school at 
 Chenoa, where she also acted as 
 superintendent one year, which 
 position she resigned to accept 
 the position of assistant county 
 superintendent of schools of Mc- 
 Lean county. The duties of this 
 office she performed with faith- 
 fulness and marked ability for 
 five years. Her teaching in the 
 Wesleyan has been of the most 
 excellent quality. She is a wo- 
 man of rare common sense, of 
 fine administrative and executive 
 ability and of highest Christian 
 character. Her husband was county superintendent for thirteen years. 
 The only child. Leona, is a member of the present sophomore class. 
 
 MRS. ALICE S. MILLER. 
 
Leonidas Hamline Kerrick. 
 
ILLINOIS WlrSLBYAN UNIVki^SlTY. 
 
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 50nE CHIEF GRADUATES. 
 
 LEONIDAS HAMLINE KERRICK. 
 
 Leonidas Hamline Kerrick, chairman of the executive committee 
 of the board of trustees, was born in 1846, and is the son of a Methodist 
 minister. He entered the Illinois Wesleyan University from Woodford 
 county, Illinois, and completed its course of study in 1866. For one 
 year he was principal of the model school, which was the forerunner of 
 the prepa-atory department. In 1867 he accompanied Professor John 
 W. Powell on his exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. 
 
 Immediately after his graduation he began the study of law and 
 was admitted to its practice in 1868. In 1871 he was elected by the 
 Republicans a member of the Twenty-seventh Legislature, at which 
 time the new constitution was adopted. His opponent for the nomina- 
 tion was Hon. Thomas Mitchell, a man of extended experience and of 
 fine ability. In 1868 he was married to Sallie E. Funk, the only 
 daughter of Hon. Isaac Funk. 
 
 Early in 1870 Mr. Kerrick's health failed him, since which time he 
 has not devoted himself to the practice of law, but to farming. For 
 many years he has been one of the chief men of the First Methodist 
 Episcopal church, and also one of the most efficient members of the 
 board of trustees of the university. As a student Mr. Kerrick was a 
 favorite, and the advancing years have not lessened that element in his 
 character, as to this day he is a favorite among the graduates, and no 
 
 official visits the university who is more heartily welcom.ed by faculty 
 and students. He is quiet and unobtrusive in manner, kind and sympa- 
 thetic in spirit, generous by nature, and always ready to respond to 
 appeals for help. He is regarded among the graduates as their best 
 after-dinner speaker. 
 
 WILLIAM FLETCHER SHORT, 1854. 
 
 The second degree conferred by the university was B. A., upon 
 Rev. William Fletcher Short, whose character, attainments and life 
 work fully justify the action. He was born in Ohio, 1829; prepared for 
 college in the public schools of Illinois, studied at McKendree and com- 
 pleted his course at the Wesleyan, 1854; entered upon the ministry in 
 1856 and served charges at Winchester, Carlinville, Hillsboro. and 
 Jacksonville. In 1871 he succeeded the sainted George Rutledge as 
 presiding elder of the Jacksonville district, and, at the expiration of his 
 term of office, became president of the historic Illinois Female College. 
 ThispDsition he held with dignity, grace and efficiency, until 1893. when 
 he resigned to accept the superintendency of the State institution for 
 the blind, which was tendered him by Governor Altgelt. Ohio Wes- 
 leyan recognized his character and scholarship and honored him with 
 the degree of S. T. D., in 1879, and the Illinois Conference gave him 
 distinction by electing him delegate to the General Conference, in 1880. 
 
Joseph W. Fifer. 
 
ILLINOIS WE SL BY AN UNIVERSITY 
 
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 Joseph Wilson Fifer, 
 
 Class of ises. 
 
 Ex-Governor Joseph W. Fifer. B. S., LL. D.. is one of our most 
 distinguished sons. We cannot do better in presenting the salient fea- 
 tures of his life and character than to present a brief sketch from the 
 Pekin Daily Evening Post of March 25. 1895: 
 
 ■■ The pathetic story of ex-Governor Fifer's heroic career has now 
 almost become a thrice told tale am.ong the people of Illinois. His early 
 hardships and privations: his patriotic though obscure service in the 
 war: his terrible gunshot wound through the body, which would have 
 killed a less determined and heroic man ; his subsequent struggles to 
 procure an education in the midst of the ill-health and disabilities occa- 
 sioned by his wound: his rise from obscurity to a position as one of the 
 best lawyers in the State, then to the State senate, and finally to be 
 governor — all this, we say, has endeared Mr. Fifer to the people of Illi- 
 nois, and has made his figure a heroic one in the annals of our b:loved 
 commonwealth. 
 
 •• Joseph Wilson Fifer was, like Lincoln, born in a slave State. 
 From Staunton, Virginia, where he was born, his father removed to the 
 western part of McLean county in 1857, where he opened a small farm 
 in the forest. The-e the elder Fifer built a rude log cabin, which shel- 
 tered Joseph with the rest of the family until the war came on. The 
 elder Fifer was a brick-layer, and Joseph learned that trade from his 
 father, and alternated between farm work and laying brick, getting but 
 small education in the winter m.onths at the common district school. 
 Then the war opened and troops were called for, and early in the spring 
 of '61 Joseph and his brother, George Fifer, walked fifteen miles to 
 Bloomington and enlisted in the 33rd Illinois Infantry, which soon went 
 to the front, and did great fighting. Mr. Fifer participated in all battles 
 
 of the memorable Vicksburg campaign of '63. and. at Jackson, Missis- 
 sippi, on July 13, 1863. in the miast of an assault upon the rebel en- 
 trenchments, he fell pierced by a minie rifle ball, which passed through 
 his right lung and also through the upper part of his liver, a kind of 
 injury from which few men have ever recovered. Mr. Fifer served out 
 his time, and returning home began in 1864 his still more heroic strug- 
 gle to obtain an education, which has been told and retold, and really 
 cannot be told too often for the encouragement of the rising generation 
 of Americans. It is enough to say here that he succeeded, and in June, 
 1868, took his diploma from the Illinois Wesleyan University at Bloom- 
 ington. 
 
 Still goaded on by his ambition, and by the spur of poverty, he be- 
 gan the study of law, and the year 1869 found his shingle swinging to 
 the breeze at Bloomington. His career from that time is well known. 
 He was first corporation counsel of the city of Bloomington, then 
 State's attorney two terms, in which latter office he was a terror to evil 
 doers, and, though meeting somie of the ablest criminal lawyers in the 
 State, no felon who was really guilty ever escaped him. The Republi- 
 cans of McLean county next elevated him to the State senate, where 
 he did able work and began to acquire a State reputation, and in 1888 
 he was called from a retirement which he had voluntarily sought, to be- 
 come the Republican candidate for governor, to which office he was 
 elected. It is not too much to say that he administered the governor's 
 office with a high intelligence and impartiality which has won him the 
 enconiums of fair men of all parties. 
 
 ■• Mr. Fifer is six feet in height with his boots on. spare in flesh, of 
 a swarthy, rather dark complexion, keen black eyes, with a heavy head 
 of coarse black hair, now turning gray. His carriage is erect, his 
 movements elastic, his weight about 150 pounds, though his frame is 
 larger than is indicated by his weight, and he possesses great physical 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 strength in proportion to the volume of his muscles. His endurance is 
 marvelous. He has a wife and two children, to whom he is devotedly 
 attached, and who claim all the better fruits of his life and labors. Mr. 
 Fifer was as able and upright a governor as Illinois ever had, because 
 he. like all the best of American statesmen, is one of the people. He 
 is one of the best types of the best people, of the best nation in 
 the world. 
 
 In advocating the nomination of Mr. Fifer for vice-president on the 
 Republican ticket in 1896. the Post, among other things, said: "We 
 do not claim that the party is narrowed down to one man like our friends 
 in the other camp. But we do believe that among the brainy statesmen 
 of Illinois today none of them are better qualified or so well known as 
 Governor Fifer. and surely none will arouse more popular enthusiasm." 
 
 The defeat of Governor Fifer for re-election in 1892 was doubtless 
 due mainly to the firm stand he took in favor of compulsory education, 
 his view being pronounced and advanced. Whatever may be his politi- 
 cal fortunes in the future, the name and presence of Joseph W. Fifer 
 will ever arouse enthusiasm among the students and friends of the 
 Illinois Wesleyan University, who remember his struggles for an educa- 
 tion, his lofty ambition to excel by rigid conscientious devotion to correct 
 principle, and his manly and pure life in public and private. 
 
 JOHN V. W. BAUMAN. CLASS OF 1863. 
 
 John V. W. Bauman was born in Buford. Highland county, Ohio, 
 in 1 84 1 , and when ten years old came to Tazewell county, Illinois. Here 
 in the home of his grandfather, a Methodist local preacher, his taste for 
 reading was encouraged and his time as a pupil in the country schools 
 was so well improved that at the age of eighteen he was a successful 
 teacher in the schools of Macon and Tazewell counties. 
 
 He entered the Wesleyan in the fall of 1860, and with the excep- 
 
 tion of part of the spring term of 1862, which was spent in the army, 
 pursued his studies continuously until his graduation in 1863. He was 
 appointed to a position in the city schools of Bloomington. where he 
 taught for a time. In September of 1864 he joined the Illinois Confer- 
 ence and was appointed successively to Danville, Paxton and Mattoon, 
 
 ANDREW STICKLE WILSON, CLASS OF 1868. 
 
 Judge Andrew Stickle Wilson, M. A., was born in 1847, at Mt. 
 
 Zion. Macon county, Illinois. His 
 father, Rev. James J. Wilson, 
 was a minister in the Cumber- 
 land Presbyterian church. After 
 serving for a short period as a 
 private in Company K, 145 Illi- 
 nois Volunteer Infantry, Andrew 
 S. entered the Illinois Wesleyan 
 University. After graduation he 
 commenced the study of law in 
 the office of Stuart, Edwards and 
 Brown, in Springfield, and was 
 admitted to the bar of the Su- 
 preme Court of Illinois in March, 
 1869. He immediately located 
 in Washington, Kansas, where he 
 opened a law office. In the fall 
 of that year he was elected to the 
 'egislalure of Kansas, and was re- 
 
 JAMES B. TAYLOR. SEE PAGE 97. elected in 1870. He was the 
 
 youngest member of both sessions 
 of the legislature. In the spring of 1871, he was appointed, by the 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVE'^SITY. 
 
 115 
 
 governor of Kansas, judge of the Twelfth judicial district of Kansas, 
 which position he held for fourteen years, having been elected three 
 times. He then resigned, and opened a law office in Washington, 
 Kansas, where he practiced until 1889. when he removed to Sioux City, 
 Iowa, where he is still engaged in the practice of law. his firm name 
 being Wilson and Quick. 
 
 ROBERT EMMET MOOR";. CLASS OF 1869. 
 
 Robert Emmet Moore, B. A., M. A., son of Rev. W. H. H. M jcre, 
 of the Illinois Conference, was born 
 in Clark county, Illinois, in 1849. 
 He entered the Illinois Wesleyan 
 University in 1865 and was gradu- 
 ated in 1869. He studied law for 
 two years and was admitted to the 
 bar at Champaign. Illinois, but be- 
 gan his practice in Lincoln. Nebras- 
 ka, where he still resides. 
 
 For six years he devoted himself 
 exclusively to the practice of his 
 profession, but since that tiane he 
 has been engaged in a general bro- 
 kerage and banking business, in 
 which he has been eminently suc- 
 cessful, having amassed a handsome 
 fortune. He was elected as police 
 judge of his city and served one 
 term; was mayor from 1883 to robert emmit moore. 
 
 1885. and served as State senator 
 three different terms, to the great satisfaction of his constituency. 
 
 Mr. Moore is one of the charter members of the Munseilian liter- 
 ary society, and in those diys when the literary sDciety hails furnished 
 the chief opportunity for a development of literary and forensic talent. 
 he was recognized as a leader. In logic he was a master, and in debate 
 was a formidable antagonist. As a student, he was both thorough and 
 accurate. He delivered the Master'.^: oration before the university. 1872. 
 
 ALEXANDER CLAY BY -RLY. CLASS OF 1871. 
 
 Alexander Clay Byerly. A. M., D. D.. was born in Johnson county. 
 Indiana, August 21 1842. In his 
 boyhood he removed to De Witt 
 county. Illinois, where he grew to 
 manhood. His early life was spent 
 on a farm. When eighteen years of 
 age he enlisted in the army, enter- 
 ing the Mississippi Marine Biigade. 
 After the war he returned home and 
 soon became a soldier of Christ, 
 uniting with the Methodist Episcopal 
 church. Duty's call made him a 
 minister of the gospel and led him 
 to prepare to preach by entering the 
 Illinois Wesleyan University, where 
 he pursued the classical course, pay- 
 ing his way by his own efforts until 
 his graduation in 1871. Three years 
 thereafter his alma mater conferred 
 on this Bachelor in Artibus the de- Alexander c. byerly. 
 
 gree of A. M., and in 1894 gave 
 him the honorary degree of D. D. In 1871 he joined the Illincis Annual 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 Conference. After serving the church as pastor for twenty-one years, 
 his last charge being First Church. Springfield, he was appointed pre- 
 siding elder of Champaign district, and now resides in Urbana. Thor- 
 ough as a student, practical and often powerful as a preacher, able as 
 an executive officer, he is a worthy son of this institution and of the church. 
 He is now presiding elder on the Champaign district, and is evincing 
 more than ordinary skill in dedicating churches, and bids fair to rival 
 those of greater fame. 
 
 and Barbara Heck. 
 
 DAVID L. BRETHOUR. CLASS OF 1! 
 
 David L. Brethour. Ph. B.. 1888. M. A., 1890, Ph. D., 1892. 
 traces his lineage back to the Palatines, of which were Philip Embury 
 His secondary education was obtained in the high 
 school of the Province Ontario, Canada. 
 He was sometime a student of Victoria 
 University ; entered the ministry of the 
 Methodist church in Canada in 1860, and 
 has served many of the best charges in 
 his conference ; is now stationed at Ham- 
 ilton, Ontario. He has served as chair- 
 man of various districts and was elected 
 president of the Niagara Conference in 
 1887 ; has been secretary of the station- 
 ing committee for many years, also treas- 
 urer of the Conference Educational Socie- 
 ty, and member of the board of examiners ; 
 elected to the General Conference for five 
 quadrenniums; is secretary and treasurer of the standing Committee on 
 Temperance; in 1891 had charge of the Church movement for prohibi- 
 tion in Canada; in 1894 took leading part in the Canada Temperance Act. 
 
 DAVID L. BRETHOUR 
 
 BENJAMIN WEBB BAKER, CLASS OF 1874. 
 
 President Benjamin Wsbb Baker, Ph. B., M. A., Ph. D., was born 
 in Coles. Illinois, 1841. He was one of those fortunate men whose 
 parents were poor yet honest and industrious. President Baker was left 
 fatherless when but a child, and was compelled to aid in earning a live- 
 lihood for his widowed mother, and upon a timbered farm laid the foun- 
 dations for a rugged physical 
 manhood and a stalwart mor- 
 al character. He attended 
 the select subscription school 
 a few months annually until 
 1861, when he enlisted in 
 Co. E, 25th Illinois Volunteer 
 Infantry, and during three 
 years participated in many 
 hard fought battles. In 1865 
 he took up a more heroic 
 battle to gain an education, 
 and entered the Illinois State 
 Normal University, from 
 which he was graduated in 
 1870, at which time also he 
 was elected principal of the 
 Grammar d3partment, which 
 position he held for four 
 years. In 1870 he entered 
 
 the Illinois Wesleyan University, from which he has successively taken 
 his degrees^ In 1874 he united with the Central Illinois Conference, 
 and witn the exception of one year in Denver has given most efficient 
 service to the Church, having been presiding elder for one full term, 
 
 BENJAMIN WEBB BAKER. 
 
ILLINOIS WE5LEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 in which position he displayed rare administrative ability. 
 
 He represented his conference in the General Conference of 1888. 
 in 1890 he became financial secretary of the Illinois Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity, which office he held until 1893. He brought to this position, so 
 difficult to fill, unbounded enthusiasm, great faith in his cause, extraordi- 
 nary endurance and rare skill in interesting the common people and 
 youth in the cause of Christian education, and in securing the endow- 
 ments that have come to the university since 1888,' 
 
 In 1895 he was elected president of Chaddock College, where he 
 is waging a desperately earnest and heroic battle to establish that insti- 
 tution and save it to Methodism. If President Baker does not win this 
 battle, it cannot be won, for no man is better adapted to the conditions, 
 and no one more self-sacrificing and heroic. He has faithfully served 
 the Illinois Wesleyan University for many years as trustee, and will ever 
 be remembered as one who has contributed largely to its success. 
 
 DAVID MADISON HARRIS, CLASS OF 1867. 
 
 In 1867, a tall, angular youth who had given unusually close atten- 
 tion to study, delivered his graduating oration and received his diploma 
 from the university. Like Dr. H. C. DeMotte, David Madison Harris, 
 B. A., M. A.. Ph. D., D. D., gave himself to the honorable profession 
 of teaching and was called to the chair of natural science at Lincoln 
 University in 1868 ; in 1870 he was transferred to the department of 
 Greek in the institution and there remained teaching with great success 
 until 1883, when he was elected editor-in-chief of the "Cumberland 
 Presbyterian," the leading periodical of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
 Church, of which communion Dr. Harris is a member. Since 1891 he 
 has edited the " Saint Louis Observer," of which he is also proprietor. 
 He has traveled and studied extensively in Europe, giving especial at- 
 tention to economics and sociology, in France. Germany, and England. 
 
 Joseph C. Hartzell. 
 
 Class of i868. 
 
 Rev. Joseph C. Hartzell. M. A., D. D., began life as a farmer boy 
 in the broad prairies of Illinois. At the age of sixteen he taught his 
 first common school, and from, that time for eleven years he gave his 
 best efforts toward securing a thorough education in order to fully fit 
 
 himself for his chosen work, the ministry. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 In order he completed a high school course, the classical course in 
 the Illinois Wesieyan University, receiving the degree of A. B.: and the 
 theological course in Garrett Biblical institute, receiving the degree of 
 B. D. In 1879. both the Illinois Wesieyan University and the Alle- 
 gheny College conferred on him the degree of D. D. 
 
 He began his ministry in the Central Illinois Conference, and was 
 stationed at Pekin in 1868, from which charge he was transferred to 
 New Orleans, where he served as pastor of Ames church for three 
 years. For nine years thereafter he was presiding elder, and while 
 serving in this capacity he founded and edited the Southwestern Chris- 
 tian Advocate, making it such an important factor in the work of the 
 Methodist Episcopal church in the South that it became a General 
 Conference publication. 
 
 He was elected assistant corresponding secretary of the Freed- 
 man"s Aid and Southern Educational Society, which position he filled 
 with marked ability for six years. At the General Conference of 1888. 
 he was elected corresponding secretary of the same society, and was 
 re-elected to the same position at the General Conference of 1892. 
 
 In addition to the work in the specific field to which the church 
 has assigned him. Dr. Hartzell has done much to mould public senti- 
 ment in the South in favor of a broader, more humanitarian civilization. 
 While in New Orleans he was a member of the city school board, and 
 did much in the reorganization of the public schools of that city. To 
 his energy, faith and perseverance is due much of the success of the 
 Methodist Episcopal church throughout the South. 
 
 Dr. Hartzell is a man of splendid physique, of good personal pres- 
 ence, eminently sociable, possessing more than ordinary magnetism as 
 a platform orator, and wields a power for good in the world which few 
 indeed would attain. He has been called to some of the most honora- 
 ble and most responsible positions in the church of his choice, and by 
 
 his natural endowments, acquired power, and conscientious efforts he 
 has uniformly filled those positions to the satisfaction of the church. 
 He is a leader, especially in the work of the church in the South, and 
 to his suave manner, his quiet demeanor, even under provocation, and 
 his good, straightforward, practical common sense is to be attributed 
 much of the success of the educational and church work of the Meth- 
 odist Episcopal Church in the South. 
 
 MARQUIS L. FULLINWIDER.'CLASS OF 1871. 
 
 Marquis L. Fullinwider. B. A.. M. A., M. D., was born in Mechat^- 
 icsburg. Illinois, in 1849. He entered the Illinois Wesieyan University 
 in 1867. from which he was graduated in 1871. He entered the med- 
 ical department of the University of Vermont in 1872 and graduated 
 from Rush Medical College, Chicago, in 1875. Practiced his profes- 
 sion in Mechanicsburg. Illinois, until 1882, when he removed to Eldo- 
 rado, Kansas, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice. 
 
 Dr. Fullenwider is a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church and for many years was a most., successful superintendsnt of its 
 Sunday School. He married Miss Clara Munsell, daughter i.f Charles 
 W. C. Munsel, in 1876, 
 
 RICHARD H. BOSWORTH, CLASS OF 1875. 
 
 Richard H. Bosworth prepared for college in the academy of the 
 Northwestern University ; entered the Illinois Wesieyan University in 
 1871 and was graduated in 1875; entered the Reformed Episcopal 
 church in 1875. and was stationed in Chicago. He graduated from the 
 Garrett Biblical Institute in 1880. Pastor of the Reformed Episcopa- 
 lian church at Newburgh, N. Y., 1885; Brooklyn, N. Y., 1887. In 
 1889 he accepted a position as assistant at Plymouth Congregational 
 church. Brooklyn. N. Y. In 1893, president Brooklyn Chautaqua Union ; 
 in 1894, pastor Congregational church, Springfield, Mass. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 119 
 
 Harry Qrat Reeves. 
 
 Class of inee. 
 
 The portrait here given represents Colo- 
 nel Harry G. Reeves, M. A., of Bloom- 
 ington, a prominent citizen and a loyal son 
 of t le Wesleyan. Colonel Reeves is a 
 member of the State Commission of 
 Claims. He was raised on a farm in Old 
 Town township. McLean county. Illinois, 
 and entered the Illinois Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity in the fall of 1860 ; and together with 
 many other students he served a term in 
 the United States Army as a member of 
 Company G, 63th Regiment. Illinois Vol- 
 unteers. This company was made up 
 entirely of college boys. 
 
 After his discharge from the army he 
 taught school, completed his course in the 
 university, and graduated with high honors 
 in 1866. 
 
 December 25. 1867. he married Miss 
 Harriet Niccclls of Bloomington. andthey 
 have one daughter. 
 
 He studied law and was admitted to the 
 bar in 1867. He has been an alderman, 
 private secretary to ex-Governor Fifer. 
 judge advocate of the Second brigade, 
 Illinois National Guard, and at present oc- 
 cupies the honorable and responsible posi- 
 
 tion of a member of Illinois State Claims Commission, hav 
 
 Harry Gray Reeves. 
 
 ing received this office by the appointment of 
 Governor Altgeld. 
 
 For many years Colonel Reeves was 
 the secretary and attorney of the board of 
 trustees of the Illinois Wesleyan, and he 
 has rendered his alma mater valuable ser- 
 vice. He has also been president of the 
 Alumni Association, and has always taken 
 an active personal interest in the affairs of 
 the university. 
 
 Colonel Reeves is now actively engaged 
 in the practice of law. and with his wife 
 and daughter resides in a delightful home 
 on North Main Street. The Reeves resi- 
 dence is celebrated for its hospitality, and 
 there all the friends of the Wesleyan 
 always receive a most cordial welcome. 
 
 This distinguished alumnus enjoys a 
 wide and extensive acquaintance through- 
 out the State, and hundreds of young men 
 and women are willing witnesses to his 
 good advice and cheerfully testify to his 
 kindness and his helpfulness. 
 
 His residence within a stone's throw of 
 the university campus since the time of 
 his graduation and his relation as secre- 
 tary of the board of trustees have given 
 him a fund of information concerning the 
 inner life of the university and of the grad- 
 uates which is valuable and interesting. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 GEORGE E. SCRIMGER. CLASS OF 1874. 
 
 Rev. George E. Scrimger. B. A., M. A.. B. D.. D. D., is a native 
 of McLean county. Illinois, having been born at Selma in 1849. The 
 days of his youth were spent on the farm, where habits of sobriety, in- 
 dustry, honesty, and frugality were formed. His elementary education 
 
 was gained in the public schools and 
 in the preparatory school of the l!li- 
 nois Wesleyan University, which he 
 entered in 1867. Having prepared 
 for college he entered upon the col- 
 legiate work with the zeal of a young 
 man called to a great work. No 
 student was ever more industrious, 
 oainstaking. and conscientious. Yet 
 in his Sophomore year he manifest- 
 ed decided literary talent, and was a 
 favorite ever after as an essayist and 
 orator. After graduating in 1874. 
 he was employed as instructor in 
 mathematics. which position he filled 
 most satisfactorily until he entered 
 upon his life work, the ministry of 
 the gospel. 
 
 At the time Mr. Scrimger entered 
 college it was his ambition to enter 
 the profession of law and give himself to the political interests of his 
 country. He was an ardent student and admirer of the chief men of 
 colonial and revolutionary history, and. until nearly through college, his 
 ideals were selected from this class ; but God had destined him to serve 
 nis country more directly through its moral, social, and religious forces. 
 
 GEORGE E. SCRIMGER. 
 
 He answered that call and entered upon the ministry in the Illinois Con- 
 ference in 1875. Afterwards he entered Drew Theological Seminary 
 and completed its full course, when he returned to his conference and 
 rapidly rose to distinction in the ministry, filling pulpits at Springfield, 
 Quincy, Decatur, and is now serving his third year as presiding elder 
 of the Danville district. 
 
 As a student, he is still careful and painstaking; as a scholar, 
 he is accurate and broad ; as a minister, he is deeply spiritual, prepares 
 his sermons carefully and delivers them with unction as a veritable man 
 of God ; as a presiding officer, he is exceedingly conscientious and truly 
 judicious : socially, he is most courteous, gentlemanly, and refined ; as 
 a citizen, he is public spirited and thoroughly loyal to the distinctively 
 American institutions, while as a man he is the soul of honor, possesses 
 •• truth in the inward parts," and detests shams. His wife is a woman 
 of culture and very active in promoting the charitable work of the church. 
 
 CHARLES H. LONG. CLASS OF 1873. 
 
 Charles H. Long, B. S., M. D., was born n?ar La Salle, Illinois, 
 in 1850. His paternal grandfather was a Mslhodist itinerant and his 
 father and mother were devoted members of the Methodist Episcopal 
 church. Charles, at the early age of thirteen, was elected secretary of 
 the Sunday School of the First Methodist church. La Salle, Illinois, 
 which society was organized and whose building was erected by the 
 father and grandfather of the subject of this sketch. From that early 
 age to the present he has bsen an enthusiastic, consistent, and efficient 
 worker in the Church and Sunday School. 
 
 He entered the academic department of Wheaton College, at the 
 age of fifteen, where he spent two years. In 1867 he entered the Illi- 
 nois Wesleyan University and was graduated in 1873, having taught 
 several terms in the meantime to gain funds for the completion of his 
 
ILLINOIS WBSLBYAN UNIVERSITY . 
 
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 College course. He was the president of h's class organization. From 
 1873 to 1875 he was superintendent of the public schools at IVlackinaw 
 and Stanford, during which tinne he began the study of medicine. In 
 
 1875 he entered the Hahnemann 
 Medical College of Chicago, 
 where he tookthe degree of M.D., 
 in the class of 1878. 
 
 Dr. Long located at Pontiac, 
 Illinois, where he has built up for 
 himself a large and lucrative prac- 
 tice of medicine and surgery, 
 a.id made for himself an enviable 
 record as citizen, gentleman, and 
 Christian. He is modest, quiet, 
 and unassuming, yet a most pot- 
 ent factor in almost every enter- 
 prise in the city of Pontiac which 
 is calculated to do good unto his 
 fellow men. 
 
 Dr. Long has been twice mar- 
 ried ; first to Miss Martha Vie- 
 mont. of Mackinaw. Illinois, unto 
 whom were born three children 
 the second, in 1885. to MissLida 
 Sterry, of Pontiac, Illinois, who has proved to be a true mother to his 
 motherless children as well as unto Christophef Sterry Long, born in 
 1891. As might be expected from the character of Dr. Long, his home 
 is a model Christian home. 
 
 Dr. Long was elected by the Central Illinois conference as lay del- 
 ate to the General Conference, which will meet in Cleveland. May 1896. 
 
 CHARLES H. LONG. 
 
 JOHN E. SCOTT, CLASS OF 1873, 
 
 Hon. John E. Scott. B. S.. M. S., was born in St. Clair county. Il- 
 linois, in 1851. He studied at McKendree College, one year, and en- 
 tered the Illinois Wesleyan University in 1873: having read law with 
 McNulta. Aldrich and Kerrick, Bloomington. Ills., he removed to In- 
 dianapolis, Indiana, and was admitted 
 to the bar in the fall of that year. In 
 1875 he formed a law partnership 
 with Wm. F. Graves, of 1869, which 
 terminated a year later. In 1881 
 he formed a partnership with A. P. 
 Stanton, which continued until dis- 
 solved in August, 1894. 
 
 Mr. Scott received the Republi- 
 can nomination for Judge of the Su- 
 perior Court of Marion county in 
 1890. and was defeated with the re- 
 mainder of the ticket of that year. 
 On October 20. 1893. he was made 
 City Attorney, a position which, un- 
 der the present city charter, is more 
 important and its duties more ardu- 
 ous than ever before. Mr. Scott is 
 a cousin of ex-Chief Justice John 
 M. Scott, of this city, and possesses 
 many of the characteristics of this deserving gentleman. He is a good 
 lawyer of a hard working, careful, unobtrusive type. Personally he is a 
 kindly, courteous, suave gentleman, and well merits the recognition 
 gained and the reputation established in the State of Indiana. We pre- 
 dict that greater honors await our already distinguished classmate. 
 
 JOHN E. SCOTT. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 ORLANDO W. ALDRICH, CLASS OF 1869. 
 
 The subject of this sketch, Orlando W. Aldrich. B. A.. M. A., Ph. 
 D.. D. C. L.. LL. D.. is one of the most scholarly men among those 
 whose names honor the record of the alumni, in 1866. having been 
 licensed to preach, he joined the Central Illinois Conference, but pur- 
 sued his studies and graduated 
 with the class of 1869. It was 
 at this time he became much 
 interested in legal studies and 
 the ministry was soon aban- 
 doned. From 1876 to 1871 
 he was a membsr of the fac- 
 ulty of the law school of the 
 university, his accurate and 
 extensive legal learning, studi- 
 ous habits and excellency of 
 character eminently fitting 
 him for the position. During 
 a part of this term also he as- 
 sisted in the department of 
 philosophy, in which study he 
 was a devout and enthusiastic 
 student. He has been a fre- 
 quent contributor to the press, 
 and has had some experience 
 as an editor, the American 
 edition of "Anson on Con- 
 tracts" having been edited by him. aico tie articles on Elections in the 
 American and English Encyclopedia of Law are his productions. Since 
 1892 he has been professor of law in the Ohio State University. 
 
 ORLANDO W. ALDRICH. 
 
 MARION V. CRUMBAKER. CLASS OF 1874. 
 
 In the State that has produced so many presidents, jurists, and 
 Methodist preachers. Ohio, was born Marion Victor Crumbaker, B^ A., 
 M. A.. D. D.. Feb. 20. 1847, and like many others who have afterwards 
 come into public life and notice, spent his early life on a farm. He 
 
 came to McLean county, Illinois, in 
 1864, and soon after enlisted in the 
 152nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, 
 spending seven months in his coun- 
 try's service. He was emphatically 
 3ne of the " Boys in B.ue," and 
 gained the reputation of being a gal- 
 ant Sjldier. 
 
 In 1868 he was soundly converted 
 io God and joined the Methodist 
 i^piscopal church, and in 1869 he 
 entered the Illinois Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity, where; he wjs k;.own as a 
 lainstaking s.udent. His university 
 i e was characterized by thorcugh- 
 ess. In the year of liis graduation 
 \i entered the Central Illinois con- 
 :';rence and spent eighteen years in 
 efficient pastoral v/ork, when he was 
 promoted to the position of presiding 
 elder of the Macomb district in which is hispreseit field of labor. He 
 was married to Miss Eliza O. Fellingham. Oct. 12. 1880. and has found 
 in her a noble companion in his life work. As a preacher, Mr. Crum- 
 baker is logical, earnest, faithful ; as an administrator he is careful, kind, 
 and unprejudiced. He is delegate elect to the General Conference. 
 
 MARION V. CRUMBAKiR. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 WILLIAM ALBERT SMITH. CLASS OF 1875. 
 
 Rev. Wilii-^m Albert Smith. B. A,, M. A., was born in Hancock 
 county, Ohio, December 17, 1848. When he was but a child, his father 
 emigrated to Illinois, at first engaging in merchandising, in CHntcn. and 
 
 afterwards settling on a farm. 
 where he died in 1868. William 
 A. was therefore, practically, 
 raised on a farm, and had only 
 the meager advantages of a few 
 months' school each year in the 
 country. In February, 1866. he 
 was converted, and united with 
 the Methodist Episcopal church, 
 under the labors of Rev. James 
 C. Rucker. He was soon im- 
 pressed that the ministry was to 
 be his life work, and with this 
 conviction entered the prepara- 
 tory department of the Illinois 
 Wesleyan University, in Septem- 
 ber, 1867. Being without mesns. 
 and the support of a widowed 
 mother, and several younger 
 brothers and sisters largely de- 
 pendent upon him, his studies 
 were frequently interrupted, and, at times he almost despaired of beirg 
 able to complete a college course. But he persisted, in the face of 
 appalling discouragem.ents. and graduated with honor in June. 1875. 
 
 He remained on the farm with his mother one year, rendering her 
 valuable assistance and preaching as a supply on the Clinton Circuit. 
 
 V/ILLIAM ALBERT SMITH. 
 
 In Septem.ber, 1876, he was received on trial in the Illinois Annual 
 Conference and appointed to Illiopolis. where he served the full pastoral 
 term of three years and was very successful and greatly beloved by his 
 people. During this pastorate, in September, 1877. he was married to 
 Miss Julia Milmine, who has shared the enthusiasm and devotion of 
 her husband to his high calling, and has contributed in no small degree 
 to his success. They have two interesting daughters, Leia. aged six- 
 teen, and Mildred, aged seven. 
 
 Cariinville was Mr. Smith's next appointment, a more responsible 
 position, which he occupied with great satisfaction to his congregation 
 for three years, and was then transferred to First Church. Danville, in 
 September. 1885. Here he spent four laborious and successful years. 
 Under his inspiring leadership the present splendid church edifice was 
 erected at a cost of forty-five thousand dollars, and the membership 
 and prestige of the congregation greatly increased. At the conference 
 of September, 1889, he was appointed pastor of Grace Church, Blcom- 
 in^ton. where he had his usual success in all departments of church 
 work. During his four years in this pulpit the membership was about 
 doubled, and the activity of the church in benevolent and philanthropic 
 work greatly extended. In September, 1893, he was appointed to his 
 present charge. Centenary, Jacksonville, where his success has been 
 phenomenal. Following an exceptionally strong pastor, the congrega- 
 tions have not only kept up. but the church has been in an almost con- 
 tinuous revival, over two hundred new members being added this year. 
 
 Measured by results. Mr. Smiiih must be regarded as a successful 
 minister, and has fairly earned the high position he occupies in the 
 church, and the esteem, in which he is held by the multitudes who have 
 been edified by his labors. 
 
 As he is yet in his prime, being but forty-eight years of age. it is 
 reasonable to hope that his highest period of usefulness is before him. 
 
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 THOMAS 1. COULTAS, CLASS OF 1875. 
 
 Rev. Thomas I. Coultas. B. A.. M. A.. D. D.. was born of English 
 parentage in Scott county. Illinois, in 1853. He was left fatherless 
 when six years of age : attended country schools until fourteen years 
 old. when he entered the Winchester high school and completed its 
 course in two years. When sixteen he was licensed to preach and was 
 for many years known as the boy preacher. In 1869 he was admitted 
 to the iliinois Conference and for two years performed the work of an 
 
 itinerant minister. He entered the 
 Illinois Wesleyan University in the 
 fall of 1871. and was graduated in 
 June. 1875. He represented the 
 university in the State and Inter- 
 State oratorical contests, taking the 
 first prize in both. He returned to 
 the pastorate in the Illinois Confer- 
 ence and immediately took high 
 rank as a minister and served its 
 best charges at Quincy. Danville 
 and Decatur. In 1889 he was trans- 
 ferred to the Centenary Church. 
 Terre Haute, Indiana, where he was 
 most successful in the administration 
 of the affairs of that great church 
 of nearly fifteen hundred members. 
 His next appointment was to the 
 THOMAS I. COULTAS. Roberls Park Church of the city of 
 
 Indianapolis, where he is serving 
 with great acceptability. In the rummer cf 1894 he traveled in Europe. 
 Dr. Coultas is a natural orator, a logical thinker, a sympathetic pastor, 
 
 an affable courteous gentleman, and a deeply spiritual Christian. 
 
 His pulpit efforts manifest careful preparation as to thought and 
 form; sometimes very pathetic, rarely witty, while in delivery he is easy, 
 natural, graceful and vigorous. He is clear and concise in style, and 
 always impresses the hearer with his own sincerity and earnestness. 
 
 In the fall of 1879 he married Miss Angle Morrison, a student of the 
 university, who from the maternal side is a relative of Clinton W. 
 Sears, whose connection with the university was so honorable and of 
 pleasant recollection to those who knew him. Unto this union three 
 children have been born. 
 
 FRANK GUMMING. CLASS OF 1875. 
 
 Rev. Frank Cummin?. B. A.. M. A.. Ph. D.. is serving his first 
 term as trustee of the university, but has many times represented his 
 conference as visitor. An alumnus of the instiiution of the class of 1 875, 
 he united with the Central Illinois conference and has achieved the 
 distinction of being one of its ablest preachers. He has visited Europe, 
 giving special study to historic Methodism in England and Ireland. 
 
 Whi e in college he was an earnest student, a prominent member 
 of the Belles Lettres literary society and contributed largely toward 
 making the society a most valuable interest to students of the univer- 
 sity, not only by his literary zeal, but also by his rare musical talent. 
 No student of the university from 1870 to 1875 has forgotten the leader 
 of the Belles Lettres glee club. Mr. Cumming has frequently contrib- 
 uted of his means, and in 1894 was chiefly instrumental in securing a 
 select library for the departments of Greek and Latin. 
 
 He was elected trustee in 1873. and is energetic, conservatively 
 progressive, and truly loyal, watching every interest of the university 
 and losing no opportunity to extend its influence and render it more 
 potent, especially in the bounds of tne Central Illinois conference. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 125 
 
 Samuel V/an Pelt. 
 
 Class of irts. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Van Pelt, B. A.. M. A., D. D., 
 is now serving his second term as trustee of 
 the Illinois Wesleyan University, and has for 
 many years represented his conference as 
 visitor to the institution. He is the son of a 
 Methodist minister, and entered the prepara- 
 tory school of the Illinois Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity from Normal and graduated from the 
 college in the classical course in 1 875. After- 
 wards he studied in the School of Theology 
 at Boston, Mass., and then united with the 
 Central Illinois Conference, in which for sev- 
 eral years he has been a most prominent 
 member. In 1890, he was elected president 
 of the Grand Prairie Seminary, which posi- 
 tion he still holds. It is no disparagement 
 to any who have preceded him to say that 
 the Sem.inary has never been so popular, so 
 efficient, and so commanding in its influence 
 as under his administration. 
 
 In personal appearance he is dignified and 
 exceedingly pleasant in manner. Early in 
 his college course he manifested fine oratori- 
 cal ability, and gave special attention to voice 
 culture, in which he excelled, under that 
 great teacher of elocution, S. S. Hamill. 
 Without destroying his own individuality, he 
 
 acquired the best forns of exoression exhibited by his 
 
 Samuel Van Pelt. 
 
 teacher, and excels in teaching the art and 
 science of human speech. As a trustee, he 
 guards carefully the interest and honor of the 
 university. He is a delegate elect to the 
 next General Conference, having received a 
 very large majority vote of his Conference. 
 He has a brother. Dr. John R.. of Denver 
 University, and a sister. Mrs. Mary L. Dupuy. 
 of the class of 1880, who are also numbered 
 among our graduates. 
 
 THOMAS STERLING. CLASS OF 1875. 
 
 Thomas M. Sterling was born in 1851 in 
 Fairfield county. Ohio, and came with his 
 father, Charles S. Sterling, to McLean coun- 
 ty, Illinois, in 1854, where he resided until 
 he completed his collegiate course of study. 
 He had all the advantages of a young man 
 raised on a farm in McLean county, and at 
 the age of eighteen entered the Illinois Wes- 
 leyan preparatory school. Having completed 
 its course of study, he was admitted to the 
 college, from which he was graduated in 
 1875, having taught school, however, more 
 or less during this time. In 1876-7. he was 
 principal of the school at Bement, Illinois. 
 Having studied law in the cffice of Hay. 
 Greene and Littler, of Springfield, he was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in June, 1878, and imme- 
 diately began the practice of law in Spring- 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 field. Illinois, where he remained for four years, duiing which time he 
 served as State's attorney for one term. In 1882. he moved to Spink 
 county, Dakota mow S. Dakota), where he has since resided, pursuing 
 his chosen profession, and has ga'ned prominence as a lawyer and in 
 
 politics. He was a member of the 
 State constitutional convention of 
 Dakota in 1883. and again of the 
 constitutional convention of S. Da- 
 kota in 1889, and a member of the 
 first State Senate in 1889. He was 
 chairman of the Judiciary Commit- 
 V^** JL tee of the convention of 1889, and 
 
 ^^ occupied the same position in the 
 
 ^^L 'M^^^ first State Senate ; hence he has 
 
 ^^^^^^^^1^^^^^^ had much to do with both the forma- 
 ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ and interpretation the 
 
 ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^B laws the new State. 
 
 ^^^^^^^L ^^^^^f He held the attor- 
 
 ^^^^BBM^n^^^ ney of Spink county for one term, 
 
 ' and has been identified more or less 
 
 with educational matters all his life. 
 He exerted his influence in support- 
 ing the excellent school system of 
 his State, and for years has been 
 prominent in the management of the Red Field College, at Redfield, 
 where he lives. 
 
 In 1877. he was married to Miss Anna Dunn, who died in 1881. 
 leaving one child. Cloyd D. In 1882, Mr. Sterling was married to Miss 
 Emma L. Thayer, of Mitchell. S. Dakota. 
 
 Mr. Sterling was a painstaking, industrious student, who was never 
 
 THOMAS STERLING. 
 
 satisfied until he knew as much about his subjects, a' least, as any one 
 of the class; hence his scholarship is not only extensive, but accurate. 
 He was a young man of strong convictions, of good judgment, and of a 
 lofty ambition, and it is no surprise to those who knew him in those 
 days to learn that he has been so influential in founding the new State 
 of South Dakota. 
 
 JAMES OLIVER WILSON, CLASS OF 1876. 
 
 Rev. James Oliver Wilson. B. A., B. D.. M. A.. D. D., pastor of 
 Simpson Methodist Episcopal church, Brooklyn, New York, was born in 
 1849 at Manchester, Illinois. He prepared for college in the North- 
 western University preparatory school, and entered the Illinois Wesleyan 
 University in 1872. from which he was graduated in 1876. Early in his 
 college course he manifested talent as an elocutionist, and under the 
 superior instruction of Prof. S, S. Haiiill, at that time Professor of Elo- 
 cution in the university, he made rapid development, and in 1873, Prof, 
 Hamill having resigned, was elected instructor in elocution, which posi- 
 tion he retained until he was graduated in 1876. In the fall of 1876, 
 he entered Drew Theological Seminary, and was elected professor of 
 elocution and oratory, which position he held during his Seminary course. 
 After receiving his degree from Drew, he entered the ministry and 
 joined the Philadelphia Conference, in which he soon rose to promi- 
 nence as a pulpit orator and successful pastor. His record in that Con- 
 ference, in the city of Philadelphia, is an honorable one. In 1891, he 
 was transferred to the Simpson Methodist Episcopal church in Brook- 
 lyn, New York. 
 
 Dr. V/ilson did not rest on his past record, though suc;essful and 
 brilliant, but here he has been in labors abundant, and has met with 
 phenomenal success as a church financier, and has added still greater 
 fame to his ability and power as a preacher of the Word. 
 
James Oliver Wilson. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 Personally, another has correctly described him : •■ Blessed with an 
 attractive presence, has fascinating manners, a strong, full voice, a re- 
 fined and cultivated imagination, splendid descriptive powers, a style 
 bright and sparkling, and a pathos and strength seldom possessed * * 
 
 * ♦ He is master of sarcasm. * * is not less 
 known on the lecture platform, where his keen sense of humor, his 
 dramatic ability, his word paintin? and thrilling eloquence have won for 
 him an enviable reputation." 
 
 ROBERT M'CAY, CLASS OF 1877. 
 
 Robert McCay. A. B.. A. M., 
 superintendent schools Blue Island, 
 Illinois, is a native of Illinois, and 
 attended the public schools until suf- 
 ficiently advanced to enter the 
 preparatory school of the Illinois 
 Wesleyan University in 1868. Here 
 he prepared for college and was 
 graduated in the classical course in 
 1877. He was for six years super- 
 intendent of schools at Washington, 
 Illinois. In 1882-83 he was super- 
 intendent of schools at Fairbury, 
 Having established a reputation as a 
 teacher and disciplinarian by his 
 brilliant success at Washington, in 
 1883 he was elected principal of 
 the preparatory school of the Illinois 
 Wesleyan University, and professor 
 of elocution. Here he manifested the characteristics of a torn teacher 
 and met with the success his former record prophesied. 
 
 ROBERT M CAY. 
 
 His ability as a teacher had brought him into such eminence that 
 flattering offers were soon made him and called him away from the 
 Wesleyan. From 1885 to 1889, he was principal of the high school at 
 Elgin, Illinois. During all these years he was in great deniand as a 
 teacher in tha best institutes of the counties of his state, being especially 
 skillful in this kind of work. In 1889, he accepted a position as super- 
 intendent of city schools at Burlington, Iowa, where he remained for 
 three years, annually advancing the interests of the schools of the city, 
 This position he resigned to accept the superintendency of the schools 
 of Blue Island. Illinois, where he sustained himself as one of the most 
 efficient and influential public school men of the state of Illinois. 
 
 He is also editor of the Inter-State School Review. As a student, 
 Mr. McCay was patient enough to be accurate and thorough. He 
 spared no time nor pains nor energy in learning something of almost 
 everything and everything of something. He is suave in manner and 
 resolute in deed, and in every way an honor to his Alma IVlater. 
 
 WILLIAM EDDY BARNES. CLASS OF 1872. 
 
 In June. 1872, the commencement exercises were held for the 
 first tim° in Amie Chapel. They were rendered still more interesting 
 from the circumstance that Francis E. Munssll, the son of President 
 Munsell, and William Eddy Barnes, son of Dr. R. M. Barnes, at that 
 time pastor of the First Church, were graduated. 
 
 Mr. Barnes had been well prepared for college in the high schools 
 and was a brilliant student, especially in literature, in which he ex- 
 celled. After graduation he entered the field of journalism at Decatur, 
 Il'inois. and after a short time, he was elected assistant edito' of the 
 Central Christian Advocate, which was so ably edited under the in- 
 spiration and direction of Benjamin St. James Fry. He remained 
 with the Advocate but a few years, when he became manager and 
 
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 few 
 
 '' Sv>-?1." St. Louis, Missouri, to which publication 
 
 he continues to give 
 his energies. 
 
 In personal appear- 
 ance. Mr. Barnes is tall 
 and prepossessing, bright 
 and pleasing in conver- 
 sation, and always per- 
 fectly self-possessed. 
 
 Soon after graduation 
 he marrried Miss Roe. 
 a beautiful and womanly 
 young woman, who had 
 been brought up in the 
 family cf Edwin C. Hyde 
 and who will be favora- 
 bly remembered by very 
 many graduates. 
 
 She was permitted to 
 grace and make happy 
 an earthly home but a 
 years, having been cut down in the bloom of womanhood. 
 
 CHARLES V/. SUPER, CLASS OF 1874. GRADUATE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 WILLlAivi ED^r BA.^NE. 
 
 Charles W. Super, B. A., M. A., Ph. D., President of the Ohio 
 University. Athens, Ohio, was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. 1842, 
 of American-German parentage. German was his first language, in 
 youth he had better opportunities than were afforded most boys of his 
 day, and tradition points to a wise use of those opportunities. 
 
 He studied i.i the private schools of his town and prepared for col- 
 
 lege at the Unic Seminary. New Berlin, Pennsylvania. He entered 
 the Sophomore class on examination at Dickinson College in 1863 and 
 was graduated in 1866. While compelled to earn money for his own 
 education, he prosecuted his study with untiring zeal, and both before 
 and after entering college devoted much attention to subjects not in the 
 collegiate course, such as Hebrew. Spanish, stenography, and music. 
 He was an omnivorous reader, and paid special attention to rhetoric and 
 English literature. He taught in public and private schools in Pennsyl- 
 vania, Ohio and Delaware. He spent nearly two years in study in Ger- 
 many, making a specialty of Greek and Latin, paying attention, more 
 or less, to Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit and Old German. In 1872 he 
 taught in Cincinnati Wesleyan College, where he remained until 1878, 
 when he began the study of law, which he pursued during the years of 1 878 
 and 1879, hen he was elected to the professorship of Greek in the Ohio 
 University; but previous to this time he had begun the post-graduate 
 study in the Illinois Wesleyan University, from which he earned his 
 degree of Pn. D. in 1864. In 1882 he traveled again in Europe for 
 study. In 1883 he was made acting president of the Ohio University, 
 and was elected president in 1884. 
 
 In this office. Dr. Super has justly earned the distinction of being 
 a thorough scholar and one of the foremost educators of our country. 
 
 He has written extensively for the best periodicals and magazines, 
 and has published several monD3riphs: A translation of Weil's Order of 
 Words, and the History of the German Language. He has prepared 
 an annotated edition of Herodotus on the Antiquities of Egypt, which 
 has not been published. He also aided in preparing an ancient history, 
 having read the German and French authorities. In June. 1894. the 
 degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him by Dickinson College. 
 
 President Super is remembered as one of the first men who took 
 his examination for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at this university. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 CALVIN RAYBURN. CLASS OF 1876. 
 
 in the Buckeye State in 1847. there was born of a good Presby- 
 terian family Calvin Rayburn, who has taken successively the degrees 
 of B. S.. M. S., and LL. B. from the university, and who is now the 
 efficient secretary of its board of trustees. Early in Calvin's life his 
 
 parents came to Illinois and 
 settled near Towanda. Mc- 
 Lean county, and began the 
 education of the son under a 
 private teacher. Later he was 
 placed in the Bloomington 
 public school, and in 1868 he 
 entered the Illinois Wesleyan 
 University, from which he was 
 graduated in 1876. 
 
 During his college course 
 Mr. Rayburn was a diligent 
 and earnest student, and, like 
 few others, took an interest 
 not only in college life and af- 
 fairs, but also in the actual 
 world outside the university. 
 He was an ardent and able 
 member of the old Belles Let- 
 tres literary society. After 
 graduation he taught school for three years, two as principal of the high 
 school at Shelbyville, and one as principal at Hillsboro, Illinois. His 
 heart, however, had been fixed on ths legal profession, and under the 
 direction of Rowell and Hamilton he entered the law department of the 
 university, from which he received the degree of LL. B. Having been 
 
 CALVIN RAYBURN. 
 
 admitted to the bar. he began the practice of law in the city of his edu- 
 cation, where he has since residsd and received a fair share of the prac- 
 tice in this honorable profession. 
 
 Since June, 1889, he was held the responsible position of secretary 
 of the board of trustees. To the duties of this office he has brought 
 accurate and careful business methods and loyal devotion to his alma 
 mater. The responsibilities of the office are great and onerous, but Mr. 
 Rayburn is fully equal to the one, and discharges the other with precision, 
 practically without compensation. 
 
 GEORGE L. HUTCHIN, CLASS OF 1876. 
 
 Of the class of 1876 more than one have been successful above 
 the average graduate, and some 
 have become eminent in their pro 
 fessions, notably Wilson, Evans. 
 Marquis, Kuhl, and not the leas; 
 among them, George L. Hutchin, 
 B. S., the editor and proprietor of 
 the Sunday Eye. He is a n?itive o.' 
 Illinois, and entered the preparatory 
 schoolof the university from Kenney 
 and carefully prepared for college, 
 sparing neither time nor pains, thus 
 avoiding the greatest difficulties in 
 the way of mastering the college 
 studies by thorough and adequate 
 preparation. He seems then to 
 have acted upon the principle, 
 which is now characteristic of him ceorge l. hutchin. 
 
 ■ — the oversight of which is often fatal notwithstanding g eit energy and 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 industry -that thorough preparation is the work already half completed. 
 He graduated with honor in 1876. 
 
 While in college he took a hand often in college politics and had a 
 sharp eye for what was going on in the college world; he also showed 
 a predelection for journalism, which was rapidly developed after his 
 graduation. In 1880 he became editor and proprietor of the Sunday 
 Eye, an illustrated weekly paper of wide circulation, which was founded 
 by Holland R. Persinger in 1878. Mr. Hutchin is a man of good pres- 
 ence, has a keen appreciation of wit, wields a facile and trenchant pen, 
 and is one of the most active members of the Alumni Association. 
 
 R. B. WELCH, CLASS OF 1877. 
 
 Hon. R. B. Welch, the subject of this sketch, was born in De 
 Kalb county, Indiana, in 1850. In 1864 he removed with his parents 
 to Piatt county, Illinois. Until seventeen years old he had only such 
 educational advantages as the country school of that time afforded. In 
 the fall of 1857 he entered an academy near Farmer City, Illinois, 
 taught by P. V. C. Pool. In the spring of 1870 he entered the Illinois 
 Wesleyan University. He was twice president of the Belles Lettres 
 Society, and in 1876 represented the university at the inter-collegiate 
 contest at Evanston. In 1871, he and Professor Potter published a 
 work on the Word Method of Addition which reached a considerable 
 sale. He was principal of schools of Abingdon, Illinois, one year, and 
 held the same position at Washington, Illinois, for two years, re-entering 
 the university in the fall of 1875 and graduating with the class of 1877, 
 He held the position of superintendent of schools at Pontiac, Illinois, 
 from 1877 to 1879, during which time he read the course of law as 
 prescribed by the university. In the spring of 1879 he was elected 
 president of the State Normal School of Kansas. Under his wise man- 
 agement the school began a growth which has continued until it is one 
 
 of the largest State normal schools in the United States. The institu- 
 tion still retains the general characteristics given it at its re-organization 
 under Mr. Welch, In 1882 he resigned the presidency and removed to 
 Topeka, where he is still practicing his profession. At that time the 
 liquor power was in full control in Topeka, and although the prohibitory 
 law was enacted in 1881, some seventy saloons were in full operation 
 and had the moral support of the majority of the people. A fight was 
 soon organized and Mr. Welch entered into it with his usual vigor, as a 
 deputy county attorney. An effort was made to drive him from the city. 
 
 and on the night of August 19. 1882. 
 the saloon element hired miscreants 
 to go to his stable and trim his horse's 
 tail and mane and cut up his harness 
 and family carriage. This act sealed 
 the doom of the liquor element of 
 Topeka. Mr. Welch called a mass 
 meeting in the city park and caused 
 the horse, harness and carriage to 
 be exhibited to thousands of people 
 and made a bold, considerate speech 
 which made a deep impression 
 upon public sentiment. Mr. Welch 
 spent two years and all he had and 
 all he could borrow fighting the sa- 
 loon power until they finally closed 
 in January, 1885. He then resumed 
 the general law practice and in a few 
 R B WELCH years was in comfortable circum- 
 
 stances. In 1888 he was elected 
 county attorney of Shawnee county and served two terms. In 1890. 
 
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 after the decision of Liesy vs. Hardin, 135 U. S., 100. numerous orig- 
 nal package houses for the sale of intoxicants were opened. Mr. Welch. 
 with Hon. L. B. Kellogg, attorney general for Kansas, made the fight 
 against the liquor invasion. The United States circuit court for tie 
 district of Kansas decided all cases against the State authoiities and at 
 one time there were twenty-one suits pending against Mr. Welch as 
 county attorney and John M. Wilkerson as sheriff of Shawnee county. 
 enjoining them from further proceedings against the original package 
 men and sueing them for damages aggregating over one hundred thou- 
 sand dollars. In re Raher. 149 U. S . 545. Mr. Welch prosecuted an 
 habeas corpus case to the United States supreme court, winning a vic- 
 tory that settled the rights of the State authorities under the Wilson 
 bill for all time. During the legislative trouble in 1893 the volunteer 
 force of sergeants-at-arms and the legislature joined in requesting him 
 to take command of the forces resisting the Populist governor's attempt 
 to coerc3 the house of representatives with the State militia. Mr. 
 Welch accepted and held command until the Populists surrendered and 
 submitted the differences to the courts. The legislature passed very 
 complimentary resolutions and had them engrossed and framed and 
 presented them to Mr. Welch. August I. 1894, he was elected to his 
 eighth term as president of the board of education of the city of Topeka. 
 He is a strong athletic man of untiring industry. As an advocate 
 he stands at the very front rank. He was elected by the Kansas State 
 Bar Association as one of their representatives to the American Bar 
 Association, which met at Saratoga. New York. August 22-24. 1894. 
 
 J. H. MONTGOMERY. CLASS OF 1888, GRADUATE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 J. H. Montgomery, B. A.. M. A.. Ph. D., professor of physics and 
 chemistry in Allegheny College, received his Doctor's degree in 1888. 
 He has taught in Allegheny College, his alma mater, since his graduation. 
 
 JOSEPH H. KETRON, CLASS OF 1876. 
 
 Joseph H. Ketron, B. A.. M. A., completed his studies in the uni- 
 versity in June, 1876, and received 
 the degree of Bachelor of Arts, hav- 
 ing taken the full classical course ; 
 he took the Master's degree in 1879. 
 Mr. Ketron has devoted his life to 
 the work of Christian education. 
 For some time he was professor of 
 mathematics in the Holston Semi- 
 nary, Ne>v Market, Tennessee, but 
 was called to the presidency of 
 Kingsley Seminary. Bloomington, 
 Tennessee, at the time of its organ- 
 izalicn in 1877. This positi:n he 
 fills with marked ability both as an 
 executive officer and teacher. The 
 very fact of holding the office of 
 presidentof such aschool for eighteen 
 years in these times of unrest and 
 reformation of methods in the most 
 of schools is sufficient evidence of 
 real worth as an educator and strength of character personally. 
 
 He was honored by the members of the Holston lay electoral con- 
 ference by an election to the General Conference of 1884. He proved 
 an intelligent and efficient member of that great law-making body, 
 serving on the Missionary, Temporal Economy, and Church Extension 
 Committees. He is unobtrusive and yet a man of convictions as opposed 
 to opinions and is resolute in deed ; thoroughly conscientious as an offi- 
 cial and teacher, never forgetting his relation as an individual in society. 
 
 JOSEPH H. KETRON. 
 
ILLINOIS Wt3SLEYAN LNIVERSITY. 
 
 133 
 
 MARQUIS D. HORNBEC;, CLASS OF 1877. 
 
 Rev. Marquis D. Hornbeck. A. B., A. M., Ph. D.. was born in Pick- 
 away couity, Ohio, in 1849, and moved with his parens to Sulby 
 cointy. Illinois, in 1853, and there u Don a farm were laid the foundations 
 
 for a robust pliysical manhood. 
 
 He entered the preparatory school 
 of the Illinois Wesleyan University 
 in January, 1871, and was prad lated 
 from the college in June, 1877, hav- 
 ing taken the full class'cal course. 
 Having been licensed to preach, he 
 served as a s'udent pastor near 
 Heyworth and Warrensburg during 
 this period. He united with the Il- 
 linois Annual Conference in the fall 
 of 1877, and served as paster in 
 charge at Griggs Chapel until in the 
 fill of 1881. when he entered the 
 Boston School of Theology, from 
 which he received the degree of 
 S. T. B. in 1884. Upon his return 
 from Boston he was elected princi- 
 MARQUis D. HORNBECK. pal of the Danvllle Sem inary , which 
 
 at that time was an affiliated school 
 of the university. In 1887 he was called from the principalship of the 
 Seminary to the presidency of Chaddock College, Quincy, Illinois, 
 which position he occupied until 1890, when he returned to the pastorate. 
 He has served most acceptably the churches of Winchester and 
 Urbana in the Illinois Conference, Cannon City, Colorado Conference, 
 and is now the efficient pastor of the Broadway church in Pueblo, Col. 
 
 While in the educational work he gained some reputation as an 
 educator and scholar. He read a paper before the college section of 
 t.ie Ni;i3Tal Edacational Association at St. Paul. Minn., in 1890, sub- 
 ject, •• Tiie Relation of the College to the Morals of the Students." He 
 has a'so read papers from time to time before the Central Teacherr' 
 Association of Illinois, and other educational bodies. 
 
 Upon examination in Metaphysics and Theism, he received, in 
 June, 1894. the Ph. D. degree from the University of Denver. His 
 name appears in the catalogue of the Iliff School of Theology as lec- 
 turer on Missions. 
 
 Mr. Hornbeck married Miss Lydia M. Kuhl, of Beardstown. Illi- 
 nois a graduate of the Wesleyan. an instructor in Latin and German at 
 the Illinois Female College, September 1st. 1881. who has contributed 
 largely to the success of her husband. 
 
 SAMUEL MILLER WARE, CLASS OF 1879. 
 
 Rev. Samuel Miller Ware, A. B., A. M., D. D.. a nephew of 
 Justice Samuel F. Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, entered 
 the university from the public schools of Towanda, Illinois, in 1874. hav- 
 ing taught during the years 1872-3 in the public schools of the county, 
 and graduated from the classical course in 1879. During his college 
 career Mr, Ware manifested a high order of intellectual ability, and 
 represented his class as orator; 1879 to 1881 he was principal of the 
 high school at Towanda, Illinois, where he made for himself a fine rec- 
 ord as a teacher as well as a scholar. In 1881 he entered the Western 
 Theological Seminary at Allegheny. Pennsylvania, completing his theo- 
 logical studies in the McCormick Theological Seminary, at Chicago, in 
 1 884. At this time he was ordained and installed pastor of the Ferguson 
 Presbyterian church in a suburb of St. Louis, where he was most suc- 
 cessful until June, 1887, when his character and abilities were recognized 
 
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 by the First Presbyterian Church. Clinton. Missouri, where he began a 
 most remarkable pastorate of three years, which he resigned to accept 
 a call to the Second Presbyterian church. Omaha. Nebraska, where he 
 began his labors July 1st. 1890. Here Mr. Ware continues lo mani- 
 fest those admirable traits of char- 
 a:ter in the pulpit and pastorate 
 which make him one of the strongest 
 men in the pulpit of Omaha and in 
 the Presbyterian church of the 
 West. He was quite influential in 
 organizing the Presbyterian Theo- 
 logical Seminary of Omaha in 1 89 1 , 
 and is now chairman of its finance 
 committee ; he is also a member of 
 the Board of Trustees of the Uni- 
 versity of Omaha, a member of its 
 executive committee and secretary 
 of the board. 
 
 July 20. 1880. he was married to 
 Miss Blazer, of Macomb. Illinois, to 
 whom have been born six c'lildren. 
 Mr. Ware has been interested in 
 educational and charitable and re- 
 ligious work since the time of his 
 graduation, and is one of those broad minded, liberal hearted, public 
 spirited citizens desired in every community. As a preacher, he is both 
 intelligent and spiritual ; as a pastor, kind, sympathetic and successful. 
 He exerts a controlling influence in affairs local, and is looked upon as 
 one of the coming leaders in the Presbyterian church, of which he is a 
 loyal son. 
 
 SAMUEL MILLER WARE. 
 
 JOSEPH F. m'nAUGHT. CLASS OF 1877. 
 
 Joseph F. McNaught. B. S.. M. S.. was born of that excellent an- 
 cestry, Scotch-Irish, near Lexington. McLean county, Illinois, in 1855. 
 At the age of eighteen, having prepared for college in high school, he 
 
 entered the university as freshman 
 and was graduated in 1877. He 
 then entered the law school of the 
 University of Michigan and com- 
 pleted its course of study. Having 
 been admitted to practice at the bar, 
 he went to Seattle. Washington and 
 formed a partnership with an older 
 brother, James, who also spent some 
 years in the university and had pre- 
 ceded him to the Pacific coast, and 
 at that time even commanded a fine 
 practice. In 1881. E. P. Ferry, 
 who at a later date became gover- 
 nor of the State, and John H. 
 Mitchell, son of Senator Mitchell, 
 joined the firm of McNaught Bros. 
 Though the youngest member of 
 JOSEPH p. M'NAUGHT. ^he firm, Mr. McNaught contributed 
 
 his full share to the immense busi- 
 ness done by them. Happy investments in real estate were made from 
 his earnings, laying the foundations for wealth which required his entire 
 time for development ; consequently in 1888, he relinquished in part his 
 legal practice for this purpose. He has evinced rare ability as an organ- 
 izer and his influence has been a potent factor in the development of the 
 resources of the Sound. See these facts and more in The History of Seattle. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 135 
 
 RICHARD W. CREWS. CLASS OF 1879. 
 
 Rev. Richard W. Crews. B. A . M. A., pastor cf the F\'?\ Methodist 
 Church. Geneseo, Illinois, was born in England; prepared for college in 
 the preparatory school of the Northwestern University; studied also in 
 
 Garrett Biblical Institute; entered 
 the Illinois Wesleyan University in 
 1876, and was graduated in 1879. 
 He was admitted to the Central Illi- 
 nois Conference on trial in 1876. 
 since which time he has maintained 
 the character of a faithful Christian 
 minister, and has served some of 
 the best charges of his conference. 
 For many years he has been a 
 member of the joint board of trustees 
 of the Illinois Wesleyan University, 
 and has displayed the qualities of a 
 man who understands the needs of 
 Christian education, and wisely seeks 
 to proniote the best interests of the 
 college projected by his own confer- 
 ence. Mr. Crews is a tireless stu- 
 dent, and has more than ordinary 
 powers and acquisition. As a 
 preacher, he is vigorous in thought and expression, and seeks to educate 
 and build up his people in all useful knowledge. As a pastor, he is sys- 
 tematic, discreet and faithful. He is recognized as one of the strongest 
 men in the Central Illinois Conference, and a loyal son of his alma mater 
 who never fails to improve an opportunity to turn the attention of the 
 young people of his charges to her halls. 
 
 RICHARD W. CREV/S. 
 
 JOHN A. MOTTER. CLASS OF 1878. 
 
 John A. Motter was three years old when his parents came from 
 Indiana to Bloomington in 1853. In 1871 he was married to Miss Anna 
 E. Brown, of Normal. Illinois, and settled upon a farm, in Kansas. He 
 entered the Wesleyan in 1874. and graduated with the degree of B. S. 
 in 1878. Immediately after graduation he joined the Kansas Confer- 
 ence, and served charges at Valley 
 Falls, Manhattan and Holton, when 
 he was appointed to Leavenworth 
 (now Kansas City) District as pre- 
 siding elder. Alter remaining four 
 and one-half years in the eldership 
 he was appointed to Baldwin church. 
 This gave his three children the ac'- 
 vsntages cf Baker University. Two 
 are new classical graduates and the 
 third is now a freshman. After three 
 and one-half years Baldwin was 
 transferred from the Kansas Confer- 
 ence to the South Kansas Confer- 
 ence, and Mr. Motter was made 
 presiding eider of Atchison District, 
 and is now in his third year. He 
 was elected by the Kansas Confer- 
 ence a trustee of Baker University 
 and has been twice re-elected and 
 
 is now in his third year as treasurer of the board. He was the first presi- 
 dent of the Methodist Preachers' Association of Missouri and Kansfs. 
 With an invincible will and a lofty purpose, and with a heart open to 
 i T.pressions from above, he is now in the midst of a successful career. 
 
 JOHN A. MOTTER. 
 
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 Harqaret a. Sudduth. 
 
 Class of laso 
 
 Since that day, 1870. which marl<s an epoch in the administration 
 of the affairs of the Illinois Wesleyan University — the admission of 
 young women to all the advantages offered young men — many bright 
 and intelligent women have left the university halls to enter the lists in 
 contention for mastery in the highest things. Perhaps few, if any. have 
 accomplished more or wield a wider and more potent influence for good 
 than Margaret A. Sudduth, B. S., of the class of 1880, now editor of the 
 Union Signal. During the year 1880 she was assistant principal of the 
 high school at D wight. Illinois, and in the fall of 1881 she entered 
 Wellesley College for a teacher's special course of literature and history, 
 where she remained but a few months, being compelled to give up study 
 on account of failing eyesight. Having traveled extensively with mem- 
 bers of her family in the South and West, she went abroad in May, 
 1886, and spent fourteen months in Europe, traveling through England, 
 Germany, Austria. Italy, and Switzerland, making special study of the 
 German language. 
 
 Interested since before her graduation in the great cause of tem- 
 perance, she spent considerable time while abroad in investigating the 
 cause of drunkenness in the countries visited, and as a special corre- 
 spondent to Bloomington papers and the Union Signal she displayed 
 rare literary ability. In 1887, upon her return to America, she accepted 
 the editorship of the Oak and Ivy Leaf, a publication projected by 
 Mary Allen West. 
 
 "In 1890 her name first appeared as an editor of the Union Signal, 
 to which her services had been rendered from the time of her arrival in 
 Chicago, and in January, 1892, she assumed the managing editorship, 
 where her fine journalistic ability and cultured mental and literary qual- 
 
 ifications are called into requisition. 
 
 "While in the full powers of mature young womanhood, our editor 
 is characterized by the sound judgment and high sense of duty of an 
 older head. Faithfulness and loyalty to the cause she has espoused, a 
 disregard of self-interest, an innate strength and nobility of character 
 are her chief traits. Her keen perception of the cogent phases of the 
 temperance reform, as mirrored in the Union Signal, attests the wisdom 
 of the choice which took from Oak and Ivy Leaf to enrich a larger por- 
 tion of the great Christian temperance vineyard." 
 
 " Among the young women whom the higher education and wider 
 openings for the so-called gentler sex have recently brought to the front, 
 the subject of our sketch occupies a deservedly prominent position. 
 It may safely be said that never was there a better fitting of person to 
 profession than in the choice of Margaret A. Sudduth for her various 
 responsible posts on the editorial staff of the Woman's Temperance Pub- 
 lishing Association : and in this work (always a labor of love to her) she 
 has measured up to the full stature of her endowments and attainments." 
 
 The career of Miss Sudduth fully justifies these strong words of 
 ■•J. A. S." in Oak and Ivy Leaf. July 1894. 
 
 SAIN WELTY, CLASS OF 1881. 
 
 Sain Welty, B. A.. M. A., LL. B., was born in Ohio, January 19. 
 1853, the year in which his father, Emanuel Welty, emigrated to Mar- 
 shall county, Illinois, where young Welty had the freedom of the country 
 from the time of his childhood until he entered the preparatory school of 
 the university in 1872. Here he prepared for college with greater care 
 than is the case with most students. The same carefulness and pre- 
 cision characterized his college course, to which he gave sufficient time 
 for assimilation, having graduated in the classical course in 1881. 
 
 In the fall of 1881 he entered the law school at Yale, where he led 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 his class in scholarship and in recognition thereof was awarded the 
 Marshal Jewel prize. Returning to Bloomington in 1883. he entered 
 the law office of Fifer and Phillips, gentlemen well known to the gradu- 
 ates of sixty, but the next year he formed a partnership with John A. 
 Sterling, also of the class of 1881. with whom he still practices law. 
 
 From 1889 to 1892 Mr. Welty 
 was attorney for the city of 
 Bloomington, the duties of 
 which office were conscien- 
 tiously discharged. Since 
 1887 he has represented the 
 Alumni Association as a 
 member of the board of trus- 
 tees, serving most faithfully on- 
 the executive committee con- 
 tinuously, and for several years 
 has been chairman of the 
 standing committee on build- 
 ings and grounds. 
 
 As a lawyer. Mr, Welty be- 
 longs to that class of legal 
 gentlemen whose manhood is 
 greater than the profession and 
 is never sacrificed for the sake 
 of a temporary victory; his 
 legal knowledge is exact, 
 broad and practical. He is courteous and dignified in manner, and a 
 devout Christian. He married Miss Gertrude Ball, of Marshall county, 
 and of this union there is one child. Bessie, who is now in her fourth 
 year in the preparatory school. 
 
 SAIN WELTY. 
 
 JOHN A, STERLING. CLASS OF 1881. 
 
 John A. Sterling, B. A., M, A,, was born on the first day of Feb- 
 ruary, 1857, on a farm near Le Roy, in this county. He lived with his 
 
 parents on the farm until he was 
 twenty-one years of age and taught 
 school for three years during the 
 winter months. He graduated from 
 the Illinois Wesleyan University in 
 the class of 1881 in the classical 
 course. In the summer of 1881 he 
 was elected superintendent of the 
 Lexington high school and occupied 
 that position for two years. 
 
 He then came to Bloomington 
 and entered the law office of Fifer 
 and Phillips as a student of law. 
 He was admitted by examination 
 before the supreme court to prac- 
 tice law, in November, 1884. and 
 immediately upon his admission 
 formed a partnership with Mr. Sain 
 Welty, with whom he is still con- 
 nected in the practice of his pro- 
 fession. On May 20, 1886, he was married to Clara M, Irons, He 
 has one child. Frank Hugo Sterling, four years of age. 
 
 During the Harrison and Cleveland campaign of 1888 he was chair- 
 man of the County Republican Central Committee, which place he oc- 
 cupied for two years. He was nominated by the Republicans of McLean 
 c:iunty in 1892 for the office of State's Attorney, and was successfully 
 elected to that office, which he still holds. 
 
 JOHN A. STERLING. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 WILLIAM XAVIER SUDDUTH. CLASS OF 1 
 
 William Xavier Sudduth. of Chicago, son of the late Dr. James 
 McCreary {M. D.. Rush Medical College, 1855) and Amanda E. (Ash- 
 more) Sudduth, grandson of Thomas Sudduth, was born January 18, 
 1853, at Springfield, Illinois. He 
 prepared for college at the Illinois 
 State Normal University, Normal, 
 Illinois; was graduated Ph, B., 
 from the Illinois Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity, Bloomington, and received 
 therefrom the degree of A. M. in 
 1889; was a graduate student at 
 the University of Minnesota, at 
 Minneapolis, 1891: commenced 
 the study of dentistry in 1879, 
 at the Philadelphia Dental Col- 
 lege, and after graduating D. D. 
 S. therefrom in 1881 , practiced the 
 profession in Bloomington, Illinois, 
 two years. He began to read medi- 
 cine in 1883, under Drs. James B. 
 Taylor and William L. Mittendorf, 
 of New York City ; attended one 
 course of lectures each, at the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, and the Medico- 
 Chirurgical College, of Philadelphia, receiving the degree of M. D.from 
 the latter in 1885. During the three following years he spent a portion 
 of his time as a graduate student in the universities of Berlin, Heidel- 
 berg, and Vienna. From 1884 to 1890 he was director of the physio- 
 logical and pathological laboratories of the Medico-Chirurgical College 
 
 
 WILLIAM XAVIER SUDDUTH. 
 
 of Philadelphia, and lecturer on clinical microscopy and genito-urinary 
 diseases, with several leaves of absence during the time for post-gradu- 
 ate study abroad and lecture courses in the universities of Iowa and 
 California. He was for seven years, 1887-1894, on the staff of senior 
 editors of the Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, Philadelphia, 
 having the department of embryology, anomalies, and monstrosities. He 
 wrote a 150-page article on ■• Embryology and Histology" for the Ameri- 
 can System of Dentistry, 1885, and has written extensively in dental 
 and medical literature on strictly scientific subjects — little or nothing on 
 practice: " Products of the Epiblast, " read before the American Medical 
 Association, Newport, R. I., 1888; "Vocal Resonance," ibid., at the 
 San Francisco meeting, 1894; ••The Antrum of Highmore in its Rela- 
 tion to Vocal Resonance," Journal of the American Medical Associa- 
 tion, November 17, 1894; •• Special Forms of Ossification," read before 
 the Ninth International Medical Congress, section on anatom.y, 1887: 
 •'The Present Scientific Status of Hypnotism," Review, Chicago, Feb- 
 ruary, 1895: "A Study in the Psycho-physics of Music." Minnesota 
 Magazine, April, 1895; ■•Psycho-physics of Sleep," Journal of Ameri- 
 can Medical Association, 1895; ■• Hypnotism and Crime," Medico- 
 Legal Congress, N. Y., 1895; "Heredity in its Relation to Inebriety: 
 Degeneration or Regeneration," Union Signal, and ••Suggestion as an 
 Ideo-dynamic Force," Chicago Academy of Medicine, 1895. 
 
 Dr. Sudduth has given much time to photo-micrography, and dis- 
 covered, in 1885, a method of reproducing the colors of the original 
 microscopic specimen in the lantern slide, without hand painting. He 
 has devised a plan for treating empyema antri by means of specia'ly 
 placed tubes; also a mento-dental splint for treatment of fracture of the 
 inferior maxilla, described in Garretson's Oral Surgery. Dr. Sudduth 
 is now university extension lecturer on biology, Chicago University, — 
 Taken from Physicians and Surgeons of America. 
 
Edwin Malaney Van Petten. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 141 
 
 EDWirs Halanet \lf\n Fctten. 
 
 CLftSS OF 1865 
 
 Edwin Malaney Van Petten. B. S.. M. S.. superintendent of the 
 city schools of Bloomington. Illinois, was born in 1863 at Trivoli, Illi- 
 nois. Left fatherless at seven years of age : in the country schools 
 until twelve years of age; finished the ward schools, Peoria, Illinois: 
 spent one year in a county Normal school, teaching half of the year as 
 special substitute in the training department ; then entered the Peoria 
 high school from which he was graduated in 1882. the fall of which year 
 he entered the Illinois Wesleyan University with a view to the Christian 
 ministry; was graduated in 1885. He was a member of the Adelphic 
 literary society, of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, and represented the 
 oratorical association in the state contest in 1884. During the summer 
 of 1885, he supplied the pulpit of the Methodist Episcopal church at 
 Sheldon, Illinois, and spent the year 1885-6 at Drew Theological Sem- 
 inary, having sought the special instruction of Dr. Miley upon subjects 
 which had given him mental perplexity. The summer of 1886 he sup- 
 plied Ash Grove circuit. Central Illinois Conference, which conference 
 he joined in 1886 and was appointed to Braidwood, where he remained 
 until March of the next year, when he took a position in the high school 
 at Joliet. Illinois, and soon became its principal. Here he manifested 
 marked ability as teacher and administrator until he was called, in 
 1892, to the superintendency of the city schools of Bloomington, Illinois. 
 He has done much to perfect the system in Bloom.ington and has ele- 
 vated the standard of the schools until they compare most favorably 
 with the very best in the State. He is justly considered one of the 
 most efficient and successful public school men in the State of Illinois. 
 
 In 1887 he married Stellula D. Young, of the class of 1887. who 
 died in April. 1892. leaving three children to the care of the father. In 
 
 August, 1893, Mr. Van Petten married Anna Fitz Henry, who had been 
 for a few years one of Bloomington'smost efficient public school teachers. 
 
 JACOB LA FAYETTE BURRITT. CLASS OF 1884. 
 
 Jacob La Fayette Burritt, Ph. B., M. A., was born in New York 
 
 in 1856, the son of a wealthy man- 
 ufacturer. His youth had the double 
 advantage of farm and factory life. 
 In 1875 he entered Cook Academy. 
 Havana, New York, from which he 
 was graduated in 1887. The years 
 following were spent in teaching as 
 principal or superintendent of city 
 schools in New York and Pennsyl- 
 vania. He entered the Illinois Wes- 
 layan University in 1884 and re- 
 ceived its degree of Ph. B., from 
 whch he also took his Master's de- 
 gree on examination. 
 
 Mr. Burritt has given much time 
 to the study of philosophy and so- 
 ciology, and has b3?n a most popu- 
 lar lecturer at teachers' institutes 
 and associations. 
 
 JACOB LA FAYETTE BURRITT. 
 
 EDWARD S. JANES. CLASS OF 
 
 1878. 
 
 Edward S. Janes, B. A., studied law in the office of his brother, 
 George M. Janes, and was admitted to the bar in 1880. and began the 
 praric: of law in Quincy, in 1835. Later he located in Norton. Kan- 
 sas and became attorney for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. His 
 present address is Marysville. Missouri, where he is now practicing law. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 ISAAC E. VALE. 
 
 ISAAC EDWIN VALE, CLASS OF 1876. 
 
 Isaac Edwin Vale, a graduate of the law department of the year 
 1878. was born in Washington county. Pennsylvania. May 19. 1852. In 
 1856 his parents and family moved to Illinois, locating 
 ,-^ "iwv '" '^^ vicinity of where Lostant now stands, where 
 j"^^* \ the lad grew to manhood on his father's farm. He 
 attended public and town schools, walking six miles a 
 day. part of the time, to do so. 
 
 This was followed by two years teaching in public 
 schools. In September, 1876, he entered the law 
 school, working the while with the distinguished law 
 firm of Williams, Burr and Capen. and also taking an 
 active part in the Belles Lettres Society, from which 
 he received a diploma. 
 
 In June. 1878. graduating third in a class of seventeen members, 
 he soon thereafter entered upon his chosen profession of the law in part- 
 nership with Hon. S. P. Robinson. The prospects not seeming bright 
 where so many attorneys were at the bar. Mr. Vale removed in 1879 to 
 Superior. Nebraska, where he has resided continuously to the present 
 time, following the practice of the law in connection with other business 
 of a lucrative nature, and has built up an active and extensive business. 
 His home is one of the most beautiful in the city, and is enjoyed by his 
 estimable wife and three bright children, the eldest of whom, thirteen 
 years of age. is now in the high school of the city. 
 
 Mr. Vale has held many public positions of honor and trust, and is 
 an active worker in the church and public enterprises. 
 
 FRANCIS ROBERT BEATTIE, CLASS OF 1884, GRADUATE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Among the many strongmen who have completed a graduate course 
 in the university. Rev. Francis Robert Beattie. B. A.. Ph. D.. D. D., 
 
 professor of systematic theology and apologetics, Presbyterian Theologi- 
 cal Seminary, Louisville. Kentucky, must be numbered. He is a man 
 of excellent presence, a hard student, profound thinker, clear and enthu- 
 siastic teacher, and an interesting and instructive preacher. 
 
 ALFRED OSCAR COFFIN, CLASS OF 
 
 i, GRADUATE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Alfred Oscar Coffin was born of slave parents in Poncotoc, Missis- 
 sippi, May 14, 1861. After the war, as there were no schools for col- 
 ored people, his father and several 
 neighbors hired a white man from 
 the North to teach a private school 
 In 1873 Rust University was fourded 
 at Holly Springs, Mississippi, where 
 he prepared for college. In 1881 he 
 entered Fisk University, at Nash- 
 ville, Tennessee, graduating with A. 
 B. in 1875. The same year he 
 matriculated in biology, post-gradu- 
 ate course. Illinois Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity; received M. A., 1888; Ph. 
 D., 1889; taught public schools in 
 Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas, 
 1887-8; professor science, Alcorn 
 Agricultural and Mechanical College, 
 Rodney, Mississippi; 1889-'94, pro- 
 fessor science and mathematics, 
 Wiley University, Marshall, Texas; 
 1881, married Miss Minnie May 
 
 Baker, Dallas, Texas; children, Lillian Vio'a, Oscar Laurine. His 
 work in the post-graduate department was of the very highest order. 
 
 ALFRED OSCAR COFFIN. 
 
ILLINOIS WES LEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 143 
 
 GEORGE H. HOWE, CLASS OF 1889. 
 
 George H. Howe, Ph. B., M. A., professor of mathematics in the 
 State Normal School, Warrensburg, Missouri, was born in Oswell, Penn- 
 sylvania, 1859. Studied in Susquehanna Collegegiate Institute, To- 
 
 wanda, Pennsylvania, and graduat.d 
 from the classical course of the 
 State Normal and training school, 
 Oswego, New York; studied at Cor- 
 nell University. New York, and com- 
 pleted his collegiate course in the 
 Illinois Wesleyan University in 1889; 
 is now a student pursuing a course 
 in pedagogy preparing for the degree 
 of Ph. D. 
 
 Prof. Howe is a man of fine per- 
 sonal appearance, a devoted member 
 and elder in the Presbyterian church. 
 
 HORATIO C. BENT, CLASS OF 1879. 
 
 One of the quiet, modest men, 
 but one of the most gentlemanly 
 and scholarly of all who have hon- 
 ored their alma mater, is Horatio 
 Grimes Bent, B. S.. LL. B., who 
 completed the literary course in 1879 and the law in 1881. In 1884, 
 his scholarly habits and extensive legal knowlege were recognized by an 
 election to a professorship in the school of law, which he held until vol- 
 untarily relinquished in 1891 that his increasing business might have his 
 exclusive attention. Still interested in educational affairs, he renders 
 the public valuable service on the board of public education. 
 
 GEORGE H. HOWE. 
 
 GEORGE LILLEY, CLASS OF 1883. GRADUATE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 President George Lilley, M. A., Ph. D., LL. D., was born in Ke- 
 
 wanee, Illinois, in 1850; prepared 
 for college in the public schools and 
 entered the freshman class at Knox 
 College in 1869. In 1872 he en- 
 tered Michigan University and com- 
 pleted a special course in mathe- 
 matics. After a short business 
 career, he entered upon the profes- 
 sion of a teacher and developed un- 
 usual aptitude in the study of pure 
 mathematics, and has won an ex- 
 tensive reputation as a mathema- 
 tician by his contributions to the 
 various magazines and journals, and 
 his text-books : First Principles of 
 Algebra, Elements of Algebra, High 
 School Algebra, and Blank for 
 Teachers. 
 
 The Master in Arts degree, pro 
 merito. was conferred upon him in 
 1870 by Washington and Jefferson College, and in 1886 by Knox Col- 
 lege. In 1887 Chaddock College conferred upon him an honorary degree 
 of LL. D. His study in the university in 1883-6 was in mathematics, 
 in which he is master. Dr. Lilley organized the Dakota Agricultural 
 College in 1884, and served for seven years as president and professor 
 of mathematics. In 1891 he organized the Agricultural College and 
 School of Science in Washington, and served two years as its president. 
 He is now principal of Park School. Oregon. 
 
 GEORGE LILLEY. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 T. M. M'INTYRE. president LADIES' COLLEGE, TORONTO, CANADA. 
 
 T. M. Mclntyre. M. A., LL, D., Ph. D., is a Canadian by birth. 
 and one of the first educators of the Province of Ontario, Canada. He 
 has given over twenty-five years to the cause of education, under the 
 excellent system which has given Ontario a world wide reputation in 
 
 matters educational. For the past 
 sixteen years Dr. Mclntyre has de- 
 voted his attention to the higher 
 education of women, and in order 
 to have the facilities necessary for 
 carrying out his ideal, he founded 
 and established as a proprietary in- 
 stitution the Presbyterian Ladies" 
 College of the city of Toronto. The 
 unparallelled success of this insti- 
 tution speaks volumes for the wide 
 reputation of its president. 
 
 His Bachelor's degree was ob- 
 tained in Victoria University in 
 1867. The degree of LL. B. was 
 conferred in 1878, and that of Ph, 
 D., by the Illinois Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity in 1887, after a rigid course 
 T. M. m'intyre. '" history and political science had 
 
 been successfully pursued His 
 reading has been wide in the department of philosophy and also in that 
 of literature, in which he is pre-eminently a Shakespearean scholar. 
 His lectures on the "Ethics of the English Drama," and "The imagi- 
 nation in the Drama." show him to be an original interpreter. He is 
 Canadian examiner in the Non-resident and Graduate Department. 
 
 JOSEPH T. KINGSBERRY, CLASS OF 1891. 
 
 Joseph T. Kingsberry, Ph. B., M A., Ph. D,. vice-president of 
 the University of Utah, was born in Utah in 1853. He had the early 
 advantages which come to a boy born upon a farm, and there he laid 
 the foundation for a strong physical 
 organism and formed habits of indus- 
 try. His elementary education was 
 obtained in Morgan Commercial 
 College and under the private tuiMon 
 of Karl G. Masser and Dr. John R. 
 Park in the University at Deseret. 
 In 1875 he entered Cornell Univer- 
 sity, taking a complete course in 
 chemistry and physics. In 1877 he 
 taught the Twelfth District School, 
 and in 1878 he was called to the 
 University of Deseret, where he re- 
 mained until 1895. 
 
 His work in the Illinois Wesleyan 
 University was of a high grade, and 
 showed himself to be possessed of 
 great capacity for work. He is quiet 
 and undemonstrative in manner, but 
 has the qualities of firmness and en- 
 durance. In 1882 Dr, Kinsberry was appointed acting president of the 
 University of Utah, at which time prejudice obtained against the uni- 
 versity, and within there was no harmony. Through his wise manage- 
 ment and kindly spirit, the prejudices both Mormon and non-Mormon 
 have been allayed, In 1894 the regents of the university invited him to 
 become its president, but believing that the greatest interests of the 
 
 JOSEPH T, KINGSBERRY. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 145 
 
 university would not be most wisely conserved by acceptance, he sought 
 to have Dr. Talmage. former president of the Latter Day Saints' Uni- 
 versity, elected president, which was done. Dr. Kingsberry continued 
 as professor of chemistry and physics. 
 
 JOHN GALLAGHER. CLASS OF 1380. GRADUATE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Rev. John Gallagher. Ph. B.. M. A., Ph. D., member of the Ne- 
 braska Conference, was born in St. Clair, Michigan, in 1846. His 
 
 secondary education was obtained in 
 the grammar school in Charlestown, 
 Massachusetts, and Sycamore high 
 school. He taught school for a 
 number of years in Illinois and Ne- 
 braska before entering upon his min- 
 istry. 
 
 He is an accurate and thorough 
 scholar, a profound reasoner, and a 
 tireless worker in his calling. He 
 has rare tact and ability in managing 
 the finances of his congregation, and 
 has been instrumental in building up 
 a number of the best churches in 
 Nebraska Methodism. He has been 
 secretary of his conference and one 
 term presiding elder. 
 
 In 1880, he received his degree 
 JOHN GALLAGHER. of Ph. B.. and at the same time 
 
 matriculated in the graduate depart- 
 ment. The Master's degree was taken in 1883, and the Doctor's de- 
 gree in 1889. 
 
 WILLIAM S. MARQUIS, CLASS OF 1876. 
 
 Rev. William S. Marquis, B. A., M. A.. D. D.. was born of Pres- 
 byterian parents in the city of Bioomington. Illinois, and prepared for 
 college in the public schools. He entered the freshman class as a 
 
 graduate from the high school in 1872. 
 and from the beginning to the end of 
 his course ranked high as a student. 
 He was diligent, careful, conscientious 
 and thorough in all his work as a stu- 
 dent : in appearance neat, and in man- 
 ner affable and gentlemanly; while in 
 character noble in spirit and righteous 
 in conduct. 
 
 After graduating in 1876. he entered 
 the theological seminary in Princeton, 
 New Jersey, and there took the de- 
 gree of B. D. He began the work of 
 a most successful ministry as pastor of 
 v/iLLiAM s. MARQUIS. the Presbyterian church at Minonk, 
 
 Illinois, where he remained five years, 
 when he accepted a call to the Broadway Presbyterian church. Rock 
 Island, where he still remains and is serving the twelfth year, growing in 
 popularity and increasing in influence. He is chairman of the Board 
 of Foreign Missions for his Synod, and discharges the functions of the 
 office with fidelity, zeal and skill. As a preacher, he is thoughtful, 
 scholarly and spiritual, and in his pastoral labors happily blends genuine 
 piety and common sense. Like other strong men of Presbyterianism 
 who have been educated at the university, Mr. Marquis is ample proof 
 of the claim that a college may be denominational and at the same 
 time non-sectarian, yet positively Christian. Received D. D. (Knox). '95. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 GEORGE DANIEL. CLASS OF 1888, GRADUATE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Rev. George Daniel. Ph. B., M. A., Ph. D., was born in July, 
 1852. of English parentage. He commenced to preach at the age of 
 sixteen. About two years later he was received by the conference and 
 appointed to the Adelaide circuit, Ontario. He was ordained in 1876 
 
 in the city of St. Catherines, 
 after taking a course in the Vic- 
 toria University. Soon after he 
 was stationed on the Niagara dis- 
 trict, where he spent four years ; 
 he was then stationed in London, 
 Ontario, whence he was sent to 
 the cily of Winnipeg, as pastor 
 of the Bannatyne street church, 
 in 1883. In 1886 he received 
 an invitation to Regina. the cap- 
 ital of the North-west Territo- 
 ries. In 1889 he was stationed 
 in the beautiful town of Portage 
 La Prairie, where, in addition to 
 the pastorate he was for several 
 years professor of modern lan- 
 guages in Lansdowne college ; he 
 was then stationed in the city of 
 Brandon, and at the close of his 
 pastorate there received an invi- 
 tation to the pastorate of Queen's Avenue church. London, one of the 
 most important charges in Canadian Methodism. During the last few 
 years he has been district chairman, examiner in history and literature, 
 and secretary of the board of examiners for the Manitoba and North- 
 
 CEORGE DANIEL. 
 
 west Conference. Mr. Daniel is a thorough student, an eloquert 
 preacher, who excels as an organizer. He is a fair representative in 
 scholarship of the many excellent men who have entered the university 
 from Canada and now stand at the front in the ministry and the leading 
 professions. 
 
 THOMAS WILSON m'VETY, CLASS OF 1891. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Wilson McVety, B. A.. B. D., M. A., Ph. D., was 
 born in Loughboro, Ontario, Canada, in 1848. In 1873 he joined the 
 Bay of Quinte Conference of the 
 Methodist Church. In 1875 he took 
 his B. A. degree from Albert College. 
 During his collegiate course he took 
 first honors in the studies of oriental 
 languages and metaphysics, was ex- 
 aminer in oriental languages in Al- 
 bert College for four years; studied 
 theology in Coburg University and 
 received the B. D. degree in 1885. 
 Having preached ten years in Can- 
 ada, he came to the United States 
 in 1885 and joined the Central 
 Illinois Conference, and has served 
 its best charges at Pontiac. Normal, 
 Kankakee and Peoria, He com- 
 pleted the post-graduate course for 
 Doctor of Philosophy, June. 1891; 
 has been and is a most influential thomas wilson m'vety. 
 
 member of the joint board of trus- 
 tees of the university. He is a master in organization, a power in the 
 pulpit, and has the happy faculty of inspiring- all his people to work, 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 147 
 
 CLARENCE E. SNYDER, CLASS OF 1895. 
 
 Clarence E. Snyder. B. A., instructor in German and French, was 
 born in Moweaqua, Illinois, in 1872. in his village schools he received 
 
 instruction until, in 1887. he 
 entered the preparatory school 
 of the Illinois Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity, from which time until 
 June. 1895, he was a close 
 and diligent student. During 
 all his college career he 
 s'lowed marked ability in his 
 specialties, the languages, and 
 has tutored at home and in 
 college more or less for four 
 years. He taught classes in 
 French and German in the 
 university during the years 
 1893-94. During the college 
 year of 1894-95 he was editor- 
 in-chief, by faculty appoint- 
 ment, of the Wesleyan Argus, 
 the college paper. He was 
 also president of his class. In 
 1895 he was elected instructor 
 in French and German, and 
 is at present pursuing graduate work in German under Prof. Ferguson. 
 His present position is one which severely tests his power in the 
 class room, and he who successfully meets such a test need never fear. 
 He expects to go to Germany next year and study in the best univer- 
 sities with a view to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 
 
 CLARENCE E. SNYDER. 
 
 MARTHA MATHENY. CLASS OF 1895. 
 
 Miss Martha Matheny. B. S., assistant in the preparatory school, 
 is also a native of McLean county, the daughter of Rev. Matheny, of 
 the Central Illinois Conference. She prepared for college in the pre- 
 paratory school of the university, 
 and completed the college course, 
 and received the degree of B. S. 
 in 1895. 
 
 She began teaching, however. 
 in the public schools when very 
 young and developed great abil- 
 ity to impart information and to 
 awaken the minds of students. 
 After nearly four years' experi- 
 ence in public schools, she was 
 assistant principal in the high 
 school of Urbana, Illinois, for 
 two years, where she taught Latin, 
 rhetoric, and history, previous to 
 her graduation in 1895. During 
 her entire college course she has 
 been an honor student, and was 
 universally respected for her 
 moral qualities, and regarded as 
 a young woman of extraordinary 
 intellectual constitution. She is regarded as a valuable acquisition to 
 the preparatory school, every day evincing additional evidences of the 
 wisdom of the action of the board of trustees in calling her to the posi- 
 tion of assistant. She exerts a positive influence in the work of the 
 literary societies and in Christian Associations. 
 
 MARTHA MATHENY. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 WILLIAM MONTGOMERY CARR. CLASS OF 1884. 
 
 William Montgomery Carr. B. A., M. A.. B. D., spent his youth 
 on the prairies of Illinois, under the conditions, substantially, which pre- 
 vail at this time. He. however, was the one of the thousand who cared 
 
 for the discipline and cul- 
 ture of the college, and 
 turned a deaf ear to the 
 siren voice of mercantil- 
 ism which leads the mul- 
 titude blindly by the best 
 opportunity for best liv- 
 ing : to carry out a high- 
 er purpose, he entered 
 the university and com- 
 pleted its course of study 
 in 1884. Like many 
 others in western col- 
 leges, being compelled 
 to earn in part the money 
 necessary to a college 
 education, he served as 
 a student pastor for some 
 time previous to gradu- 
 ation and waseminent'y 
 successful. Ambitious to excel in his chosen work and desiring the 
 best preparation for it, he went to Drew Thejlcg cal Seminary and on 
 completing his studies received the degree of B. D. Having united 
 with the New York East Conference, he has been faithful and successful. 
 receiving honorable preferment in his conference. He is now pastor of 
 St. Andrew's church. New Haven, Connecticut. 
 
 WILLIAM MONTCCMERY CARR. 
 
 DELMAR DUANE DARRAH, CLASS OF 1889. 
 
 Delmar Duane Darrah, B. S., M. S., professor of elocution, was 
 born in Tolono, Illinois, in 1868. He entered the preparatory school of 
 the Illinois Wesleyan from Bloomington, and completed its classical 
 course in 1889. Two years after graduation he spent in study in his 
 chosen profession under the best teachers of oratory in the West, be- 
 ginning his work under Professor Brownlee of the University of Illinois 
 and continuing under Professor Lyman of Chicago. He was elected to 
 his present position in 1893. 
 
 During his college course he early manifested considerable interest 
 in voice culture and declamation, and frequently appeared in oratorical 
 contests. He has a splendid voice, is most polished and graceful in 
 delivery, clear and forcible in thought, and is a ready and apt teacher in 
 his profession. He also has charge of the classes in physical culture. 
 Here he is rational and scientific, aiming not at pleasure but health. 
 
 CHARLES SYLVESTER PARMENTER, CLASS OF 1883. 
 
 In June, 1883, a slender youth of scholastic mien and interesting 
 address arrested the attention of one of the conference visitors, who was 
 informed upon inquiry that the young man had made a splendid record 
 as a thorough going student, always doing more than was required, and 
 was as manly as he was studious. Charles Sylvester Parmenter, B. A., 
 M. A., was that youth, and well has he sustained himself and fulfilled 
 the graduation day promise. Immediately after graduation he was 
 called to the professorship of natural science at Baker University, Bald- 
 win, Kansas. By industry, scholarship and enthusiasm for his work, he 
 has made that department of Baker strong and inviting, and himself a 
 name for tf,'icient teaching. The Wesleyan congratulates itself on hav- 
 ing contributed a Parmenter to the chair of science and a Motter to the 
 executive board as trustee and treasurer of Baker University. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 LILLIE ENGLISH DIMMITT. CLASS OF 1888. 
 
 Miss Lillie English Dimmitt. B. A.. M. A., entered the Illinois 
 
 Wesleyan University in 1884, hav- 
 ing graduated in June of that year 
 from the Decatur high school. A 
 part of her preparatory work she 
 pjrsued at Illinois Female College. 
 She graduated from Illinois Wes- 
 leyan in 1888. receiving the degree 
 of A. B. She was elected by the 
 board as instructor in English and 
 assistant in the non-resident depart- 
 ment. 
 
 She has pursued her study in the 
 classics at Chicago University. For 
 the past three years she has been 
 teaching Latin and Greek in the 
 University of the Northwest, Sicux 
 City, Iowa. 
 
 EMMA HERRON MARTIN. CLASS OF '84. 
 LILLIE ENGLISH DIMMITT. 
 
 Emma Herron, a native of Illinois, 
 was graduated from the university in 1884. having prepared for college 
 in the preparatory department. 
 
 From 1884 to 1887 she taught in the high school at Rushville, 
 Illinois: 1887-90. she was professor of English history at Chaddock 
 College: 1890-92. professor of English in the college at Fort Worth, 
 Texas: since 1893. professor and preceptress, Randolph-Macon Wo- 
 man's College. Lynchburg, Virginia: married F. W. Martin, professor 
 of science in Randolph- Macon College, in 1889. 
 
 RACHEL BAUMANN, CLASS OF 1888. 
 
 Rachel Baumann. B. S., teacher of elocution in the high school. 
 Denver, Colorado, is the daughter cf Rev. J. V. Baumann, of the class 
 of 1863. She prepared for college in the public schools of her native 
 city, Bloomington, and the preparatory school of the Illinois Wesleyan 
 University, and was graduated in 1888, with honor. Immediately after 
 her graduation she went tc Boston and spent some time in the study of 
 elocution and dramatic art, returning to Bloomington in 1892. Soon 
 after she accepted a position in the Waco Female Seminary, at Waco, 
 Texas, from which position she was called to Denver, Colorado, where 
 she is meeting with remarkable success, displaying great ability in her 
 chosen profession. 
 
 As a student. Miss Baumann was painstaking and thorough in all 
 she did, and belonged to that small class of students which does more 
 in the college course than is required for graduation. Early in her col- 
 lege career she m.anifested ability as a reader, and is remembered by 
 faculty and students as a young woman of great intellectual ability. 
 
 MARY E. BRADFORD. CLASS OF 1879. 
 
 Who was not thrilled by reading the story of that heroine at Tabriz, 
 Persia, during the days of the plague in 1891 ? It was Mary E. Brad- 
 ford, B. A., M. A., M. D., who rendered such self-sacrificing service to 
 the suffering and so highly exemplified the Christly spirit and adorned 
 her profession. 
 
 She was born at Selma, Illinois: prepared for college in our pre- 
 paratory school and graduated from the college of letters in 1879. She 
 then entered the Wonian's Medical College, Chicago, from which she 
 received her degree: spent one year in the New England Hospital for 
 Women, and since 1889 has been in Persia as medical missionary under 
 the direction of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 J. WELLINGTON FRIZZELLE, CLASS OF 1876. 
 
 J. Wellington Frizzelle, B. A., M. A., B. D., comes from English 
 blood, his ancestors, both paternal and m.aternal, having come from 
 England with Lord Baltimore and settled in Maryland. His father was 
 born in Kentucky, and his mother in Ohio. 
 
 Wellington was the youngest of a family of eight children, and was 
 left fatherless when but twelve years old. Under the guidance of his 
 mother, he completed the public school course at Rock Island, then 
 spent two winters in teaching and one as clerk in a general store, during 
 all of which time he kept up his Latin and Greek, and prepared himself 
 for the sophomore class, which he entered at the Wesleyan in 1873, 
 graduating from that institution with the B. A. degree, in 1876. He 
 also spent some time at the Northwestern University, and took a full 
 course in Drew Theological Seminary. He is a man of splendid social 
 qualities, good address, and has fine oratorical powers. He is one of 
 the strong men of the Central Illinois Conference, and has served some 
 of its best churches. He has several times been an official visitor to 
 his alma mater appointed by his conference. His present address is 
 Onarga, Illinois, where his splendid pulpit and social powers are exerting 
 an important influence upon the students of Grand Prairie Seminary. 
 
 W. H. CLINE, CLASS OF 1877, NON-RESIDENT DEPARTMENT. 
 
 W. H. Cline, LL. B., M. A., Ph. D., was graduated from the 
 Northern Indiana Normal School, receiving the degree of B. S., when 
 he entered upon the non-resident course of the Illinois Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity, receiving the degree of Ph. B. The degree of M. A. was conferred 
 by the U. S. Grant University, and that of Ph. D. by Mt. Union Ohio. 
 
 For five years he occupied the chair of history in the Wesleyan 
 University of Nebraska, but he is now pastor of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church at Exeter, Nebraska. 
 
 THE ALUMNA AND ALUMNI. 
 
 Inspection of the record of the graduates will show a much larger 
 number of gentlemen than ladies, though the number of the former does 
 not exceed that of the latter so much as the sketches would indicate. 
 The relatively small number of sketches of ladies is not due to the 
 scarcity of subjects who have achieved success as great as their broth- 
 ers, but rather to their superior modesty and the inability of the com- 
 piler to secure the necessary data, including photographs. Of these he 
 has a good stock on hand, but has refrained from drawing upon it, inas- 
 much as they would not represent their subjects as experienced grad- 
 uates, having been received in the early days of co-education at the 
 university and of course are highly valued. 
 
 Many others, and especially of the graduate department, are mak- 
 ing their mark and justifying their titles. Among them we would mention 
 Edward A. Schell, secretary of the Epworth League ; Richard Crier 
 Hobbs, the popular pastor and racy correspondent ; Frank Lenig, of St. 
 Louis fame; Job Mills, now one of the bishops of the United Brethen 
 church, Rev. John C. Jackson, Columbus, Ohio; Alfred Sydney John- 
 son, editor of that admirable Magazine, Current History, Buffalo, New 
 York; Henry McCormick, that accomplished gentleman and popular 
 professor in Illinois State Normal University; Francis Newton Thorpe, 
 author, lecturer and teacher; William Albert Ryan, author and preacher; 
 Thomas Easton Fleming, correspondent and leader of Iowa Methodism; 
 Albert Gallatin, one of the chief men in that staunch body of United 
 Presbyterianism ; Henry Wogan, president of Dakota University, Bis- 
 marck, Dakota; Frederick E. Stockton, principal and teacher of Greek 
 and Latin, Carleton College, Minnesota; Frank W. Merrill, preacher, pastor 
 and student of literature; William L. Montague, professor of modern 
 languages, Amherst College; and Z. Willis Kemp, professor of Latin, 
 Springfield, Massachusetts. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 153 
 
 Members or the CoRPORATiOfs. 
 
 A 
 
 \ccession. 
 
 Exit. 
 
 Allin, James, 
 
 1850 
 
 1855 
 
 Allin, William, 
 
 1850 
 
 1857 
 
 Aldrich, C. S., 
 
 1876 
 
 1880 
 
 Ayres, Joseph B., 
 
 1883 
 
 
 Andrus, Reuben, 
 
 1850 
 
 1852 
 
 Adams, William H. H. 
 
 
 
 ex-officio. 
 
 1875 
 
 1887 
 
 Barger, John S., 
 
 1850 
 
 1862 
 
 *Birch, Jesse, 
 
 1853 
 
 1875 
 
 Bunn, Lewis, 
 
 1850 
 
 1855 
 
 Baker, Benjamin W., 
 
 1888 
 
 
 Brier, David, 
 
 1855 
 
 1870 
 
 *Beniamin, DeWitt C. 
 
 ,1856 
 
 1872 
 
 Brooks. John P., 
 
 1855 
 
 1861 
 
 *Buck. Hiram, 
 
 1857 
 
 1892 
 
 Buck, Martha A., 
 
 1892 
 
 
 Bunn, James H.. 
 
 1877 
 
 
 *Cartwright, Peter. 
 
 1850 
 
 1871 
 
 Coleman, Henry, 
 
 1852 
 
 1856 
 
 Crissey, W. P., 
 
 1856 
 
 1856 
 
 Chandler, John, 
 
 1856 
 
 1863 
 
 *Died in office. 
 
 
 Cramer. W. R.. 
 Gumming. Joseph S. 
 Cumming. Frank C, 
 Coler. W. N., 
 Culver. J. F.. 
 Chaffee. Francis M., 
 Collins. Williami C. 
 Clark. Hyre D.. 
 Davis. George P., 
 Davis, David, 
 Dimmitt, James P., 
 Douglas, David T., 
 Dever, William 
 
 McDowell, 
 Ewing. John N.. 
 Ewing. James S.. 
 Elliott, S. H., 
 Evans, Jervis G.. 
 English. Joseph G., 
 Finley, James C, 
 *Funk, Isaac, 
 
 Accession. 
 
 Exit. 
 
 / 
 
 \ccession. 
 
 Exit. 
 
 1862 
 
 1868 
 
 Fallows. Samuel, ex- 
 
 
 
 , 1863 
 
 1864 
 
 officio. 
 
 1873 
 
 1875 
 
 1891 
 
 
 Funk, George. 
 
 1863 
 
 1874 
 
 1870 
 
 1876 
 
 Fairbanks, George W. 
 
 , 1856 
 
 1862 
 
 1874 
 
 1879 
 
 Fell, Kersey H., 
 
 1850 
 
 1855 
 
 1874 
 
 1884 
 
 Fell. Jesse W.. 
 
 1851 
 
 1856 
 
 1876 
 
 1879 
 
 *Fullinwider. Jacob N. 
 
 , 1870 
 
 1876 
 
 1890 
 
 
 Funk. S. C. 
 
 1877 
 
 1877 
 
 1886 
 
 
 Fifer, Joseph W.. 
 
 1891 
 
 1893 
 
 1852 
 
 1856 
 
 Goodfellow. William, 
 
 1851 
 
 1855 
 
 1864 
 
 1870 
 
 Goddard. Abbott. 
 
 1852 
 
 1854 
 
 1879 
 
 
 Graves. Linus. 
 
 1850 
 
 1856 
 
 \ 1855 
 
 1887 
 
 Gillett, Philip G.. 
 
 1870 
 
 1876 
 
 ( 1893 
 
 
 Gorin, Jerome, 
 
 1871 
 
 1874 
 
 1850 
 
 1852 
 
 Goodrich, L. H., 
 
 1878 
 
 1880 
 
 1852 
 
 1854 
 
 Holliday, Charles M.. 
 
 1850 
 
 1851 
 
 1856 
 
 1862 
 
 Holmes. William H.. 
 
 1850 
 
 1851 
 
 1861 
 
 1876 
 
 Hobbs, W. C. 
 
 1850 
 
 1853 
 
 1862 
 
 1892 
 
 Hoover. L.. 
 
 1855 
 
 1857 
 
 1850 
 
 1851 
 
 Holder. Charles W.. 
 
 1856 
 
 1875 
 
 1850 
 
 1866 
 
 Harris. Benjamin F., 
 
 1857 
 
 1872 
 
 Hall. Zadoc, 
 Hyde. Edwin C. 
 Hoblit. James T.. 
 Harvey. Wesley B.. 
 Hawes. Eli. 
 Harding, Chauncy. 
 Hiser. George. 
 
 James. Colin D.. 
 Keller. Ahab. 
 Kenyon, Dennis. 
 Kerrick. Leonidas H 
 Kumler. John A.. 
 Kent. L. B., 
 Kimber. Isaac. 
 Knowlton, C. C. 
 Lewis, Calvin W., 
 Luccock, John, 
 Lindsay, Vergil S.. 
 
 Leaton, James, 
 
 McDowell, W. G., 
 
 Accession. 
 
 Exit. 
 
 1863 
 
 1878 
 
 1868 
 
 1874 
 
 1876 
 
 1885 
 
 1877 
 
 
 1878 
 
 1880 
 
 1879 
 
 1881 
 
 1878 
 
 1884 
 
 1851 
 
 1854 
 
 1856 
 
 1863 
 
 1886 
 
 
 , 1886 
 
 
 1879 
 
 
 1861 
 
 1876 
 
 1858 
 
 1864 
 
 1861 
 
 1864 
 
 1850 
 
 1852 
 
 1855 
 
 1861 
 
 1881 
 
 1889 
 
 { 1850 
 
 1853 
 
 ■( 1884 
 
 1885 
 
 1862 
 
 1874 
 
154 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 A 
 
 ccession. 
 
 Exit. 
 
 •McClun. John E., ■' 
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 1850 
 1868 
 
 1864 
 1874 
 
 Merriman, C. P.. 
 
 1850 
 
 1855 
 
 •Magoun. John. 
 
 1850 
 
 1874 
 
 Miller. Jan;es. 
 
 1850 
 
 1856 
 
 Magee. Thomas. 
 
 1850 
 
 1856 
 
 Munsell. Chas. W. C. 
 
 1856 
 
 1862 
 
 Munsell. Leander. 
 
 1856 
 
 1860 
 
 Munsell. Oliver S.. ex- 
 
 
 
 officio. 
 
 1857 
 
 1873 
 
 Mann. Abram. 
 
 1876 
 
 
 Mitchell. T. F.. 
 
 1875 
 
 1880 
 
 McDowell. J. P. ' 
 ( 
 
 1877 
 1888 
 
 1880 
 1890 
 
 McCulloch. Charles 0. 
 
 .1891 
 
 
 McWilliams. David. 
 
 1872 
 
 1889 
 
 Meharry. Jesse. 
 
 1893 
 
 
 Moore. John. 
 
 1851 
 
 1856 
 
 •Died in office. tR< 
 
 jsigned. 
 
 
 Accession. 
 Newman. Wingate J., 1852 
 Noble. James H.. 
 Orendorff, W. J. 
 Prather, Samuel, 
 PhcEHix. F. K.. 
 
 Palmer. George R.. 
 
 Parker, G. W.. 
 Parker. Dwight L.. 
 Price. A. C.. 
 
 Rodger. Thomas P., 
 Roe, E. R., 
 Reeves, Owen T., 
 Reeves, William, 
 Rhodes, P. T., 
 Rowley. R. C. 
 Ritchie. Henderson, 
 
 1873 
 1885 
 1885 
 1854 
 1876 
 1890 
 1875 
 1881 
 1877 
 
 1850 
 1854 
 1855 
 1855 
 1855 
 1855 
 1862 
 
 Exit. 
 1855 
 1875 
 1890 
 1887 
 1856 
 1885 
 
 1879 
 1886 
 1880 
 
 1855 
 1856 
 
 1857 
 1861 
 1861 
 1874 
 
 Accession. Exit. 
 
 *Rutledge, George, 
 Reed. John. 
 Rinaker, John 1., 
 Rutledge. William J. 
 
 Shaffer, A. B., 
 Sears, Clinton W.. 
 Summers. Henry. 
 Smith, W, B., 
 
 Smith, William M. 
 
 Short, John C, 
 Sargent. J. B., 
 tSmith, D. C. 
 Soule. Melvin C. 
 *Sconce, James, 
 Smith, David. 
 *Swayne, Henry S. 
 
 1864 
 1875 
 1877 
 1850 
 
 1854 
 1855 
 1855 
 1861 
 U861 
 '( 1884 
 1870 
 1877 
 1894 
 1881 
 1881 
 1885 
 1893 
 
 1870 
 
 1856 
 
 1856 
 1856 
 1861 
 1866 
 1876 
 1885 
 1876 
 1882 
 1894 
 1886 
 1888 
 1890 
 1894 
 
 Accession. 
 Trotter, W. D. R., 1850 
 Trimmer, David, 1850 
 
 Thomas. Ezekiel, 1850 
 
 Taylor, Dr., 1852 
 
 Tilton, G. W., 1854 
 
 VanCleve, John W., 1850 
 VanPelt, Samuel, 1889 
 
 Water, Silas, 
 Wallace, William, 
 Willson, Jesse A., 
 Whitmer. Peter, 
 Winslow. N. M. 
 Wilder, William, 
 
 ex-officio, 
 *Wilkinson, J. H. 
 Welty, Sain, 
 Wood. Preston, Sr., 
 
 1850 
 1850 
 1868 
 1878 
 1879 
 1884 
 
 Exit. 
 1851 
 1855 
 1855 
 1854 
 1856 
 
 1855 
 
 1852 
 1852 
 1874 
 
 1885 
 
 1886 1891 
 
 1890 
 
 Officers of Corporation. 
 
 PRESIDENT. 
 
 W. C. Hobbs. M. D.. 1850-52 
 
 Hon. James Miller. 1852-53 
 
 Hon. John E. McClun. 1853-54 
 
 T P. Rogers, 1854 55 
 
 Charles W Holder. 1857-76 
 
 Hon. Benjamin F. Funk. 1876-93 
 Owen T. Reeves, M. A., 
 
 LL. D.. 1893- 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENT. 
 
 James Allin, 1852-55 
 
 Charles W. Holder. 1855-57 
 
 John Magoun. 1857-76 
 
 George R. Palmer, D. D.. 1876-84 
 
 Frank M, Chaffee, 1884-85 
 
 Wesley B. Harvey. 1885 93 
 
 George P. Davis. M. A.. 1893- 
 
 SECRETARY. 
 
 C. P. Merriman, 1850-53 
 
 William Goodfellow, M. A., 1853-55 
 
 John Magoun, 1855-57 
 
 Owen T. Reeves, LL. D., 1857-76 
 
 Jesse A. Willson, 1876-78 
 
 Harry Gray Reeves, M. A., 1878-88 
 Calvin Rayburn, M. S., 
 
 TREASURER. 
 
 
 Hon. John E. McClun, 
 
 1850-53 
 
 Linus Graves, 
 
 1853-57 
 
 Jesse Birch. 
 
 1857-78 
 
 John Reed, 
 
 1878- 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
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 Present Corporation. 
 
 / 
 
 William H. Wilder. M.A., D.D.. President of the University and Ex-Officio Member 
 
 of the Board of Trustees. 
 Judge Owen T. Reeves. M. A.. LL.D.. - - - - President 
 
 George P. Davis. M.A.. ----- Vice-President 
 
 Calvin Rayburn. M.S.. LL.B.. ----- Secretary 
 
 Col, John Reed. ------ Treasurer 
 
 BOARD OF TRUSTEES. 
 
 TERM EXPIRES 18.96. 
 
 Mrs. Martha A. Buck. Decatur. Rev. Benjamin W. Baker. M. A.. Ph.D.. 
 
 Peter Whitmer. Bloomington. Quincy. 
 
 Sain Welty. M. A.. LL. B.. Blooming- Rev. Frank Cummings. M.A., Ph.D., 
 
 ton. Streator. 
 
 Hon. Wesley B. Harvey, Washington. Rev. Charles O. McCuUoch. M.A., 
 
 D. D.. Peoria. 
 
 TERM EXPIRES 1897. 
 
 Judge Owen T. Reeves. M.A. LL.D.. 
 
 Rev. John A. Kumler. M.A.. Spring- 
 field. 
 
 Abram Mann. Rossville. 
 
 Dennis Kenyon. McLean. 
 
 Hon. Leonidas H. Kerrick. M. S.. 
 Bloomington. 
 
 Bloomington. 
 Joseph B. Ayers, Danvers. 
 Rev. Samuel Van Pelt. M.A., D.D. 
 
 Onarga. 
 
 Hon. Benjamin F. Funk, Bloomington. 
 George P. Davis. M.A., Bloomington. 
 Rev. Preston Wood, Sr., Springfield. 
 Jesse Meharry, Tolono. 
 
 TERM EXPIRES 1898. 
 
 Rev. Hyre D. Clark, M. A.. D, D., 
 
 Galesburg. 
 Rev. George R. Palmer. D.D.. Onarga. 
 William McDowell Dever. Bloomington. 
 James H. Bunn. Peoria. 
 
 EXECUTIVE COnniTTEE AMD BOARD OF VISITORS 
 Hon. Leonidas H. Kerrick. Chairman. 
 
 William H. Wilder, M.A., D.D, Judge Owen T. Reeves. M.A.. LL.D. 
 
 Dennis Kenyon Peter Whitmer 
 
 Hon. Benjamin F. Funk George P. Davis. M.A. 
 
 Joseph B. Ayers Sain Welty. M. A.. LL.B. 
 
 Col. John Reed. Treasurer Calvin Rayburn. M. S.. LL. B. 
 
 OFFICIAL VISITORS 
 
 ILLINOIS CONFERENCE. 
 
 Rev. Robert Stevens. Mattoon. 
 Rev. James T. Orr. Buffalo. 
 Rev. H. C. Gibbs. B.A.. B.D.. Marshall. 
 Rev. W. A. Smith. M.A.. Jacksonville. 
 Rev. Chris Galeener. M.A.. Decatur. 
 Richard Green Hobbs. M.A.. Ph. D.. 
 Decatur. 
 
 CENTRAL ILLINOIS CONFERENCE. 
 
 Rev. J. W. Frizzelle. M.A.. Monmouth. 
 Rev. Thomas Doney. M.A.. D.D.. Kanka- 
 kee 
 Rev. J. S. Cummings. D.D.. Moline. 
 Rev. Reuben B. Williams. Kankakee. 
 Rev. Joe Bell. D.D.. Pontiac. 
 Rev. Richard Crews. M.A.. Geneseo. 
 
 AUDITINQ COnniTTEE. 
 
 George P. Davis. M.A. Judge Owen T. Reeves. M.A.. LL. D. 
 
 Rev. Preston Wood. Sr. Dennis Kenyon. 
 Rev. John A. Kumler. M. A. 
 
 STANDING COnniTTEE ON FACULTY. 
 Rev. Hyre D. Clark. M.A.. D.D. Rev. James A. Kumler. M. A. 
 
 William M. Dever. 
 
 Leonidas H. Kerrick. M.S. 
 
 Rev. Thomas Doney. M.A.. D.D. 
 
 Rev. James T. Orr. 
 
 President W. H. Wilder. M.A.. D.D. 
 
156 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 Board op Instruction. 
 
 Adams. William Henry H.,B. A. (Northwestern), M. A.,D. D., 
 President and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Phil- 
 osophy 1 875-87 
 
 Adams. Charles C. B. S. ( I. W. U.), Assistant in Biology 1895- 
 
 V-^ Aldrich. Orlando W.. B. A. (I. W. U.). M. A.; Ph. D.. LL. D. 
 
 Professor of Philosophy and German 1 877-78 
 
 also Professor of Law 1875-80 
 
 Andrus. Reuben. B. A. (Asbury). M. A., D. D., Professor of 
 
 Mathematics 1 85 1 -52 
 
 Santa. William E.. B. S. (I. W. U.). Tutor 1866-67 
 
 Barry. Edward. LL. B. (I. W. U.), Professor in Law School. . 1890-91 
 Benjamin. Reuben M.. B. A. (Amherst), M. A.,LL. D. ( I. W. 
 
 U. ) . Dean of Law School 1 873-9 1 
 
 Professor of Law 1 873- 
 
 Bent, Horatio G.. B. A. (i. W. U.;, M. A., LL. B.. Professor 
 
 in Law School 1 884-9 1 
 
 Bloomfield. Ira J.. Professor of Law 1875-76 
 
 Brown. R. R..B. A.. M. A.. Professor of Physics and Natural 
 
 History 1 875-79 
 
 Clark. Hyre D.. B. A. (Allegheny), M. A.. D. D. ( O. W. U.), 
 
 Principal of Preparatory School 1 883-84 
 
 Cole, Charles N., B. A. (I. W. U.), Assistant in Preparatory 
 
 School 1 893-94 
 
 Crow, George R., B. A. (0. W. U.), M. A., Professor of 
 
 Latin 1 870-79 
 
 Crumbaker, Marion V., B. A. (I. W. U), M. A., D. D., 
 
 Assistant in English 1874-75 
 
 Dempster, John, D. D., President 1852-54 
 
 V De Motte, Harvey C, B. S. (I. W. U.j, M. A., Ph. D, (Syra- 
 cuse ) , Professor of Mathematics • 1 86 1 -84 
 
 Vice-President 1866-84 
 
 De Motte, Sarah J., Assistant in Preparatory School 1863-67 
 
 Daniels, W. H., A. M., Professor of English 1865-66 
 
 Darrah, Delmar Duane, B. S. (l.W. U.), M. S., Professor of 
 
 Elocution and Physical Director 1 892- 
 
 Daugherty. Lewis C, Principal Preparatory School, 1886-89 
 
 Denman, Luella M.. B. A. (Michigan University), Charles 
 
 Cramp Professor of Belles Lettres 1893- 
 
 Deinninger, William R., Instructor in German and French.... 1857-58 
 Elrod, Morton J., B. A. (Simpson), M. A., Assistant Pro- 
 fessor of Natural Science 1 889-92 
 
 Professor of Biology and Physics 1 892- 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 157 
 
 Y 
 
 i 
 
 Fallows. Samuel, D. D., President and Professor of Moral 
 
 and Intellectual Philosophy 1873-75 
 
 Ferguson. Wilbert, B. A. (O. W. U.). M. A., Professor of 
 
 Greek 1894- 
 
 Fry, James D.. B. A. [0. W. U.), M. A., Professor of Moral 
 
 Philosophy and German 1 876-77 
 
 Fry, Susanna M. D., M. A. (0. W. U.), Ph. D., ( Syracuse), 
 
 Charles Cramp Professor of Belle Lettres 1876-90 
 
 Gilbert, Newell D., B. A, (I. W. U.). M, A,, Assistant in Latin 
 
 and Greek 1 875-76 
 
 Gillan, J, M., B. A. (1. W. U.), Instructor in Elocution 1880-82 
 
 Godman. William D.. A. M., Professor of Mathematics 1852-53 
 
 Goodfelbw, William. B. A, (McKendree), M. A,. Vice- 
 President and Professor of Natural Science 1 85 1 -54 
 
 Goodwin, William R., B. A. (Asbury), M. A., D. D., Profes- 
 sor of English 1 866-67 
 
 Graham, Robert O., B. A. (Amherst), M. A., Ph. D. (J. H. 
 
 U. ). Professor of Chemistry and Geology 1 888- 
 
 Graves, William F.. B. A. (1. W U.), Acting Professor of 
 
 English 1 874-75 
 
 Graves Alice A. . Assistant in English 1 879-80 
 
 Gray, George W., A. M., D. D., Professor of Natural Science. . 1870-7 1 
 Green. Calvin W.. B. A. ( Ohio W. U. ). M. A.. Principal Pre- 
 paratory School 1 889- 
 
 Hale. Susan E., M. A.. Professor of English 1876-78 
 
 Hamill. S. S.. B. A.. M. A.. Professor of Elocution 1868-73 
 
 Professor of English 1 870-73 
 
 Hamilton. John M.. B. S. (O. W. U.;. M. A.. Instructor in Latin. . 1868-70 
 Heckel, Edward B., B. A. (Allegheny), Assistant in Natural 
 
 Science 1 887-88 
 
 *^He\de\, William Arthur. B. A. (Central Mo.). M. A.. Ph. D. 
 
 (Chicago U.), Instructor in Latin and German. 1890-91 
 
 Professor of Greek 1 892-94 
 
 Hughes, William E.. LL. B. (I.W. U.). Professor of Law. .. 1875-77 
 '^^ Jaques. Jabez Robert. B. A.. M. A.. Ph. D. (Syracuse^, 
 
 Professor of Greek and Latin 1865-70 
 
 Professor of Greek 1870-76 
 
 Karr. A. G.. LL. B.. Professor of Law 1876-83 
 
 Kerrick. Leonidas Hamline. B. S. (1. W. U.). M. S.. Principal 
 
 of the Model School 1865-66 
 
 Knowlton, C. C. M. A.. Professor of Ancient Languages 1862-65 
 
 Kuhl. Mary H.. B. A. (I. W. U.). Instructor in German 1874-76 
 
 Lackland, Melvin P.. B. A. (I. W. U.). M.A.. Professor of 
 
 Mathematics 1 892- 
 
 Langstaff , Margaret. Instructor in Elocution 1 890-92 
 
 Lapham. Martin A.. B.A. i I.W.U.). Instructor in Latin and 
 
 Greek 1 864-66 
 
 Lindley, Jacob P.. B. S. (Indiana S. U.). LL. B. (I.W. U.i. 
 
 Professor of Law 1883- 
 
 Manley, Edward T.. B. A. ( Harvard ), Instructor in Latin and 
 
 Greek 1 886-87 
 
 Marsh. B. P., M. D.. Lecturer. Physiology and Hygiene 1876-80 
 
 McKay. Robert. B. A. (I. W. U.). M. A.. Principal of 
 
 Preparatory Department 1883-86 
 
158 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 Merriman. C. P.. Instructor in French 1871-73 
 
 Miller. Mrs. Alice S.. Assistant in Preparatory School 1893-94 
 
 Morrisey. John J.. LL. B.. Professor of Law 1880- 
 
 V Moss. Charles M., B. A. (Syracuse.. M. A.. Ph. D.. Profes- 
 
 sor of Greek 1 878-9 1 
 
 Dean of Non-resident Department 1882-91 
 
 Munsell. Edward B.. B. A. ( Asbury ), M. A.. Professor of Greek- . 1857-60 
 Munseli. Oliver S.. B. A. (Asbury). M. A., D. D., President. 
 
 and Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy 1857-73 
 
 V Myers. Colistin D.. LL. B.. Professor of Law 1880-84 
 
 1886- 
 Nast. Albert J.. B. A.. M. A.. Professor of Latin and German. . 1879-83 
 
 New. Ella. B. S. ( 1. W. U. i. Instructor in English 1886-87 
 
 Pancake. Joseph M.. B. S. ( I. W. U. i. Instructor 1865-67 
 
 Pierce. W. O.. B. A. '0. W. U.). M.A.. Professor of Greek- . 1876-78 
 
 Pope. Willian. S.. Instructor 1 852-53 
 
 Porter, Lyde R., Instructor in Preparatory School 1891- 
 
 Potter, Bradford S.. B. A. ( Syracuse ). M. A., Ph. D., Profes- 
 sor of Natural Science 1 868-75 
 
 Professor of Mathematics 1 884-92 
 
 "^ Powell. John Wesley, Ph. B. ( I. W. U. ,, M. A.. Ph. D., 
 
 Professor of Natural Science 1 865-68 
 
 Prince. Ezra M.. M. A.. Professor of Law 1878-91 
 
 Reed, Elizabeth J.. B. S. ( Hedding;, M- A., Ph- D.. Instruc- 
 tor in English 1890-93 
 
 Reeves. Owen T-. B- A. ( O. W. U. i, M. A-, LL. D-. 
 
 Professor of Law 1873- 
 
 Dean of Law School 1 89 1 - 
 
 V 
 
 { 
 
 Reymond, Gustave, Instructor in French 1 879-80 
 
 Russell. Rolland A.. B. A. ( 1. W. U- ), M. A.. LL. B., Pro- 
 fessor of Law 1 893- 
 
 Schneider. 0.. Instructor 1 863-64 
 
 Scott, John M.. LL. D.. Lecturer, Law School 1889- 
 
 Scrimger. George E., B. A. ( 1. W. U. ), M. A., B. D., D. D., 
 
 Instructor in Mathematics 1 873-74 
 
 Sears. Clinton W.. B. A. (0. W. U.). M. A.. Professor of 
 
 Latin and Greek 1 852-56 
 
 President 1 854-56 
 
 Sherfey. J. W.. M, A.. Instructor in Preparatory School 1852-54 
 
 Snow, Benjamin F., M. A., Professor of Latin 1858-62 
 
 Snyder. Clarence E.. B. A. ( 1. W. U. ). Instructor in German 
 
 and French 1893- 
 
 Steele. Robert B.. B. A. (Wisconsin U.i. M. A., Ph. D. 
 
 (J. H. U. ). Professor of Latin 1891- 
 
 Strickland, Charles 0., B. S. ( 1. W. U. ), M. D., instructor 
 
 in the Preparatory School 1 884-86 
 
 Taylor. James B.. B. A. (1. W. U.). M. A., M. D., Professor 
 
 of Natural Science 1 876-79 
 
 Professor of Physiology and Hygiene 1 883-9 1 
 
 Taylor. T. R.. M. A.. Professor of Greek 1861-63 
 
 Thoburn, Wilbur W., B. A. (Allegheny), M. A.. Professor of 
 
 Natural Science 1884-88 
 
 Tom'.in, J. T., M. A., Professor of Natural Science i857-59 
 
 Underwood, Lucien M.. B. A.. M. A.. Ph. D.. Professor of 
 
 Natural Science 1 879-84 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 159 
 
 Van Pelt, John R., B. A. (I. W. U.). M. A.. Ph. D., Instruc- 
 tor in Preparatory School 1 883-84 
 
 Van Pelt, Samuel, B. A. ( I. W. U. ), M. A., D. D., instruc- 
 tor in Elocution 1 877-80 
 
 /^Wait. William H.. B. A. (Northwestern), M. A., Ph. D., 
 
 Professor of Latin 1883-90 
 
 Vice-president 1887-90 
 
 Acting President 1887-88 
 
 Walkeley, Albert, B. A. (1. W. U.). Instructor in History ....1873-74 
 
 Weldon, Lawrence, LL. D., Professor of Law 1876-83 
 
 Lecturer on Law 1 883- 
 
 V/ilder. William H.. B. A. (I. W. U.), M. A., D. D.. Presi- 
 dent and Professor of Ethics and Metaphysics 1 888- 
 
 Williams, Robert E., Lecturer on Law 1 87 1 -73 
 
 Professor of Law 1873-76 
 
 Wilkins, Daniel, M. A., Professor of Natural Science 1860-65 
 
 Willing, Mrs. Jennie P., M, A., Professor of English 1874-76 
 
 Wilson, James Oliver, B, A. (I. W. U. ). M. A.. D. D., In- 
 structor in Elocution 1 873- 77 
 
 BOARD OF INSTF?UCTION. 1895-6. 
 William H. Wilder. B. A., M. A., D, D,, (I. W. U.), 1303 North Park St. 
 
 President and Professor of Ethics and Metaphysics. 
 
 Robert O. Graham, B. A., M. A. (Amherst), Ph. D. (J. H. U.), 1 108 
 North East St. 
 
 Isaac Funk Professor of Chemistry and Geology. 
 Dean o' Non-resident Department. 
 
 Robert B. Steele. B. A.. M. A. (Wis. U.), Ph. D. U. H. U.;. 1 108 
 
 North McLean St. 
 
 Professor of Latin. 
 
 /^Morton J. Elrod. B. A.. M. A. (Simpson). 513 East Chestnut St. 
 
 Professor of Biology and Physics. Curator of Museum. 
 
 Wilbert Ferguson. B. A.. M. A. (O. W. U.). 1305 Nort East St. 
 
 Professor of Greelc. 
 Secretary of the Faculty. 
 
 Melvin P. .Lackland, B. A., M. A., (I. W. U.i, B. D. (Garrett ). 9 12 
 North Madison St. 
 
 Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. 
 
 M. Luella Denman, A. B. (Mich. U.), 408 East Walnut St. 
 
 Charles Cramp Professor of Belles Lettres. 
 
 Clarence E. Snyder, B. A. (I. W. U.), 1508 Franklin Ave. 
 
 Instructor in French and German. 
 
 Delmar D. Darrah, M. S. (I. W. U.). 602 East Front St. 
 
 Professor of Elocution. 
 Director of Physical Culture. 
 
 Calvin W. Green, B. A., M. A. (O. W. U.), 1212 North East St. 
 
 Principal of Preparatory School. 
 
 Lyde R. Porter, 407 East Front St. 
 
 Assistant in Preparatory School. 
 
 Martha Matheny, B. S. (I. W. U.), Normal. 
 
 Assistant in Preparatory School. 
 
 Charles Adams. B. S. (I. W. U.), 808 East Empire St. 
 
 Assistant in Biology. 
 
 *Sain Wehy.B. A.,M. A.,(I. W.U.;.LL. B. (Yale). 612 East Grove St. 
 
 Political Science. 
 
 *W. A. Heidel, B. A. (Cen. Mo.), M. A., Ph. D. (Chicago U.). Chi- 
 cago, 111. 
 
 Pedagogics. 
 
 *Additional Examiners in the Non-resident Department. 
 
160 
 
 hlSTOR.CA^ SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 152 Bloor St. West. 
 12 College Road. 
 
 •Rev. T. M. Macintyre. M. A.. Ph. D.. 
 
 Toron'.o. Canada. 
 
 *Rev. Jos. Finnemore. M. A.. Ph. D.. 
 
 Brighton. England. 
 
 Owen T. Reeves. B. A.. M. A. (O. W. U.). LL. D. (1. W. U.), 
 
 306 West Chestnut St. 
 
 Dean of College of Law. Equity Jurisprudence. Evidence. Torts. 
 and Constitutional L^w. 
 
 Reuben M. Benjamin. B. A.. M. A. (Amherst), LL. D. (I. W. U.). 
 
 510 East Grove St. 
 
 Elementary Law. Real Property, and Criminal Law. 
 
 John J. Morrissey. LL. B. (L W. U.), 909 North West St 
 
 Common Law and Equity Pleading. 
 
 Jacob P. Lindiey. B. S. (Ind. S. U.i. LL. B. (L W. U.). 
 
 510 East Locust St. 
 
 Contracts. 
 
 Judge Colostin D. Myers. LL. B. (Mich. U.), 213 East Grove St., 
 
 Practice. 
 
 Roliand A. Russell. B. A., M. A.. LL. B. (I. W. U.;, 
 
 509 East Mulberry St. 
 
 Elementary Law. 
 LECTURERS COLLEGE OF LAW. 
 
 Hon. John M. Scott. LL. D. (I. W. U.). 
 
 Late Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Illinois. 
 
 Hon. Lawrence Weldon. LL. D. (I. W. U.), 
 
 Judge of the United States Couii of CLims. 
 
 419 North Main St. 
 427 North Main St. 
 
 Oliver R. Skinner. 
 Mrs. John R. Gray, 
 
 Joint Directors of the College of Music. 
 
 Piano, Theory. Harmony, Counterpoint, Canon and Fugue, Composition, 
 
 Analysis, History of Music, and Pipe Organ. 
 
 ASSISTANTS. 
 
 Miss Katharine Young. 427 North Main St. 
 
 Piano, Harmony and Reed Organ. 
 
 Miss Kate Sherwood. 427 North Main St. 
 
 Piano, Haimony, Counterpoint. 
 
 Miss Julia Tool, 427 North Main St. 
 
 Piano, Harmony, Counterpoint. 
 
 Miss May Skinner, 419 North Main St. 
 
 Piano. 
 
 Miss Farie D. Stevick, 419 North Main St. 
 
 Principal of Vocal Department. 
 
 Lynn E. Hersey, 419 North Main St. 
 
 Violin. 
 
 Oscar L. Wilson, Ph. C, Ph. B., 
 
 Dean of the College of Arts. 
 
 516 North Main St. 
 
 'Additional Examiners in Non-resident Department. 
 
The Alum/ni Association. 
 
 Upon its alumni any university must finally largely depend for its 
 support and development. Without their influence no college can 
 justify its right to live and enforce its claims for the benefactions of the 
 philanthropic. The first efforts toward the organization of the alumni of 
 
 the university were made in 
 
 1863, and HarveyC. DeMotte. 
 of the class of 1861, and pro- 
 fessor of mathematics, was the 
 prime mover. In the first issue 
 of the Alumni Journal, the of- 
 ficial organ of the association, 
 established and edited for 
 seven years by Dr. DeMotte 
 and Dr. Potter, we get a 
 glimpse of the beginning: 
 
 " During the spring of 1863, 
 after some formal deliberation 
 in the faculty of the univer- 
 sity, it was determined to hold 
 a meeting of all regular and 
 honorary alumni during com- 
 mencement week, for the pur- 
 pose of organizing an alumni 
 association. Accordingly, 
 Rev. W. F. Short, the oldest 
 living graduate, was requested 
 to deliver an address to the proposed meeting 
 
 WILLIAM B. MERRILL. 
 
 "The address was delivered in the M. E. church (the present 
 Leader building), Tuesday evening, July 1, after which the few alumni 
 present held a short conference, which resulted in the organization of 
 the Alumni Society of the Illinois Wesleyan University. P. Warner 
 was chosen president; H. C. DeMotte, secretary; Dr. E. R. Roe. D. 
 Wilkins, and Dr. 0. S. Munsell, executive committee; H. C. DeMotte. 
 P. Warner, and D. Wilkins were appointed a committee on constitu- 
 tion." 
 
 '• At the annual meeting held 
 June 19, 1867. a new and very 
 pleasing addition was made to the 
 usual program. After the address 
 by W. D. H. Young, and the 
 reading of the memoirs of two 
 departed members, supper was 
 announced, whereupon all who 
 were fortunate enough to possess 
 the necessary ticket of admission, 
 assembled at the Ashley House. 
 Here the hospitable host, General 
 G. A. Smith, under the direction 
 of the committee, had made ar- 
 rangement for their friends. 'All 
 went merry as a marriage bell.' 
 and at a late hour friends parted 
 with higher hopes and stronger 
 determination for another year of earnest toil and successful labor." 
 
 RALPH F. POTTER. 
 
162 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 The annual meeting of the association has become ons of the 
 chief interests of the visiting as well as resident graduates, and in these 
 meetings the banquet is increasingly prominent. Of the resident mem- 
 bers Doctors DeMotte and Taylor, Harry G. Reeves, Lecnidas H. 
 Kerrick. George L. Hutchin and Sain Welty have been especially active 
 and efficient. The officers for the current year will be no less able to 
 direct the affairs of the association. They are : 
 
 George L. Hutchin. President. 
 
 Grace Loudon. Vice-President. 
 
 Henry 0. Stone, Secretary and Treasurer. 
 
 Henry Stone, Henry Kerrick, William B. Merrill, George L. 
 Hutchin and Ralph F. Potter constitute the executive committee. 
 
 That the Association may be most highly efficient, frequent com- 
 munications from the graduates are solicited relating to changes and 
 successes in profession, occupation and residence; also information that 
 will enable the university to correct any errors which occur in this pub- 
 lication as to name, address, occupation or profession and titles. Such 
 communications should be addressed to the Alumni Association in the 
 care of the university. 
 
Alumni Record. 
 
 Class of 1853. 
 
 1. James H. Barger. B. A. 
 
 Clergyman: Illinois Annual Conference. Died October 31 , 1861. 
 
 Class of 1854. 
 
 2. William Fletcher Short. B. A. Jacksonville. Illinois. 
 
 M. A. (McKendree College). 1879; S. T. D. (Ohio Wesleyan 
 University); clergyman; Illinois Conference; served one term as 
 Presiding Elder of the Jacksonville District; member of the 
 General Conference in 1880; president and manager of the 
 Illinois Female College, 1875 to 1893, when he was appointed 
 by Governor Altgeld superintendent of the Asylum for the Blind 
 at Jacksonville, Illinois. See page 111. 
 
 Class of 1861. 
 
 3. Harvey Clelland DeMotte. B. S.. M. A.. Ph. D. (Syracuse). 1883. 
 
 Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 1862. First Lieutenant Company G, 68th Illinois Volunteers; 
 1862-1884, Professor of Mathematics Illinois Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity; 1884-1887, President Chaddock College, Quincy, Illinois; 
 1887-1894, superintendent Soldiers" Orphans' Home, Normal. 
 Illinois; 1895, Secretary of the Central Union Building and Loan 
 Association, Bloomiington, Illinois. Married Sara I. Kern in 
 1864. One child, Clara, now a junior in the University. See 
 page 85. 
 
 Class of 1861. 
 
 4. Peter Warner. B. S. La Fayette, Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman; Central Illinois Conference, supernumerary. 
 
 Class of 1862. 
 
 5. William C. Adams. B. S. 
 
 Teacher; deceased. 
 
 6. Henry W. Boyd. B. S., M. A. 
 
 M. D. (Rush Medical College) ; Professor Rush Medical Col- 
 lege; died February 15, 1893. 
 
 7. H. N. Howell. B. S. 
 
 Clergyman; died January 25. 1871. 
 
 Class of 1863. 
 
 8. Hiram N. Ayers, B. S. 
 
 Clergyman; died August 4. 1870. 
 
 9. John V. Baumann. B. S. 
 
 Clergyman; Illinois Conference; died July 17. 1867. See 
 page 1 14. 
 
 10. William T. Collins, B. S. 167 Dearborn St.. Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer; Secretary of the Electric Light Company. 
 
164 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 Class of 1863. 
 
 11. James S. Millikin. B. A.. M. A. Phillipstown. Illinois. 
 Clergyman; Southern Illinois Conference. 
 
 Class of 1864. 
 
 12. George W. Barton. B. S.. M. S. Saybrook. Illinois. 
 
 M. D. (Chicago Medical College); practicing physician: 
 deceased. 
 
 13. James T. Hoblit. B. S. Lincoln. Illinois. 
 
 LL. B. < University. Albany. New York); City Attorney. Lincoln. 
 Illinois. 1867-1869; County Clerk Logan County. 1859; States 
 Attorney 1876; County Judge 1886: President of the First Na- 
 tional Bank. Lincoln. Illinois: member of the law firm of James 
 T. and F. M. Hoblit. 
 
 14. Martin Akers Lapham. B. S., B. A. Danville. Illinois. 
 
 1864-1866. tutor in Illinois Wesleyan University; merchant. 
 
 15. Joseph F. Pancake. B. S.. M. S. Scott City, Kansas. 
 
 Lawyer; 1863-1891. Bloomington. Illinois; now a member of 
 the bar in Scott City. Kansas; member of the Legislature of 
 Kansas. 
 
 16. James W. Warfield. B. S.. M. S. University Place. Nebraska. 
 
 Clergyman; 1864 74. Illinois Conference: Nebraska Confer- 
 ence. 
 
 Class of 1865. 
 
 17. Joseph A. Glenn. B. S. Present address unknown. 
 
 18. John S. Holbert, B. S. Ottawa. Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 19. Joseph L. Kitchen. B. S. Wyanet, Illinois. 
 
 M. D. ( Rush Medical College): physician. 
 
 20. William D. H. Young, B. A., M. A. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 B. D. (Garrett Biblical Institute): Clergyman, Central Illinois 
 Conference: Vice-President Quincy College, Quincy, Illinois; 
 President Bloomington College, Bloomington, Tennessee. 
 
 Class of 1866. 
 
 21. John W. Boggess, B. S., Collison, Illinois. 
 
 M. D. (Chicago Medical College); County Physician, Vermilion 
 County, Illinois. 
 
 22. Leonidas H. Kerrick, B. S., M. S. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer. See page 111. 
 Martin Akers Lapham. B. A. See No. 14. 
 Clergyman ; deceased. 
 
 23. J. H. Martin, B. A. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 24. Harry Gray Reeves, B. S., Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer: Secretary Board of Trustees of the Illinois Wesleyan 
 University. Seepage 119. 
 
 25. William Newton Rutledge. B. A., M. A.. Barry, Illinois. 
 
 B. D. (Garrett Biblical Institute); Clergyman Illinois Conference 
 
 26. Edwin Wyatt Hamilton, B. S., Fort Scott, Kansas. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
ILLINOIS WBSLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 IC5 
 
 Class of 1867. 
 
 27. Andrew Jackson Banta. B. S.. Washington County, Kansas. 
 
 Lawyer; County Judge: deceased. 
 
 28 Abram Epler Beggs, B. S. 922 Cherry St.. Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 Sole manager of the purchasing department of Armour & Co. at 
 Kansas City. 
 
 29. David Madison Harris. B. A., M. A. 1414 Lucas Place. St. 
 
 Louis. Missouri. 
 
 Ph. D. 1878; D. D. (Cumberland University) 1882; Professor 
 of Natural Science. Lincoln University, from 1868 to 1870; 
 Professor of Greek and Latin in same institution from 1871 to 
 1883; Editor-in-Chief of the Cumberland Presbyterian, pub- 
 lished in Nashville, Tennessee, 1883-1891 ; editor and proprietor 
 of the St. Louis Observer. See page 1 17. 
 
 30. Edwin Morris Johnson, B. S. Pontiac. Illinois. 
 
 Laywer, journalist and editor. 
 
 31. William M. Sedore. B. S. Plainsville, Kansas. 
 
 Clergyman, Kansas Conference. 
 
 32. Carey S. Temple, B. S. Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 Commission merchant. 
 
 33. John F. Winter, B. A., M. A. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer; member of the Illinois Legislature; Counsel at Rotter- 
 dam during administration of President Harrison. 
 
 Class of 1868. 
 
 34 Stamper Q. Davidson. B. S., B. A. 
 Teacher: deceased. 
 
 35. William James Dyckes, B. S, Lewistown, Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 36. B. Valentine Denning, B. S. Normal, Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman. Central Illinois Conference. 
 
 37. Joseph Wilson Fifer. B. S., LL, D. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer; 1871, elected corporate counsel, city of Bloomington; 
 1872, elected State's Attorney, McLean County: 1880-1884. 
 State Senator; 1883-1892, Governor of the State of Illinois; in 
 1892 received the degree of LL. D. (Illinois Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity). See page 1 13. 
 
 Class of 1868. 
 
 38 Joseph Crane Hartzell, B. A. 
 
 M A.. D. D. (Allegheny College): clergyman. See page 117. 
 
 39. Louis Walter Keplinger, B. S. Kansas City. Kansas, 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 40. Andrew Stickle Wilson. B, S. Sioux City. Iowa. 
 
 Lawyer; Judge District Court. See page 1 14. 
 Class of 1869. 
 
 41. Orlando W. Aldrich. B. A., M. A. Columbus. Ohio. 
 
 Ph. D., D. C. L.. 1881, LL. D. -Albert University i ; Professor 
 Law School. Ohio State University. See page 122. 
 
 42. Charles Atherton. B. A., M, A. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 43. Rhynaldo J. Brooks. Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer and journalist: Chicago Evening Post. 
 
 44. William R. Blackwell. B. A.. M. A. Denver. Colorado. 
 
 Clergyman. Central Illinois Conference. 
 
166 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 Class of 1869. 
 
 45. Joseph R. Cole. B. S. Decatur St.. Brooklyn, New York. 
 
 Author and teacher. 
 
 46. David N. Caldwell. B. S. Wellington, Kansas. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 47. Martin L. Keplinger. B. S.. M. S. Carlinville, Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer: Public Administrator for Macoupin County, 1889-1893, 
 by appointment of Governor Fifer: in 1880 married Mollie E. 
 Ayers. of Danvers. 
 
 48. Robert E. Moore. B. A.. M. A. Lincoln, Nebraska. 
 
 Son of Rev. W. H. H. Moore, of the Illinois Conference; mem- 
 ber of the Nebraska State Legislature three separate terms; 
 Mayor of the city of Lincoln; now President of the Security In- 
 vestment Company. Seepage 115. 
 
 49. Adolphus G. Scott. B. S. 318 Sixty-third St.. Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer and loan broker. Lincoln, Nebraska; Supeiintendent 
 Public instruction one term; Judge Lancaster County, Kansas; 
 practicing law. 
 
 50. James B. Taylor, B. A., M. A. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 M. D. (College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York.); Professor 
 Natural Science. Illinois Wesleyan University; studied in the 
 University. Leipsic. Germany. 1877-1878; practicing physician. 
 See page 79. 
 
 51. Micajah Van Winkle. B. S. Waverly. Illinois. 
 
 Farmer. 
 
 52. Louis C. Wagner. B. S.. M. S. Nicholasville. Kentucky. 
 
 M. D. CBell Hospital Medical College. New York i ; physician. 
 
 Class of 1870. 
 
 53. Melchoir Auer, B. A., M. A. Rossville, Illinois. 
 
 B. D. (Garrett Biblical Institute); clergyman, Illinois Conference. 
 
 54. Francis Marion Bishop. B. S., M. A. Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 
 Assayer and chemist; Professor in Deseret College. 
 
 55. Henry C. Birch, B. A., M. A, Millersburg, Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman, Central Illinois Conference. 
 
 56. George H. McCracken, B. A. San Jose, California. 
 
 B. D. ( Drew Theological Seminary) 1878; clergymen. Califor- 
 nia Conference. 
 
 57. Parmenis Smith. B. S. Denver, Colorado. 
 
 Clergyman. Central Illinois Conference; real estate dealer. 
 Class of 1871. 
 
 58. Richard W. Barger, B. A.. M. A. Des Moines, Iowa. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 59. Alexander C. Byerly, B. A., M. A. 
 
 D. D. 1894; clergyman, Illinois Conference; has filled pulpits in 
 Urbana, Quincy and Springfield; Presiding Elder of the Cham- 
 paign District. Seepage 115. 
 
 60. John W. Denning, B. A., M. A. Mazon, Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman, Central Illinois Conference. 
 
 61. Marcus L. Fullinwider. B. A.. M. A. Eldorado, Kansas. 
 
 Physician. See page 1 18. 
 
 62. William F. Graves, B. A., M. A. 
 
 Lawyer and loan broker. St. Paul, Minnesota; professor in the 
 
ILLINOIS WESLBYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 167 
 
 Illinois Wesleyan University; professor of Latin in Iowa Uni- 
 versity. 
 
 63. James A. Kelley, B. S. California. 
 
 Broker. 
 
 64. Robert E. McClelland. B. S. Williamsville, Illinois. 
 
 M. D. ( Rush Medical College); physician. 
 
 65. James A. Northrup. B. A., M. A. Watseka, Illinois. 
 
 B. D. (Garrett Biblical Institute); clergyman, Central Illinois 
 Conference; seven years as a missionary in India. 
 
 66. Robert B. Porter. B. A.. M. A. 
 
 Lawyer; deceased. 
 
 67. Lucius A. Vasey, B. A., M. A. LeRoy, Illinois. 
 
 Farmer; candidate for the Legislature on the Prohibition ticket 
 in 1892. 
 
 68. J. Vincent Willis. B. A.. M. A. 
 
 Clergyman and journalist. 
 
 69. Thomas R. Wiley. B. S. Gibson City. Illinois. 
 
 M. D. ( Rush Medical College ) ; president National Building 
 and Loan Association ; president Gibson Ironworks; president 
 Gibson Land Company; local surgeon Illinois Central Railway 
 Company; medical examiner for several life insurance com- 
 panies. 
 
 Class of 1872. 
 
 70. William Eddy Barnes, B. S. St. Louis, Missouri. 
 
 Manager and editor Age of Steel. See page 128. 
 
 71. James Albert Johnson, B. A.. M. A. Oakland. California. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 72. George Abram Martin, B. S. 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 73. Francis Edwin Munsell, B. S. Council Grove, Kansas. 
 
 Son of President 0. S. Munsell; farmer. 
 
 74. Hannah 1. Shur, B. S., M. S. El Paso. Illinois. 
 
 First woman graduate of the Illinois Wesleyan University; first 
 President W. C. T. U. of the Ninth Illinois District; an active 
 worker in the church. 
 
 75. William Shamburg Wilson, B. A. Present address unknown. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 Class of 1873. 
 
 76. William H. Booth. B. S. Clinton. Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer; for twelve years State's Attorney, De Witt County. 
 
 77. Charles A. Hazenwinkle. B. A.. M. A. Hall Beach. Cape May, 
 
 New Jersey. 
 
 Actor. 
 
 78. James W, Holder, B. S. Chenoa, Illinois. 
 
 Banker and stock dealer, 
 
 79. Alexander H. Davies, B. A. 
 
 Son of Richard N. Davies, of the Illinois Conference; lawyer; 
 died at Bakersville. California. May 24. 1875. 
 
 80. George W. Crum, B. A., M. A. Arenzville, Illinois. ' 
 
 B. S. (Adrian College); physician. 
 
168 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 81. Charles H. Long, B. S.. M. S. Pontiac. Illinois. 
 
 Chicago M. D. (Homeopathic College); three terms Coroner 
 Livingston County. Illinois: United States Pension Examiner 
 1879-1886: superintendent M. E. Sunday School fifteen years: 
 practicing physician. Seepage 120. 
 
 82. John E. Scott, B. S. Indianapolis. Indiana. 
 
 Lawyer. Seepage 121. 
 
 83. Llewellyn David Seward. B. S. St. Louis, Missouri. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 84. William H. Wilder, B. A., M. A. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman. Illinois Conference; Presiding Elder 1884-1888; 
 1883. delegate to General Conference; 1888, President Illinois 
 Wesleyan University; d=,legate Ganaral Confernce. 1896. 
 
 Class of 1874. 
 
 85. John T. Ayers, B. S., M. S. Danvers, Illinois. 
 
 Farmer; married Hattie Estes in 1875. 
 85. Martha Benjamin, B. S., M. S. Hudson, IlliriDis. 
 Died March 1, 1885. 
 
 87. DeWitt C. Benjamin, B. A. Hudson, Illinois. 
 
 Died February 7. 1875. 
 
 88. James M. Blazer, B. S. Macomb, IlPnois. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 89. Benjamin Webb Baker, Ph. B., M. A., Ph. D. 
 
 Principal of the Grammar School of the Illinois State Normal 
 in 1876; member of the Central Illinois Conference; served four 
 years as Presiding Elder of Streator District; from 1890 to 1893; 
 
 Financial Agent of the Illinois Wesleyan University; 1893, 
 President Chaddock College, Quincy, Illinois. See page 1 16. 
 
 90. Marion Victor Crumbaker, B. A., M, A. Rock Island, Illinois. 
 
 1895, D D. (Chaddock College); clergyman. Central Illinois 
 Conference. Presiding Elder of the Rock Island District. See 
 page 122. 
 
 91. Marquis L. Grum, B. S., M. S. Virginia, Illinois. 
 
 Farmer. 
 
 92. Samuel T. Fullinwider, B. S. Mechanicsburg, Illinois, 
 
 Farmer. 
 
 93. William C. Gilbreath, B. S. Williamsville, Illinois. 
 
 Clerk of Iowa State Penitentiary. 
 
 94. Walter H. Graves, B. A., M. A. 
 
 Civil engineer ; 1874- 1880 with the Powell Exploration Survey; 
 1880-1889, in the employ of the Illinois Central, Wisconsin Cen- 
 tral, Chicago &. Northwestern and Denver & Rio Grande Rail- 
 way Companies; did extensive work in building irrigation canals, 
 Colorado; 1889-1891, engaged in mining surveys in Colorado, 
 since which time employed as superintendent of irrigation by the 
 United States Indian Bureau. 
 
 95. John Moore, B. S., LL. B. 
 Lawyer and loan broker. 
 
 Lincoln, Nebraska. 
 
 96. Kate B. Ross, B S. Quincy, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher; Professor of Elocution, Hedding College. 
 
 97. George E. Scrimger, B. A., M. A. Danville, Illinois. 
 
 B. D. (Drew Theological Seminary) ; D. D. (Illinois Wesleyan 
 University, 1894,) clergyman, Illinois Conference, See page 120. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 IG9 
 
 98. J. 0. Shelland, Ph. B. Address unknown. 
 
 Minister. 
 
 99. Albert Walkley, B. A. iVlanistee, Micliigan. 
 
 Clergyman, Reformed Protestant Episcopal Church: lawyer. 
 
 Class of 1875. 
 
 100. James 0. Applebee, B. A., M. A. Cuba, Illinois 
 
 Graduated from National School of Oratory. Philadelphia, 1878; 
 D. D, S., dental departmant of the Iowa State University; dentist; 
 married Miss Ella Bowers, 1882. 
 
 101. Eli P. Adams. B. S. Little Falls. P/innesota. 
 
 Lawyer; married Miss Emma A. Ross. 
 
 102. Richard H. Bosworth, B. A., M. A. 
 
 Clergyman. See page 1 18. 
 
 103. Thomas 1. Coultas, B. A., M. A. Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 Married Miss Angle Morrison, Bloomington, Illinois, in 1875; 
 Pastor of Roberts Park Methodist Episcopal Church. See 
 page 124. 
 
 104. James W. Coultas. B. A.. M. A. Streator, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher, 1884-92, Clinton; 1892-93, Havana; 1894, Streator, 
 Illinois. 
 
 105. Franc H. Cumming, B. A.. M, A. Streator, Illinois. 
 
 Ph. D., 1884; clergyman. Central Illinois Conference. See 
 page 124. 
 
 106. James M. Grant. E. A.. M. A. Labette. Kansas. 
 
 Tile manufacturer. 
 
 107. Delia Henry, E. S.. M. S. 
 
 Teacher; has taught the Grant School, west of Bloomington, 
 since 1883. 
 
 108. Charles S. Ludlam. B. A., M. A. 
 
 Teacher. Cape May. New Jersey; died June. 1882. 
 
 109. George P. Meixell, B. A.. M. A. Pekin. Illinois. 
 
 LL. B.; practicing law. 
 1 10. Allen C. Mason, B. S. Tacoma. Washington. 
 
 Lawyer; president Mason, Morgan Loan Co.; in 1878 he mar- 
 ried Miss Libbie Lawrence, Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 111. Augustine Y. Morris. Ph. B. Troy. Illinois. 
 
 1 12. May Round, B. S. Mansfield. Illinois. 
 
 Married A. T. Abbott. 
 
 113. Joseph A. Smith. B. A.. M. A. Bryant, Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman, Illinois Conference, 1875-76 ; Colorado Conference. 
 
 114. William A. Smith, B. A.. M. A. Jacksonville, Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman, Illinois Conference ; delegate to the General Confer- 
 ence, 1892; married Miss Julia Milrtiine. 1877. Seepage 123. 
 
 1 15. Thomas A. Sterling. B. A.. M. A. Huron, South Dakota. 
 
 Lawyer; member State Constitutional Convention and Senator. 
 See page 125. 
 
 1 16. Samuel Van Pelt. B. A., M. A. Onarga. Illinois. 
 
 D. D., 1891 ; Professor Elocution, Illinois Wesleyan University: 
 studied in the School of Theology, Boston, Massachusetts: 
 member of the Central Illinois Conf'^rence: 1890. President 
 of Grand Prairie Seminary: married Miss Alice B. Ford. 1876. 
 See page 125. 
 
170 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 Class of 1876. 
 
 1 17. John H. Bennett. B. A. 
 
 B. D. (Drew Theological Seminary); clergyman: died in 1877, 
 
 lie. John A. Brooks. B. A.. M. A. 24 Hull St., Montgomery, Ala- 
 bama. 
 
 1880-1883. with N. C. & St. L. Ry., Nashville. Tennessee: 
 1883-1886. Chief Clerk General Passenger and Ticket Depart- 
 ment. F. R. & S. Ry., Jacksonville, Florida; 1886 1896, As- 
 sistant General Freight Agent. L. & N. Ry. 
 
 I 19. Winslow Evans. Ph. B.. M. A. Peoria, Illinois. 
 
 Ph. D. ( 1880): lawyer: Judge of Peoria County, 1886-1890, 
 
 120. Jacob Wellington Frizzelle, B. A, Monmouth, Illinois, 
 
 M. A., 1879. also M. A. from the Northwestern University; 
 B. D. (Drew Theological Seminary): clergyman: Central Illinois 
 Conference. See page 152. 
 
 121. Josephine Hall. B. S. Placquemine, Louisiana, 
 
 Teacher; 1876-1879. public schools, Gibson, fllinois; 1879, 
 married James McClure. 
 
 122 George L. Hutchin, B. S. Bloomingtcn, Illinois, 
 
 Journalist: proprietor and publisher of the Sunday Eye, See 
 page 130. 
 
 123. Joseph H. Ketron, B. A.. M. A, Bloomingfon, Tennessee, 
 
 Teacher; 1876-1877, Professor of Mathematics in Holsfori 
 Seminary. New Market, Tenn.;the first and only President at 
 Kingsley Seminary. Bloomington, Tennessee, elected in 1877; 
 delegate to the General Conference, Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, in 1884. See page 132. 
 
 124. Mary H. Kuhl, B. A.. M. A. Springfield. Illinois, 
 
 Teacher of German in High School, Bloomington, Illinois; 
 studied one year in Germany; taught seven years in Springfield 
 High School; married Prof. William Helmle, superintendent 
 City schools, Springfield, Illinois, July, 1893, 
 
 125. William S. Marquis, B. A.. M. A. Rock Island, Illinois, 
 
 B. D. (Princeton); D. D, (^Knox); five years pastor of the 
 Presbyterian Church, Minonk, Illinois; now in the eleventh year 
 of his pastorate at Broadway Presbyterian church. Rock Island, 
 Illinois: chairman of Foreign Missions, Synod of Illinois. See 
 page 145. 
 
 126. Calvin Rayburn, B. S., M. S. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 LL. B.: Lawyer: 1876-77, principal of the High School, Shel- 
 byville. Illinois: 1878-79, superintendent of schools, Hillsboro, 
 Illinois; practicing law; secretary of the Board of Trustees of 
 the Illinois Wesleyan University. See page 130, 
 
 127. Mary B. Rogers, B. S. Peoria, Illinois, 
 
 1878, married Fred B. Tracy, 
 
 128. Byron F. Staymate. B. A., M. A. Clinton, Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer: traveled extensively in Mexico, 
 
 129. James Oliver Wilson, B. A., M. A. Brooklyn, New York. 
 
 B. D. (Drew Theological Seminary): D. D. (Illinois Wesleyan 
 University); clergyman : professor of Elocution, Illinois Wes- 
 leyan University: professor of Elocution. Drew Theological 
 Seminary; 1891, pastor Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 Brooklyn, New York; 1895. president of New York City 
 Methodist Preachers' meeting. See page 126. 
 
 130. Henry C. Whiting, M, A, Hackettstown, New Jersey. 
 
 Ph. D.; clergyman. 
 
ILLINOIS WBSLBYAN UNIVBRRITY. 
 
 171 
 
 Illinois. 
 A. Creston, Iowa. 
 
 Class of 1877. 
 
 131. D. M. Armstrong, B. S. 
 
 Teacher; superintendent of schools, Vermilion County. Illinois. 
 Deceased. 
 
 132. DeWitt C. Corley, B. S. Decatur, Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer; married Laura Fulton, 1882. 
 
 133. Gilmore Cunningham. B. S.. M. S. Indianola, Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman Illinois Conference. 
 
 134. Mary F. Etter, B. A.. M. A. 
 
 M. D., 1880; died at Springfield, 
 
 135. Homer Britten Holcomb, B. A.. M. 
 
 Merchant; five years principal of the High School, Wyanet. 
 Illinois. 
 
 136 Marquis D. Hornbeck, B. A.. M. A. Quincy, Illinois. 
 
 S. T. B. (School of Theology), Ph. D. (Denver University); 
 clergyman. Colorado Conference ; 1 887-90. president Chaddock 
 College; married Lydia Kuhl in 1879. See page 133. 
 
 137. Mary F. Kanaga, B. A.. M. A. Hutchinson. Kansas. 
 
 138. Richard W. Kennedy, B. S. Hull, Illinois. 
 
 Merchant; principal Plainsville (Illinois) school; dealer in 
 farming implements. 
 
 139. J. H. Logie, B. A., M. A. 
 
 B. D. (Drew Theological Seminary); clergyman. 
 
 140. Robert McKay, B. A., M. A. 6518 Ellis Ave.. Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher; superintendent schools, Washington ; Fairbury; prin- 
 cipal of Preparatory Department and Professor of Elocution, 
 Illinois Wesleyan University; Elgin High School ; superintendent 
 
 city schools, Burlington, Iowa; Blue Island, Illinois; editor of 
 the Interstate School Review. See page 128. 
 
 141. Joseph F. McNaught, B. S.. M. S. Seattle, Washington. 
 
 Lawyer. Seepage 134. 
 
 142. John H. Merritt, B. S. 
 
 Died, 1879. 
 
 143. James M. Miller. B A.. M. A Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Druggist. 
 
 144. Belle Sterling, B. S.. M. S. Toulon. Illinois. 
 
 Teacher; 1880, married John H. Scott, of class of 1880. 
 
 145. R. B. Welch, B. S., Topeka. Kansas. 
 
 M. A. (pro merito). 1880; lawyer; married Maggie Hammond. 
 1870. See page 131. 
 
 146. William H. Cline. Ph. B. Bismarck. Dakota. 
 
 Clergymian. See page 152. 
 
 147. Abner Gregory, Ph. B. 39 Salem Road. Brighton, S. W., Lon- 
 
 don, England. 
 
 Clergyman, 
 
 148. J. H. Robinson. Ph. B. Cherry Point, Illinois. 
 
 Class of 1878. 
 
 149. Arthur Johnson Beavis. B. S., M. S. 1333 Court Place. Denver, 
 
 Colorado. 
 
 Married Miss Carrie Smith, Peoria; physician. 
 
 150. Joseph Webster Cornish, B, A. 
 
 Clergym.an, Minnesota Conference; married Edna Morrison, of 
 Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
172 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 151. Charles S. H. Dunn. B. A.. M. A. 
 
 B. D. (Drew Theological Seminary): Ph. D.. 1884: married 
 Belle Ryburn, 1878; died in London. England, 1894: buried 
 Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 162. S. C. Fultcn. 
 
 Minister: Financial Agent Syracuse University and Wyoming 
 Seminary. 
 
 153. 
 
 154. 
 
 155. 
 
 156. 
 
 157. 
 
 158. 
 
 Santa Barbara. California. 
 
 Richard O. Hickman. B. A.. M. A. 
 Teacher. 
 
 Benjamin F. Hyde, Ph. B. Englewood, Illinois, 
 Superannuated member Illinois Conference. 
 
 E. S. Janes. B. A. Marysville, Missouri, 
 Lawyer. See page 141. 
 
 Melvin Porter Lackland, B. A., M. A. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 B. D. (Garrett Biblical Institute) ; clergyman, Central Illinois 
 Conference; Professor of Mathematics, Illinois Wesleyan 
 University. See page 105 
 
 Libbie L. Lawrence, B. A. Tacoma, Washington, 
 Won prize essay; married Allen C. Mason, class of 1875. 
 
 William W. Lindsley, B. S , M. S. Havana, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher; 1879-1880, Professor Mathematics, Central Tennes- 
 see College, Nashville, Tennesse; 1883-1887, Professor Mathe- 
 matics, Adamsville Institute. 
 
 159. Sylvester Melvin, B. S., M. S. Greenfield, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher; farmer; Township Collector; married Ida L. Strick- 
 land. 
 
 160. John Asbury Motter. B. S.. M. S. Baldwin, Kansas. 
 
 Clergyman, Kansas Conference: married Anna E. Brown, of 
 Normal. See page 135. 
 
 161. Charles W. Parkinson, B A.. M, A. Vandalia, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher: principal of schools in Illinois and Colorado; superin- 
 tendent public schools, Vandalia, Illinois: married Miss Wegetta 
 Atkins at Carbondale. 
 
 162. William H. Pumphrey, B, A., M. A. Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 
 
 vania, 
 
 Ph. D. (Philosophy, Princeton.): clergyman, Presbyterian 
 church, 
 
 163. Edward William Paul, B, S,, M. S, Forest City. Illinois, 
 
 M. D.; physician. 
 
 164. Herbert Mitchel Rollins, B. S. 60 Bryant Ave., Chicago, 
 
 Board of Trade, 
 
 165. Belle Ryburn, B. S., M. S. Riverside, California, 
 
 Married Charles S. H. Dunn, class of 1878. 
 
 166. James Alexander Wakefield, B. S., M. S. Cedar Rapids, 
 
 Iowa. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 167. James Almeday Willis, B. S., M. S, 417 Locust St., Phila- 
 
 delphia, Pennsylvania, 
 
 Manufacturer; Heating and Ventilating Company, of Smead, 
 Wills & Co., Philadelphia and Pittsburg. 
 
 168. Same as number 154; repeated by mistake. 
 
IIUNOIS WBSLEYAN VNJVBRSITY. 
 
 173 
 
 Class Of 1879. 
 
 16^. Henry Moses Boyce, B. A. Broadalbin, New York> 
 Clergyman. Methodist Episcopal Church. 
 
 170. Mary E. Bradford. B. A.. M^ A. Tabriz, Persia. 
 
 M. D. (Women's Medical College, Chicago): one year in New 
 England Hospital for Women, Boston: now a medical mission- 
 ary, Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. See page 150, 
 
 171. Horatio Grimes Bent, B. S. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 LL. B.: 1884-91. professor in Law Department Illinois Wes- 
 leyan University: member of Board of Education: married Miss 
 Ada Crist. See page 143. 
 
 172. Richard Crews, B, A., M. A. Geneseo. Illinois, 
 
 Clergyman, Central Illinois Conference, Seepage 136. 
 
 173. George Millard Cummings. B. A, 
 
 Clergyman: died, 1882. San Antonio, Texas, 
 
 174. Newell D, Gilbert, B. A., M. A. Austin, Illinois, 
 
 Teacher: superintendent of schools: Clifton, Illinois, 1878-82; 
 Utica, 1882-84: Maywood, 1884-87: Austin, 1887-96. 
 
 175. Stephen Goldsmith, B. A., M. A. Odelle, Nebraska. 
 
 B. D. (Drew Theological Seminary): Clergyman, Illinois Con- 
 ference. 
 
 176. Josephine Giddings, B. A., M, A. Tiskilwa, Illinois. 
 
 Married Rev. J, F. James, Central Illinois Conference, 
 
 177. Lydia Melinda Kuhl, B. A., M. A. 
 
 Teacher: taught German and Latin in Danville Seminary, 
 1884-87: Professor of German and Latin, Chaddock College; 
 married Rev. Marquis D, Hornbeck, class of 1877. 
 
 178. Elizabeth M. Moore, B. S. Alhambra. Colorado. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 179. Francis Mueller, Jr., B. S. Spokane Falls. Washington. 
 
 Musician: dean of College of Music ( I, W. U. )\ Dean of Col- 
 lege of Music, Spokane Falls. 
 
 180. Martha Alice Munsell, B. S., M. S Mechanicsburg, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher: married W. S. Bullard. 
 
 181. Frank C. Read. B. A., M, A. 
 
 Journalist, 1882-1885: General Secretary Y. M. C. A.. Bloom' 
 ington, Illinois, 1885-1886: clergyman, Illinois Conference 
 since 1886, 
 
 182. Manford J. Ricks, B. S. Topeka, Kansas. 
 
 Journalist: died March, 1882. 
 
 183. Charles Orlando Strickland B. S.. M. S, Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 M. D.: taught two years in Preparatory Department of the 
 Illinois Wesleyan University: physician: died December. 1891. 
 
 184. Chelius Franklin Tobey, B, A, 
 
 Teacher: clergyman, Illinois Conference: student Garrett Bib- 
 lical Institute. 
 
 185. Samuel Miller Ware, B. A.. M. A. Omaha. Nebraska. 
 
 B D. (McCormick Theological Seminary): D. D., (University 
 of Omaha i : clergyman : pastor of Second Presbyterian church. 
 See page 133. 
 
 186. David Gay. Ph. B. Payson. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman. Illinois Conference: Presiding Elder, One term, 
 Mattoon District: delegate to General Conference. 1892. from 
 Austin. Texas. 
 
174 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 Class of 1880. 
 
 187. Fremont Charles Blandin. B. A., M. A. Streator. Illinois. 
 
 LL. B.: lawyer. 
 
 188. Charles Wesley Campbell, Ph. B. 
 
 189. Martin Luther Curl, Ph. B. 
 
 Clergyman Little Rock University: member of the General 
 Conference of 1894: Presiding Elder Little Rock District. 
 Arkansas. 
 
 190. John Alonzo Fisher. Ph. B.. M. A. Baltimore, Maryland. 
 
 Journalist: assistant editor of the Advance: deceased. 
 
 191. John Gallagher. Ph. B., M. A. Ph. D., 1889: clergyman, 
 
 Nebraska Conference : secretary of his conference: Presiding 
 Elder one term. See page 145. 
 
 192. George Dsrwin King. B. A,, M. A. Twin Bridges, Montana. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 193. Anza Letts Minear. B. S.. M. S. Topeka. Kansas. 
 
 Married George Music: died in Chicago, 1889. 
 
 194. Robert W. r'atterson. B. A.. M. A. La Junta. Colorado. 
 
 Farmer ;ind stock raiser: president of the First National 
 Bank. 
 
 195. Jennie May Ryburn, B. A. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 196. John Harcen Scott, B. A,, M. A. 
 
 B. D. (Drew Theological Seminary): clergyman, Central 
 Illinois Conference. 
 
 197. Joseph Smiley Sagaser. B. S., M. S. Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 M. D. (Jefferson Medical College. Philadelphia, j Professor 
 College of Physicians and Surgeons. 
 
 198. Margaret Annetta Sudduth, B. S., M. S. Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 Journalist: editor Union Signal. See page 138. 
 
 199. Mary Lenore Van Pelt, B. L. Ravenswood, Illinois. 
 
 Student of French. German and music, Boston University; 
 taught in Bloomington schools: married A. Dupuy. 
 
 Class of 1881. 
 
 200. Kate Conant Crego. B S. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 Teacher: married George House. 
 
 201. James Otis Denning, B. A. 
 
 Student in the Boston School of Theology: 1888-1896, a mis- 
 sionary of the M. E. church in Narsing Phur, Central Prov- 
 ince, India: married Miss M. W. Beahm. Fairfield, Illinois. 
 
 202. Clara May Funk, B. S., M. S. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Married F. D. Humphreys, wholesale merchant. 
 
 203. David H. Gillan, B. A., M. A. Fresno. California. 
 
 Clergyman: pastor of the M. E. church. 
 
 204. Laura Betta Marquis. B. S. 
 
 Died at her home in Bloomington, March 20, 1880. 
 
 205. Nelson Kinyon McCormick. B. A., M. A. Normal, Illinois, 
 
 M. D. (Chicago Medical College i : married Mary Sudduth in 
 1889; physician. 
 
 206. John Allen Sterling. B. A.. M A. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer: chairman of the County Republican Central Com- 
 mittee, 1888-1890; State's Attorney since 1892: is a member 
 of the law firm of Welty & Sterling. See page 138. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 175 
 
 207. Arthur Luther Stickle. B A. Eureka. Kansas. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 208. Homer J. Smith. Ph. B.. M. A. Butler. Pennsylvania. 
 
 Ph. D.: clergyman. 
 
 209. Sain Welty, B. A . M. A. Bloomington, Illinois, 
 
 LL. B. (Yale Law School ) ; mem.ber of the Board of Trustees 
 of the Illinois Wesleyan University; also Examiner in Political 
 Science; member of the law firm of Welty &. Sterling: mar- 
 ried Gertrude Bell in 1879. See page 137. 
 
 210. Margaretta W. Beahm Ph. B. Narsing Phur. Central Prov- 
 
 ince, India. 
 
 Married Rev. J. 0. Denning, class of 1881. 
 
 211. John Davis Bloodgood. Waverly. New York. 
 
 Clergyman; author of •• Personal Reminiscences of the War;'" 
 pastor of the M. E. church. 
 
 212. Henry Thomas Dawson, Ph. B, Dudley. Massachusetts, 
 
 Ph. D.. 1883, Physics; teacher. 
 
 Class of 1882. 
 
 213. Edward Everett Donnelly, B. A.. M. A. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 LL. B,, 1885; lawyer; married Miss Klopenburg, of Spring- 
 field, in 1890. 
 
 214. Lyman Covell Floyd. Ph. B,, M. A. Scranton, Pennsylvania, 
 
 Ph. D.. 1888; clergyman. 
 
 215. James Allen Fullinwider. B. S.. 507 West Monroe St., Chicago. 
 
 Illinois. 
 
 LL. B, (Michigan University); lawyer, 
 
 216. Alice Harpole, B. S. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 217. William Anwyl Jones. B. S. Bloomington. iHinols. 
 
 General secretary Y. M. C A.. Brazil, Indiana; convention 
 poet of the Phi Delta Theta National Convention. Nashville. 
 Tennessee; city editor of the Daily Republican Journal, of 
 Moline. Illinois; 1896, city editor Daily Leader. Bloomington. 
 
 Illinois. 
 
 218. William Spencer Ruby. B. A.. M. A, 
 
 Deceased. 
 
 219. Francis Newton Thorpe. Ph. B., M. A. North East, Pennsyl- 
 
 vania. 
 
 Ph. D.: teacher; author, 
 
 220. John Robert Van Pelt, B. A.. M. A, University Park. Denver. 
 
 Colorado. 
 
 S T. B.. Ph. D. (Boston University): clergyman. Illinois Con- 
 ference; taught one year in Illinois Wesleyan University; stu- 
 dent in Germany; 1893. Professor of History and Systematic 
 Theology. Denver University; married Bishop Warren's daugh- 
 ter in 1893, 
 
 Class of 1883, 
 
 221. Dexter W. Corley. B. A., M. A. Sioux City, Iowa, 
 
 Employed in the office of N. G. Life Insurance Company, 
 
 222. George E. Gerowe, Ph. B, 
 
 Teacher; died May 30. 1893. while principal of the High 
 School, Davenport, Nebraska. 
 
 223. Calvin W. Hickman, B. A.. M. A. Topeka. Kansas. 
 
 Took law course at Topeka, Kansas, and was admitted to the 
 
176 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 bar: connected with the Topeka High School for more than 
 four years: now serving second year as principal of same; mar- 
 ried in 1 884 to Miss Florence A. Wasmuth, who died March 
 18. 1890. 
 
 224. William E. Higbee. B. A.. M. A. Rooms 626 and 627 Riaito 
 
 Building. Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 1885-1892. member of the law and insurance firm of Eaton & 
 Higbee. DeviKs Lake, North Dakota: 1892 to the present, 
 manager Western Factory insurance Association. 
 
 225. Murray Levering Johnson. B. A.. M. A. Oakland. California. 
 
 M. D. * Cooper Medical College ) ; physician and surgeon of Re- 
 ceiving Hospital. Oakland. California: surgeon of the Oakland 
 Clinic, and consulting surgeon of the Southern Pacific Railroad 
 Company. 
 
 226. David Thomas Miles. B. S.. M. S. Casey, Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman. Illinois Conference: pastor M. E. church : married 
 Miss Hattie Pritchard in 1890. 
 
 227. William Fee Muse, B. A., M. A. Ottumwa, Iowa. 
 
 Was city editor Cedar Rapids Gazette five years: is now busi- 
 ness manager of the Ottumwa Courier. 
 
 228. Charles Sylvester Parmenter. B. A., M. A. Baldwin, Kansas. 
 
 Professor Natural Science. See page 148. 
 
 229. Robert Howard Patton. B, S.. M. S. Springfield, Illinois. 
 
 Member of the law firm of Orendorff (present Adjutant Gen- 
 eral of Illinois; & Patton. 
 
 230. Thomas Harvey Simmons, B. A.. M. A. 708 Tacoma Building, 
 
 Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 Took second prize oratorical contest in 1882: married Luella 
 Yocum, 1883: lawyer. 
 
 231. Dora Philena Straight, B. A.. M. A. Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 Medical student of the Cook County Hospital, 304 Monroe St. 
 
 232. Luella Yocum, B. S. Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 Won oratorical contest in 1882: married Thomas H. Simmons 
 in 1883. They reside at 735 Warren avenue. 
 
 Class of 1884. 
 
 233. Jacob Lafayette Burritt, Ph. B., M. A, Wellsoda, New York. 
 
 See page 141. 
 
 234. William Montgomery Carr, B. S., B. A.. M. A. New Haven 
 
 Connecticut. 
 
 B. D. (Drew Theologic;^! Seminary); clergyman' pastor of 
 the St. Andrews M. E. Church. New Haven ; member of New 
 York East Conference, 1895: president Young People's Union. 
 New Haven District. See page 148. 
 
 235. Mary Cochran, Ph. B., M. A. Brooklyn. New York. 
 
 Teacher of Latin in Girls' School. 
 
 236. Edward C. English. B. S. Danville, Illinois. 
 
 M. D. (Rush Med.); physician; ms.rried Miss Belle Brown, 
 September, 1889. 
 
 237. William H. Gay. Ph. B., M. A. Dennison, Texas. 
 
 Ph. D., 1886, Physics and History: teacher: superintendent of 
 schools. 
 
 238. James Monroe Green, Ph. B. Trenton, New Jersey. 
 
 M. A. (Dickinson College); Ph. D., Philosophy and Peda- 
 gogics. 
 
 239. William Henry Hart, B. A., M. A. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer: present member of the city council. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 177 
 
 240. Emma Herron. B. A.. M. A. Lynchburg, Virginia. 
 
 Teacher: High School, Rushville. Illinois, 1884-1887: Professor 
 of English and History, Chaddock College, Quincy, Illinois, 
 1887-1890: Professor of English History, Fort Worth Univer- 
 sity, Fort Worth, Texas, 1890-1892: married to Prof. F. W. 
 Martin, Ph. D.. June 26, 1889; has done considerable post- 
 graduate work in American Literature and German: present ad- 
 dress, Randolph-Macon Woman's College. See page 150. 
 
 241. Charles Wellington Minard, B. A.. M. A. Maywood. Illinois. 
 
 Ph. D.. 1894 ( Pedagogy): teacher: received a life certificate 
 to teach in Illinois in 1884: principal of the schools at Frank- 
 ford one year : superintendent of schools. Wilmington, five years: 
 superintendent of schools. Maywood. from 1890 to the present 
 time. 
 
 242. Charles Norton Sloan, B. S. Petersburg. Illmois. 
 
 Was a clergyman for two years; at present, a printer. 
 
 243. Sara J. Underwood, Ph. B. Greencastle. Indiana 
 
 Wife of Prof. Lucien M. Underwood. 
 Class of 1885. 
 
 244. Asa Howard Ballard. B. A., M. A. 
 
 B. D. (University of Chicago: clergyman; Moderator, Lain 
 Baptist Association. 
 
 245. Robert Burns. Niagara Falls, Canada. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 246. J. A. Carmichael, Ph. B. Columbus, Ontario. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 247. Arthur Melvin Conard. B. A., M. A.. LL. B. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman, Central Illinois Conference: student one year in 
 Boston School of Theology: married Miss Etta M. Montgomery, 
 
 October 14, 1885: graduate in Law, Illinois Wesleyan Univer- 
 sity. 
 
 248. Mary Theresa Cowen, B. S.. M. S. Princeton. Indiana. 
 
 For three years superintendent Illinois Young Woman's Chris- 
 tian Temperance Union; married October, 1892. to Rev. A. H 
 Kelso, pastor First Cumberland Presbyterian church at Prince- 
 ton. Indiana. 
 
 249. Abiah Brown Davis. Ph. B. Spencer. New York. 
 
 250. Edward E. A. Deavor. Ph. B. Wrightsviile. Pennsylvania. 
 
 Ph. D.; Clergyman. 
 
 251. Andrew W. Edwards, Ph, B.. M. A. Denver. Colorado. 
 
 Ph.D.: manager Rocky Mountain agency /Etna Life Insurance 
 Company. 
 
 252. William Frizzelle, Ph. B. Toronto. Ontario. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 253. Horace Gibson, Ph. B.. M. A. Maysville, Wisconsin. 
 
 254. David Kellock, Ph. B., M. A. Spencerville, Ontario. 
 
 255. Leon Lee Loehr, B. A., M. A. Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 LL. B. (Kent Law School); lawyer; firm of Loehr &. Nate, 
 corner Clark and Washington Streets. 
 
 256. Mark G. McCaslin, Ph. B. Gustavius, Ohio. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 257. David Lemont McCrae. Coburg, Ontario. 
 
 258. John Jasper Methvin, Ph. B. Butler, Georgia, 
 
 259. Oliver Jasper Perrin, Ph, B. South Bay City. Michigan. 
 
 260. Herbert Powell. B. A., M. A. Fairbury. Illinois. 
 
 LL. B.; married Miss Jessie B. Downing, of Fairbury. April 
 10, 1893; now practicing law. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 261. 
 262 
 
 263. 
 
 264. 
 
 265. 
 
 266. 
 267. 
 
 268. 
 
 269. 
 270. 
 
 Henry Edwin Robbins. Ph. B.. M. A. Lyons. Iowa. 
 
 Henry Horace Rogers. Ph. B. Kankakee, Illinois. 
 
 M. D. 
 
 Henry Orlando Stone. B. A. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 Merchant : member of Executive Committee. Alumni Asso- 
 ciation. 
 
 Edwin Melaney Van Patten. B. S. M. S. Bloomington, Illinois, 
 
 Teacher: student one year in Drew Theological Seminary: one 
 year pastor of the M. E. church, Braidwood : married Lulu D. 
 Young, class of 1887. who died May, 1892: in August. 1893, 
 he married Miss Anna Fitz Henry. Seepage 141. 
 
 John Fletcher Wight, B. A.. M. A. Bloomington, Illinois, 
 LL. B„ 1895: lawyer. 
 
 Class of 1 886. 
 
 Edward Albert Bigler, B. S., M. S. Auburn. Illinois. 
 Merchant. 
 
 W. F. Brush. Postoffice unknown. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 Edward G. Catermole, B. A,, M. A Arden, Missouri, 
 
 B. D. (Garrett Biblical Institute;; Clergyman, Central 
 Conference. 
 
 Josephine A. Chenoworth. B. S., M. S. Dwight, Illinois, 
 Teacher, 
 
 Edward Storer Gwynn, Ph. B., M, A, 
 Ph. D.; clergyman. 
 
 Imois 
 
 271. Fred P. Haggard, B. A., M. A. Assam, India. 
 
 B. D. (Baptist Seminary, Morgan Park): missionary. Baptist 
 Church. 
 
 272. George N. Hay, Ph. B., M. A. New Brunswick. 
 
 273. George W. Hull, Ph. B. 
 
 274. John L. Miller, B. S., M. S. Frankfort, Kansas, 
 
 Clergyman, Kansas Conference. 
 
 275. Margaret Sarah Patton, B, S, 
 
 Married John R. Abell, Taylorville, Illinois, September, 1889; 
 deceased, 
 
 276. Maud Pillsbury, Ph. B. 605 Washington Street, Milwaukee, 
 
 Wiscor.sn. 
 
 Married James D. Walker. 
 
 277. James Quinn, Ph. B. Manitoba, Canada. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 278. James Shaw, B. A., M. A. Bloomington, Illinois, 
 
 LL.B. 1891 : editor Lancet, 
 
 279. Orilla A. Sikes, B. A., M, A, Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher: principal No. 5 school. 
 
 280. George W. Sikes, B. A., M. A. Helena, Montana, 
 
 Editor Helena Herald. 
 
 281. Samuel Bower Sinclair, Ph. B.. M A. Ontario, 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 282. William Symonds, Ph. B. Address unknown, 
 
 283. Sarah E, Van Pelt, B. S. Normal, Illinois, 
 
ILLINOIS WESLBYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 179 
 
 284. Albert W. Vanneman. B. S.. M. S. Stony Beach, California. 
 
 285. Frank Ephraim Welles. Ph. B., M. A. Geneseo. New York. 
 
 286. John Heston Willey. Ph. B. Address unknown. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 287. Myron Chesterfield Wilcox, Ph. B„ M. A. Foochoo. China. 
 
 Ph. D.. 1895: clergyman; missionary M. E. church. 
 
 288. Alexander Tait. Ph. B. Cntario. Canada. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 289. Bert Woodworth, B. S. Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 Merchant. 
 
 290. Harriet Ella Young, B. S., M. S. Blue Mound, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher in mission school, Heber, Utah; married Rev, C. E, 
 Carr, of the Illinois Conference. 
 
 Class of 1887. 
 
 291. William Wesley Allen. B. S.. M. S. St. Paul, Minnesota. 
 
 LL. B. (Chicago College of Law); lawyer. 
 
 292. Florence Baldwin, Ph. B. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
 
 293. Charles Milan Barrickman, B. S., M. S. Pontiac, Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer; Judge Probate Court. 
 
 294. James Morris Bull, Ph, B. Minneapolis, Minnesota. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 295. John Morgan Davidson. B. S., M. S. Kansas City, Missouri. 
 
 Wholesale dealer, paints and oils. 
 
 296. Myron Tuttle Dana, Ph. B. Fredonia, New York. 
 
 297. Silas Young Giiian. Ph. B.. M. A. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 
 
 Educator; editor of The Western Teacher. 
 
 298. Edward C. Graff. Sheridan, Oregon. 
 
 Clergyman; missionary M. E. Church. Utah and Oregon. 
 
 299. Frederick Osborn Jackman, B. S. Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. 
 
 M D, ( Chicago Medical College,,) ; assistant superintendent 
 pathological laboratory, hospital for insane. 
 
 300. William H. Kerrick, B. S.. M. S. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 LL. B., 1889; lawyer; secretary Bloomington Electric Light 
 Company. 
 
 301. Holman Kelley Hastings, Ph. B, West Side, Iowa. 
 Ph. D., 1890; clergyman, 
 
 302. Edith Kneeland. B. S. Lexington, Illinois, 
 
 Teacher in High School, Lexington, Illinois; married to Dr. 
 Hanson, of Lexington. 
 
 303. Enoch C. Lavers, Ph. B. New Brighton, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Ph. D., 1891; teacher, 
 
 304. Charles Ezra Libby, Ph. B. Holly Springs, Misssippi. 
 
 Clergyman; president Rust University. 
 
 305 Daniel Deroda Lukes, Ph. B,, M. A. Ligonier, Indiana. 
 
 306. Laura McCulloch, B. S. Washburn, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher; taught in Eureka, Illinois, and other places. 
 
 307. Albert Alexander Morrison, Ph, B., M. A. Schuyler, Nebraska. 
 
 Ph. D., 1889; clergyman. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 308. Ella New. B. S.. M. S. Pitlain. Colorado. 
 
 Teacher: 1887-1888. taught in Preparatory Department of the 
 University. 
 
 309. John William Perrin. Ph. B. Danville, Illinois. 
 
 310. John Charles Richmond, B. S. Fort Scott, Kansas. 
 
 Teacher: 1890-1896, principal Mograve School. 
 
 311. Louis Warner Riggs, Ph. B. Cumberland. Maine. 
 
 Ph. D.. 1895: teacher. 
 
 312. Rolland Augustine Russell, B. S.. M. S. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 LL. B.. 1891: lawyer: professor College of Law. See page 96. 
 
 313. Francis Marion Smith. Ph. B. Amenia, New York. 
 
 314. Leonard Abbey Straight, B. A. St. Paul. Minnesota. 
 
 Student in Union College of Law, Chicago ; now practicing law. 
 
 315. Thomas 0. Thomson. Ph. B. Hamilton, Ontario. 
 
 Clergyman: pastor Locke Street Presbyterian church. 
 
 316. Bina Van Petten, B. S.. M. S. 1533 East Eleventh Street, 
 
 Kansas City. Missouri. 
 
 Stenographer: married Harry Clark. 
 
 317. Robert Henry Waddell, Ph. B. St. George, Ontario 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 318. Anthony Walford, Ph. B. Mooers, Ontario, 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 319. Edward Newell Ware. B. A. Florence, Wisconsin, 
 
 B. D. ' McCormick ( : clergyman, pastor Presbyterian church- 
 
 320. Laura Watson, Ph. B., M. A Albea Lea, Minnesota. 
 
 321. Altha J, Watson, B. S. Edgerton, Wisconsin. 
 
 One of the organizers of the National Y. W. C. A. for colleges; 
 died in 1887. 
 
 322. Stellula D. Young, B. S., M. A. 
 
 Married Prof. E. M. Van Petten, August 31. 1887; died in 
 Joliet, Illinois, May 8, 1892. 
 
 Class of 1888. 
 
 323. Charles Reuben Bailey. A. B. Penacook, New Hampshire. 
 
 Ph. D., 1892: clergyman. Baptist church. 
 
 324. Rachel Baumann, B. S. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Professor of Elocution, High School, Denver. Colorado. See 
 page 150. 
 
 325. David Lodwick Brethour, Ph. B.. M. A. 
 
 Ph. D., 1892: clergyman. Seepage 116. 
 
 326. Alice E. Brown. Ph. B. Lafayette, Indiana. 
 
 327. Lewis Campbell, Ph. B. South Waukegan, Illinois. 
 
 Student in Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston : pastor M. E. 
 church. 
 
 328. Elijah Chesney, Ph. B., M. A. Bay City, Michigan. 
 
 Ph. D., 1882: clergyman. 
 
 329. Alfred Oscar Coffin, B. A. (Fisk University). West Side, Mis- 
 
 sissippi. 
 
 M. A., Ph. D. (I. W. U.): professor, secretary and treasurer" 
 Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College. See page 142, 
 
 330. Charles E. Collins. B. S. Chicago, Illinois, 
 
 Teacher, 1888-93: Law Student. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 181 
 
 331. Joseph Dyke Walter Deavor. Ph. B.. M. A. Weatherly, Penn- 
 
 sylvania. 
 
 Ph. D., 1893: clergyman. 
 
 332. George Daniel. Ph. B., M. A. London. Canada. 
 
 Ph. D.. 1895. See page 146. 
 
 333. Lillie English Dimmitt, B. A.. M. A. Sioux City. Iowa. 
 
 Professor Ancient Languages in the University of the North- 
 west. See page 150. 
 
 334. Joseph Finnemore. Ph. B. 12 College Road. Brighton. Eng- 
 
 land. 
 
 Ph. D., 1890: clergyman: Examiner Non-Resident Department. 
 
 335. Lizzie Ann Grove, Ph. B. Goal City, Illinois. 
 
 Student Gem City Business College: married Rev. John H. 
 Ryan. 
 
 336. Edward Fletcher Jordan. Ph B,. M. A. Tremont. Illinois. 
 
 Ph. D.. 1890: clergyman. Baptist church. 
 
 337. David Keppel. Ph. B. Clyde. New York. 
 
 Clergyman. Methodist Episcopal church. 
 
 338. James O. Kirkpatrick. B. A. Ashland. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman, Illinois Conference. 
 
 339. Ira W. Kenward. Ph. B. Roberts. Illinois. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 340. John Joshua Leach, Ph. B. Brighton. Ontario. 
 
 Clergyman, 
 
 341. Frank Lenig. Ph. B.. M. A. St. Louis. Missouri. 
 
 Ph. D.. 1890: clergyman. St. Louis Conference. 
 
 342. Edward Lyle, Ph. B. Fort Collins. Colorado. 
 
 343. James Affleck McBain. Ph. B. Providence, Rhode island. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 344. David M. Mihill. Ph. B,, M. A, Toronto. Canada, 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 345. William Wirt Mills. Ph. B. " Bethlehem. Pennsylvania, 
 
 346. Monroe Willis Spear. Ph. B. Mt. Gilead. Ohio. 
 
 Teacher: superintendent public schools. 
 
 347. John Oakley Spencer. Ph. B.. M. A. Tokio. Japan. 
 
 Ph. D.. 1893: teacher: member of General Conference. 1888. 
 
 348. David Taylor. Ph. B.. M. A. Southington. Connecticut. 
 
 Ph. D. : clergyman. 
 
 349. Cornelia Belle Wells. Ph. B. Utica. New York. 
 
 350. Frank T. Wilcox. B. S.. M. S. California. 
 
 M. D. : physician. 
 
 351. Richard Edmund Williams. Ph. B. Pittston. Pennsylvania. 
 
 Class of 1889. 
 
 352. Mary R. Albin. B. A. 
 
 Teacher: married Mr. Gillogly: died in 1894. 
 
 353. Gorlton Montville Balfour. Ph. B. EUinwood. Kansas. 
 
 M. D. : physician. 
 
 354. Otho Ford Bartholo. Ph. B.. M. A. New York. 
 
 Ph. D.. 1891 : clergyman. 
 
 355. William Benjamin Booth. Ph. B. Rosemcnt. Ontario. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 356. Dwight Payson Breed. Ph. B. Wyandotta. Michigan. 
 
 Clergyman; pastor First Congregational church. 
 
 357. Edward D. Champion. E. A., M. A. Mattoon. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman. Illinois Conference. 
 
 358. James William Cupples. Leeper. Michigan. 
 
 Teacher; superintendent public schools. 
 
 359. Helen Mary Cyrus. Ph. B. Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 Married. 
 
 360. Lu Lester Everly. B. A., M. A. Aurora. Illinois. 
 
 Teacher: Science. High School. 
 
 361. Isaac Day. Orrillia. Ontario. 
 
 Educator: inspector of schools. 
 
 362. Asbury Newton Ebaugh. Ph. B. Baltimore, Maryland. 
 
 Teacher; Professor Mathematics. Polytechnic Institute. 
 
 363. Walter H. Elliott. Hamilton. Ontario. 
 
 364. Abram Leonard Gee. Ph. B.. M. A. Jerseyville. Ontario. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 365. Leslie Philander Hanna, B. S. Waukegan, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher: 1889-1890. principal Greenfield schools; 1890-1898. 
 principal Waukegan: now lawyer. 
 
 366. Andrew H. Harnly. B. A.. M. A. Mason City. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman; Professor Ancient Language and History. Mt. Mor- 
 ris. Illinois; pastor Baptist church. 
 
 367. Henry Harris. Ph. B. Minooka, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Ph. D.. 1893; clergyman; pastor Baptist church. 
 
 368. Edward D. Henry, B. S. Springfield, Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 369. George Henry Howe, Ph. B., M. A. Warrensburg, Missouri. 
 
 Teacher. See page 143. 
 
 370. David A. Lockwood, Ph. B. Plattsburg, New York. 
 
 Teacher; Professor Mathematics, Normal School. 
 
 371. Myron Lee Norris, Ph. B. Oregon. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman, Rock River Conference. 
 
 372. George A. Powles, Ph. B. Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher; matematics; West District High School. 
 
 373. Alvin Fletcher Rohrer, B. A. Waverly, Illinois. 
 
 1890-1893, firm of Rohrer & Sahler. real estate agents. Salt 
 Lake City, Utah; principal of Waverly schools. 
 
 374. Henry H. Sahler, B. S., B. A. Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 
 M. A., M. S.; 1890-1893, firm of Rohrer & Sahler, real estate 
 agents. 
 
 375. Andrew J. C. Saunier, Ph. B., M. A. Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 M. D. ; physician. 
 
 376. David Henry Snoke, Ph. B. Durant, Iowa. 
 
 377. William Xavier Sudduth, Ph. B.. M. A. 100 Clark St., Chicago. 
 
 Illinois. 
 
 M. D.. D. D. S. See page 139. 
 
 378. George Samuel Thompson, B. A. Nashville, Tennessee. 
 
 Teacher; Professor Mathematics. Central Tennessee College. 
 
ILLINOIS WES LEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 Ih3 
 
 379. Richard S. Thomas. Ph. B. Warren. Ohio. 
 
 Teacher: superintendent of schools. 
 
 380. Smith Williston Toles, Ph. B.. M. A. New Haven, Connecticut. 
 
 Ph. D.. 1894: clergyman. 
 
 381. Frank W.Wheeler, B. A. 100 Washington St., Chicago, Illinois, 
 
 Wen prize in the Illinois State oratorical contest: represented 
 the State in the Inter-Collegiate contest atCrinnell, Iowa, 1889; 
 lawyer. 
 
 382: Oscar L, Wilson, Ph. B. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 Dean College of Arts. Illinois Wesleyan University, 
 
 383. Henry Willis Wood, B. S.. M. S. Shelaon. Illinois. 
 
 M. D. (Medical College, Columbus, i ; physician. 
 
 Class of 1890. 
 
 384. John Sylvester Brown, Ph, B., M. A. New York City. 
 
 Teacher, 
 
 385. Lyman Strickland Brown, Ph, B, Hamden, New York. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 386. Arthur Thomas Carr. Ph. B. Birmingham, England, 
 
 387. Anson Lorenzo Caviness, Ph, B, Syracuse, New York, 
 
 Principal public schools, 
 
 388. Amasa Franklin Chaffee. Ph. B. Union. New York, 
 
 Clergyman. 
 389 George Clark, Ph. B. Milton, Ontario, 
 Ph. D.. 1892: clergyman. 
 
 390. Carry May Darnell. B. S, Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 Stenographer railroad company, office of superintendent of C. 
 
 &, N. W. Railroad Company, 
 
 391. Delmar Duane Darrah, Ph. B. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Professor of Elocution; director of Physical Culture, Illinois 
 Wesleyan University. See page 148. 
 
 392. Theophilus S. Devitt, Ph, D. Branford. Connecticut. 
 
 Clergyman ; pastor Congregational church. 
 
 393. John Ehrenstein, Ph. B. New York City. 
 
 394. Israel Miller Gable, Ph. B. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 395. Anna Rosina Godshaik, Ph. B. Bethlehem. Pennsylvania. 
 
 396. Francis May Gooding, E. S.. M. S. Fisher. Illinois. 
 
 Teacher, Bloomington Schools; 1894. married Dr. Shurtz of 
 Fisher. Illinois. 
 
 397. Henry Gray, Ph. B. West Milton, Ontario. 
 
 Ph. D.; teacher. 
 
 398. Carrie Melintha Hainline. B. S, Lewiston, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 399. Mary Morilla Hainline. B. S. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 Stenographer. 
 
 400. Nellie Hand, Ph. B. Lafayette, Indiana. 
 
 401. George Hastings, Ph. B., M, A. Danielsville, Connecticut. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 402 Edward C. Hulse. Ph. B. Clarkstown. New Jersey. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 403. Albert Lee. Ph. B. Leeds, England. 415. 
 
 Clergyman. 415 
 
 404. Lydia Birchard McCoy. B. S. Pueblo, Colorado. 
 
 Teacher: died January 23, 1894. 417 
 
 405. Alice McCoy, B. S. Pontiac, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher; married Huston B. Watt, farmer. 418. 
 
 406. William Lincoln McMahan. B. A. Lincoln. Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer. 419. 
 
 407. Clinton B. Marsh, Ph. B. North Tonawanda. New York. 
 
 Principal high schools. 420. 
 
 408. George Wesley Marvin, Ph. B. Woodville, Ontario. 
 
 M. A.. Ph. D.: clergyman. 421. 
 
 409. Martha Josephine Myers, Ph. B. Pomona, California. 
 Married Dr. Cassius Maxon Smith 
 
 410. Joseph C. Nate. B. S.. M S.. M. A. Corner Clarke and Wash- 
 
 ington Streets, Chicago. 422. 
 
 LL. B. (Northwestern University); law firm of Nate & Loehr. 
 
 411. Thomas Nicholson, Ph. B. Evanston, Illinois. 423. 
 
 Clergyman; student Garrett Biblical Institute. 
 
 412. Sarah Peacock, Ph. B. Newport, Kentucky. 424 
 
 413. Nellie J. Pollock, B. A. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 Teacher; professor modern languages, Ripon, Wisconsin. 425. 
 
 414. Ralph F. Potter, B. A.. M. A. Bloomington, Illinois. 426. 
 
 Lawyer. 
 
 John Joseph Power. Ph. B. Picton, Nova Scotia. 
 B. Merrill Ricketts, Ph. B. Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 
 M. D.; physician. 
 William Bowman Tucker, Ph. B., M. A. Arden, Ontario, Canada, 
 
 Ph. D.; clergyman. 
 Frank Wardle. B. A.. M. A. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
 With Smead. Wills & Co. 
 Harvey Sherman Watson. B. S., M. S. Normal, Illinois. 
 
 Nurseryman. 
 George Thieley Wetzel, B. S., M. S. Auburn, Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 Francis Henry Wogan, Ph. B. Wogansport, North Dakota. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 Class of 1891. 
 
 Charles Harrison Bohn, Ph. B., M. A. Boone, Iowa. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 Wesley Campbell, Ph. B.. M. A. Blythe. Ontario. 
 
 Ph, D.; clergyman. 
 
 Joseph Simpson Cook, Ph. B.. M, A. Ripley, Ontario. 
 
 Ph. D.; clergyman. 
 Carry Lena Cole, B. S. Phosnix. Arizona. 
 William N. Cottrell, B. S., M. A. Mason City, Illinois. 
 
 B. A. (Harvard), 1893; LL. B. (Harvard). 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 185 
 
 427. Frank J. Diamond. Ph. B.. M. A. Tonavanda, N. Y. 
 
 Ph. D.: teacher. 
 
 428. George William Dill. Ph. B. Portland. New Brunswick. 
 
 429. John Fuller. B. S.. LL. B. Clinton. Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer; State's Attorney. 
 
 430. Sulveanus S. Gabriel. Ph. B. Osborn. Ohio. 
 
 431. Henry Jacob Harnly. B. S.. M. A. McPherson, Kansas. 
 
 B. A. (^Harvard), 1892: teacher; Professor Natural Science, 
 McPherson College. McPherson, Kansas. 
 
 432. Samuel Hutchinson, B. S. Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 Assistant teller American Exchange Bank; pharmacist. 
 
 433. Joseph Thomas Kingsberry. Ph. B.,M. A. Salt Lake City. Utah. 
 
 Ph. D. ; professor. See page 144. 
 
 434. Walter Mitchell. B. S.. B. A. Petersburg. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman, Illinois Conference. 
 
 435. Alva Bailey Peck. B. S. Bowen, Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman. Illinois Conference. 
 
 436. Arthur William Potter, Ph. B. Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. 
 
 437. George Henry Roberts, Ph. B.. M. A. Stratton, England. 
 
 438. Albert Wilber Taylor. Ph. B.. M. A. Rushville, New York, 
 
 439. Nannie M. Want, B. A. Newman, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 440. William Arthur Warner, Ph. B. La Fayette. Illinois. 
 
 M. D., 1894 (Chicago Medical College). 
 
 441. Hattie May Wasmuth, B. S. Lewiston, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher: 1891-1894. High School, Keithsburg: 1894-1896, 
 
 High School. Lewiston. 
 
 442. Charles Crum Wilson. B. S. Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 Clerk. Bankers' National Bank. 
 
 443. Preston Wood. Jr., B. S. Maroa. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman. Illinois Conference. 
 
 444. Charles Yardley. Ph. B. Westchester. Pennsylvania. 
 
 Class of 1892. 
 
 445. John Sheaffer Arnold. Ph. B. Ridgeway, Pennsylvania. 
 
 446. Cyrus Edward Bigler. B. A. Auburn. Illinois. 
 
 Canning factory and general mercantile business. 
 
 447. William Brandon, B. A. Lovington. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman. Illinois Conference. 
 
 448. William Fletcher Cameron. Ph. B. Crossville. Tennessee. 
 
 449. William Thomas Cline, Ph. B. University Place. Nebraska. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 450. John Frederick Augustus Deutsch, B. A. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 Student Chicago Medical College. 
 
 451. Joseph Fitzgerald. Ph. B. Scarsdale, New York. 
 
 452. Alonzo J. Funkhauser. Ph. B. LL. B. Mattoon. Illinois. 
 
 453. Arthur B. Haines. Ph. B. Fort McLeod. Alberta. Canada. 
 
 454. E. Helen Hannahs. Ph. B.. M. A. Albany. New York. 
 
 Ph. D., 1895: teacher. 
 
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 455. Lewis Reifsneider Harley. Ph. B.. M. A. North Wales. Penn- 
 
 sylvania. 
 
 Ph. D. : teacher. Political Science. 
 
 456. Jonathan Albert Hill, Ph. B. Dundas, Ontario. 
 
 457. John Franklin Horney. Ph. B. Fairmount. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman. Illinois Conference. 
 
 458. Vergil Linn Huey. B. A. Gibson City, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher: 1892-1893, assistant in High School, Watseka; 1893- 
 1894. principal High School, Sheldon, Illinois; 1894-1896, 
 student in Johns Hopkins University. 
 
 459. Eugene Landon. B S. Auburn, Illinois. 
 
 Student Gem City Business College; merchant. 
 
 460. Agnes Grace Loudon. B. S. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 461. William Love. B. S.. M. A. Park River, North Dakota. 
 
 Clergyman, Methodist Episcopal church. 
 
 462. William D. Mabry. Ph. B. Salt Lake City, Utah. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 463. J. Finley Malcom. Ph. B. Macomb, Illinois. 
 
 464. Job Smith Mills. Ph B. Eugene, Oregon. 
 
 M. A. COtterbein): Ph. D., 1894; elected Bishop of United 
 Brethren church. 1892. 
 
 465. Joshua Hughes Paul. Ph. B. Logan. Utah. 
 
 466. Elmer S. Redman, Ph. B., M. A. Belfast, New York. 
 
 467. Edwin Rose. Ph, B. Rockton, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 468. Albert Winfield Ryan, Ph. B. Duluth, Minnesota. 
 
 D. C. L. (Trinity College ) ; LL. D. (Toronto University and 
 Victoria College, Toronto). 
 
 469. William Richard Scanlan, Ph. B., M. A. Omagh, Ontario. 
 
 Ph. D.. 1895: clergyman. 
 
 470. William H. Simpson. Ph. B.. M. A. Au Sable, Michigan. 
 
 471. William Taylor, Ph. B., M. A. Charlotte, New York. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 472. John Henry Tear, Ph. B. Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 473. Charles W. Whorrell, Ph. B. Peoria, Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman ; Presbyterian. 
 
 Class of 1893. 
 
 474. William C. Armstrong, Ph. B. Hawksville. Ontario. 
 
 475. Eugene Orville Eardwell, Ph. B.. M. A. Emporium, Pennsyl- 
 
 vania. 
 
 476. Asa Irwin Brown, Ph. B. Watford, Ontario. 
 
 477. Frank Crane, Ph. B. Omaha, Nebraska. 
 
 Clergyman: Illinois Conference, 1892: Nebraska Conference, 
 1895. 
 
 478. John P Edgar, Ph. B. Arrowsmith, Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman, Illinois Conference. 
 
 479. Elizabeth H, Fullenwider, B. S, Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 Te,-icher. 
 
 480. William Harris, Ph. B., M. A. Montreal, Quebec. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
ILLINOIS WES LEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 187 
 
 481. Mary L. Hickman, B. S. Rossville, Illinois. 
 Teacher; assistant principal schools. 
 
 482. Frank Luther Horn. Ph. B., M. A. Lexington, Ohio. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 483. Mary E. Hotsenpiller, B. S. Ballard, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 484. William H. Johnson, B. A. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Student at Johns Hopkins University. * 
 
 485. James Ross Kaye, Ph. B. Madison, Wisconsin. 
 
 486. Phebe Kerrick, Ph. B Jacksonville, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher; professor of Natural Science and preceptress Illinois 
 Female College. 
 
 487. Elbert M. Kirkpatrick, B. S. Chenoa. Illinois. 
 
 Law student. Illinois Wesleyan University 1 894: grain merchant. 
 
 488. Charles E. Knapp, B. A. Salina, Kansas. 
 
 Teacher; professor Science and Penmanship. St. John's School. 
 
 489. F. A. W. Meyer. Ph. B. Lochine, Quebec. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 490. Charles Augustus Moore, Ph. B. Paxton. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman; pastor Congregational church. 
 
 491. Clayton L. Morey. Ph. B. Greenwich, New York. 
 
 492. Irene May Morse, Ph. B. Laramie, Wyoming, 
 
 Teacher; State University, 
 
 493. Gilbert Charles Moulsdaie. Ph. B. Flemington, New Jersey. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 494. George R. Newkirk, B. A. Warrensburg. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman, Illinois Conference. 
 
 495. William Clayton Noll, Ph. B. Wellsville New York. 
 
 496. Thom.as Edwin Orr, B. S. Buffalo. Illinois. 
 
 Teacher; principal of schools. 
 
 497. Mrs. Harriet Towle Perrin, Ph. B. Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 498. Joseph Waite Presby, Ph. B Argyle, New York. 
 
 Clergyman 
 
 499. William Charles Reuter, Ph. B. Hannibal, Missouri. 
 
 Clergyman, Missouri Conference. 
 
 500. William H. Ryan, Ph. B. Cobbleshill. New York. 
 
 501. George Fletcher Salton. Ph. B. Brussels. Ontario. 
 
 502. Jerohn J. Savitz, Ph. B. Slatington, Pennsylvania. 
 
 503. Albert T. Sowerby, Ph. B.. M. A. Aylmer, West Ontario. 
 
 Ph. D., 1895; clergyman. 
 
 504. George T. Trach. Ph. B. New Washington, Pennsylvania. 
 
 505. Charles Franklin Van Sant, Ph. B. Essex, New York. 
 
 506. Mrs. Hannah L. White, Ph. B. Lake Linden, Michigan. 
 
 Class of 1894. 
 
 507. Grace Adams, B. S. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Chicago Training School. 
 
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 508. Samuel Buell Allison. Ph. B. Eimwood. Illinois. 
 509 Lucy Bates. B. S. Bloomington, iiiinois. 
 
 Professor of German. Chaddock College. Quincy. Illinois. 
 
 510. William E. Blair. B. A. Evanston. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman. Illinois Conference: Garrett Biblical Institute. 
 51 1 Ada Brewer. B. S. Moore's Hill College. Indiana. 
 
 instructor in Rhetoric and English. 
 
 512. Wesley D. Britton. B. A. De Land. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman. Illinois Conference. 
 
 513. Samuel T. Burnett. B. S. Chatham. Illinois. 
 
 Teacher: principal of schools. 
 
 514. Herbert S. Cadwell. B. S. Utica. Illinois. 
 
 Bank clerk. 
 
 515. Charles N. Cole. B. A. Champaign, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher: 1894-5 principal of schools, Windsor. Illinois: assist- 
 ant professor of Latin. University of Illinois. 
 
 516. Thomas Henry Gilbert. Ph. B. Red Bluff. California. 
 
 517. Frederick J. Giddings, B. A. Deer Creek. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman; student Garrett Biblical Institute: Central Illinois 
 Conference. 
 
 518. Ida Belle Haslup. Ph. B. Pueblo. Colorado. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 519. Leonard E. Lackland, B. S. Chenoa. Illinois, 
 
 1894-1895. real estate agent, Mendota; grain merchant. 
 
 520. J. Edwin McCartney. Ph. B. Valley City, North Dakota. 
 
 521. Robert F. McDaniel. Ph. B. Buffalo, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher, 1894-1895; clergyman, Illinois Conference. 
 
 522. Elmer E. Mecham, B. A. Milford. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman. Central Illinois Conference. 
 
 523. John Wesley Moles, Ph. B. Hanna City, Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman. Central Illinois Conference. 
 
 524. William G. Park, Ph. B. West Hanover, Massachusetts. 
 
 525. Laura I. Poe. B. A. Cerro Gordo, Illinois, 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 526. John W. Priest, Ph. B, Browning, Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman, Illinois Conference. 
 
 527. J.William Probasco. B. S. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Student Law School. Illinois Wesleyan University. 
 
 528. Charles Ault Procunier, Ph. B., M. A. Revelstoke. British 
 
 Columbia, Canada. 
 
 529. George W. Randle, B. A. 
 
 Clergyman, Southern Illinois Conference. 
 
 530. Austin C. Rishel, Ph. B. Ravenswood, Illinois. 
 
 531. Henry William Shryock, Ph. B. Olney, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 532. Anna Pearl Smith, B. S. Auburn, Illinois, 
 
 533. Thomas John Snowdon, Ph. B, Hanover, Ontario. 
 
 534. Amos Clyde Staley, B. A. DeLand, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
ILLINOIS WES LEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 189 
 
 535. Mary E. Sterry, B. S. Chenoa, Illinois. 
 
 Married E. M. Kirkpatrick, grain merchant. 
 
 536. Benjamin A. Sweet. B. A. Marshall, Illinois. 
 
 County superintendent of schools. 
 
 537. E. Van Slyke. Ph. B. Albany, New York. 
 
 538. Charles Benjamin VanWie, Ph. B. Florence. Alabama. 
 
 Professor. 
 
 539. Willliam Wallace Whitmore. B. A. Peoria, Illinois. 
 
 LL, B. 1895: law firm of Whitmore & Barnes. 
 
 540. William H. Washburne, Ph. B. Johnstown, New York. 
 
 541. William Williamson. Ph. B, Verona, Ontario. 
 
 Class of 1895. 
 
 542. Charles C. Adams. B. S. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Assistant. Biology and Physics, Illinois Wesleyan University. 
 
 543. Freeman Harlan Allen, Ph. B. Potsdam, New York. 
 
 544. Robert E. Bird, B. A. Roberts, Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman, Central Illinois Conference. 
 
 545. Fred L. Buck, B. A. Mt. Auburn, Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman, Illinois Conference. 
 
 546. Samuel Parker Cadman, Ph. B, Yonkers. New York. 
 
 547. Alvin Alonzo Cober. Ph. B. Newberry, Pennsylvania. 
 
 548. Francis Marion Coleman, Ph. B. Cedar Falls. Iowa. 
 549 Albert W. Griffith, Ph. B. Norwich, New York. 
 
 550. Alice Grove, B. S. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 Teacher, city schools. 
 
 551. Hattie Henry, B. S. Mt. Pleasant, Utah. 
 
 Missionary M. E. church. 
 
 552. Ruth Henry, B. A. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 553. Ralph Holm.es. B. A. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 554. Judson Hopkins, B. S. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 555. Ethel Hopson, B. S. Midland City, Illinois. 
 
 Principal schools. 
 
 556. J. Howard Hulsart. Ph. B. Dover. New Jersey. 
 
 557. Mary Laity Jay, Ph. B. Fort Wayne, Indiana. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 558. George John Kirn, Ph. B. Jackson. Michigan. 
 
 559. Herbert Buell Johnson, Ph. B. Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan. 
 
 Teacher, 
 
 560. Frederick Hiram Lane. Ph. B. Babylon. New York. 
 
 561. James Liddy. Ph. B. Hampton. Ontario. 
 
 562. James Milford McKee. Ph. B. Silver Creek. New York. 
 
 563. Louis Magin, B. A. Chillicothe, Illinois. 
 
 Principal schools. 
 
 564. Walworth Marsh, B. A. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 Student Harvard University. 
 
 565. Martha Matheny, B. S. Normal. Illinois. 
 
 Assistant Preparatory School. Illinois Wesleyan University. 
 See page 147. 
 
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 566. Frederick Mayer. Ph. B. Jackson. Michigan. 
 
 567. William B. Merrill. B. S. Lexington, Illinois. 
 
 Law student, Illinois Wesleyan University. 
 
 568. Wave Miller. B. S. Bloomington. Illinois, 
 
 Law student. Illinois Wesleyan University. 
 
 569. James Riggs Orr. B. S. Buffalo. Illinois. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 570. Frederick S. Parkhurst. Ph. B. Rochester. New York. 
 
 571. Arthur William Rich. Ph. B. Cedar Falls. Iowa. 
 
 572. Norton M. Rigg. B. A. Warsaw. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman. Illinois Conference. 
 
 573. Rudolph H. Schuett, B. A. Pekin. Illinois. 
 
 Clergyman, Central Illinois Conference. 
 
 574. Julius Silberstein. Ph. B.. M. D. Fort Apache, Arizona. 
 
 575. Hiram W. Slack, Ph. B. St. Paul, Minnesota, 
 
 576. Fred Warren Smedley, Ph. B. Peru, Illinois, 
 
 577. Clarence E, Snyder, B. A. Moweaqua, Illinois, 
 
 Instructor in German and French, Illinois Wesleyan University. 
 See page 147. 
 
 578. Oscar Calvin Henry Spiller, Ph, B. Maynard, Texas, 
 
 579. Bart C. Van Ingen, Ph. B. Northville, New York. 
 
 580. W. J. Wilson, Ph. B. Ottawa, Ontario 
 
 Aluhni of the Lav School. 
 
 Class of 1875. 
 
 53L Richard Osborn. Judge Superior Court Seattle, Washington. 
 
 582. Randolph A. Pike, real estate broker. Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 583. John H. T. James. 
 
 584. Newton B. Reed, lawyer. Pierre. South Dakota. 
 
 585. Isaac D. Walker, lawyer. Decatur, Illinois. 
 
 586. Marshall N. Williams, lawyer. KansEs City, Missouri. 
 
 Class of 1876. 
 
 587. Joseph L. Colvin. Normal, Illinois. 
 
 588. Lester M. Hall, lawyer, St. Louis, Missouri. 
 
 589. William D. Haynie, lawyer. South Dakota. 
 
 590. Walter M. Keenan, lawyer. Chicago, Illinois, 
 
 591. George W, Martin, lawyer, Virginia, Illinois. 
 
 592. William P. McMurray. Normal, Illinois. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLBYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 79/ 
 
 593. 
 594. 
 595. 
 596. 
 
 597. 
 598, 
 599. 
 
 600. 
 601. 
 602. 
 603. 
 
 604. 
 605. 
 606. 
 607. 
 608. 
 609. 
 610. 
 611. 
 612. 
 
 Harry D. Spencer, lawyer. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 Richard A. Wade, lawyer. Chicago, Illinois. 
 George L. Warlow, lawyer. Virginia. Illinois. 
 Charles- F. Wertz, book-keeper. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 Class of 1877. 
 
 Winslow Evans, lawyer. Peoria, Illinois. See No. i 15. 
 
 George L. Hoffman, lawyer. Mt. Carroll, Illinois. 
 
 Zechariah T. Hundly. Deceased. 
 
 Frank Jackman. 
 
 John Moore, lawyer. Lincoln, Nebraska. See No. 95. 
 
 J. Patterson Smith. Chenoa, Illinois. 
 
 George Snelling. lawyer. Des Moines. Iowa. 
 
 Edward W. Sutherland, farmer. Holder, Illinois. 
 
 Frank Young. 
 
 Class of 1878. 
 
 Eli P. Adams, lawyer. Little Falls. Minnesota. See No. 101 
 
 George L. Artz, lawyer. Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 John M. Allyn. 
 
 John W. Barger. 
 
 Robert H. Brown, lawyer. Huron, South Dakota. 
 
 Louis L. Burr, merchant. Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 John Cook. 
 
 John W. Hartley, deceased. 
 
 John T. McClure. Denver. Colorado. 
 
 William S. Metz. 
 
 613. William Ollis. Kansas City, Missouri. 
 
 614. James M. Pulliam. Little Fails. Minnesota. 
 
 615. John M. Ready, lawyer. Wellington. Kansas. 
 
 616. Frank T. Rowell. deceased. 
 
 617. Christopher W. Stephenson, lawyer. Ottawa, Kansas. 
 
 618. Squire Tompkins, employee Illinois Penitentiary. Joliet, Illinois. 
 
 619. I. Edwin Vale, lawyer, Superior, Nebraska. See page 142. 
 
 Class of 1879. 
 
 620. H. Leon Coffey, lawyer. Streator. Illinois. 
 
 621 . Samuel B. Curtis. 
 
 622. Orlando B. Ficklin, Jr.. deceased. 
 
 623. Eugene A. Ford. 
 
 624. W, H. Lanning. lawyer. Hastings. Nebraska. 
 
 George P. Meixsell, lawyer. Pekin, Illinois. See No. 109 
 Ca-lvin Rayburn. lawyer. Bloomington. Illinois. See No. 126. 
 
 625. John H. Shay, lawyer. Streator. Illinois. 
 
 626. Marietta B. R. Shay. 
 
 627. Kim.ball P. Snyder, 
 
 628. John Stapleton, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Class of 1880. 
 
 629. William E. Haworth, 
 
 630. George A. Hill, lawyer. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 631. Curtis McMasters, lawyer. Howard, Kansas. 
 
 632. James H. McCoy, lawyer. Decatur, Illinois. 
 
 633. George B. Miller, merchant. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
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 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 634. Charles A. Minier. 
 
 635. John J. Morrissey. lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. See Page 97. 
 
 636. James L. Stoker. 
 
 637. John M. Thompson, deceased. 
 
 638. Lincoln H. Weldon, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Class of 1881. 
 
 639. Philip W. Barnes, lawyer. Lawrenceville. Illinois. 
 
 640. F. B. Blandin. lawyer. Streator, Illinois. 
 
 641. John J. Brown, lawyer. Vandalia, Illinois. 
 
 642. Willey L. Brown. 
 
 643 Hugh Carroll, deceased. 
 
 644 John D. Clark. 
 
 645. Charles R. Dollarhide. 
 
 646. Edward J. Fisher. 
 
 647. William D. Fulwiler. General Manager Arizona Land Company. 
 
 Phoenix. Arizona. 
 
 648. Frank R. Henderson, lawyer. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 649. Charles W. Israel, lawyer. Henrietta, Texas. 
 
 650. J. M. McAfferty. deceased. 
 
 651. Amos Oiler, lawyer. Stanton, Illinois. 
 
 652. Charles P. Schwer, lawyer. Hebron, Nebraska. 
 
 653. Benjamin F. Stocks, lawyer. Garden City, Kansas. 
 
 Class of 1882. 
 654. 
 
 James M. Albert. 
 
 Horatio G. Bent, lawyer. Bloomington, 
 
 linois. See No. 171. 
 
 655. William P. Blue. Nokomis, Illinois. 
 
 656. Orion K. Brown. California, Missouri. 
 
 657. Arthur H. Bennett, lawyer. Minden. Nebraska. 
 
 658. LaFayette Council. 
 
 659. W. W S. Eberle. 
 
 660. John T. English, lawyer. Danville. Illinois. 
 
 661. Andrew J Funkhouser, lawyer. Mattoon, Illinois. 
 
 662. Charles Goodspeed, lawyer. Joliet, Illinois. 
 
 663. Sand F. Goodspeed, banker. Joliet, Illinois. 
 
 664. Douglas H. Helm, lawyer. Metropolis, Illinois. 
 
 665. Lewis E. Ijams, ex-county treasurer. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 666. Benjamin F. Simpson. 
 
 667. Harry V. Tipton, deceased. 
 
 Class of 1883. 
 
 668. George W. Ballance. 
 
 669. Richard M. Barnes, lawyer. Lacon. Illinois. 
 
 670. Martin A. Chambers. 
 
 671. William H. Harnsberger, lawyer. Decatur, Illinois. 
 
 672. Manford E. Kinnan. 
 
 Jacob P. Lindley, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. See page 94, 
 
 673. John J. Pitts, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 674. J. Walter Ransdell. Deceased. 
 
 675. Eben A. Richardson, lawyer. Shelbyville, Illinois. 
 
 676. Oscar R. Silliman 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 193 
 
 Class of 1884. 
 
 677. Frank D. Ader. lawyer. Bainbridge, Indiana. 
 
 678. John W. Davis. Iswyer. Topeka, Kansas. 
 
 679. William E. David, lawyer. Blair. Nebraska. 
 
 680. A. L. Phillips, lawyer. Gibson City. Illinois. 
 
 681. Samuel D. Stahl. Washington. D. C. 
 
 682. George R. Tilton. lawyer. Danville, Illinois. 
 
 Class of 1885. 
 
 683. Asher C. Ball lawyer. Pontiac, Illinois. 
 
 684. Andrew J. Barr, lawyer. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 685. J. C. Briney. Sheldon's Grove. Illinois. 
 
 686. Joseph K. Burres. lawyer. Tuscola, Illinois. 
 
 Edward E. Donnelly, lawyer. Bloomington, 111. Sae No. 213. 
 
 687. Price Griffith. 
 
 688. Archibald A. McCianahan. lawyer. Omaha. Nebraska. 
 
 689. John M. Newman. 
 
 Class of 1886. 
 
 690. Edwin W. Benedict, lawyer. Topeka. Kansas. 
 
 691. Enoch Brock, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois, 
 
 692. Robert J. Cannell. lawyer. Hutchinson. Kansas, 
 
 693. Reed Green, lawyer. Cairo, Illinois. 
 
 694. John Harding, Jr.. lawyer. Fort Smith. Arkansas. 
 
 695. Louis C. Hay. lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois, 
 
 696. Edgar P. Holly, lawyer, Pontiac, Illinois, 
 
 697. David W. Kent, lawyer. Hutchinson, Kansas. 
 
 698. Clement L. V. Mulkey, lawyer. Mound City. Illinois. 
 
 699. Edward B. Rood, lawyer. Galveston. Texas. 
 
 700. Wilber S. Scanlan. lawyer. Kane, Illinois. 
 
 701. Robert E. Williams, Jr., lawyer, Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Class of 1887. 
 
 702. Edward Barry, lawyer. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 703. S. 0. Davidson, lawyer. Springfield, Illinois. 
 
 704. George B. Gillespie, lawyer. Vienna. Illinois. 
 
 705. Marion F. Hufford. lawyer. Canton. Illinois. 
 
 706. Charles F. Mansfield, lawyer. Mansfield. Illinois. 
 
 707. Shelton L. Smiith, Jr., lawyer, Lexington. Illinois. 
 
 708. John R. Pogue. 
 
 709. J. D. Welch. Galesburg, Illinois. 
 
 Class of 1888. 
 
 710. Albert G. Abney. lawyer. Harrisburg. Illinois. 
 
 711. Harry L. Arnold, lawyer, Wichita. Kansas. 
 
 712. Windle G. Brooks, lawyer. Kankakee, Illinois. 
 
 713. William P. Craig, lawyer. Champaign, Illinois, 
 
 714. Charles C. Craig, lawyer. Galesburg. Illinois, 
 
 715. John W. Keeslar, lawyer, Danville, Illinois, 
 
 716. Otto A. Lowentrout. California. 
 
 717. Robert P. McNulta, lawyer. Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 718. Franklin J, Parr, farmer, Oreana. Illinois, 
 
 719. Theodore G. Risley, lawyer. Guthrie, Oklahoma. 
 
 720. Otho D. Swearingen, Chicago, Illinois, 
 
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 721. John H. Sikes. Deputy Secretary Grand Lodge. I. O. 0. F. 
 
 Springfield. Illinois. 
 
 722. Roland Vandeventer, lawyer. Mt. Sterling. Illinois. 
 
 Class of 1889. 
 
 723. William Brennan. Ogden, Illinois. 
 
 724. Lee Oneil Brown, lawyer. Ottawa, Illinois. 
 
 725. Charles I. Cook. lawyer. Chattanooga. Illinois. 
 
 726. Harry L. Dunlap. lawyer. St. Louis. Missouri. 
 
 727. George N. Hamilton, lawyer. Galesburg, Illinois. 
 
 728. J. Benjamin Hoxie, lawyer. Tonica, Illinois. 
 
 William H. Kerrick. lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. See No. 300. 
 
 729. John F. Lawrence, lawyer. Danville. Illinois. 
 
 730. Daniel C. Miller. 
 
 731. Frank W. Morrasy. lawyer. Lincoln, Illinois. 
 
 732. Burke Vancil, lawyer. Springfield, Illinois. 
 
 733. Miles K. Young, lawyer. Peoria, Illinois. 
 
 Class of 1890. 
 
 734. John S. Allan. 
 
 735. Frank D. Ayers. lawyer. Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 736. Arthur K. Brittain. 
 
 737. William N. Brown. 
 
 738. Aaron T. Depue. 
 
 739. Joseph A. Gardiner, lawyer. Hastings. Nebraska. 
 
 740. Charles W. Goodwin, lawyer. Luzerne, Iowa. 
 
 741. Russ Lambert, lawyer. Whatcom, Washington. 
 
 742. Marion May, Jr., lawyer. Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 743. Frank B McKennan, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 744. Henry M. Murray, farmer. Metropolis, Illinois. 
 
 745. Lannes P. Oaks, lawyer. Metropolis, Illinois. 
 
 746. David A. Orebaugh, lawyer. Watseka, Illinois. 
 
 747. Yeizo Osawa. japan. 
 
 748. Walter G. Porter, lawyer, Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 749. John H. Sargeant. lawyer. Whatcom, Washington. 
 
 750. John H. Schnepp, lawyer. Springfield, Illinois. 
 
 751. Kashijiro Tanaka, teacher law school. Japan. 
 
 752. John J. Willis, lawyer. Metropolis, Illinois. 
 
 753. Charles B. Zimmerman, lawyer. Wichita. Kansas. 
 
 Class of 1891. 
 
 754. Homer Barney, lawyer. Lacon, Illinois. 
 
 755. John H. Chadwick, lawyer. Tuscola, Illinois. 
 
 756. William T. Church, lawyer. Aledo, Illinois. 
 
 757. George W. English, lawyer, Vienna, Illinois. 
 
 758. Harry H. Ewing, lawyer. Great Falls, Montana. 
 
 759. Howard S. Green, lawyer. Great Falls, Montana. 
 
 760. William G. Griffith, lawyer. Rushville, Illinois. 
 
 761. John J. Kemp, Jr., lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 762. Karl C. Loehr. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 763. Lewis B. Probasco, grain dealer. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 764. Silas H. Reid, lawyer. Du Quoin, Illinois. 
 
 Rolland A. Russell, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. See No. 312. 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 195 
 
 James H. Shaw, lawyer. Bloomington. Illinois. See No. 278. 
 
 765. Alfred T. Strawn. lawyer. Peoria. Illinois. 
 
 766. John W. Sudduth. Springfield. Illinois. 
 
 767. Joseph J. Thompson, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 768. Charles W. Wiedem.ann, lawyer. Harrisburg. Illinois. 
 
 Class of 1892. 
 
 769. Fred Ball, lawyer. Clinton. Illinois. 
 
 770. William H. Black, lawyer. Decatur, Illinois. 
 
 771. William H. Bracken, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 772. Walter B. Drysdale, lawyer. St. Augustine. Florida. 
 
 773. John Fuller, lawyer. Clinton. Illinois. 
 
 William Harvey Hart, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. See 
 No. 239 
 
 774. Effie Henderson, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 775. Jesse E. Hoffman, lawyer. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 776. George F. Jordan, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 777. Edward B. Mitchell, lawyer. Clinton, Illinois. 
 
 778. Edwin L. Mitchel. lawyer. Listonburg, Pennsylvania. 
 
 779. Tsunekichi Oikawa. Japan. 
 
 780. Charles I. Will, lawyer. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 Class of 1893. 
 
 781. William E. Adams, lawyer. Charleston, Illinois. 
 
 782. Warden Barrere, lawyer. Canton. Illinois. 
 
 783. John Bedinger, lawyer. Normal, Illinois. 
 78'' James C. Burnett, lawyer. Eldorado. Illinois. 
 
 785 S. Murray Clark, lawyer. Ridge Farm. Illinois. 
 
 786. James G. Condon, lawyer. Bloomington. Illinois. 
 
 787. Byron Gasaway, lawyer. Normal, Illinois. 
 
 788. Harry L. Kelly, lawyer. Fisher, Illinois. 
 
 789. John J. Ledbetter. lawyer. Terre Haute, Indiana. 
 
 790. Adelbert Lewis, lawyer. Pawnee, Illinois. 
 
 791. William L. Miller, lawyer. Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 792. Robert A. Mooneyham, lawyer, Benton, Illinois. 
 
 793. Ad. R. Oliver, lawyer. Kewanee. Illinois. 
 
 794. Thomas L. Robinson, lawyer. Belton. Missouri. 
 
 795. George W. Trammell, lawyer. Poplar Bluffs, Missouri. 
 
 796. George M. Wilson, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 797. David L. Wright, lawyer. Terre Haute. Indiana. 
 
 Class of 1894. 
 
 798. William R. Bach, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 799. Willard Y. Baker, lawyer. Mt. Sterling. Illinois. 
 
 800. Clifford E. Beach. Paxton. Illinois. 
 
 801. George 0. Barnes, lawyer. Normal. Illinois. 
 
 802. John M. Cleary, lawyer. Kansas City. Missouri. 
 
 803. Edward Corlett, lawyer. Wilmington, Illinois. 
 
 804. William A. Covey, lawyer. Mason City, Illinois. 
 
 805. Arthur G. Davis, lawyer. Indianapolis. Indiana. 
 
 806. Oliver B. Dobbins, lawyer. Champaign. Illinois. 
 
 807. William A. Flack, lawyer. Indianapolis, Indiana. 
 
 808. Edward Frey. lawyer. Carlinville. Illinois. 
 
196 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 809. Franklin C. Funk. lawyer. Bluff City, Illinois. 
 
 810. Charles A. Finch. Verona. Illinois. 
 
 811. George E. Hiner. Stanford. Illinois. 
 
 812. Frank Kring, clerk in law office. Chicago. 
 
 813. William H. Kring. clerk in law office. Chicago. 
 
 814. John W. LaCrone. Faribault. Minnesota, 
 
 815. Richard H. Little, with Chicago Tribune. Chicago, Illinois, 
 
 816. Sigmund Livingston, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 817. Bert H, McCann, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois, 
 
 818. William Moore, lawyer. Kansas City. Missouri. 
 
 819. Wesley M. Owen, lawyer. LeRoy. Illinois. 
 
 820. John F. Regan, lawyer. Mt. Sterling, Illinois, 
 
 821. Allen W, Wood, clerk, Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 822. LeRoy G, Whitmer. lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 Class of 1895. 
 
 823. William N. Andrews, lawyer. Decatur, Illinois. 
 
 824. William M. Barnes, lawyer. Peoria, Illinois. 
 
 825. E, Thomas Bunting, clergyman. 
 
 826. John J. Bell, lawyer. Lacon, Illinois, 
 
 827. Irving S. Banks, lawyer. Belvidere, Illinois, 
 
 828. Philip L, Clancy, lawyer. Bloomington. Illinois, 
 
 829. Arthur M. Conard, clergyman. Bloomington, Illinois, 
 
 830. Charles M. Connor, lawyer. Toledo, Illinois, 
 
 831. Charles S, Cooter. Toledo, Illinois, 
 
 832. Edwin G. Creamer, lawyer. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 833. Fred W. Dawes. Albion, Illinois. 
 
 834. William G. Graves, lawyer, Cornell, Illinois, 
 
 835. Joseph C. Ivins, Quincy, Illinois. • 
 
 836. James B, Miller. Kankakee, Illinois. 
 
 837. Thomas L. Pollock. Bloomington, Illinois. 
 
 838. Charles D. Pitcher. Troy, Illinois. 
 
 839. Deaghlin G. Sammon, Bloomington, Illinois, 
 
 840. George K. Thompson. Randolph, Illinois. 
 
 841. Hubert J. Thompson, lawyer, Bloomington, Illinois. 
 William Wallace Whitmore, lawyer, Peoria, Illinois. See No. 539, 
 
ILLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 197 
 
 Degrees Given on ExAniNATiON. 
 
 IThis list does not include the names of Alumni of the Illinois Wesleyan University. 
 
 1874. 
 
 842. John Pierce Bobb (M. A., Dickinson). Ph. D.; clergyman. 1874; 
 
 professor of Latin. Pennington Seminary. 
 
 843. Charles W. Super ( M. A., Dickinson), Ph D.: teacher; presi- 
 
 dent of Ohio University. Athens. Ohio. See page 129. 
 
 1875, 
 
 844. William Kepler (iVl. A.. O. W. U,), Ph, D,, 1875, 
 
 845. Lewis L. Rogers (M. A.. Asburyi.'Ph. D.: teacher. 
 
 1876. 
 
 846. Henry C. Whitney, M. A.. Ph. D.. principal of Seminary. Hack- 
 
 ettstown. New Jersey. 
 
 1877. 
 
 847. John Wesley Powell. M. A.. Ph. D. Washington. D. C. See 
 
 page 87. 
 
 1879. 
 
 848. Alvin Sylvester Zerbee, M. A., Ph, D.; clergyman : teacher, Col- 
 
 legeville, Pennsylvania. 
 
 1882. 
 
 849. Henry McCormick, M. A., Ph. D.; professor Illinois State Nor- 
 
 mal University, Normal, Illinois, 
 
 850. William John Smyth ( B. A.. Queen's College, Kingston, Ontario): 
 
 Ph, D,; clergyman, 
 
 1883. 
 
 851. Henry S. Baker (B. A., Middlebury College i, M. A., Ph. D.: 
 
 teacher, St. Paul,_Minnesota. 
 
 852. Edgar H. S. Baily ( Ph. B., Yale), Ph D, 
 
 853. William Frear ( B. A.. University of Louisburgi, Ph. D. 
 
 854. John Harper (B. A.. Halifax University), Ph. D. Quebec. 
 
 855. George Lilley (M. A., Washington and Jefferson), Ph. D. Port- 
 
 land. Oreland. See page 143. 
 
 856. Bradford S. Potter (M. A., Genesee College). Ph. D. Blooming- 
 
 ton, Illinois," 'See page 89. 
 
 857. Edward Payson Thwing ( M. A., Harvard), Ph. D.: clergyman. 
 
 New York City. 
 
 858. Alfred Augustus Stockton (B. A.. M. A.. Mt, Allison College). 
 
 Ph, D. 
 
193 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 ■ 1884. 
 
 859. Francis Robert Beattie. B. D. (B. A., Toronto University i. 
 
 (D. D.. Presbyterian College. Montreal.) Ph. D : clergyman: 
 professor of Systematic Theology and Apologetics in the Pres- 
 byterian Theological Seminary. Louisville. Kentucky. See 
 page 142. 
 
 860. John Columbia Guilett ( B. S.. Moore's Hill). Ph. D.. Litchfield. 
 
 Minnesota. 
 
 861 William Albert Ryan > B. A.. Michigan University). ( LL. D.. 
 Toronto University;. Ph D. History and Ethics: clergyman; 
 author of --The Family in Roman Law" and "The Colonive 
 Church;" now pastor of St. Paul's Episcopal church. Duluth. 
 Minnesota. 
 
 862. John Stuart (B. A.. Toronto University). Ph. D. Metaphysics: 
 
 clergyman; now in the fifth year as president Central University 
 of Iowa. Palla. Iowa. 
 
 863. William Arthur Strongman » B. A., 'Victoria University): M. A.. 
 
 Metaphysics. Colpoy Bay. Ontario. 
 
 864. Charles Wehrman (B. S.. Central Wesleyan,; Ph. D., Physics; 
 
 clergyman. Chester. Illinois. 
 
 1885. 
 
 865. David Young Bagby (B. A.. Georgetown College, Ky.): M. A.. 
 
 Ph. D. Pittsville. Texas. 
 
 866. John W. Campbell. ( B. A.. M. A.. Toronto University i : Ph. D.; 
 
 clergyman. Harrison. Ontario. 
 
 867. Charles Radway Dryer ( B. A.. Hamilton i. M. A. Fort Wayne, 
 
 Indiana. 
 
 868. George J. Edgecumbe (B A.. 'Victoria College ) : M. A., Ph. D. 
 
 Benton Harbor. Michigan. 
 
 869. Thomas Fasten Fleming. Ph.B. (M.A., Upper Iowa University); 
 
 Ph. D. : clergyman, Fayette, Iowa. 
 
 870. Charles W. Hargitt (B. S., Moore's Hill) : M. A.; clergyman, 
 
 Moore's Hill, Indiana. 
 
 871. George S. Innis (B. A.. Ohio Wesleyan University): Ph. D. 
 
 872. Albert Gallatin McCoy (B. A., Monmouth College) : Ph. D.; cler- 
 
 gyman: one of the leading .men in the United Presbyterian 
 church. Chicago, Illinois. 
 
 873. Benjamin Franklin ( B. A., Victoria University): M. A., Ph. D. ; 
 
 clergyman, M. E. church. North Lancing, New York. 
 
 874. William Henry Jamison (B. A., M. A., 'Victoria University): 
 
 Ph. D., Philosophy; clergyman, Presbyterian church. Blen- 
 heim, Ontario. 
 
 875. Thomas M. Macintyre (B. A., M. A., Toronto University); Ph. D. 
 
 Toronto, Canada. See page 144. 
 
 1887, 
 
 876. John James Hare (B. A., Victoria College): Ph. D., Geology. 
 
 Governor and principal of Ontario's Ladies' College. Whitby, 
 Ontario. 
 
 877. Daniel C. Macintyre (B, A., Albert University); Ph. D., Philos- 
 
 ophy: clergyman, Presbyterian church. Beamsville, Ontario. 
 
 878. James McNaughton (B. A., Allegheny College), M. A., Mathe- 
 
 matics; teacher of Pedagogics. Council Bluffs, Iowa. 
 
ILLINOIS WES LEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 199 
 
 879. James E. Pilcher ( B. A.. Michigan University i. M. A., Ph. D.. 890. 
 
 Biology. Fort Custer, Montana. 
 
 880. George Clifton Russell ( B. S.. Hiram College), M. A.; teacher. 
 
 Petuluma, California. 
 
 881. John Wesley Powell, M. A.. Ph. D.. 1863. 
 
 1888. 
 
 882. Thomas Proctor Hall, (B. A., University of Toronto), Ph. D., 
 
 Chem.istry; teacher. Woodstock. Ontario. 
 
 883. Alvirus Nelson Hitchcock, (B. A.. University of Wisconsin), 
 
 Ph. D., Christian Evidences: clergyman; secretary American 
 Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions for the District 
 of the Interior Division; pastor Congregational church, Chicago, 
 834, Afred Sydney Johnson ( B. A., University of Toronto), Ph. D., 
 Metaphysics; 1837- 1890, President Seminary, Denmark, Iowa ; 
 editor Current History, a cyclopedic review of current history. 
 Buffalo. New York 
 
 885. John McLean (B. A., Victoria College), Ph. D., Modern History; 
 
 clergyman. Fort McLeod, Northwest Territory. 
 
 886. James H. Montgomery (B. A.. Allegheny College), Ph. D., 
 
 Chemistry; professor in Allegheny College. Meadville, Penn- 
 sylvania. 
 
 887. James A. Moore ( B. A., Southern University), Ph. D., Mathe- 
 
 matics; professor Mathematics and Astronomy. Southern Uni- 
 versity, Greensboro, Alabama. 
 
 888. George J. A. Thompson ( B. A.. McGill University), M. A., 
 
 Ph. D., Christian Evidences; clergyman. Montreal. Quebec. 
 
 889. William Edward Tilley (B. A., Victoria College), Ph. D.. Modern 399. 
 
 History; Bellville, Ontario, 
 
 891. 
 
 892. 
 893. 
 894. 
 895. 
 896. 
 897. 
 
 898. 
 
 James Edward Wilkinson (B. A., Harvard), Ph. D.. Modern 
 History; school inspector; head of Akeley institute, school for 
 girls. Grand Haven. Michigan. 
 
 1889. 
 
 James Monroe Green (M. A., Dickinson College). Ph, D., Phi- 
 losophy and Pedagogics; teacher. 
 
 1890. 
 
 Frank Gillespie Brown ( B. A., DePauw University i. Ph. D.; 
 clergyman. Howden, New York. 
 
 John G. Henderson ( B. A., Upper Iowa University,), Ph. D.. 
 
 Physics; clergyman. M. E. church. Junction City. Kansas. 
 Goshen Branch Howie ( L. A.. Edinburgi. Ph. D. Brussels, 
 
 Ontario. 
 John C, Jackson ( B. A., Ohio University;. Ph. D. ; clergyman. 
 
 Columbus. Ohio. 
 
 Norman Macdonald ( LL. B.. Trinity and Victoria). Ph. D.. 
 
 Political Science. St. Thomas, Ontario. 
 David Alexander Maxwell ( B. A., Toronto University). Ph. D., 
 
 Political Science ; teacher; superintendent of training school 
 
 for teachers. Amherstburg. Ontario. 
 William Henry Putnam (M. A., Pennsylvania College;, Ph. D.; 
 
 Publisher, Potter and Putnam, 44 E. Fourteenth Street. New 
 
 York City. 
 
 1891. 
 
 Freeman Daily Bovard (B. A..Asburyj. Ph. D. San Francisco, 
 California. 
 
200 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 900. Wilbur Fisk Dales (B. A.. Wesleyan University). Ph. D., Greek; 
 
 teacher, St. Louis, Missouri. 
 
 901. Duncan McDonald ' B. A., Queen's College ), Ph. D,, Christian Evi- 
 
 dences: c'.ergyman. Presbyterian church. Carleton Place. On- 
 tario. 
 
 902. John Augustus Roebling (C. E.. Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- 
 
 tute). M. A., Physics. Troy, New York. 
 
 903. Fredrick Eugene Stratton ( B. A., Williams College). Ph.D.. 
 
 Biology and Pedagogics: principal, and teacher of Greek and 
 Latin, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota. 
 
 904. Samuel Wier, (B. A.. Northwestern University), Ph. D.: clergy- 
 
 man, studied in Europe: 1895. elected professor of history and 
 philosophy. University of the City of New York. 
 
 905. Charles Gershom White (M. A.. Battle Creek), Ph D., Physics: 
 
 Lake Linden, Michigan. 
 
 1892. 
 
 906. Richard Gear Hobbs(B. A.. M. A., Northwestern University). 
 
 Ph. D.: clergyman. Illinois Conference, Decatur. Illinois. 
 
 907. J. M. Larmour (B. A., Victoria University], Ph, D., Christian 
 
 Evidences. Gananoque, Ontario. 
 
 908. Thomas Wilson McVety (B. A., Victoria University), Ph. D., 
 
 Christian Evidences: clergyman. Peoria. Illinois. Seepage 146, 
 909 Frank W. Merrill (B. A., Northwestern University;, Ph. D., 
 
 Philosophy: clergyman. Rock Island, Illinois. 
 910. Edwin A. Schell (B. A., Northwestern University), Ph. D., His- 
 tory and Philosophy: clergyman; general secretary Epworth 
 League. M. E. Church. 57 Washington Street, Chicago. 
 
 1893. 
 
 911. Alfred Franklin Dreisbach (B. A.. Franklin and Marshall Col- 
 
 lege). Ph. D., Philosophy. Silver Run, Maryland. 
 
 912. George Griffith (A. B,, Hamilton College), Ph. D., Pedagogics. 
 
 Utica, New York. 
 
 913. Grace Raymond Hebard (B. A., M. A., Iowa University), Ph. D., 
 
 Political Science ; secretary Board of Regents, University of 
 Wyoming. Laramie, Wyoming. 
 
 914. William Wirt King(B. A.. Scio College). Ph, D. ; clergyman. 
 
 St. Louis Conference, St, Louis, Missouri. 
 
 915. William L. Montague ( B. A., Amherst), Ph. D. ; professor of 
 
 Modern Languages in Amherst College, Amherst, Massachu- 
 setts, 
 
 1894. 
 
 916. David H. Sergey (B. S., M. D., University of Pennsylvania), 
 
 Ph. D. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
 
 917. William Dell Bigelow (B. A., Amherst). Ph. D,, Chemistry; 
 
 teacher. Washington, District of Columbia. 
 
 918. William Radebaugh ( B. A., Grant University), Ph D.; teacher, 
 
 Creighton, Nebraska 
 
 919. Richard Henry Willis ( M. A., University of Virginia), Ph. D., 
 
 Latin and Greek. Fayetteville, Arkansas. 
 
 920. James Isaac Bartholomew (B. A., Lawrence University), Ph.D., 
 
 Christian Evidences and Philosophy. Stafford Springs, 
 Connecticut. 
 
 921. Z. Willis Kemp (B. A., Bowdoin), Ph. D., Latin; professor of 
 
 Latin, Springfield, Massachusetts, 
 
LLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 UNJVBRirrY gr^ iiJf^ 
 
 p^nnuiutvcmrv-% 
 
 Honorary. Pro Merito and Ad Eundem Oraduh Deqrees. 
 
 Aldrich. Orlando W.. D. C. L., 1881. 
 
 Badger. I. A.. M. A.. 1873; professor in Hedding College. 
 
 Barnes. Rev. R. M., D. D.. 1883. 
 
 Benjamin, Hon Reuben M.. LL. D., 1880. 
 
 Boyd. Mrs. Ella Francis. Ph. B.. ad eundum gradum. 1892. Hyde 
 
 Park. Massachusetts. 
 Bradin. Rev. John. D. D., 1884. 
 Bronk. Isabelle, Ph. D., ad eundum gradum. 1893. Schnectady. New 
 
 York. 
 Buck. Rev. D. D., D. D., 1866. 
 Byerly, Rev. Alexander C, M. A.. D. D.. 1894. 
 Chaffee, Rev. J. P.. D. D.. 1883. 
 Chambers, Rev. Andrew Busted. ( LL. B., B.C. L.. McGill University'), 
 
 Ph. B. ad eundum gradum. 1880. 
 Clark, Rev. Hyre D., M. A., D. D., 1893. 
 Clark. Rev. W. W.. D, D.. 1880. 
 Clark, William G.. Ph. B. ad eundum gradum., (Princeton;, M. A., on 
 
 examination, 1894. Chicago, Illinois. 
 Crooks. Rev. William, D. D., 1867 
 
 Cullen, Rev. John, M. A., D. D., 1893. Nottingham. England. 
 Cunningham, William Luke (B. A.. Rutherford College), Ph. B. ad 
 
 eundem gradum; M, A., 1839; clergyman. 
 Daniels, W. H., M. A.. 1870; clergyman. 
 Davis, Hon. David. LL. D.. 1865. 
 
 Dean, J. A., M. A., 1373; president East Tennessee Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity. 
 
 Dillon, Thomas H., M. A., pro merito 1879. 
 
 Eads, Rev. J. R., M. A., 1867. 
 
 Edgar, James Douglass, Ph. B.. ad eundem gradum. 1892. Lynedoch. 
 Ontario. 
 
 English, Rev. D. A.. M. A., pro merito, 1876. 
 
 Fleharty, Rev. J. J., M. A., pro merito, 1878. 
 
 Galbraith. Rev. William ( B. A.. University of Toronto). Ph. B. ad 
 eundum gradum, 1890; M. A., Ph. D. on examination; clergyman. 
 
 Gracey. Rev S. L., D. D., 1885. 
 
 Groves, William, Ph. B. ad eundem gradum. 1892. Evanston. Illinois. 
 
 Hamill, Prof. S. S.. M A., pro merito, 1873. 
 
 Hawes, Rev. M. D., M. A., pro merito, 1876 
 
 Hervey. Hon. Thomas, LL. D., 1883. 
 
 Hoenshel, Eli S.. M. A., pro merito 1877. 
 
 Holder, Richard H.. B. S., M. A., 1861. 
 
 Howland. Thomas, Ph. B. ad eundem gradum, 1892. Tremont, Illinois. 
 
 Hughes, L. J.. M. A., pro merito; clergyman 
 
 Huffaker, Rev. S. J. M. A., pro merito. 1881. 
 
 Hull, John, M. A., pro merito, 1876. 
 
 Ives, Rev. Beoni I., D. D.. 1880. 
 
 Kelso, Robert Sylvester ( B. A., Pleasant Ridge College i. Ph. B.. ad 
 eundem gradum. 1889. 
 
202 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 Kerrick. Hon. Thomas C. M. A., pro merito, 1893. 
 
 King. William F.. D. D.. president Cornell College. Iowa. 1870. 
 
 Koch. H.. M. A., principal Warrenton Institute. 1868. 
 
 Law. Robert ( B. A.. Victoria University i. Ph. B. ad eundum gradum, 
 
 1888. 
 Leaton. Rev. James. D. D.. 1874. 
 Lyda. Rev. A. J.. D. D.. 1873. 
 Little. Rev. J. G.. pro merito, 1875. 
 
 Loebinstein. A.. M. A., professor German. Wallace College. 1868. 
 Logan. S. F.. LL. D.. 1869. 
 McChesney. Rev. S., M. A., pro merito, 1875. 
 McCormick. Henry. M. A., pro merito. 1880. 
 McElroy. Rev. William Nev/ton. D. D.. 1880. 
 McNutt. Rev. Patterson. D. D.. 1880. 
 Miller. Rev. Egbert L.. D. D.. 1887. 
 Minier. Philip N.. M. A., clergyman. 1870. 
 Montgomery. Henry ( B. A.. University of Toronto), Ph. B. ad eundum 
 
 gradum. 1887. 
 Orme, Thomas Hughes. M. A., pro merito. 1879. 
 Palmer. Rev. George R.. D. D.. 1882. 
 Palmer, Hon. John M.. LL. D.. 1869. 
 Peck. George W.. M. A., pro merito, 1879. 
 Phillips. Hon. 1. N.. M. A., pro merito, 1893. 
 Phillips. Hon. Judge Jesse J.. LL D.. 1880. 
 Rawlins. Rev. B. F.. D. D.. 1868. 
 Roe. E. R.. M. D.. M. A., 1854. 
 Sanford, Amelia E.. M. A., pro merito. 1875. 
 Sargent. James, pro merito. 1876. 
 Skinner, Daniel Spencer ( B. A.. University of Toronto i. Ph. B. ad 
 
 eundem gradum. 1887. 
 
 Smith. Rev. Jesse, M. A.. 1867. 
 
 Smith, Rev. Philander. D. D.. Bishop Methodist Episcopal church. 
 
 Canada, 1863. 
 St. Clair, Rev. Peter. M. A., 1874. 
 Stevens, Right Rev. Bishop P. F.. D. D., Reformed Episcopal church, 
 
 1889. Charleston, South Carolina. 
 Thomson, A. H., M. A.. U. S. serv^ice. with Powell-Thomson Exploring 
 
 Expedition, 1873. 
 Tinsley, Rev. Charles, M. A.. 1867. 
 Van Pelt, Rev Samuel. D. D.. 1891. 
 Vasey. George. M. D.. M. A., 1869. 
 
 Vogel. George G., Ph. B. ad eundem gradum. Patterson. New jersey. 
 Vernon, Horace Kelley. Ph. B. ad eundem gradum, 1892. Marseilles, 
 
 Illinois. 
 Wallace, D. A., LL. D., president Monmouth College, 1871. 
 Wayman. Rev. John, M. A., 1874. 
 Webster, Rev. Thomas, D. D., 1874. 
 Weld, Cynthia A.. M. A., pro merito. 1878. 
 Weldon, Hon. Lawrence, LL. D.. 1890 
 
 Wheeler, D. E., M. A., principal Grand Prairie Seminary, 1869. 
 Whitlock. Rev. Elias, D. D., 1886. 
 
 Wilbur, C. F., M. A., professor, 1880. Jacksonville, Illinois. 
 Wilder. William H., D. D., 1888. 
 Wilson, D., M. D., M. A., 1853. 
 
 Wilson, D, P,, M. A., professor, Hedding College, 1869. 
 Wilson, Rev. James Oliver, D. D., 1890. 
 Wood. Rev. J. P.. M. A., 1874. 
 Wright, Rev. G. W. T.. D. D., 1864. 
 
ILLINOIS WES LEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 203 
 
 AirHABETICAL IMDEX. 
 
 Abney, Albert G 710 
 
 Adams. Grace 507 
 
 Adams. Willism C 5 
 
 Adams, Charles C 542 
 
 Adams, Eli P. 101 
 
 Adams, William E 787 
 
 Ader, Frank D 677 
 
 Albert, James L 654 
 
 Albin, Mary R 352 
 
 Aldrich. Orlando W 41 
 
 Allen, Freeman Harlow. .. .543 
 
 Allen, William Wesley 291 
 
 Allan, John S 734 
 
 Allison, Samuel Buell 508 
 
 Allyn, John M 605 
 
 Andrews, William W 823 
 
 Applebee, Jabez 1 00 
 
 Armstrong, P. M 131 
 
 Armstrong, William C 474 
 
 Arnold, Harry L 711 
 
 Arnold, John Sheaffer 445 
 
 Artz. George L 604 
 
 Atherton, Charles 42 
 
 Auer, Melchior 53 
 
 Ayers, John T 85 
 
 Ayers. Frank D 735 
 
 Ayers, Hiram N 8 
 
 Bach, William R 798 
 
 Badger, 1. A p. 201 
 
 Bagby, David Young 865 
 
 Bailey, Edgar S. H 852 
 
 Bailey, Charles Reuben 323 
 
 Baker, Henry Sylvester 85 1 
 
 Baker. Willard Y 799 
 
 Baker, Benjamin Webb--. 89 
 
 Baldwin, Florence 292 
 
 Balfour, Carlton Montville. . .353 
 
 Ballance, George W 668 
 
 Ballard, Asa Howard 244 
 
 Ball, Asher C 683 
 
 Ball, Frederick 769 
 
 Banta, Andrew J 27 
 
 Banks, Irving S 827 
 
 Eardwell, Eugene Orville. • ■ 475 
 
 Barger, Richard W 58 
 
 Barger, James H 1 
 
 Barger, John W 606 
 
 Barnes, George 801 
 
 Barnes, Philip W 639 
 
 Barnes, R. M p. 201 
 
 Barnes. Richard M 669 
 
 Barnes, William Eddy 70 
 
 Barnes. William M 824 
 
 Barney. Homer 754 
 
 Barrere. Warden 782 
 
 Barrickman. Charles Milan.. 293 
 
 Barry. Edward 702 
 
 Barr. Andrew J 684 
 
 Bates, Lucy 509 
 
 Bartholo, Otho Ford 354 
 
 Bartholomew, James Isaac . -920 
 
 Barton, George W 12 
 
 Battisby,John Roe( omitted )p.2 10 
 
 Baumann, John V. W 9 
 
 Baumann, Rachel 324 
 
 Beach, Clifford E 800 
 
 Beahm , Margaret W 210 
 
 Beattie. Francis Robert 859 
 
 Beavis. Arthur Johnson 149 
 
 Bedinger, John 783 
 
 Beggs, Abram Epier 28 
 
 Bell, John J 826 
 
 Benedict, Edward E 690 
 
 Benjamin. Martha 86 
 
 Benjamin, DeWitt C 87 
 
 Benjamin. R. M p. 201 
 
 Bennett. Arthur H 657 
 
 Bennett. John H 117 
 
 Bent. Horatio Grimes 171 
 
 Bergey, David H 916 
 
 Bigler. Edward Albin 266 
 
 Bigler. Cyrus Edward 446 
 
 Bigelow. William Dell 917 
 
 Birch. Henry C 55 
 
 Bishop. Francis Marion 54 
 
 Bird. Robert E 544 
 
 Black. William H 770 
 
 Blackwell. William R 44 
 
 Blair. William E 510 
 
 Blandin. F. B 640 
 
 Blandin, Fremont Charles- • . . 187 
 
 Blazer. James M 88 
 
 Bloodgood. John Davis 211 
 
 Blue. William P -655 
 
 Bsbb, John Pierce 842 
 
 Boggess, John W 21 
 
 Bohn. Charles H 422 
 
 Booth, William Benjamin. . .355 
 
 Booth, William H 76 
 
 Bosworth, Richard 102 
 
 Bovard. Freeman Daily 899 
 
 Boyce, Henry Moses 169 
 
 Boyd, Mrs. Ella Frances. .p. 201 
 
 Boyd, Henry W 6 
 
 Bracken, William H 771 
 
 Bradford, Mary E 170 
 
 Brandon, William 447 
 
 Breed, Dwight Payson 356 
 
 Bredin. John p. 201 
 
 Brethour, David Lodwick. . .325 
 
 Brenen. William 723 
 
 Brewer. Ada 511 
 
204 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD, 
 
 Briney. j. C 685 
 
 Brittain. Anhur 736 
 
 Britton. David Wesley 512 
 
 Brock. Enoch 69 1 
 
 Bronk. isabelle p. 201 
 
 Brooks. Windle 712 
 
 Brooks. Rhynaldo J 43 
 
 Brooks. John A 118 
 
 Brown. John J 641 
 
 Brown. John Sylvester 384 
 
 Brown. Alice E 326 
 
 Brown. Wyley L 642 
 
 Brown, Lyman Strickland. • -385 
 
 Brown. Asa Irwin 476 
 
 Brown. Frank Gillespie 892 
 
 Brown. Orion K -656 
 
 Brown. Lee Oneil 729 
 
 Brown. William N 737 
 
 Brown. Robert H 607 
 
 Brush. W. F 267 
 
 Buck. Fred L 545 
 
 Buck. Rev . D. D p. 201 
 
 Bull. James Morris 294 
 
 Bunting. E. Thomas 825 
 
 Burnett. James C 784 
 
 Burnett. Samuel T 513 
 
 Burnett. Arthur H 657 
 
 Burns. Robert 245 
 
 Burres. Joseph R 686 
 
 Burritt. Jacob Lafayette 233 
 
 Burr. Louis L 608 
 
 Byerly. Alexander C 59 
 
 Cadman. Samuel P 546 
 
 Cadwell. Herbert S 514 
 
 Caldwell, David N 46 
 
 Cameron. William Fletcher.. 448 
 
 Campbell. Charles Wesley. . . 188 
 
 Campbell. John W 866 
 
 Campbell. Lewis 327 
 
 Campbell. Wesley F 423 
 
 Cannell. Robert J 692 
 
 Carr. Arthur Thomas 386 
 
 Carr. William Montgomery. -234 
 
 Carmichael, j. A 246 
 
 Carroll, Hugh 643 
 
 *Caswell, David Johnstone 
 
 (omitted) p. 210 
 
 Cattermole. Edward G 268 
 
 Caviness. Anson Lorenzo — 387 
 
 Chadwick. John H 755 
 
 Champion. Edward D 357 
 
 Chambers. Martin A 670 
 
 Chambers. Andrew Busted. p. 201 
 
 Chaffee. Rev. J. F p. 201 
 
 Chaffee, Amasa Franklin. .. 388 
 
 Chenoworth. Josephine 269 
 
 Chesney. Elijah 328 
 
 Church. William T 756 
 
 Clark. S. Murray 785 
 
 Clark, George 389 
 
 Clark. John D 644 
 
 Clark, William G p. 201 
 
 Clark. W. W p. 201 
 
 Clark, Hyre D p. 201 
 
 Cline, William Thomas 449 
 
 Cline, William H 146 
 
 Clansey, Philip L 828 
 
 Cleary.John M 802 
 
 Cober. Alvln Alonzo 547 
 
 Cochrane. Mary 235 
 
 Coffin, Alfred O 329 
 
 Cole. Joseph R 45 
 
 Coffey, H. Leon 620 
 
 Cole, Carrie Lena .425 
 
 Cole, Charles Nelson 515 
 
 Collins, Charles E 330 
 
 Collins, William T 10 
 
 Coleman, Francis Marion. . • -548 
 
 Conard, Arthur Melville 247 
 
 Condon . James G 786 
 
 Connor. Charles M 830 
 
 Colvin, Joseph L 587 
 
 Cook, Joseph Simpson 424 
 
 Cook, John 609 
 
 Cook. Charles 1 725 
 
 Cooler, Charles S 831 
 
 Corley. DeWitt C 132 
 
 Corley. Dexter W 221 
 
 Corlett, Edward 803 
 
 Cornish. Joseph Webster. ..• 150 
 
 Cottrell. William N 426 
 
 Covey. William A 804 
 
 Council. LaFayette 658 
 
 Coultas, Thomas 1 103 
 
 Coultas, J.'Ames Wilson 104 
 
 Cowen, Mary Theresa 248 
 
 Craig. William P 713 
 
 Craig, Charles C 714 
 
 Crane, Frank 477 
 
 Creamer. Edwin G 832 
 
 Crago, Kate Conant 200 
 
 Crews. Richard 172 
 
 Crooks, William p, 201 
 
 Crum, George W 80 
 
 Crum, Marcus L 91 
 
 Crumbaker. Marion V 90 
 
 Cullen, Rev. John p. 201 
 
 Gumming. Franc H 105 
 
 Cummings, George Millard.. 173 
 
 Cunningham, W. L p. 201 
 
 Cunningham, Gilmore 133 
 
 Cupples. James William 358 
 
 Curl, Martin Luther 189 
 
 Curtis, Samuel B 621 
 
 Cyrus, Helen Mary 359 
 
 Dales, Wilbert Fisk 900 
 
 Dana, Myron Tuttle 296 
 
 Daniel, George 332 
 
 Daniels, W. H p. 201 
 
 Darnell, Carrie May 390 
 
 Darrah, Delmar Duane 391 
 
 David, William E 679 
 
 Davidson, Stamper Q 34 
 
 Davidson, John Morgan 295 
 
 Davidson, Stephenson 703 
 
 Davies, Alexander H 79 
 
 Davis, Abiah B 249 
 
 Davis, John W 678 
 
 Davis, Hon. David p. 201 
 
 Davis, Arthur G 805 
 
 Dawes, Fred W 833 
 
 Dawson, Thomas Henry 212 
 
 Day, Isaac 361 
 
 Daan, J, A p. 201 
 
 Deavor. Edward Evans A... 250 
 
 Deavor. Joseph D 331 
 
 Da Motte, Harvey C 3 
 
 Denning. Valentine B 36 
 
 Denning, John W 60 
 
 Denning, John Otis 201 
 
 Depue, Aaron T 738 
 
 Deutsch, John Frederick A.. 450 
 
 Devitt, Theophilus S 392 
 
 Diamond, Frank 427 
 
ILLINOIS WES LEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 205 
 
 Dillon. Thomas M p. 201 
 
 Dill. George William 428 
 
 Dimmitt, Lillie English 333 
 
 Dobbins. Oliver B 806 
 
 Dollarhide. Charles R 645 
 
 Donnelly. Edward Everett- . .213 
 
 Dreisbach, Alfred F 911 
 
 Dryer. Charles Radway 867 
 
 Drysdale. Walter S 772 
 
 Dunlap. Harvey L 726 
 
 Dunn. Charles H. S 151 
 
 Dyckes. William James 35 
 
 Eads. J. R p. 201 
 
 Ebaugh, Asbury N 362 
 
 Eberle, W. W. S 659 
 
 Edgar. John P 478 
 
 Edgar, James Douglas — p. 201 
 
 Edgecumbe. George J 868 
 
 Edwards, Andrew W 25 1 
 
 Ehrenstein, John 393 
 
 Elliott, Walter H 363 
 
 English, George W 757 
 
 English, Edward C 236 
 
 English. John T 660 
 
 English. Rev. D. A p. 201 
 
 Erling. Peter R (omitted).p. 210 
 
 Etter, Mary F 134 
 
 Evans, Winslow 119 
 
 Everly, Lu Lester 360 
 
 Ewmg, Harry H 758 
 
 Ficklin, Orlando B., Jr 622 
 
 Fifer, Joseph W 37 
 
 Finch, Charles E 810 
 
 Finnemore, Joseph 334 
 
 Fisher, John Alonzo 190 
 
 Fisher. Edward J 646 
 
 Fitzgerald, Joseph 451 
 
 Flack. William A 807 
 
 Fleeharty, Jesse J p. 201 
 
 Fleming. Thomas Easton- • . 869 
 
 Floyd, Lyman Covell 214 
 
 Ford. Eugene A 623 
 
 Franklin. Benjamin 873 
 
 Frear. William 853 
 
 Frey, Edward 808 
 
 Frizzell. William 2'^2 
 
 Frizzelle, Jacob Wellington! 
 
 Fuller, John 429 
 
 Fuliinwider. Marcus L 61 
 
 Fullinwider, Samuel T 92 
 
 Fuliinwider, James Allen. •■2 15 
 Fullinwider, Elizabeth H- .. -479 
 
 Fulton. S. C 152 
 
 Fulwiler, William D 647 
 
 Funk. Clara M 202 
 
 Funk, Franklin C 809 
 
 Funkhouser. Alonzo J 452 
 
 Funkhouser, Andrew J 66 1 
 
 Gable, Israel Miller 394 
 
 Gabriel. Sulveanus S 430 
 
 Galbraith, William p. 201 
 
 Gallagher, John 191 
 
 Gardiner. Joseph A 739 
 
 Gassaway , Byron 787 
 
 Gay, David 185 
 
 Gay, William H 237 
 
 Gee, Abram L 364 
 
 Gerowe, George E 222 
 
 Gibson, Horace 253 
 
 Giddings, Frederick J 517 
 
 Giddings, Josephine 1 76 
 
 Gilbert, Newell D 174 
 
 Gilbert. Thomas Henry 516 
 
 Gilbreath. William C 93 
 
 Gillan, David H 203 
 
 Gillan, Silas J 297 
 
 Gillespie, George B 704 
 
 Glenn, Joseph R 17 
 
 Godshalk, Anna Rosina 395 
 
 Goldsmith, Stephen 175 
 
 Gooding. Frances May 396 
 
 Goodspeed. Charles 662 
 
 Goodspeed. Samuel F 663 
 
 Goodwin. Charles W 740 
 
 Gracey . Rev. S. L p. 20 1 
 
 Graff. Edward C 298 
 
 Grant, James M 106 
 
 Gray, Henry 397 
 
 Graves. William G 834 
 
 Graves. Walter H 94 
 
 Graves. William F 71 
 
 Green. James Monroe 238 
 
 Green. Reed 693 
 
 Green. Howard S 759 
 
 Gregory, Abner 147 
 
 Grove, Elizabeth Ann 335 
 
 Grove. Alice 550 
 
 Groves. William p. 201 
 
 *Griffith, Thomas p. 210 
 
 Griffith. William G 760 
 
 Griffith. Price 687 
 
 Griffith. George 912 
 
 Griffith. Albert W 549 
 
 Gullett, John C 860 
 
 Gwynn. Edward Storer 270 
 
 Haggard, Fred P 271 
 
 Hamill. S. S p. 201 
 
 Hainline, Mary Morilla 399 
 
 Hainline, Carry Malintha 398 
 
 Haines. Arthur B 453 
 
 Hall. Josephine 121 
 
 Hall, Thomas Proctor 882 
 
 Hall. Lester H 588 
 
 Hamilton. George N 727 
 
 Hand. Nellie 400 
 
 Hannahs, E. Helen 454 
 
 Hanna, Leslie Philander 365 
 
 Harding. John. Jr 694 
 
 Hargitt. Charles W 870 
 
 Harris. David Madison 29 
 
 Harris. Henry H 367 
 
 Harris. William 480 
 
 Hare. John James 876 
 
 Harley, Louis Reifsnider — 455 
 
 Harnly. Henry J 431 
 
 Harnly. Andrew Hoerner. . .366 
 Harnsberger. William H .... 67 1 
 
 Harper. John 854 
 
 Harpole Alice 216 
 
 Hart. William Harvey 239 
 
 Hartley. John W 610 
 
 Hartzell, Joseph Crane 38 
 
 Haslup. Ida Belle 518 
 
 Hastings. George Henry .... 401 
 
 Hastings. Holman K 301 
 
 Hawes. Mark D p. 201 
 
 Haworth. William E 629 
 
 Hay. George N 272 
 
 Haynie. William D 589 
 
 Hay. Lewis C 695 
 
 Hazenwinkle. Charles A. . . . 77 
 Hebard. Grace Raymond.. .913 
 
 Helm. Dougl.:^s W 664 
 
 Henderson. Effie 774 
 
206 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 Henderson. Frank R 648 
 
 Henderson. John G 893 
 
 Henry. Delia 107 
 
 Henry. Hattie 551 
 
 Henry. Edward D 368 
 
 Henry. Ruth 552 
 
 Herron. Emma 240 
 
 Hervey. Thomas p. 201 
 
 Hickman. Richard Owen .... 1 53 
 
 Hickman. Caivin W 223 
 
 Hickman. Mary L 481 
 
 Higbee. William E 224 
 
 Hill. Jonathan Albert 456 
 
 Hill. George A 630 
 
 Hinar. George E 811 
 
 Hitchcock. Alvirus Nelson.. 883 
 
 Hobbs. Richard Gaar 906 
 
 Hoblit. James S 13 
 
 Hoenshel. Eii S p. 201 
 
 Hoffman. Jesse E 775 
 
 Hoffman. George L 597 
 
 Holbert. John H 18 
 
 Holcomb. Homer Britton ... 1 35 
 
 Holder. Charles W p. 201 
 
 Holder. James W 78 
 
 Holly. Edgar P 696 
 
 Holmes. Ralph 553 
 
 Hopkins. Judbon 554 
 
 Hopson. Ethel 555 
 
 Hornbeck. Marquis D 136 
 
 Horn. Frank Luther 482 
 
 Horney. John Franklin 457 
 
 Howland. Thomas p. 20 1 
 
 Howie. Goshen Branch 894 
 
 Howe. George H 369 
 
 Howell. H. W 7 
 
 Hotsenpiiler. Mary E 483 
 
 Hoxie. J. Benjamin 728 
 
 Huey. Vergil Linn 458 
 
 Huffaker. S. J p. 201 
 
 Hufford. Marion F 705 
 
 Hughes. L. J p. 201 
 
 Hull. George W 272 
 
 Hull. John p. 201 
 
 Hulsart. J. Howard 556 
 
 Hulse. Edward Connor 402 
 
 Hundley, Zechariah 598 
 
 Hutchin. George L 122 
 
 Hutchinson. Samuel 432 
 
 Hyde, Benjamin F 154 
 
 Ijams. Lewis C 665 
 
 Innis, George S 87 1 
 
 Israel. Charles W 649 
 
 Ives. Rev. B.I p. 201 
 
 Ivins, Joseph C 835 
 
 Jackman, Frederick Osborne. 299 
 
 Jackman, Frank 599 
 
 Jackson. John C 895 
 
 James. Edmund S 155 
 
 James, John H. T 583 
 
 Jamison, William H 874 
 
 Jay. Mary Laity 557 
 
 lohnson. Edwin Morris 30 
 
 Johnson, James Albert 71 
 
 Johnson. Murray Levering .. 225 
 
 Johnson, Alfred Sydney 884 
 
 Johnson. William H 484 
 
 Johnson, Herbert Buell 559 
 
 Jones, William Anwyl 217 
 
 Jordan, Edward Fletcher. . . .336 
 
 Jordan. George F 776 
 
 Kanaga, Mary F 1 37 
 
 Kaye, James Ross 
 
 Keenan, Walter M 
 
 Keeslar, John W 
 
 Kelley, Hatry L 
 
 Kelley, James A 
 
 Kellock, David 
 
 Kelso, Robert Sylvester, .p. 
 
 Kemp. John J., Jr 
 
 Kemp. Z. Willis 
 
 Kennedy, Richard W 
 
 Kent. David W 
 
 Kenward, Ira W 
 
 Kepler, William 
 
 Keplinger, Lewis Walker. . , 
 Keplinger. Martin Luther. . . 
 
 Kepoel. David 
 
 Kerrick. Leonidas H 
 
 Kerrick. Thomas C p. 
 
 Kerrick. William Henry. . . , 
 
 Kerrick, Phebe 
 
 Ketron, Joseph H 
 
 King, William F p. 
 
 King, William Wirt 
 
 King, George Darwin 
 
 Kingsberry, Joseph Thomas 
 
 Kinnman, Manford E 
 
 Kirkpatrick, fames Oscar. . . 
 
 Kirkpatrick. Elbert M 
 
 Kirn, George John 
 
 Kitchen, Joseph L 
 
 Knapo. Charles E. 
 
 Kneeland, Edith 
 
 Krch, H p. 
 
 Kring, Frank. 
 
 Kring William H 
 
 Kuhl, Lydia Melinda 
 
 485 Kuhl, Mary H 124 
 
 590 LaCrone, John 814 
 
 715 Lackland, Melvin Porter, ... 156 
 
 788 Lackland, Leonard E 519 
 
 63 Lambert, Russ 74 1 
 
 254 . Landon, Eugene 459 
 
 201 Lane, Frederick Hiram.. ..560 
 
 761 Lanning, W. H 624 
 
 921 Lapham, Martin Akers 14 
 
 138 Larmour. J. M 907 
 
 697 Lavers, Enoch Cook 303 
 
 339 Law, Robert p. 202 
 
 844 Lawrence, John F 729 
 
 39 Lawrence, Libbie 157 
 
 47 Leaton, James p. 202 
 
 337 Leach, John J 340 
 
 22 Ledbetter, John J 789 
 
 202 Lenig, Frank 34 1 
 
 300 Lewis, Adelbert 790 
 
 486 Lee, Albert 403 
 
 1 23 Libby, Charles E 304 
 
 202 Liddy, James 56 1 
 
 9 1 4 Lilley, George 855 
 
 192 Lindley, Jacob P p. 94 
 
 ,433 Lindsey, William W 158 
 
 672 Little, J, G p. 202 
 
 338 Little, Richard H 815 
 
 487 Livingston, Sigmund 816 
 
 558 Lockwood, David A 370 
 
 19 Loehr. Karl C 762 
 
 488 Loehr. Leon Lee 255 
 
 302 Loebinstein. A p. 202 
 
 202 Logan, S. F p. 202 
 
 812 Logie, J. H 1J9 
 
 813 Long, Charles H 81 
 
 177 Loudon, Agnes Grace 460 
 
ILLINOIS WES LEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 207 
 
 Lowentrout , Otto A 716 
 
 Love. William 461 
 
 Ludlam, Charles S 108 
 
 Luke. Daniel Derondo 305 
 
 Lyda. A. J..^ p. 202 
 
 Lyle. Edward Genard 342 
 
 McAfferty. J. M 650 
 
 McBain.James Afflect Fraser.343 
 
 McCann. Bert H 817 
 
 McCartney. J. Edwin 520 
 
 McCaslin. Mark. 256 
 
 McChesney. S p. 202 
 
 McClanahan. Archie A 688 
 
 McClelland. Robert E 64 
 
 McClure.John F 61 1 
 
 McCormick, Nelson 205 
 
 McCormick. Prof. Henry. . . . 849 
 
 McKay. Robert 140 
 
 McCoy, Lydia 404 
 
 McCoy. Alice 405 
 
 McCoy. James H 632 
 
 McCoy. Albert G 872 
 
 McCracken. George H 56 
 
 McCrae. David Lemont 257 
 
 McCulloch, Laura 306 
 
 McElroy, William Newton.p. 202 
 
 McDaniel, Robert F 521 
 
 McDonald. Duncan 901 
 
 McKee. James Milford 562 
 
 McKennan, Frank B 743 
 
 McLean, John 885 
 
 McMahan, William L 406 
 
 McMasters. Curtis 631 
 
 McMurray, William P 592 
 
 McNaught, Joseph 141 
 
 McNaughton, James 878 
 
 McNulta, Robert P 717 
 
 McNutt. Patterson p. 202 
 
 McVety, Thomas Wilson. . . .908 
 
 Macdonald, Norman 896 
 
 Macintyre. Daniel C 877 
 
 Macintyre. T. M 875 
 
 Mabry, William D 462 
 
 Magin. Louis 563 
 
 Malcom. J. Finley 463 
 
 Mansfield. Charles F 706 
 
 Marsh. Clinton B 407 
 
 Marsh. Walworth N 564 
 
 Marquis. William S 125 
 
 Marquis, Laura Betta 204 
 
 Martin, George A 72 
 
 Martin. George W 591 
 
 Martin, J. H 23 
 
 Marvin. George Wesley 408 
 
 Mason, Allen C 110 
 
 Matheny, Martha 565 
 
 May, Marion, Jr 742 
 
 Mayer, Frederick 566 
 
 Maxwell, David A 897 
 
 Mecham, Elmer E 522 
 
 Meixsell, George P 109 
 
 Melvin, Sylvester 159 
 
 Merrill, William B 567 
 
 Merrill, Frank Warren 909 
 
 Merritt, John H 142 
 
 Methvin. John Jasper 258 
 
 Metz. William S 612 
 
 Meyer, F, W. A 489 
 
 Mihill. D. M 3^4 
 
 Miles, David Thomas 226 
 
 Millikin. James S 11 
 
 Miller, Egbert L p. 202 
 
 Miller, Wave 568 
 
 Miller, James M 143 
 
 Miller. John L 274 
 
 Miller. Daniel C 730 
 
 Miller. George B 633 
 
 Miller. James B 836 
 
 Miller. William L 791 
 
 Mills. Job Smith 464 
 
 Mills, William Wirt 345 
 
 Minard, Charles Wellington . 24 1 
 
 Minear, Anza Letta 193 
 
 Minier, Thomas 634 
 
 Minier. Philip N p. 202 
 
 Mitchell, Edward B 777 
 
 Mitchell. Edwin L. 778 
 
 Mitchell. Walter 434 
 
 Moles, John Wesley 523 
 
 Mooneyham. Robert A 792 
 
 Montague. William L 915 
 
 Montgomery. James 886 
 
 Montgomery, Henry p. 202 
 
 Moore, Robert E 48 
 
 Moore, John 95 
 
 Moore, Elizabeth M 178 
 
 Moore, James A 887 
 
 Moore. Charles Augustus. . . .490 
 
 Moore. William 818 
 
 Morey, Clayton L 491 
 
 Morrasy. Frank W 731 
 
 Morris. Augustine Y Ill 
 
 Morrison. Albert Alexander. .307 
 
 Morrissey, John J 635 
 
 Morse. Irene May 492 
 
 Motter, John Asbury 1 60 
 
 Moulsdale, Charles Gilbert.. 493 
 Mueller, Francis, Jr 179 
 
 Mulkey. Clement L.V 798 
 
 Munsell, Francis E 73 
 
 Munsell, Martha A 160 
 
 Murray. Henry 744 
 
 Muse. William Fee 227 
 
 Myers. Martha Josephine. ■ 409 
 
 Nate. Joseph Cookman 410 
 
 New, Ella 308 
 
 Newman, John M 689 
 
 Newkirk. George R 494 
 
 Nicholson. Thomas 411 
 
 Noll. William Clayton 495 
 
 Norris, Myron Lee 371 
 
 Northrup, James A -65 
 
 Oaks. Lannes P 745 
 
 Oikawa. Tsunekichi 779 
 
 Ollis. William 613 
 
 Oliver. Add 793 
 
 Oiler. Amos 651 
 
 Orebaugh . David 746 
 
 Orme, Thomas Hughes. • .p. 202 
 
 Orr, James Riggs 569 
 
 Orr, Thomas Edwin 496 
 
 Osawa, Yeizo 747 
 
 Osborn. Richard 58! 
 
 Owen. Wesley 819 
 
 Palmer. Rev. George R. • .p. 202 
 
 Palmer. John M p. 202 
 
 Pancake. Joseph F 15 
 
 Park. William G 524 
 
 Parkhust. Frederick S 570 
 
 Parkinson. Charles W 161 
 
 Parmenter, Charles Sylvester. 228 
 
 Parr, Franklin J 718 
 
 Patterson. Robert W 194 
 
 Patton, Robert Howard .... 229 
 
203 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 Patton. Margaret 275 
 
 Paul. Edward William 163 
 
 Paul. Joshua Hughes 465 
 
 Peacock. Sarah 412 
 
 Peck. George W p. 202 
 
 Peck. Alva B 435 
 
 Perfect. Thomas H. S 
 
 Perrin. Oliver J 259 
 
 Perrin. Mrs. Harriet Towle..497 
 
 Perrin. John William 309 
 
 Phillips. Abram L 680 
 
 Phillips. J. J p. 202 
 
 Phillips. Isaac N p. 202 
 
 Pike. Randolph A 582 
 
 Pitts. John J 673 
 
 Pilcher. James E 879 
 
 Pillsbury. Maud 276 
 
 Poe. Laura ! 525 
 
 Pogue, John R 708 
 
 Pollock. Nellie 413 
 
 Pollock. Thomas L 837 
 
 Porter. Robert B 66 
 
 Porter. Walker G 748 
 
 Potter. Br;5dford S 856 
 
 Potter. Ralph F 414 
 
 Potter. Arthur William 436 
 
 Powell. John Wesley 847 
 
 Powell, Herbert 260 
 
 Powles. George A 372 
 
 Power. John J 415 
 
 Presby. Joseph Waite 498 
 
 Priest. John W 526 
 
 Probasco. Lewis B 763 
 
 Probasco. J. William 527 
 
 Procunier. Charles Ault 528 
 
 Puiliam. James M 614 
 
 Pumphrey, William H 162 
 
 *Pusey.Wm. W. (omitted)p. 210 
 
 Putnam. William Henry 898 
 
 Quinn. James 277 
 
 Radebaugh, William 918 
 
 Randell. John Walter 674 
 
 Randle. George W 529 
 
 Rayburn. Calvin 126 
 
 Rawlins. B. F p. 202 
 
 Ready, John M 615 
 
 Regan. John F 820 
 
 Redman. Elmer S 466 
 
 Read, Frank C 181 
 
 Reed, Newton B 584 
 
 Reid. Silas H 764 
 
 Reeves, Harry G 24 
 
 Reute^ William Charles. .. .499 
 
 Rich. Arthur William 571 
 
 Richardson. Eben A 675 
 
 Richmond. John Charles. . .310 
 
 Ricks, Manford J 182 
 
 Ricketts, B. Merrill 416 
 
 Riggs. Lewis Warner 311 
 
 Rigg. Norton M 572 
 
 Rishel. Austin C 530 
 
 Risley. Theodore 719 
 
 Richer, Charles E 838 
 
 *Robbins, Henry E. (omit- 
 ted) p. 210 
 
 Roberts. George Henry 437 
 
 Robinson. Thomas L 794 
 
 Robinson, J. H 148 
 
 Roebling, John Augustus — 902 
 
 Roe, E. R p. 202 
 
 Rogers, Mary B 127 
 
 Rogers, Henry H 262 
 
 Rogers, Lewis L 845 
 
 Rohrer, Alvin Fletcher 373 
 
 Rollins. Herbert Mitchell. ... 1 64 
 
 Rood, Edward B 699 
 
 Rose, Edwin 467 
 
 Ross, Kate B 96 
 
 Round. May 112 
 
 Rowell, Frank T 616 
 
 Ruby. William Spencer 218 
 
 Russell, Rolland Augustine. .312 
 
 Russell, George Clifton 880 
 
 Rutledge, William N 25 
 
 Ryan, Albert William 861 
 
 Ryan, Albert Winfield 468 
 
 Ryan, William H 500 
 
 Ryburn. Belle 165 
 
 Ryburn, Jennie May 195 
 
 Sageser, Joseph Smiley 197 
 
 Sahler, Henry A 374 
 
 Salton. George Fletcher 501 
 
 Sammon, Deaghlin G 839 
 
 .Sanford, Amelia E p. 202 
 
 Sargent, James p. 202 
 
 Sargent, John H 749 
 
 Sa'.inier, Andrew J. C 375 
 
 Savitz, Jerohn J 502 
 
 Scanlan, William Richard- . 469 
 
 Scanlan, Wilber S 700 
 
 Schnepp, John H 750 
 
 Scheil. Edwin A 910 
 
 Schuett. Rudolph 573 
 
 Schwer, Charles 652 
 
 Scott. AdolphusG 49 
 
 Scott, John E 82 
 
 Scott, John Harden 196 
 
 Scrimger, George E 97 
 
 Sedore, William M 31 
 
 Seward, Llewilyn 83 
 
 Shay, John H 625 
 
 Shay, Maretta 626 
 
 Shaw. James H 278 
 
 Shelland, J. 98 
 
 Short, William Fletcher 2 
 
 Shryock, Henry William 431 
 
 Shur, Hannah I 74 
 
 Sikes, George W 280 
 
 Sikes,Orilla 279 
 
 Sikes. John H 721 
 
 Silberstein. Julius 574 
 
 Siliiman, Oscar 676 
 
 Simmons, Thomas Harvey. -230 
 
 Simpson. Benjamin F 666 
 
 Simpson. William H 470 
 
 Sinclair, Samuel Bower 281 
 
 Skinner, David S p. 202 
 
 Slack, Hiram W 575 
 
 Sloan, Charles Norton 242 
 
 Smedlev. Warren Fred 576 
 
 Smith, Rev. Philander... p. 202 
 
 Smith, Parmenis 57 
 
 Smith. Jesse p. 202 
 
 Smith, Joseph Alexander. ... 1 1 3 
 
 Smith, Wlliam Albert 114 
 
 Smith, Francis M 313 
 
 Smith, Sheiton L., Jr 707 
 
 Smith, J Patterson 600 
 
 Smith, Anna Pearl 532 
 
 Smith, Homer J 208 
 
 Smyth, William John 850 
 
 Snelling, George 601 
 
 Snoke, David H 376 
 
 Snowdon, John Thomas .... 533 
 
LLINOIS WESLEY AN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 209 
 
 Snyder, Clarence E 577 
 
 Snyder, Kimball P 627 
 
 Spear, Monroe Willis 346 
 
 Spencer, Henry D 593 
 
 Spencer, John O 347 
 
 Spilier, Oscar Calvin Henry. 578 
 ♦Solomon. J.W. (omitted)p. 210 
 
 Sowerby, Albert T 503 
 
 Stahl, Samuel D 681 
 
 Staley. Amos Glide 534 
 
 Stapleton, John 628 
 
 Staymate, Byron F 128 
 
 St. Clair, Peter p. 202 
 
 Sterry. Mary E 535 
 
 Sterling. Thomas 115 
 
 Sterling, Belle 144 
 
 Sterling, John Allen 206 
 
 Stephenson, Christopher W. -617 
 Stevens, Rev. Bishop P. F.p-202 
 
 Stickle, Arthur Luther 207 
 
 Stockton, Alfred A 858 
 
 Stoker, James L 636 
 
 Stokes, Benjamin F 653 
 
 Stone, Henry Orlando .263 
 
 Straight, Dora Philena 231 
 
 Straight, Leonard Arby 314 
 
 Stratton, Frederick Eugene. -903 
 
 Strawn. Alfred T 765 
 
 Strickland, Charles Orlando. . 183 
 Strongman, William Arthur. .863 
 
 Stuart. John 862 
 
 Sudduth , Margaret 1 98 
 
 Sudduth, William Xavier. . . .377 
 
 Sudduth, John W 766 
 
 Super. Charles W 843 
 
 Sutherland. Edward W 602 
 
 Swearingen, Otho D 720 
 
 Sweet, Benjamin A 536 
 
 Symmonds, William 282 
 
 Tanaka, Kashijiro 751 
 
 Tait, Alexander 288 
 
 Taylor. Jam.es B 50 
 
 Taylor, William 471 
 
 Taylor. Albert Wilber 438 
 
 Taylor, David 348 
 
 Tear, John Henry 472 
 
 Temple. Carey 32 
 
 Thomas. Richard S 379 
 
 Thomson. A. H p. 202 
 
 Thomson. Thomas G 315 
 
 Thompson, George John A- -888 
 Thompson, George Samuel.. 378 
 
 Thompson, George K 840 
 
 Thompson. Joseph J 767 
 
 Thompson. John M 637 
 
 Thompson. Hubert J 841 
 
 Thorpe, Francis Newton. •• 219 
 
 Thwing. Edward Payson 857 
 
 Tilley, William Edward 889 
 
 Tilton, George R 682 
 
 Tipton, Harry V 667 
 
 Tinsley, Charles p. 202 
 
 Tobey, Chelius Franklin 184 
 
 Toles, Smith W 380 
 
 Tom.kins, Squire 618 
 
 Trach. George T 504 
 
 Trammell. George W 795 
 
 Tucker. William Bowman...4I7 
 
 Underwood. Sara J 243 
 
 Vale, I. Edwin 619 
 
 Vancil. Burke 732 
 
 Van Deventer. RoUand 722 
 
 Van Ingen. Bart C 579 
 
 Vanneman. Albert W 284 
 
 Van Pelt, Samuel I 16 
 
 Van Pelt. Mary Lenore 199 
 
 Van Pelt. John Robert 220 
 
 Van Pelt. Sara E 283 
 
 Van Petten Edwin Malaney..264 
 
 Van Petten. Bina 316 
 
 Van Sant. Charles Franklin. .505 
 
 VanSlyke. E 537 
 
 Van Wie. Charles Benjamin. 538 
 
 Van Winkle. Micajah 51 
 
 Vasey. Lucius 67 
 
 Vasey. George p. 202 
 
 Vernon. Horace Kelley.-.p. 202 
 
 Vogel. George G p. 202 
 
 Waddell. Robert H 317 
 
 Wade. Richard A 594 
 
 Wagoner. Lewis A 52 
 
 Wakefield, James Alexander. 166 
 
 Walford. Anthony 318 
 
 Walker. Isaac D 585 
 
 Walkley. Albert 99 
 
 Wallace. D.A p. 202 
 
 Want, Nannie M 439 
 
 Wardl°, James F 418 
 
 Ware, Samuel M 185 
 
 Ware. Edward Newell 319 
 
 Warfield. James W 16 
 
 Warlow. George L 595 
 
 Warner. Peter 4 
 
 Warner. William Arthur .... 440 
 
 Washburne. William H 540 
 
 Wasmuth. Hattie May 441 
 
 Watson, Altha J 321 
 
 Watson. Laura 320 
 
 Watson. Harvey Sherman. .419 
 
 Way man. John p. 202 
 
 Webster. Thomas p. 202 
 
 Wehrman. Charles 864 
 
 Weir, Samuel 904 
 
 Welch. R. B 145 
 
 Welch. John D 709 
 
 Weldon, Lincoln H 638 
 
 Weldon. Hon. Lawrence, .p. 202 
 
 Weld. Cynthia W p. 202 
 
 Welles. Frank Edwin 285 
 
 Wells, Cornelia B 349 
 
 Welty,Sain 209 
 
 Wertz, Charles F 596 
 
 Wetzel, George Theily 420 
 
 Wheeler. Frank W 381 
 
 Wheeler. D. E p. 202 
 
 Whiting. Henry C 130 
 
 White. Charles Gershom . . .905 
 
 White. Mrs. Hannah L 506 
 
 Whitlock. Elias D p. 202 
 
 Whitmer. Leroy G 822 
 
 Whitmore. William Wallace539 
 
 Whitney. Henry C 846 
 
 Whorrell. Charles W 473 
 
 Wiedemann, Charles W. . . .768 
 
 Wight, John Fletcher 265 
 
 Wilbur. C. F p. 202 
 
 Wilcox. Frank T 350 
 
 Wilcox. Myron Chesterfield. 287 
 
 Wilder. William H 84 
 
 Wiley. Thomas R 69 
 
 Wilkinson. James Edward. .890 
 Williams, Robert E.. Jr. . . .701 
 
 Williams. Marshall W 586 
 
 Williams. Richard Edward. .351 
 
210 
 
 HISTORICAL SKETCH AND. ALUMNI RECORD. 
 
 Wiiiiamson. William 54 1 
 
 Willey. John Heston 286 
 
 Willis. Richard Henry 919 
 
 Willis. John G 752 
 
 Willis. Jay Vincent 68 
 
 Wills. Charles 1 780 
 
 Wills. James Almedy 1 67 
 
 Wilson. Andrew Stickle. ... 40 
 Wilson. William Shamburg. 75 
 
 Wilson. James Oliver 129 
 
 Wilson. Charles Crum 442 
 
 Wilson. Oscar '. . . 382 
 
 Wilson. W. J 580 
 
 Wilson. George M 796 
 
 Wilson. D p. 202 
 
 Wilson. D P p. 202 
 
 Winter. John F 3'1 
 
 Wogan. Henry Francis 421 
 
 Woodworth. Bert 289 
 
 *Wood.AlpheusH.(omit'd)p. 210 
 
 Wood. Preston. Jr 443 
 
 Wood. -Henry Willis 383 
 
 Wood. Alien W 821 
 
 Wood. J. P p. 202 
 
 Wright, Rev.G. W. T . . . . p. 202 
 
 Wright. David L 797 
 
 Wyatt. Edwin H 26 
 
 Yardley. Charles 444 
 
 Yocum. Luella. 232 
 
 Young. William D. H 20 
 
 Young. Hattie Ella 290 
 
 Young. Stellula Deborah.. ..322 
 
 Young, Frank 603 
 
 Young. Miles K 733 
 
 Zerbee. Alvin Sylvester. . . .848 
 Zimmerman. Charles B. . . .753 
 
 Addenda. 
 
 IThese names were omitted by error from the class lists.) 
 
 922. William W. Pusey. B. S . 1870. Odell. Illinois. 
 
 Lawyer: farmer. 
 
 923. Peter R. Erling. ^h. B.. 1883. Chicago. Illinois. 
 
 924. Thomas Griffith. Ph. B.. 1883. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
 
 Ph. D.: clergyman. 
 
 925. Alpheus Hamilton Wood. ( B A.. Battle Creek), M. A. Lamar, 
 
 Missouri. 
 
 926. John Roe Battisby, Ph, B.. 1885. M, A. Chatham. Ontario. 
 
 Clergyman, 
 
 927, David Johnstone Caswell, Ph. B.. 1888. Brantford, Ontario. 
 
 Clergyman. 
 
 928. Henry Edwin Robbins, M, A. (on examination). Biology. 1893 
 
 Lyons, Iowa, 
 
 929, John Solomon, B. A,, 1895. Deer Creek, Illinois. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
ILLINOIS WE5LEYAN UNIVERSITY. 
 
 211 
 
 General Index. 
 
 1. Addenda 210 
 
 2. Alumni, Alphabetical Index of 163-200 
 
 3. Alumni Association 161 
 
 4. Alumni Record •. 163 
 
 5. Alumni of the Law School .• 190 
 
 6. Board of Instruction ; 156-158 
 
 7. Board of Instruction at the present time 159-160 
 
 8. Corporation: ' 
 
 (1) Members 153 
 
 (2) Officers •. 154 
 
 (3) Present Corporation J 55 
 
 9. Degrees given on Examination 197-200 
 
 10. Degrees, honorary, pro merito and ad eundem gradum 201-202 
 
 1 1. Founders : 
 
 ( 1 ) Brief sketches of 42-82 
 
 (2) Object of 6-7 
 
 12, Graduates, brief sketches of Ill- 152 
 
 13, History of the Corporation: 
 
 (1) Charter 9-12 
 
 (2) President Munsell '. 13-16 
 
 (3) President Fallows 17 
 
 (4) President Adams 18-19 
 
 <5| Laboratories and Museum 21-28 
 
 (6) Observatory and Libraries 31-32 
 
 <7) Wilder Reading Room and Wesleyan Lecture Course 33-34 
 
 (8) Admission of Ladies and Woman's Educational Association. . 35 
 
 (9) College of Law 38 
 
 (10) Non-Resident and Graduate Department 38 
 
 (11) Preparatory Department 39 
 
 ( 12) The College Paper and University Press- 41 
 
 1 4, Preface 2 
 
llftjor ?owoll, Chair of Pioldgy. End rent Licicntict, 
 
 Prcf, Walte, now Professor of ?JOdern Unnc^iugGBj TTniverslty of Michlsar, 
 
 Trrfo-'Tv, TVi>!r»"! rov; c^r^r of Or>c1:. T?53le-'-;-tn Urireroity, ?^iddletowr.. 
 
 rrcf. C^lJ'A'oll. new chs-ir of Er.slish, re?uv<w, 
 
 ?rof. Steele, vjovf chair of Lr.tin VandorMlt T^rrversity. 
 
 T^iT r , ■'rcqx^es. once roted rJreeT. schoicj*. 
 
 
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 p*3!vr-siTY C7 i:r.:;3:: L:::^ft^/ 
 
 DEC :d y i9;^u 
 
cciE or t'h; UiT rACT^T.TY ii, ir^'^ic rL^Lir'A", 
 
 Judge Cwon T. Rceve«. A/'., LL.D. A.^'Chio ^osl9yn.n TTnivorsity . 
 
 Frcndnent Iz^jer in Plooniifi;ton slrce 1855. Cfrce 
 
 1891 Doan of the Law Echccl. A irian of erainent 
 le^al aMllty, 
 
 Judge r.Gii^or "'. Perjardn, A.''., LI..D.. "Profossor Feal Property :ir.d 
 
 CoriRtitTticnal Law. A.M. froi^i Arr.horst . T.T.,?. T:i''lr.ols 
 TTeslGyan, for yerrs prominer.t attorney Plocrdncton, 
 Tl'"ino:3s. Ti rst Eean of Lew School Tllincns Tesleyan, 
 
 Connected with school as Dean end teacher thirty-soven 
 ye?.rs, AxJthor of "Principles of Contracts", "Principles 
 of Siilos". A rr.n of r^reat legal ah'lity. 
 
 Chtjrles L. Cf-fen. A;B., A.'*. fKcrvara) . Tlr.j^lnents, Gorrorot ens end 
 and Dar.e.£0s. Pr'rrlncnt rvttcrney for tv/erty-fnve 
 
 years . Blocrrington, Illinois. 
 
 Roland A. R-^-ssell. A.F., LL.P. IlJ.incis Feeleyf-n. Criminal Law 
 
 Wills and Prcbato Practicd, For several tonriS County 
 Judge "cLoan County, Recentlijr appainted s^'T'^rintendent 
 F.ef omaton'' at Pontiac. 
 
 John J:;unes "orrisse^', LT,,??, Agency, ?: rtnerKhip and Insurance. 
 Prcnlnent lr.'r;,'-er urd teacher of law, 
 
 ^. B. Leach, A.E.. LL.P. Personcl Prorerty, Suretyship. Sales and 
 Eon-efitic Kels.t:onr. A."". T^nnversity of Illinois. 
 
 A. J, '^e^^jjirig. P. A., LL.B., Elementary Law. 
 
 Hal }t. Stone, LJ..P. p. cf I. Law School. Evidences, Torts. 
 
 Hiirvey Hart. A.P. . LL.P. Instn'ctor, School of Law. 
 
 Jacoh P. Lirdley, Ar^', LL.P. A>Pi PUt. tmi ' * . Elenentan/ Law 
 
 and Contracts. Teacher for t'A'e'^ty yerrs in School 
 
 of L^w, &.S'j State Pniversity of Trdiana. 
 
TROMTTTTTT ALT!^rHI— CrLI£GE OT IJCERAI. ARTZ, 
 
 TTr T^TOIS TOSLEYATT r>TIVniGTTY. 
 
 Cor.gro'^-^i..^:. John A. c-trrlDr-G 
 
 Bishop .Tcsdph ITartzcll 
 
 Thcrcas A. Cterlins, C. Dakcta, inoinlDor State Const! trtiryrcl Conver.ticn — 
 
 State Soniitorj and proirlnent leader. 
 
 Ex-Co verncr Jo soph Fifftr 
 
 Lor. TTerrickj Blooraington, TH.j prordnent leader , stock niissr. 
 
 John F. Winter., fcrnsr member Illincis Legielatvre, 'Consnl at Rotterdam 
 ur^der President Harriccn 
 
 V^illisr V, Ccttreil, Chicago, Jiidge of !\inicipal Court 
 
 a. S. TTilscn, Gr'.rrx City, Ta. , District .Tirdge. 
 
 Robert E. T'oore, Lincoln, Meb. >'3rber cf TTebraska Legislnturu, i^v^vcruj. 
 
 times raycr of city, prominent business r^n. 
 
 Eilcs Yci;rc Lilian, Ililv/aukee. Prcn:inent odx'.c-tcr and editor, 
 
 Fredari-cl: G. .TackriSn, ?ft. Plsastint, lu. Prominent physician and 
 
 Tn sanity T^irrert. 
 
 Bavi.l ?!. Harris, 3t, Lovis. Prominent sdvcr-;tor and editor, ^n 
 
 the Prestyj^cri£.n church, 
 
 E. X, Kirkpatrick, Parma, Idaho. Prominent financier. 
 
 Rev. J. C. "^llscn, deceaseiJ. rcrmicr prominent paster in >Tew York City. 
 
 Pjbv. Frank Crano, Chicar^o. Prominent rdr.ister. ] 
 
 T'iliiam Xavier: Suddrth. Graduate Student University of Fdnnesota. ^ \ 
 
 Graduate Phi ladeiphia Cental College. Also of Physicians and^of TTniver3.\lj 
 
 Sturgeons, "Mew York City. Seven years one cf the editors cf the annual "- -^ -, -. 
 
 Vany ether prominent ministers, lavr.'ers and educetcrs might be m^enticed/ ( 
 
 A FEW CF CTTR TTCTT-RESTrE">!T OUrrj^TES, 
 
 Tr. Super, fonr.er President of Chio ^'nivernity. 
 
 Rev. Thomj-s Fichclson, Tec. poard of Educ.-^tion, TTew York. 
 
 Dr. Caru^el T7ier, College Presi:!ent, 
 
 Lr. T. ?^'cTntyro, Vsr^'- prcmdnent educator, Toronto , Can. 
 
 Rev. George Daniel, C^e cf the able preachers cf Canadi&n Methodism.. 
 
 J. H . Ttentgom:er5'. professor cf Physics and Chemistry, Allegheny Coiiego. j 
 
 John Tssley Powell, y..A., TlTinris Tesleyan, 1877, Ph.D. TTriversity cf j 
 
 Heidelberg, 18c6i LL.D., Harvard, 1386. Member cf TTational Academy cf j 
 
 Science. President of "Anthrcfolcgical Society, "^/ashin^ton. Head cf j 
 
 'the fire-!: G^:';rlo<:'ico.l Cvrvsv of T',3, Yo+ed Cci^ntLot, ; 
 
TTor- ;.„:,■» .V,,r+ r*, ,1->,v<f 
 
 (cont5 nued) 
 
 Frajncie n« Feattie. Prominent clorgynian, professor of ZyatevafA c: 
 
 Thcclony for j'onrs in PrcBbyterian Theolocical Cor.inan/, \'illo, Ky 
 
 rilllan A, Ryan. Prnrrinent Clnreyrxin in r!^isccT,al Church. Er.lr.th, "irn. 
 Author, 
 
 Tchn E+r^'iirt. rniversity ?recidont, lo'.va. 
 
 J'^, ~, "uCoy, One of the loading v.:sn and clercynicn ir ^'nited Preabyteri&n 
 
 church, 
 
 iU G. Johnscn. Pufftily, >\ v, PresiJert of Ger.inan/, editor of 
 
 Ciirront Hir^tor*/. 
 
 '; : 5S A. '^onre. Collose prcfe-ssor, Crcens^orc, Ala, 
 
 David A. ''axwell. '^ntar^c. Cupt, of Treininc School for Teachers, 
 
 T:illi:ar. Henry Putneii:, TTew York City, Fim- of Pottsr & Piitnar , Puhliahers 
 
 r. r. p.ovurd, Editor California Chrfctir.r Arlvocato, Sr-.-^iPranciccc, Calif. 
 
 PresiJer.t Edvdn A. Schell, frr-.«r '.•ec^ve Gccre+u.ry . ncv/ Presidert of 
 Iowa Tesleyan T'niversit^'-. 
 
 ?'illirr: L, T'onttgi^e. Csvcral years professor of -'odern Langnagues in 
 Amherst Col^'.ego. 
 
 i]L* :((:•: -I- il; A -Ir 4: '!(; :|c 
 
 FnKJ.EE GTTTr.ETJTs 
 Vice-President Adlai P. Stevenson; Plcoiningtor.- ■"''■'. 
 Dr. Bradford, president Epworth University, and Keny ethers prominent 
 in all walks of life. 
 
SOME or ^'T UT ALTT'^TT. 
 rdchard Cs^omo— .n^d£0 of i.uvox'ir.i- Court, Caattla, Tac^^. 
 VJesl^y ".. Cwer.-Dis-.rict .rd Si^pori- r Judge, Tcthnus of Tanm^^/ 
 '"ecTGc ?. aille8re--/ir.siot£ir.t Atty Cen. , Spr^ncfieia, " • 
 C^arloD F. T^ansfio^d— " 
 
 Cl-arl03 C. Crais- Ha-didatc for Euprorce Judeo, HUncis. 
 rinclow Evans. Covnty .Tudce> ?oorlr., Til. 
 Phillip ^. Bnrnec— " " Lav-rorce^n V'o 
 
 T. T. Church -- « " Alfido 
 
 Tv.scola 
 Blocmirgton 
 
 ,T. T. chadvdck - 
 
 r. . A. F.ussoll 
 
 Ttorer Hell 
 
 _ • "'. Clark© 
 
 Fred C. "'^il'' 
 
 Loe Ono&l Brovrn 
 
 r.eed Croen 
 
 At oc filer - - 
 
 r . F . Z^ a'^_,T.".&.* 8- - 
 
 « 
 
 Covnt-.- " 
 
 II n Danvj.llc 
 
 D8m, Leader, Illincis Legislature 
 TtenlDer Illinois Sonate 
 Jvdge cf City Cr:vrt, Litchfield 
 Ttemher Illinois LceislatTsrre, ''^ --^ - - 
 
 ^ ' 
 
CrT 'T'TITP.C OF TLM^^TC TTrTYA^' FACnJ.'^. 
 
 R. C. Gruhnir., A.^'., Ph.E. Chair cf c' ei iotry. A.". Ari.h«r8t; 
 
 ?Y.Z. , -Tohn HopV.lns. 
 
 mberT- Fern:sch, A.B., A.M. Prcfosscr of Hrosl^. A.P. and A/j. , 
 
 Chi- ■Wenleyr-r.. H-ld chair of C-rook 
 
 1^ years Adriar Cc liege, Adriar, '-'ich. Two 
 yenrs rost-sradv-te work Leipzig TTnav-rsi + y. 
 Ctn died' under t^rofesscrs PrugiTfin. Tinc'iach, 
 end Tiichsm-th. Cince 1894 Trcfo- 5cr in Illincic 
 
 T^eslc.'T.n, Crreek and Cerriin. 
 
 r^,.^,,.. ,, ", .v.-.^+in, A.E.J A.". Chic TeslevExn T^niversity. T^.air of Lntin. 
 
 1387-P9 TnstriJctor in Orr^fili last ""laine Conforence 
 Serninory, Riclceport, Tte. lS^'9-1891 Eerf.rtn:ont cf 
 
 I.titin and ^-raek in Tilton S-?riins.ry, '''^Iton, TT.TI. 
 Chcir cf Lr.tin in "^asleyfen Acaderr^y, TTllTDerhur., T.'&sb. 
 
 1891-1899. 18999-1901, post-srad^.^ate student 
 
 fit Johns. Ho-l;ins. Latin , Clrcel: and Sanscrit. 
 Fellow in Lr.tin Johns Forl.-inc, 1901. Troin 1901 
 to the rresont, chri r cf Latin. Illincls rosle^-rn. 
 
 T^en-ilDor'cf the Aneilc&n ^lilologi cal AssociaticnsLnd 
 Classical Associate rn cf laddle TTest and South. 
 
 O'^f rvild, P.C.. "f^.S. Feddins College. Ch.£iir cf '{uthenatics, sr.c 
 
 Astrcnory. For two yerr-. Tnstnictcr in ^'r+hcT-ci cs3 >^ 
 
 :^nd Enclish in T^rer-ratory Pep &rtir.ent', Heddins 
 College. 189 3-19 C 4 Chair of T'atherraticr, Fed ding 
 
 College . Has done pcst-criidi^ate worV. in 
 
 !''£itheTTiatics ir Frdversity of Chicago. 1905 to the 
 
 prerent, ch?ir of '^rther.atics at TllincSs "^esleyan, 
 
 ?.C. Lcnerville, Th.^. rc^a-v/ , :..-\ Chicago rniversfty. ^f gl"* ^ . 
 
 Political Science one yecr in PeTauw. 1903-05 cht'ir 
 of Oratory . T!t. Fnion College. 1905-07, chair 
 
 cf English Fi7chanan College, re. 1907-09, chair 
 
 of English, x^ehraslca TTesle^'ar. 1909 choir cf 
 
 English , Illinois resleyan. /«4jXpne pcst-rr£.duate wcrl 
 at^'F-rvard TTpiversity. Alrcst^npleted his Fh.D. 
 
 degree there. Fas done rcuch worl: as institute instructor 
 in Chic; Pennsylvania and Indiana. Has dene ccnsider- 
 
 ahle nagazine work and '^-^^ :r>>:c locturing. 
 
 F. E. "JTood, A.B.. ^iiV^A^ ' Chair of Flology 11 in.is -esleyan^^s 
 
 done r.uch rost-graduo.te work at Fniversity of ^^ichigar, 
 also some at Fnivorrity of imnris. Per past four 
 
 years has hccn doing zoolcgioal work on the Illinois 
 Fatural Fistcrv Curvey, making a particular study of 
 fishes a»d n.araals of the str-te. A hock en "I!ar.T,als 
 cf the "Prairie Section" now hoing puhlished. "Professor 
 ^cod is a linguist of no rr.ean ahility. Spent seven 
 
 years in Japan as a teacher . 
 
Charle. I. Tccert, A.?., A.T^., ^Ki,.- uc ted JjJ^^^^^J,;,. :^- i 
 
 7chr.8 T^opl-.^ns. :...., T^^fversity of Hoi 'i'- . ors- ^ 
 
 Fcr twcr.ty years "Prcfensor cf nor&nce I^^ ■ ' ni- ^ 
 
 iv^d 
 
 vcraity of Towa. "^o yer.rs chr.5 r of 
 
 . ::r;;os, TfendorUlt T'nivors--ty. Editor of 
 
 -3 French and aermn ClasBic*. Alen 
 
 author cf text-toolcs. r-errr;£n and French. 1^Q« 
 
 4o rrer.ent, r- - rf -r.nch end Hiotcry , TUincio 
 TTesleyan, 
 
 r T v-^rrev AB ATU.G.T,-, Chair of Foliti cal Eccnomy, SocioloCT' 
 F. L. Fame,.. A.B.. A,.^. ;;.i,3,,j,y, a.B. ^rppr To^va University. 
 
 Strdort at Garrott Hhlical Inntitiite and Chicago 
 ^Tr/rersity Divinity Cchcol. E.T.T^. from Bostrn 
 
 T'niversity Theolosical Sch-. 1, AJ^. resident work 
 Pr,3ton rn:versity. Othor p -st-sradrste work at 
 'Poston and Chicaso TT^iversities , alrost cotapleted 
 his work for Ph.D. ^as T'rincipal of schools at 
 rienv^llo, T^inn., Frofesscr cf Biblical Literatvre 
 PhilcscT^hy, Fainr:0imt Collese, Wichita, Xans.j-liw . 
 
 years as F^stor in T/dnncsota. r.ccently pvhliohed ] 
 
 Hv.ck's "S^-nopais cf the First Three Gospels i^^ En-l: ?•.-.• ; 
 
 Arthur G. Ctillhamer, P.£, A.V.. , chair cf Physics. B ^. . "^j.]!;:^'^^^^^^ | 
 
 TTesleyan. A. 1'. , Chicaco T'niversity. i\lso Felio./ , 
 
 at Ch:crro diversity. Associate Professor 
 
 \ Astrc-Ph.vsicD , Chicaco Pniversity rnd as east ant ^t v 
 
 ^ Terkes r,vr.r.;rvatory. Has completed ull -'ork r, \^ 
 
 thesis f^r Ph.D., Chic^cc ^Vdvorsity, j 
 
 Ira Pitner. Household Eccnrrics. nrr..lv.te J^^-^^^"^!;^^?^: " '^;,^!!!:;r^'^*' \ 
 
 uate stv.dent, "teachers College, Golvir:hia Pniversity. 
 Tarcht tv;o years in Levds Institute, Chicaiio. On. 
 
 -ear s±"i Domestic Science, Tllin':is l^cmn's Co.. ego, 
 7ackscnv:no, 1009, Household Econorracs , Tl mcis . 
 
 ^esleyan. j 
 
 - -. sv^vely, B. E.S. ; P. Accts. Tr charge of Cormercial Department. | 
 
 Ctvdent at Manchester College, Indiana Hniversaty.. | 
 
 Graduate of Rochester Business Hniversity, J^'-'C^; j 
 
 one year in TTanchcster College, two yer.rs Catcn College, • 
 
 TMnneap'lis, T'dnn. 1909- t^ccher Comr.ercial studies | 
 
 Illinois ''esjeyan. ; 
 
 Tf^co T,rH« T> Pnrt'^r A P., A.". Instructor in English rnd ^Tirtcn', • 
 
 uiss Lyde r.. horxsr. a.-'«, ui, ., _ , a w a ••( T'^Ityi'^-'s 
 
 /"-^erT Tl'';".l? esls^rn, A.B., A.'... i-'-in.-s 
 
 -cJieyan. -^^/^^fe%^ years instructor in English j 
 
 Illinris T!:e^ley;^n. 3 
 
 "is. Tvi,. ^, Eean, P.G, Instrvictcr ^: n j^atin and Hatheratics, i^^^^f^* \ 
 
 ' 'c-re-duate of Illinois Fe.leyrn .. Experience as teacher 
 
 in puhlic schools, high scv^^l. 1^^^ - r..tr^'ctcr •, 
 
 Tl'inv-^is "Weclevan. . I 
 
 Hfiss I^.th Hemon^-ay. . m.tnictcr in Elocution r,nd Literature. Extensive j 
 
 ccurses in Literat^^re, TTorthwestern Hniversity. i 
 
 Graduate of Craimcck Schrcl of Cratory. Epeeial student ^ 
 
 in Oratory and Literature, Ch: cagc._ jTceuni i-nd ■ 
 
 Chautauqua reader cf resognized ahr-^^'t^'. j 
 
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