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ROSE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
MEMORIAL VOLUME

EMBRACING

A History of the Institute
A Sketch of the Founder

TOGETHER WITH

A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY

AND OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST

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TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA
1909

Allen County Public Library

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TYPOQRAPHERS

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TO THE ALUMNI
OF ROSE
This Volume is Dedicated

PREFACE.

The preparation of this volume was undertaken with the
view of presenting a brief sketch of the work and the activi-
ties of Rose Polytechnic Institute and the results attained
during the first quarter century of its operation. In gather-
ing the material for it, a number of documents pertaining
especially to its early history appeared to be of such interest
that to incorporate them in the publication seemed desirable.
The Historical Notes by S. S. Early, the Inaugural Address
by President Thompson, and the Will of Chauncey Rose
are among these. They present such a view of Mr. Rose's
intention, of the early history of the Institute, and of the
original plan of organization, that in the light of the more
recent history it can be easily judged whether the institution
has fulfilled early expectations.

Biographical sketches of members of the Board and
Faculty have been limited to those who have served, but are
no longer living or in service. Much of the historical mat-
ter has been compiled by Mr. W. C. Ball, who carefully
searched voluminous original records to gather material,
and to him especially our thanks are due.

The preparation of the biographical dictionary of
Alumni presented difficulties; as many who were urgently
solicited to do so did not furnish data, a large part of the
material had to be taken from the Institute records. Errors
in dates may therefore appear here and there. It is be-

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lieved, however, that in the main the records are accurate
and fairly complete.

To give extended biographies would have made the vol-
ume too large. The biographical notes were therefore com-
pressed as much as possible. To Mrs. S. P. Burton credit
is due for having done a large part of this work.

Prof. J. A. Wickersham critically read much of the
material, and Prof. J. B. Peddle, '88, gave counsel and aid
in the planning and preparation.

Mr. F. Pote, '06, gathered most of the statistics for the
brief history of the Institute organizations. The history of
fraternal organizations and Greek letter societies has been
very fully recorded in the several volumes of the Modulus;
as most of the Alumni have these, their history has not been
included in this volume.

That this history is incomplete, we know, but trust that
it may break the way for future publications more compre-
hensive and accurate, and may knit more firmly the bond
that unites the Alumni and friends of Rose.

C. L. M.

April, 1909.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE

Historical Review 9

Chauncey Rose, Biographical Sketch 17

Will oe Chauncey Rose 28

History of the Foundation oe the Institute 32

Articles oe Association 40

Inaugural Address oe President C. O. Thompson . . 44

Board oe Managers 70

Roster oe Board oe Managers 86

Past Presidents, Biographical Sketches 88

Thomas Gray, Biographical Sketch 94

Roster oe Ofeicers and Faculty 99

Statistical History 103

Institute Organizations 106

Biographical Dictionary oe Alumni 119

Index 264

THE ROSE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE.

A BRIEF HISTORICAL REVIEW
By William C. Ball, 1909.

Chauncey Rose, founder of the school that bears his
name, received in boyhood the Hmited education afforded
by a Connecticut village school. Beyond that he was self-
taught in the practical school of experience. His business
activities here in the Wabash Valley in that early day
brought him into daily contact with men engaged in various
industries and doing their work under adverse circum-
stances, for they were all pupils together in the hard school
of experience, where the tuition fees are proverbially high.

Mr. Rose's activities were manifold, such as would nat-
urally engage the attention of an aggressive, enterprising,
masterful man. What his hands found to do he did with a
will. He worked with his helpers. But he was constantly
confronted with the fact that his labors were made more
difficult by lack of facilities, and especially by lack of train-
ing or of adequate training in their special vocations by the
men on whom he was forced to rely for assistance. Assist-
ants he secured, as the scope of his work broadened, and
they were willing workers, and capable, and many of them
trained in their trades ; but it was borne in on him constantly
that development of his enterprises lagged for lack of men
schooled to do their appointed work in the quickest, best,
and cheapest way.

Consequently, when he began, late in life, to bestow on
the question of helpfully disposing of his property the same
prudent forethought he had exercised in its acquisition, it
was altogether natural that he should conceive the idea of

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founding a school where young men should be taught those
things that had cost him and his associates so dearl3\

Brooding over this idea for several years, he finally
called together a few of his trusted friends and associates
for conference. In the historic library and work room of
his home, which had been for years the real business heart
of the growing town, where scores of enterprises had been
considered, these friends met at his request. He told them
of his plans and asked them to cooperate with him in their
formulation. All of them were younger men, and he de-
sired to form them into a body corporate, which should be
self-perpeti.ating, for the organization and establishment
and maintenance of a school for the teaching of the indus-
trial sciences, so called.

Repeated conferences were held, for the idea was novel.
How new it all was people of the present generation will find
it hard to realize. In the early seventies of the nineteenth
century, education, as it now exists, was almost unknown.
Schools and colleges abounded, but they were schools of
letters. Language, modern and ancient history, philosophy,
and many other branches, including mathematics, and in a
theoretical way entirely, the sciences were taught. But of
schools where the industrial sciences should be taught, theo-
retically and practically, heads and hands educated together,
there were only a few. And these were new, altogether in
an experimental stage, and had as yet far from demonstrated
their practicability. So it was essentially a voyage of ex-
ploration to which Mr. Rose invited his friends. The course
is fully charted now, and very largely by the Rose Poly-
technic Institute.

On the loth of September, 1874, articles of incorpora-
tion were adopted for the establishment of "an institution
for the intellectual and practical education of young men,"
to be known as the "Terre Haute School of Industrial
Science," and to be administered by a board of managers.
On October loth the board organized with Chauncey Rose,

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President ; Demas Deming, Treasurer, and William K.
Edwards, Secretary. January nth, 1875, the cornerstone of
the main edifice was laid with appropriate ceremony, and
the name of the school was changed by the managers, over
the protest of Mr. Rose, to "The Rose Polytechnic Insti-
tute." June 13th he resigned the presidency on account of
age and infirmities, and died the next August.

His bequests to the school include the grounds, the main
building, the shop building, sums for equipment and main-
tenance, and a productive capital of about five hundred thou-
sand dollars. His will made the Institute residuary legatee
of his estate. Since that time a bequest has been received
from the will of Josephus Collett, who was Mr. Rose's
successor as President, of $50,000. Many gifts of valuable
machinery, apparatus, and books have been added to the
equipment of the shops, laboratories, and library.

The Institute of to-day consists of one large three-story
academic building with a basement story, for offices, recita-
tion rooms, library, laboratories, models, cabinets, museum,
etc. ; a two-story shop building for practice in wood and
metals, including a smithy and foundry, besides power and
lighting and heating plants ; chemical laboratory with office,
store room and recitation room ; gymnasium with locker
room, rubbing rooms, and shower baths.

Rose Polytechnic was formally opened for instruction
March 7, 1883, at which time President Charles O. Thomp-
son, formerly principal of the Free Institute of Technology
of Worcester, Massachusetts, made the inaugural address.

President Thompson's experience at Worcester was sup-
plemented by a tour of observation abroad, where he went
expressly to study European schools of technology. He
embodied the results of his experience and tour in the plan
of instruction that he formulated for the new school, and
which is substantially followed at present. Unfortunately,
President Thompson lived only long enough to see his work
begun. July, 1886, Dr. T. C. Mendenhall was elected his

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successor, and served until 1890, when he took charge of
the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. Dr. H. T.
Eddy filled the presidency for three years, 189 1-4, when
Dr. C. L. Mees, the present incumbent, was elected.

The Polytechnic is purely a school of technology. Its
courses include instruction in mechanical, civil, and electrical
engineering, architecture, and chemistry. Coincident with
this instruction is included actual shop and field work, such
as a commercial graduate may be engaged in, although no
aim is made at proficiency ; but at the end of his course the
student should be as well equipped as the journeyman at the
conclusion of his term as apprentice. Shop work as given
at Rose provides enough variation from theoretical study so
as to keep the student's feet in contact with the earth.

One of the gratifying proofs of the Institute's training
is to be found in the fact that the graduates are in demand
and at work all over the country, yes, the world, and in even
wider lines than their education at Rose Polytechnic seemed
to fit them.

More students apply for admission than can be accom-
modated. One million dollars can be wisely expended for
buildings and equipment, and the endowment fund must be
increased if all deserving applicants are to be received; for
the monetary cost of each student to the Institute per year
is several times in excess of the really nominal tuition fee.

In this era of magnificent gifts to education it would
seem as if persons seeking the safest and largest returns
from their benefactions would increase the facilities of an
institution already doing such work as Rose Polytechnic
rather than to start some new and untried project, and it is
hoped that the work of Chauncey Rose will never be allowed
to lapse for the want of such endowment.

How well the work of the Institute was planned and how
deep and true its foundations were laid is evidenced espe-
cially by two things. First of all is the gratifying fact that
practically all of the graduates of the Rose, scattered as

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they now are all over the world, are engaged in professional
pursuits for which their instruction at the Institute specially
fitted them. Occasionally one, by force of family reasons
or inheritance, has drifted into other pursuits, but the num-
ber of them is very small. Rose Alumni are putting into the
world's work the skill acquired at the Institute.

Another is that in all these years there has been no occa-
sion to materially change the original plan. Changes have
been made, many of them to adapt them to changed con-
ditions. Courses have been rearranged. Old courses have
been amplified or modified as circumstances have required.
New courses have been added. But the general scope has
not been altered. It was started right, and it is right now.
No better statement of the original plan has been made
than that contained in the address delivered by Dr. Charles
O. Thompson, the first President, on the occasion of the
inauguration exercises, March 7, 1883. The occasion was
a notable one. Distinguished men in all walks of life, and
especially educators, were present, drawn by a common
desire to do honor to the memory of Channcey Rose, who
died before the school was opened, as it was denied to Moses
to enter the promised land. Great and widespread interest,
too, was taken because of the novelty of the Institute and
the almost revolutionary courses of study it proposed.
Notable addresses were delivered by Colonel Richard W.
Thompson ; General John Eaton, United States Commis-
sioner of Education ; Dr. Lemuel Moss, President of the
Indiana State University ; Dr. Emerson E. White, President
of Purdue University, and Dr. Barnabas C. Hobbs.

CLASS MEMORIALS.

One of the most gratifying evolutions in the student life
at the Institute has been the complete conversion into con-
structive channels of the destructive rowdyism that has m
the past in most institutions (still does in many) marked
and marred certain anniversarv occasions, notablv Hal-

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lowe'en. Such rowdyism has undergone a transformation
at Rose. Now the ebullient spirits that formerly celebrated
the day by destroying property find better and more lasting
expression in creating it. The administration building, the
campus, the enclosure, and the gates, each now memorize
some class. This is permanent construction, and adds to the
attractiveness of the Institute. It serves a useful purpose,
contributes to the comfort of the undergraduates and the
edification of visitors, and perpetuates the memories of suc-
cessive classes. It links them, so to speak, with the name of
Chauncey Rose, the founder, and enlists them at once into
the noble army of future benefactors of the Institute.
Keeping up the old traditions of secrecy and darkness, the
students now place these useful adjuncts to and adornments
of the Institute in position at night and stealthily. Each
year these class memorials have taken more elaborate and
costly form ; they are now substantial additions to the Insti-
tute. Marking, as they do, a radical change of attitude of
the student body to the school and an entire shifting of the
usual viewpoints, they are veritable mileposts in the path of
progress. They stand for love and loyalty ; represent self-
sacrifice; recognize in a beautiful way the benefactions of
Mr. Rose by seeking to add to them, and furnish touching
testimonials to their realization of the fact that the hand of
Mr. Rose, though long turned to pathetic dust, still leads
them to and makes possible for them lives of greater useful-
ness and worth. All this the discriminating eye can see in
their class memorials.

ALUMNI ACTIVITIES.

Alumni representation on the Board of Managers has
pro^ven of value in bringing to the solution of administrative
problems the minds of men who have been trained in the
school of experience, and it has brought the whole body of
Alumni into closer touch. Tech Clubs scattered all over
the country where Rose men are located have also con-

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tributed to keep alive the interest in their Alma Mater.
Out of all this, and out of the discussions and conferences
of Commencement Week there has grown an organized
effort on the part of the Alumni Association to raise by per-
sistent work among themselves a substantial fund for the
further endowment of the Institute. None knows better
than the man who has taken the course the added burden
that insufficiency of funds has thrown upon the shoulders
qf the Faculty. And they have been keenly alive to the fact
that many earnest and ambitious young men have knocked
vainly at the doors of the Institute because its facilities were
taxed to the limit, and, without lowering the standard of
instruction and so reducing the quality of the product, no
more could be admitted. For it has been the fixed purpose
of the school authorities from the first, and the Alumni have
been especially insistent on this, that under no circumstances
should the standard be lowered. Every change has been to
make the course more complete, as well as more compre-
hensive.

From the first a Rose diploma has been in engineering
and industrial circles a recognized certificate of efficiency
and attainments. Its graduates have been men who could
be depended on by captains of industry, such as could be
safely intrusted with positions requiring technical knowledge
and thorough training.

For several years past Rose has had its capacity taxed to
the limit. On the one hand, it has had a demand for its
graduates greater than it could supply. On the other hand,
it has been forced by the limitation of its facilities to deny
its privileges to worthy and deserving young men. To
enlarge the Institute to meet this double demand has been
the perplexing problem confronting the Board of Managers
and the Faculty, and has been one of the things that have
prompted the Alumni to put their shoulders loyally to the
wheel and their hands to their pockets. Considering the age
of the school, the limited number of its Alumni, and the

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youth of the greater portion of them, what they have so far
accomplished in this direction is highly gratifying.

Among the notable and admirable phenomena of recent
times have been the vast contributions to the cause of edu-
cation. Men of both large and small means have con-
tributed. It is doubtful if, in the entire list of splendid edu-
cational institutions with which the United States is blessed,
there is one where further endowments are more needed and
where such funds would yield larger returns and afford
greater satisfaction to the benefaction in the development of
men and the upbuilding of the country than Rose Poly-
technic Institute.

CHAUNCEY ROSE,
Founder of the Rose Polytechnic Institute.

A Biographical Sketch and Memoir
From Notes by President Thompson (i<

Chauncey Rose, founder of the Rose Polytechnic Insti-
tute, Terre Haute, Indiana, was born in a retired farm house
in the Wethersfield Meadows, in Connecticut, December 24,
1794. He died at his residence, Terre Haute, Indiana,
August 13, 1877. John Rose, his father, was the son of
John Rose, who emigrated from the Highlands of Scotland
early in the eighteenth century. Mary Warner, his mother,
was the daughter of John Warner, of Wethersfield. His
mother died at the age of seventy-two in 1832, and his
father, aged eighty, in 1838. Of such sturdy stock was the
subject of this sketch bom.

Chauncey Rose was one of eight children, six brothers
and one sister, afterward Mrs. Israel Williams. Parental
care was necessarily diffused, and the children of the family
grew up with greater self-reliance and clearer ideas of the
duties of mutual helpfulness than would have otherwise
been the case. To the development of these characteristics
and all the sturdier qualities of mind, time and place both
contributed. The echoes of the War of Independence were
reverberating over the land. A national government was in
the throes of birth. Domestic problems pressed for solu-
tion. A continent whose resources were for the most part
unknown united courageous souls to its conquest. His six
brothers and his sister (Mrs. Israel Williams) all died
before Chauncey, and all were childless. So, when, at the
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age of eighty-three, he died, also childless, he was "the last
of his race." Two of his brothers, George and John, were
successively partners of Stephen Bulkeley, of Hartford,
Conn., and carried on an extensive business in the East
India trade at Charleston, S. C. Before the dissolution of
this partnership, John became a prosperous cotton broker at
New Orleans. After George's death, John removed to New
York, and made a strong impression in financial circles as
one of the ablest business men of his time. When he went
to New York from New Orleans his possessions were esti-
mated to be worth $50,000. At his death his property was
valued at $900,000, a very considerable increase for that
period of simpler and slower as well as more substantial
development.

Chauncey Rose's education was limited to a brief attend-
ance upon the common schools near his boyhood home. It
was rudimentary, but it was thorough as far as it went.
Best of all, it inspired him with a respect and yearning for
knowledge. Probably then and there was implanted in his
receptive mind the germ of a determination to make easier
to travel that pathway to knowledge which his feet could
not tread — a determ.ination that grew and bore fruit many
years later. But though denied those larger opportunities
for education for which he yearned, and from which he
might have been greatly benefited, he did not repine. His
heritage was a rich one, as it was. Endowed with a sound
mind in a sound body, he had courage, self-reliance, integ-
rity, industry, and an indomitable will. Just such men as
he was, cast in the same sturdy mold, were needed in the
ranks of the industrial army marching westward. Broad
and deep foundations were required to secure social, busi-
ness, industrial, and educational systems that would endure.

In 1817, at the age of twenty-three, he came west seeking
a location, first going to Mt. Sterling, Ky., where some
friends resided. The conditions under which he chose Vigo
County for his residence, as told in his own words, are

Chauncey Rose, Biographical Sketch. 19

given in Beckwith's History of Vigo and Parke Counties,
as follows:

" In the fall of 1817, I traversed the States of Indiana, Illinois,
Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama, looking for a location
at which to reside and engage in business. I spent several days at
Terre Haute ; it had been laid out the previous year. The following
winter I spent in Kentucky. Favorably impressed with the location
and the people in and about Terre Haute, I returned and became a
resident in April, 1818. There were but two cabins in Terre Haute,
and the nearest boarding-place was at Fort Harrison, where I
boarded, as did the county officers, at a house kept by Mrs. Stewart.
* * * There were no direct roads. The trip East was made by
way of Louisville, Baltimore, and Philadelphia. It was a source of
great rejoicing when the first steamboat landed at Terre Haute, in
1822. In 1819 I moved to Parke County, and engaged in the busi-
ness of milling. I sawed and furnished the lumber for the court
house erected in the public square ; and I returned to Terre Haute
in 1825."

From that date (1825) Mr. Rose engaged in trade, and
became one of the most popular and successful merchants
of the region. His profits were judiciously invested in land,
which he worked according to the most improved methods,
until, acre by acre, it gradually passed, with the increase of
population, from farm land into city lots. In these and other
ways, open only to those who improve the opportunities of a
new country, he amassed a large fortune.

Mr. Rose came to Indiana about two years after the
adoption of the first State constitution, and, though the
exacting duties incident to a frontier life must have molded
his own character, it can not be questioned that his power
of forming and holding fixed opinions, which were founded
in his absolute integrity and great intelligence, must have
had marked influence upon the new State.

Mr. Rose was foremost in securing the railway trans-
portation in the new State. He bore the principal labor of
building the Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad; his
courage and resolution secured the construction of the road

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by individual subscriptions — largely secured from his
friends by his personal efforts — instead of- by the aid of a
grant of public land, which had not then become the fashion,
and his scrupulous supervision made the road one of the
best and safest in the United States. He contributed largely
to the railroads from Evansville to Terre Haute, from
Terre Haute to Crawfordsville, and from Terre Haute to
Danville, 111., and nothing but the approach of age withheld
him from the same cooperation in building the road from
Terre Haute to St. Louis by way of Vandalia.

Mr. Rose was never indifferent to the influence of re-
ligious institutions on a growing community. He con-
tributed liberally toward the expense of nearly every church
edifice in Terre Haute, not failing to recognize the equal
claims of the colored people. He was always a pretty reg-
ular attendant on church till within a few years of his death.
His filial regard for his mother, a most admirable woman,
influenced him in his action on such matters. It is said that
her opposition to his plan for going West was softened by
his promise to pay her an annual visit. This promise he
could not fulfill till the end of the fifth year ; but the annual
visit, often performed on horseback, was rarely again
omitted during the good lady's life.

After her death, he gave the old homestead to the town
of Wethersfield, with $3,000 to improve it. It is now the
Town Farm, a well-ordered asylum for the poor. He then
added $2,000 for the town library, and $12,000 to endow
an academy.

Mr. Rose dispensed many private charities, which were
unknown to any except the recipients and himself, in which
quiet field of benevolent operations he kept alive and invig-
orated the sentiments of philanthropy which grew and in-
creased as the circle of his good works was enlarged. For
some years before his death his mind was greatly exercised
in determining the most suitable method of so distributing
his property that the public should be benefited by it, espe-

Chauncey Rose, Biographical Sketch. 21

cially that part of the public where he had lived so long,
where he had formed many friendships, and where his
wealth had been acquired.

He had strong sympathy for those who have to struggle
without fault against the tide of adverse fortune which over-
whelms so many victims, and the consciousness of having
relieved the meritorious poor always gave him lively satis-
faction.

His numerous, though unannounced acts of kindness in
their behalf, prepared his mind for the larger gifts to the
Ladies' Aid Society of Terre Haute, a most effective
charity; the Providence Hospital, the Free Dispensary, and
the Rose Orphans' Home.

It is an interesting fact that this long train of good
deeds, as well as the greater one which remains to be
noticed, followed, if it did not proceed, from an act of
justice to the memory of his brother John, which was so
unique and remarkable that it can not be omitted.

He found that, for many reasons, the will of his brother,
if executed under the laws of the State of New York, would
not accomplish his brother's clearly-defined intentions. The
will made bequests of more than a million of dollars, and
Mr. Rose became satisfied that only a small part of these
bequests would reach the objects for which they were in-
tended. He accordingly instituted legal proceedings to set
the will aside, and, after nearly six years of vexatious litiga-
tion, succeeded in doing so. All the heavy expenses of this
litigation were borne by Mr. Rose out of his private purse.
The estate was then valued at $1,600,000. To this sum he
became sole heir, for, though Henry Rose was living at the
time of John Rose's death, his equitable claim upon the
estate was honorably settled by Chauncey before the pro-
ceedings for setting aside the will were begun, and Henry
joined him in those proceedings.

This result, as Colonel Thompson well says, "would
have put the character of almost any man to a severe test.

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and a large majority of men would, without hesitation, have
appropriated the money to their own use." Not so, however,
with Mr. Rose. It required no deliberation on his part to
decide that justice to the memory of his brother and to his
own character required that the money should be disposed
of by him so as to execute the objects provided for in the
will as far as possible. As the representative of his brother
he did this, by disposing of the money in New York for
charitable objects, such as the Newsboys' Home, the Institu-
tion for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, and others
of like character. He made many gifts in Charleston, S. C,
in commemoration of his brother's former citizenship there.
For all these he dispensed more than a million and a half
of dollars.

He took deep interest in the cause of education generally.
But that kind of education most suitable for young men of
genius, talents, and enterprise, and which should fit them for
the highest spheres of practical life, was, with him, a
favorite topic of thought and conversation. His leading
idea was that a system should be provided that would blend
the industrial sciences with the branches of knowledge
usually taught in the schools and colleges, so that the pupils
should not only become scholars, in the ordinary sense, but
should be enabled to follow the various mechanical, profes-
sional, and industrial pursuits with intelligence and skill.
He desired to build up a class of educated and scientific
mechanics and laboring men, so that, in the pursuit of their
various vocations, they should be able to give full scope to
their inventive and constructive talents. In furtherance of
his general purpose, he gave, from time to time, liberal con-
tributions to Wabash College, at Crawfordsville. He also
furnished the means of adding essentially to the library of
the State Normal School in this city, and paid the expenses
of a considerable number of young ladies while fitting them-
selves at that school to become teachers.

At last, his leading and long-cherished thought with

Chauncey Rose, Biographical Sketch. 23

reference to education culminated in gifts and bequests for
the establishment of the Polytechnic school. In the steps
that Mr. Rose took to carry out his plan, he displayed all his
best traits. Naturally distrustful of his own knowledg^e of
schools, he went to see some of the most noted institutions
that gave any knowledge or experience in such matters.
The timely and judicious suggestions of his friends, espe-
cially Josephus Collett, Barnabas C. Hobbs, and Charles R.
Peddle, had decided influence with Mr. Rose in his final
decision to endow a polytechnic school.

To obtain the information necessary to determine in
what mold the institution should be cast, he commissioned
two of his associates in the corporation to make a thorough
inspection of all institutions in the country that offer courses
in higher technology. This committee discharged their duty
most faithfully, and presented to Mr. Rose an elaborate
report, in which the features and statistics of each of the
great polytechnic schools in the United States are carefully
set out.

Mr. Rose studied this report long and thoroughly. He
sought counsel and information from every available source.
The result was that he decided to repeat, as far as changed
circumstances would permit, the plan of the Worcester Free
Institute. He remained a member of the Board of Trustees
till the buildings were completed and the general policy of
the Institue fixed, when, on account of his age and infirm-
ities, he resigned his ofiice June 2, 1877.

An Estimate of His Lifd and Character by Hon.
R. W. Thompson.
In his business transactions he always displayed great
sagacity, and was scrupulously exact. His mind was well
balanced and his judgment generally accurate, both as re-
garded men and things. He read a good deal, and was a
careful observer of passing events, which he analyzed with
great thoroughness. He was, therefore, among the earliest

24 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

of those who foresaw the growth and prosperity of this city
and county, and, indeed, of the State. These were always
favorite topics with him, and so decided were his convictions
with regard to them that he was always ready whensoever
the occasion presented — or to create an occasion when none
existed — to discuss measures tending to these ends. When
the charter for the Terre Haute & Richmond (now the
Terre Haute & Indianapolis) Railroad was first obtained,
it was considered a matter of great doubt whether the money
necessary for its construction could be obtained, as money,
in those days, was not so plentiful as now. A convention
was assembled at Indianapolis to consider what steps should
be taken, and it was there proposed that an effort should
be made to obtain a grant of lands from the United States
sufficient for the purpose. A majority of the convention
was disposed to favor this proposition, but Mr. Rose made
such stern opposition to it that it was finally abandoned —
showing in this the power and strength of his will. His
defeat of the project created in his mind an impression that
if the enterprise should afterward fail a large share of the
responsibility would rest upon him. And this consideration,
added to his great anxiety for the construction of the road,
stimulated him to extraordinary personal exertions, which
he immediately put forth with so much energy and perse-
verance that the money was raised by individual subscrip-
tion, and the road built, mainly by his efforts and with
capital furnished by him. But for him it would not have
been built, and but for him it would not have been so well
built as to have become what it is now and has always been,
one of the best and safest railroads in this country. He
was in this, as in everything else in which he participated,
governed by the rule that whatever was worthy of being
done at all was worth doing well.

He acquired the reputation of being what is popularly
called a "railroad king"; and if to have been one of the
foremost and most conspicuous among the pioneer advocates

Chauncey Rose, Biographical Sketch. 25

of railroad improvement entitled him to be known so, the
title was properly given him. He contributed very largely to
the railroads from Evansville to Terre Haute, from Terre
Haute to Crawfordsville, and from Terre Haute to Dan-
ville, 111., all of which are more indebted to him for their
construction than to any other individual. He advocated
zealously, for many years, a railroad from Terre Haute,
through Illinois, to St. Louis, and expended money liberally
in making experimental surveys. But his advancing age
admonished him that it was necessary for other and younger
men to carry out this important scheme, and he was content
to see what he had done made available in the construction
of the St. Louis, Vandalia & Terre Haute road, now a part
of the Vandalia line.

Mr. Rose was a resolute man. In all the enterprises in
which he engaged he displayed this quality, and, in con-
sequence, generally achieved success in what he undertook.
His strong will enabled him to influence others and to
impress them with his opinions. This, too, increased his
own earnestness and untiring activity in pursuit of the
objects he desired to accomplish ; for it is one of the inex-
plicable laws of the human mind that its own vigor and
energy is increased in the same proportion as it imparts
them to others.

For some years before his death his mind was greatly
exercised in determining the most suitable method of so
distributing his property that the public should be benefited
by it, especially that part of the public among whom he had
lived so long, where he had formed many friendships, and
where his wealth had been acquired.

Our citizens all know how many evidences of this were,
from time to time, given by him. By his munificent gift to
the Ladies' Aid Society of this city he has enabled it, under
the admirable administration of its managers, to become a
noble and magnificent charity. His donations to Providence
Hospital were upon a most liberal scale. The medical dis-

26 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

pensary which he established in this city, where the poor
are to be provided for without charge, is a work of Christian
benevolence. Added to these, and to others less con-
spicuous, there is the Orphans' Home, with an endowment
sufficient to assure its permanency, which, of itself, is
enough to confer immortal honor upon his memory.

Few men have left so many evidences of a humane and
philanthropic spirit, or have bestowed their charities more
wisely. There is an entire absence of anything like selfish-
ness in each one of them, and so quietly were many of them
dispensed that the public knew nothing of them until their
fruits were observed. As his own conscience guided him,
and he needed nothing more than its approval, he did not
seek after notoriety or what the world calls fame. As it
was impossible to shake his purpose when it became fixed,
so it was always executed without regard to mere applause.
As he deliberated well and intelligently before acting, and
followed the counsel of his own convictions, so he left his
acts to speak for themselves, as they now do with eloquence
which no words can imitate.

The many who have already been relieved by his benevo-
lence will unite in the bestowal of blessings upon his
memory. Hundreds of others yet to come, who shall share
the benefactions he has so bountifully provided, will repeat
his name with sincere and heartfelt praises.

But there will be none louder or more earnest than the
recipients of the blessings which shall flow from this school,
whose foundations he has laid with so much wisdom and
foresight, and around which his affections clustered with
the most intense ardor of his nature.

Of sturdy mold himself, everything he did stood four-
square, and was stanch and true. Veneer had no charm for
him — everything was required to be what it seemed. Gen-
uineness, solidity, ability to bear the maximum of strain —
these were his demands, and for over half a century he
taught by the arduous eloquence of example, habits of punc-

Chauncey Rose, Biographical Sketch. 27

tnality, probity, sobriety, industry, thrift, prudence, truthful-
ness, courage, and steadfastness. Reticence was a strongly
marked characteristic, and because of it some of his con-
temporaries thought him cold and unsympathetic. Nothing
could be further from the truth. He was a lover of his
kind and a generous philanthropist, but every prompting of
his heart to help was subject to the careful scrutiny of his
head — that wise old head which guided him safely and
sanely his long life through — and his last years were spent
in the deliberate task of so disposing of his wealth that the
substantial good which his generous heart had already
planned and partly executed should be continued even after
his death and made permanent.

Each and everything to which he gave — and he gave
everything he had, leaving nothing to chance — had for its
well-matured object the tiding of the young or the afflicted
over temporary need and placing them in the way of caring
for themselves and for others. Parental care for orphans,
medicine for the sick, education of youth — these were the
especial objects of his solicitude.

None of Mr. Rose's six brothers, nor his sister, left any
descendants, and he outlived all his family. He was never
married, and in his old age the wealth of his affections was
turned to the founding of this school of technology, which
was given his name against his wish and over his protest.
Of this fathering has been bom each year for a quarter of
a century a generous progeny of stalwart young men, each
of whom calls the Rose Polytechnic his Alma Mater, and
so calling it, designates as the father of his training the man
who, though dead, yet lives in immortal youth — the man
whom we all delight to honor, Chauncey Rosi;.

WILL OF CHAUNCEY ROSE.

Mr. Rose distributed the largest part of his wealth dur-
ing his lifetime to insure its disposition as he had planned.
The vexatious litigation into which he was led by the threat-
ened miscarriage of plans of his brother John in disposing
of his estate under his will may have largely influenced him
in this. Chauncey Rose left nothing to interpretation, but
made his will so definite that his bequests could not be mis-
placed. As a matter of historical interest, the extracts from
his will referring to the Rose Polytechnic are appended. He
thought that with the making of the Institute his residuary
legatee after generous donations during his lifetime, ample
provision had been made for its future maintenance and
extension. The phenomenally rapid growth of a demand
for technical education, especially in the Middle States, and
the unlooked-for expensiveness of adequately providing such
education, was not foreseen at that time. Had Mr. Rose
anticipated any such needs he undoubtedly would have
diverted some of his other generous bequests in large pro-
portion to the Rose Pol)d:echnic Institute. In the East
several technical institutions had already been established.
There he distributed approximately $1,500,000, the entire
estate of his brother, which had been declared by law to
be his own to do with as he would, to various charitable
institutions. A list of the institutions in the East, together
with the amounts given, is interesting, and given below. In
view of this, it would seem befitting that friends of tech-
nical education in the East, those who have been benefited
most by the establishment of such schools, should interest
themselves in Rose Polytechnic Institute by adding to its
endowments, so that in this day of greater demand for tech-

JVill of Chauncey Rose. 29

nical schools Mr. Rose's original bequest might be made
more efficient, remain unimpaired, and accomplish the pur-
pose he had in mind.

PROVISIONS IN WII^I, OF CHAUNCB;y ROSD.

(3) I give and bequeath to the Rose Polytechnic Institute, the
corporation formed under the laws of the State of Indiana by articles
adopted September 10, 1874, and recorded in miscellaneous record,
No. 5, pages 282, 283 and 284, in the Recorder's oflfice, in Vigo
County, in said State, under the corporate name of Terre Haute
School of Industrial Science, which was changed to that of Rose
Polytechnic Institute by amendment to said articles, adopted Sep-
tember II, 187s, and recorded in the Recorder's office of said county
the same day, in miscellaneous record No. 5. pages 359 and 360, the
picture of myself, mentioned in a certain paragraph, and the sum of
$107,594.34, exclusive of the real estate, or any sum, credits, rights,
eflfects, or property I have before conveyed, given, or delivered to
said corporation.

Other paragraphs from 4-8 refer to specific bequests,
mostly to charitable institutions, amounting to about
$1,235,000.

8. The residue of my estate, both real and personal, over and
above any devise or bequest I have made herein, I give and bequeath
and devise to my executors in trust, to be by them given, delivered,
or conveyed to the Rose Polytechnic Institute, the corporation named
in the third item or paragraph hereof.

(Copied from entries in Mr. Chauncey Rose's ledger between Decem-
ber 26, i86s, and September, i860, made before his death.)

Children's Aid Society $220,000

Female Guardian Society or Home of the Friendless 50,000

Five Points Home of Industry 40.000

Magdalen Society 30,000

Aged Indigent Females 20,000

Female Asst. Society 25,000

Colored Orphan Society 10,000

Mariners' Female Asylum 5,ooo

Destitute Children of Seamen 5,000

Society for Relief of Crippled and Ruptured Children 72,000

Juvenile Asylum 20,000

30 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

Women's Hospital $io,ooo

Nursery for Poor Children iS.ooo

Society for Relief of Poor 2,000

Home for Aged and Infirm Colored People 6,000

Dorcas Society ii,000

Wilson's Industrial School 16,000

Children of Destitute Soldiers 1,000

Orphan Asylum of New York 21,000

Society for Relief of Disabled and Diseased Soldiers 20,000

New York Female Asst. Society 10,000

New York Colored Asylum 10,000

New York Colored Home 10,000

Society Relief Ruptured and Crippled 10,000

Nursery for Poor Children 5,ooo

Five Points Ladies' Mission 10,000

Association for Improvement of Condition of Poor 5,000

Home for Friendless Girls S,ooo

Institution for the Blind 5,ooo

Industrial Farm School 5,ooo

Demilt Dispensary 15.000

Home for Friendless, New York 30,000

Eye and Ear Infirmary 44,000

Mariners' Female Asylum 5,ooo

Protestant Half Orphan Asylum 5,ooo

Home for Destitute Families of Soldiers S.ooo

Colored Home 5,ooo

New York Orphan Asylum 2,500

St. Anne's Church for Deaf Mutes 2,500

Home for Reception of Magdalens 4.000

Aged Female Institution 300

Society for Crippled and Ruptured, Dr. Knight 10,000

Colored Orphan Asylum 6,000

Infirmary for Women and Children 2,000

Society for Aged Colored People 1,000

New York Society for Relief of Poor 2,000

Society for Relief of Aged Respectable Females 2,000

Eastern Dispensary, New York 6,000

Women's Hospital 12,000

Northwestern Dispensary 7,000

Samaritan Home for Aged 1,000

Union Home and School for Children of Volunteers 2,000

Howard Mission or Boarding House for Young Women. . 3,000

Women's Evangelical Mission 3.500

Will of Chauncey Rose. 31

Incurables of New York $30,000

Aged and Infirm Females 10,000

Aged and Infirm Soldiers 10,000

Aged Colored Home 10,000

Infirmary for Poor Women with Children 5,000

Association for Relief of the Poor 5.000

Female Assistant Society 5,ooo

New York Dispensary 5,ooo

Women's Lying-in Hospital 5,ooo

Seamen's Widows and Children 3,000

Children's Aid Society, Brooklyn 20,000

Industrial School 5,ooo

Orphans' Home 5,ooo

Colonization Society 5,000

Incurables 3,000

Orphans' Home of New York 6,000

Brooklyn Orphan Asylum 16,000

Brooklyn Industrial School or Home for Destitute Children 10,000
Brooklyn Industrial School and Home for Destitute Chil-
dren 5,000

Brooklyn Orphan Asylum 5,ooo

Society Destitute Children of Seamen on Long Island S,ooo

Women's Hospital, Brooklyn 10,000

Widows with Small Children, Brooklyn 17,000

Home Aged Women, Brooklyn 5,000

Aged Female Asst. Society, Brooklyn 2,500

Children's Nursery of Brooklyn 6,000

Mt. Prospect Industrial School, Brooklyn 5,500

Brooklyn Dispensary 5^000

Charleston Orphan Society 5,ooo

Wethersfield Library 2,500

Wethersfield Seminary 18,000

$1,464,500

Note. — The societies and institutions enumerated are all in New
York, unless otherwise designated.

HISTORY OF THE FOUNDATION AND ESTABLISH-
MENT OF THE ROSE POLYTECHNIC
INSTITUTE.

From Notks by S. S. Eari,y, 1883.

The scientific school known as the Rose Polytechnic In-
stitute was founded in 1874 by the munificence of the late
Chauncey Rose, of Terre Haute. As the life of this gen-
erous and public-spirited gentleman drew near its close,
among the many suggestions that appealed to his liberality
was the founding of a school in which young men might
be trained in the sciences applicable to the industrial arts.
Careful study of the plans and methods of such schools and
consultation with numerous experienced educators fixed
this suggestion in his thoughts, and out of his deliberations
grew the establishment the detailed and formal publication
of whose progress and purposes is set forth in the follow-
ing pages.

Inviting the assistance of his trusted friends, Messrs.
Josephus Collett, Firmin Nippert, Charles R. Peddle, Bar-
nabas C. Hobbs, William A. Jones, Demas Deming, Ray G.
Jenckes, General Charles Cruft, and Colonel William K.
Edwards, he associated them with himself in a body cor-
porate, in conformity with an act of the General Assembly
of the State of Indiana, This act was approved February
20, 1867, with the amendments thereto, and was entitled
"An Act Concerning the Organization and Perpetuity of
Voluntary Associations," with various clauses relating to the
repeal of former laws, and authorized gifts and devises by
will to any corporation or purpose contemplated by itself.

On the lOth of September, 1874. a corporation was

History of Foundation. 33

formed and articles of association adopted setting forth the
object of the corporation to be the estabhshment and main-
tenance, in the County of Vigo, and State of Indiana, of an
"Institution for the intellectual and practical education of
young men," and designing the corporate name as "Terre
Haute School of Industrial Science," and intrusting its
administration to the corporators under the title of
managers.

It was provided that instruction in the school should be
based on the practical mathematics and the application of
the physical sciences to the various arts and manufactures,
and other branches of active business, and should include
such training as would furnish the pupils with useful and
practical knowledge of some art or occupation, and enable
them to earn competent livings. Preference was to be given
to residents of Vigo County, moderate tuition fees were to
be charged if considered necessary, and applicants for admis-
sion were to be at least sixteen years of age, and prepared
to pass examinations giving evidence of a fair English
education.

On October lo, 1874, the Board of Managers was organ-
ized, by-laws were adopted, and the following officers
elected :

President, Chauncey Rose.

Vice-President, Josephus Collett.

Treasurer, Demas Deming.

Secretary, William K. Edwards.
At the same time a committee, comprising Messrs. Cruft,
Peddle, Hobbs, Jones, and Collett, was appointed to con-
sider plans for carrying into effect the objects of the asso-
ciation.

On the 1 2th of December the committee reported prog-
ress, and Messrs. Peddle, Cruft, and Jenckes were deputed
to confer with an architect. One week thereafter Mr. Rose
made his first donation, being a deed of conveyance of the
ten acres of land now occupied by the Institute, and personal
3

34 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

securities to the amount of $100,000. The committee on
architect reported conferences with Mr. Isaac Hodgson, of
Indianapolis.

December 26th Mr. Hodgson was elected architect, and
Mr. Rose made a further gift of $86,000 in bonds of the
Evansville, Terre Haute & Chicago Railroad Company.

By the end of January, 1875, the architect had prepared
suggestive sketches, which were submitted to the considera-
tion of Mr. Rose, and, having met his approval, were
adopted by the Board of Managers ; detailed drawings, with
specifications and estimates of cost, were then ordered pre-
pared. These being in readiness by the latter part of April,
on the 2ist of that month they were accepted, and proposals
for building were ordered solicited. Early in May a number
of bids had been received, and, after due consideration, a
contract for the entire building was awarded to Messrs.
McCormack & Sweeney, of Columbus, Indiana, at the
total price of $81,000. On the 9th of August, all prelimi-
naries in the way of gathering materials, executing bonds
and contracts, and the like, having been attended to, Messrs.
C. R. Peddle, Josephus Collett, and Charles Cruft were
elected a building committee, and Messrs. Cruft, Jenckes,
Nippert, and Edwards were chosen as a committee on the
laying of the cornerstone.

On the nth of the following month the ceremony of
laying the cornerstone took place at 4 o'clock p. m. A large
concourse of citizens of Terre Haute and visiting strangers
marched in procession from the center of the city to the
grounds of the school to witness the exercises, over which,
by request of the Board, General Charles Cruft presided.
When the company had been called to order, prayer was
offered by Rev. E. Frank Howe, pastor of the P'irst Congre-
gational Church, and the choir of mixed voices sang a selec-
tion. The cornerstone was laid by the architect, assisted by
the contractors and their workmen, and a metal box with
numerous interesting memorials of the occasion was de-

History of Foundation. 35

posited therein. The president of the day then introduced
Colonel William K. Edwards, who delivered an appropriate
and eloquent address. A second musical selection was sung
by the choir, and was followed by a masterly oration by
Barnabas C. Hobbs, LL.D. The benediction, by Rev. Mr.
Howe, closed the exercises.

On the same day a meeting of the Board of Managers
was held, and an amendment to the articles of incorporation
changing the name of the association from "Terre Haute
School of Industrial Science " to " Rose Polytechnic Insti-
tute" unanimously passed. This alteration was not effected
without persistent protest from the venerable founder; but
the universal wish, not alone of his fellow managers, but of
the community of his fellow citizens, that this noble benefac-
tion should bear his own name, at length overcame his
scruples, and he reluctantly gave his consent. Proper legal
measures were then authorized to effect the transfer of all
property from the Industrial School to the Polytechnic
Institute.

The work of construction had progressed so far by the
summer of 1876 that the question of heating appliances
began to be considered. Proposals to furnish the requisite
fixtures were invited, and in July the contract to supply them
at a cost of $8,759 was awarded to Messrs. R. P. Duncan
& Co., of Indianapolis. In November of 1876 the con-
tractors for the building had completed their work in accord-
ance with the plans and specifications of the architect, and
had added, with his approval, certain matters amounting in
the aggregate to $1,700. This sum was allowed, and on the
1st of December the final warrant for payment was drawn,
the total cost of construction being $82,700.

On the 27th of December Mr. Rose presented a state-
ment of certain payments he had made for the benefit of
the school amounting to $31,255.66. with quittance in full
thereof, and at the same time transferred to the Institute
the sum of $100,000 in certificates of preferred stock in the

36 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

Evansville & Craw for dsville Railroad Company, as an addi-
tion to the endowment.

At the annual meeting, held on the 2d of June, 1877, Mr
Rose, in consideration of his great age and infirmities, ten-
dered his resignation as a member of the Board of Man-
agers. In deference to his wishes, but most unwillingly, his
fellow members accepted it. Mr. Josephus Collett was
elected to succeed him as President of the Board, and Mr.
Charles R. Peddle was chosen as Vice-President. During
the same month a contract for the building of the machine
shops of the Institute (designs for which had been prepared
by Mr. Hodgson) was awarded to Messrs. Clift & Wil-
liams, of Terre Haute, at a cost of $14,400. Mr. Rose died
on the 13th of August, 1877, and on the 17th of October
the vacancy occasioned by his resignation was filled by the
election of Mr. William Mack.

The total of Mr. Rose's gifts to the Institute, prior to his
death, reached the sum of $345,614.61, and embraced the
following items:

Value of ten acres of land (site of the school) $20,000 00

First gift of securities 100,000 00

Second gift of securities 86,000 00

Quittance for moneys paid by him 31,255 66

Third gift of securities 100,000 co

Paid by him on account of heating apparatus 8,150 00

Paid by him for grading and graveling 208 95

By his will a specific legacy of $107,594.34 was be-
queathed to the Institute, and after the payment of his
devises to his family, to the Rose Orphan Home and to the
Free Dispensary, it was constituted his residuary legatee.
What may be the exact amount to be derived from the set-
tlement of the estate it is impossible to determine, but it is
reasonable to estimate that the total aggregate of his dona-
tions to the school will considerably exceed $500,000.

On the 26th of September, 1878, Colonel William K.
Edwards, who had most ably and efficiently discharged the

History of Foundation. yj

duties of Secretary of the Board of Managers from its
organization, died, and, on the 2d of November, Mr. Samuel
S. Early was chosen to succeed him. Toward the close of
the year the machine shops were finished, and some debts
which had been incurred in the various works of construc-
tion were paid. The question then arose whether, with the
means remaining at their command, the Managers could
purchase the costly equipment required for the school, and
pay its running expenses, should they put it in operation.
Committees and officers of the Board were deputed to visit
the principal institutes of technology in the country, and
make careful investigations concerning their appliances,
methods of management and cost of maintenance. From
these investigations it became evident that it would be im-
possible to procure the outfit without a serious impairment
of the productive endowment necessary to furnish revenues
sufficient for the current outlay of a school of the character
Mr. Rose had desired to establish. There was no alternative,
therefore, but for the Managers to defer the opening until
accumulated income should supply funds for the outfit and
the settlement of Mr. Rose's estate should swell their per-
manent resources to the required amount. It was not until
the beginning of 1882 that these results had been approxi-
mately attained. By that time the executors of Mr. Rose
were enabled to pay the specific bequest — for the greater
part in cash and productive investments, with the remainder
in valuable real estate — and accrued interest had then so
far grown as to provide a basis for the purchase of equip-
ment.

Pending this delay, some further changes had occurred
in the personnel of the Board. The prolonged absence in
Europe of Dr. B. C. Hobbs, as a member of the World's
Peace Congress, and the removal to Mt. Vernon of Mr.
R. G. Jenckes, led to the withdrawal of both these gentlemen
in January, 1879, and on the 31st of that month Messrs.
Robert S. Cox and Preston Hussev were elected to fill their

38 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

places. Trusty custodians had been appointed to care for
and protect the buildings, and small outlays had been made
from time to time for books, apparatus and specimens for
the cabinet. Diligent inquiry as to the availability of can-
didates for the professorships of the Faculty had been
prosecuted, and a number of eminent educators had been
invited to visit Terre Haute and confer with the Managers
upon the future organization and conduct of the school.
Prominent among these had been Dr. Charles O. Thompson,
Principal of the Free Institute of Technology, at Worcester,
Mass. ; Prof. William D. Marks, of the University of Penn-
sylvania; Prof. T. C. Mendenhall, of the Ohio State Uni-
versity, and Prof. F. W. Clarke, of the University of Cin-
cinnati, from all of whom most valuable counsel and sug-
gestions and hearty encouragement had been obtained.

Finding themselves, by the receipt of the specific legacy,
possessed of funds yielding an income of about $25,000, the
Managers felt that the time had come when they might take
the necessary measures for opening the Institute. Their
first important step was the election of Dr. Charles O.
Thompson, of Worcester, Mass., to the presidency of the
Faculty. This occurred on the 20th of February, 1882, and
the President of the Board, with the Secretary and General
Charles Cruft, visited Worcester for a personal conference
with Dr. Thompson. Toward the end of March he accepted
the appointment, and immediately began the work of select-
ing a Faculty and preparing a detailed plan for the organ-
ization of the school. Professors of Chemistry, of the
elementary and the higher Mathematics, of Drawing, as
also a Superintendent of the Machine Shops, were offered
places and accepted them. Those whose services were
necessary reported for duty as soon as their prior engage-
ments admitted, and by the end of the summer of 1882 great
progress had been made in the work of preparation. It was
found that a small class could be provided for by the begin-
ning of March, 1883, and in August of 1882 circulars were

History of Foundation. 39

published inviting applications for admission. An opportu-
nity for the purchase of the apparatus and library of the
late Dr. John Bacon, of Harvard College, was seized by the
Board, and an admirable collection of instruments and
scientific books was added to the resources of the school.
Power machinery and tools for the shop were purchased by
Mr. Edward S. Cobb, the Superintendent, under the sanction
of a committee composed of Messrs. Peddle, Nippert, and
Cox, cases for the mineralogical specimens were constructed,
after the plans of Prof. Charles A. Colton, of the Depart-
ment of Chemistry, and the excellent collection was mounted,
labeled, and stored under his skillful labors. Shelving de-
signed by Prof. Clarence A. Waldo, the future Librarian,
was provided for the library, and the early purchases of the
Board, together with the Bacon library, were catalogued by
the Secretary and arranged by members of the Faculty.
Large additions to the library and apparatus were made by
President Thompson, who had sailed for Europe, in July of
1882, for study of the methods and progress of technological
instruction in the more advanced schools abroad. Tables,
easels, models, in brief, all the appliances required for the
department of drawing, were procured upon the suggestions
of Prof. William L. Ames, of that department, and, by the
time anticipated, everything was in readiness for the opening.
On the 6th of March candidates for admission were exam-
ined, and a class of twenty-five members selected from the
proficient.

In the President of the Worcester Institute of Tech-
nology, Charles O. Thompson, the Managers secured a grad-
uate of Dartmouth College in high standing for general
scholarship, and with special aptitudes and acquisitions re-
quired in technological instruction, and" who, before finding
his special field as organizer and teacher of an American
school of technology, had taught with eminent success sev-
eral public high schools, each in succession of a higher grade
in studies and compensation, and who, from the start, had

40 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

shown himself an earnest, diUgent, catholic scholar and
inquirer after the best methods of teaching the essential
things, and securing discipline by keeping his pupils inter-
ested and occupied in their work. Before entering on the
administration of the Rose Institute, he was allowed to
refresh his own faculties by the rest of travel and of obser-
vation in fields having a special interest to him in his past
and future work, and which he was now prepared to look
at with the discriminating and appropriating judgment
which actual experience alone can give. Thus equipped by
natural endowments, general training, and special expe-
rience. President Thompson entered into full possession of
his new position and duties on the 7th of March, 1883, with
an inaugural address setting forth the nature and claims of
an educational institution like that of the Rose Polytechnic
Institute, and with the fullest confidence of the Board of
Managers and the best wishes of a host of old friends
among the teachers of the country.

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF THE TERRE HAUTE
SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE.

Article i. The subscribers who have signed these articles, set-
ting out their respective places of residence, voluntarily associate
themselves to organize a body corporate to be maintained in the
County of Vigo and State of Indiana, in conformity to an Act of the
General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved February 20,
1867, and the amendments thereto. Said Act is entitled "An Act
concerning the organization and perpetuity of voluntary associa-
tions," and repealing an Act entitled "An Act concerning the organ-
ization of voluntary associations and repealing former laws in ref-
erence thereto," approved February 12, 1855, and repealing each Act
repealed by said Act, and authorizing gifts and devises by will to be
made to any corporation or purpose contemplated by this Act."

Article 2. The objects of this Association are to promote, en-
courage, and teach the mechanical arts and sciences for all practical
purposes. To this end there shall be established and maintained at
the County of Vigo and State of Indiana, perpetually, a free insti-

Articles of Association. 41

tution for the intellectual and practical education of young men
especially in the principles of the mechanical arts as applied to the
various trades and avocations in life. Said institution shall be free
from all sectarianism, and shall be under the control and manage-
ment of the subscribers hereto, and their successors chosen as herein-
after provided. It shall be open to males of at least sixteen years of
age, of good moral character. When the institution may be full,
preference shall be given to the admission of residents of the County
of Vigo. Instruction shall be provided therein from time to time,
based on the practical mathematics and application of the physical
sciences, to the various arts, manufactures, agriculture, horticulture,
and all branches of active business, and be conducted upon such gen-
eral system as will elevate the moral and intellectual condition of the
pupils by training them for the activitfes of life, and furnishing such
useful and practical knowledge of some art, trade, or occupation,
with general business habits, as will enable them thereafter to earn a
competent living.

Prominence shall be given to the following studies, but not to
the exclusion of other useful arts and sciences in harmony with the
general design of said institution, as before expressed, which may be
deemed expedient or desirable, vh. : Mathematics, Physics, Indus-
trial Mechanics, Chemistry, Natural History, Civil Engineering,
including drawing, designing, and modeling, also Mechanical Engi-
neering and Mining Engineering.

Architecture with reference to drawings, styles of buildings,
plans, materials, estimates, and ornamentation.

Geology applied to mining and agriculture. Astronomy, Physical
Geography, Botany, Horticulture, and Agriculture.

English Language and Literature with reference to writing busi-
ness correspondence, contracts, and reports.

Bookkeeping, and so much of the Latin Language as will enable
the student to understand the terms of science used.

The common schools teach the common English branches fully,
with an appreciation of their uses ; it is therefore expected that each
applicant for admission will be able to pass a satisfactory exami-
nation therein, that a preparatory school shall only be formed tem-
porarily to enable exceptional and meritorious applicants to pass the
entrance examination.

Appropriate degrees may be conferred.

In case only it shall be absolutely necessary to sustain the insti-
tution, moderate tuition fees may be charged.

Article 3. Terre Haute School of Industrial Science is the cor-
porate name adopted to designate the objects of this Association.

42 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

Article 4. The corporate seal shall be circular in form, one
and a fourth inch in diameter, contain the corporate name, the name
of the State, Indiana, and the representation of a pivot as a device.

The impression shall appear the same as it does affixed to these
articles.

Article 5. That the management of the business and pruden-
tial concerns of this Association shall be controlled by the members
hereof, and their successors and associates, who shall be termed
Managers, they shall adopt rules and regulations for their own gov-
ernment and for the government of the institution, not inconsistent
with these articles and laws of the State of Indiana. They shall
appoint or elect all officers, professors, teachers, and agents. Annual
meetings shall be held when full reports of the affairs and condition
of the institution shall be made. Special meetings may be called by
the presiding officer of the Board of Managers, or by a majority of
the Managers.

The members may increase their number at their discretion,
upon sufficient consideration. The surviving members shall fill every
vacancy that may occur in their body, by death or resignation, at the
earliest practical time, without unnecessary delay, and in this manner
perpetuate this institution. It shall require a majority of two -thirds
of the members to elect a successor to fill any vacancy that may
occur in the membership, or to elect a member in case of the number
being increased.

If any member shall fail to attend two consecutive annual meet-
ings, unless prevented by sickness or some unavoidable circumstance,
he shall be deemed and taken as having vacated his membership, and
a successor shall be elected, as provided for in case of death or
resignation.

It is expressly provided that every gift, devise or bequest re-
ceived or accepted shall be used and enjoyed only upon the terms
and conditions prescribed by the respective donor or devisor.

Article 6. These articles may be amended by a three-fourths
vote of the members at any annual meeting, or at a meeting called
specially for that purpose upon notice to the members. No amend-
ment shall be made to change the general objects of this Associa-
tion, or to authorize the expenditure of any part of a gift, devise,
or bequest, different from the intention expressed by the donor or
devisor.

Adopted and given under our respective hands, setting out our
several places of residence, with the seal of this corporation affixed,
at Terre Haute, in the State of Indiana, this tenth day of September,
A. D. 1874.

Articles of Association. 43

Names of Members. Residence.

Chauncey Rose Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind.

Charles R. Peddle Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind.

William A. Jones Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind.

Josephus Collett Newport, Vermillion County, Ind.

Barnabas C. Hobbs Bloomingdale, Parke County, Ind.

Demas Deming Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind.

Firmin Nippert Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind.

Ray G. Jenckes Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind.

Charles Cruft Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind.

William K. Edwards Terre Haute, Vigo County, Ind.

On September 11, 1875, an amendment to the Articles of Asso-
ciation was adopted changing the name of the Terre Haute School
of Industrial Science to Rose Polytechnic Institute, with the adoption
of a new corporate seal.

The following by-laws were adopted at a meeting of the Board
of Managers on October 10, 1874:

1. The officers of the Board of Managers shall consist of a
President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary, who shall dis-
charge respectively their appropriate duties. Those elected at this
meeting shall serve until the first Saturday in June, 1875.

2. The annual meetings shall be held on the first Saturday in
June of each year, when officers shall be elected for the year ensuing.
Each officer shall serve until his successor is elected and enters upon
his duties.

3. Each officer shall give bond in such sum as the Board shall
approve.

4. These by-laws may be amended at the pleasure of the Board
of Managers, by a three-fourths vote of the whole number.

The first election of officers being held, resulted as follows :
For President, Chauncey Rose.
For Vice-President, Josephus Collett.
For Treasurer, Demas Deming.
For Secretary, William K. Edwards.

DR. THOMPSON'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS,

March, 1883.

The Rose Polytechnic Institute is a school of technology.
To understand the functions of the school it is necessary
to take a brief survey of the field of technical training.
This phrase describes all those forms of training youth
which deal with the application of art or of science to the
industrial arts. Those schools in which designing for the
patterns of textile fabrics, or for the decoration of wood,
iron, pottery, gems, etc., is the principal end are called art
schools or schools of design, of which the South Kensington
system is the most famous example; all those in which the
principles of physical science are studied with reference to
their application to the solution of practical problems in
building, machine construction, and design, or in civil engi-
neering, are called polytechnic or technological schools.
There is great confusion just now in the use of terms, tech-
nical education being used to describe all that which aims
at a directly practical end, as opposed to the education given
at the college ; while that part of it which does not deal with
ornament or textile design is sometimes described by the
same term. The word technology, which formerly signified
the terms used in the sciences, now means the application
of the sciences to industrial ends. The term polytechnic,
originally used to describe schools of technology, has re-
fused to yield to the more desirable synonym, technological,
partly because it is an easier word, and partly because it
contains a suggestion of the many-sidedness of the subject
which the better word lacks. There is no good word cor-
responding to polytechnic or technological to apply to the
persons who practice the profession indicated, and so these

Dr. Thompson's Inaugural Address. 45

persons are called, now as always, engineers, and the busi-
ness engineering. A few still cling to the term scientific
schools in speaking of these institutions. In the present
prevailing confusion of terms the best that can be said is
that a polytechnic school teaches technology to engineers.
Below the grade of the polytechnic there are multitudes of
schools and parts of schools that teach the elements of the
mechanic arts — many of them of the greatest interest and
importance — and around it are many institutions that
devote themselves to industrial art; but I must deny myself
the pleasure of discussing any of these, with the important
collateral questions of policy that they present, and proceed
at once to the school we have in hand — the polytechnic.

We shall find that all schools of technology, under what-
ever name, or with whatever special aims, present a com-
mon system of instruction complete in itself, with strenuous
requisitions, a logical curriculum and a sharply-defined end.
In treating of technology, I am happily absolved from the
duty of pointing out its importance ; that is settled by the
establishment of this school and others like it by the men
who endowed them. They were men whose sagacity was
too strong to be mistaken.

Technology is essentially a new idea; it is certainly no
older in its present aspects than the discovery of the law of
conservation of energy — the great idea of the present
century.

No discovery since that of gravitation has been so stim-
ulating or so powerful. Its influence is incalculable. It is
seen in the multiplication of labor-saving machinery for
every form of work, the great array of useful inventions,
the expansion of the system of land and ocean highways,
and especially in the immense increase of the means for
acquiring knowledge.

This demand for economy of force and material has
brought about great changes m the industrial arts; the
apprentice system has disappeared ; the necessaries of life

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being made by machinery, manual trades are no longer
needed for that end, and skilled handicraft is a rare accom-
plishment. There is and there will always be a demand for
skilled labor in the arts of building construction, in pattern
making, and similar forms of woodwork, in die sinking and
kindred arts that deal with the metals, and especially in
assembling and finishing the parts of structures as they are
delivered from machines; but this is a small demand com-
pared with what existed when shoes, clothes, furniture, and
tools were made by band. The mechanic of the future will
be a machinist. To such an extent is this replacement of
handicraft by machinery true, that we have shoemakers who
can not make a shoe, chairmakers who can not make a
chair, and generally artisans ignorant of the whole of any
art. Mr. Batchelder, of North Brookfield, Mass., the
largest shoe manufacturer in Worcester County, said that
out of his six hundred men not more than ten could make
a shoe. I once examined a very interesting picture of some
pieces of iron that had been done by boys in an experimental
forge shop ; the work seemed to be well done and creditable
to the workmen ; but out of some seventy pieces not more
than ten would ever be made by hand at all in actual manu-
facturing. Another result of the economy of force is that
attention is concentrated now more upon the principles of
phenomena than upon the phenomena themselves. Formerly
the only hope of finding a better or cheaper way of doing
things lay in the chance discoveries of ingenious men —
men looked at things from the outside in ; now it is seen
that nothing is so fruitful and that nothing so advances
human interests as a principle — men look at things more
from the inside out. For nearly all mechanical ways of
doing things were once regarded as out of the ordinary
course of human affairs, and to be relegated, if not to the
domain of the supernatural, at least to that of the super-
human. The feeling toward scientific investigation as a
means to practical ends partook of the same quality that

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infested men's views of disease ; if typhoid fever prevailed
in a given district, people did not look to their drains and
wells, but flocked to the church and appointed a day of
fasting. What were regarded as the pardonable vagaries
of Daniel Treadwell, Rumford Professor in Harvard Uni-
versity, turn out now to be the inventions upon which single-
track railroads, the machinery for spinning cordage-yarn,
the Armstrong, Blakeley, and Krupp cannon depend. I will
venture, however, the assertion that no person in this
audience ever heard before of these great inventions as
Treadwell's ; they came too soon for the world to know
them as works of genius, yet they are the first fruits of the
new era in which great problems are solved, not by happy
inventions of geniuses real or affected, but by the sober and
steady application by laborious scholars of established prin-
ciples of physics. Time would fail me to enumerate the
influential inventions that have sprung from a similar origin.
Who has not heard of the Siemens furnace, the Bessemer
converter, dynamite, compressed air, and the uses of elec-
tricity? And it must also be remarked that each of these
inventions demands corresponding machinery of novel de-
sign ; for another feature of the new era is the necessity of
reconstructing old machinery in more economical forms and
the constant call for new machinery to meet new demands.
When a new invention is made nowadays, machinery for
it is as important as the invention itself. Perhaps the most
striking illustration of the change in common things which
has been brought about by technology is the rail on which
railway traffic is conducted; formerly it was an iron-edge
rail, supported by chains and having more iron in the base
than the head ; clumsy as this rail was, it was claimed to be
the only form in which the only available metal could be
used for the purpose; now the rail is made of steel, with
well-defined tread, web, and base, the principal weight of
metal in the head, where it is most needed, and every line
subjected to the finest physical tests. To those who k-now

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how much of the best knowledge we have of physics and
chemistry has been put, and is still put into a railroad rail,
it seems one of the most interesting of all modern manu-
factures. It is not wide of the mark to characterize the past
age as one of invention, the present as one of engineering.
The study and mastery of the principles of physical science,
the ability to express those principles in drawing and de-
scriptions, and to apply them to the solution of practical
problems through machinery and handicraft, are the essen-
tial qualities of an engineer. So that a polytechnic school,
by whatever name called, technological, technical, or engi-
neering, teaches technology to engineers, i. e., it teaches the
principles of physical science and their application to the
industrial arts.

Engineering is the term that includes all the arts of pro-
duction and construction which arise from the physical
sciences. Its object is to bend the forces of nature to the
service of man.

The names applied to the different branches of engineer-
ing are not always appropriate, but, in general, a civil engi-
neer constructs public works, such as highways, railroads,
water works, sewers, etc. : a mechanical engineer deals with
machinery, from the original design of each part, through
the machine shop and into the structure and to the operation
of the structure, /. e., the machine; the chemical engineer
applies chemistry to the manifold products that result from
the play of chemism. Then there are numerous fields which
the term covers : as hydraulic, steam, gas, electrical engi-
neering. In each and all. the engineer is distinct from the
artisan or craftsman by exactly the amount of his knowledge
of the scientific principles which underlie the practice of his
profession and his resulting ability to apply those principles
to the ready and complete solution of real problems as they
arise.

For example : Mr. Batterson had occasion to cut a block
of marble so as to produce a Avarped surface, for which his

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workmen had no patterns ; the men had great skill in stone
cutting, but could not cut that stone. A graduate of a
school of technology happened to be employed in the city
schools as teacher of drawing. Hearing of the case at the
marble yard, he tendered his services, applied the familiar
principles of stereotomy, made patterns, and the men at once
executed the work. Last November the Italian Government
made comparative tests of the power of different armor
plates to resist the shot of heavy ordnance; the plates that
stood the test were made by Schneider, at the shops of the
French technological school at LeCreusot.

The bridge over the Vistula River, at Warschau, was
built by a graduate of Carlsruhe; that over the Volga by
English engineers; but the latest, largest, and most costly
bridge in Russia — over the Neva — was built by graduates
of the Imperial Technological School of St. Petersburg, and
every piece of iron that entered into it was tested in the
laboratories of that school.

A few years ago it became suddenly desirable and im-
portant to pump out the central shaft of the Hoosac Tunnel ;
a suction pump was plainly inadmissible; the craftsmen had
nothing to suggest; a young engineer built a small raft on
the surface of the water in the shaft, lowered on to it a
steam pump, set his boiler at the shaft mouth, had himself
lowered to the raft, and alone in the darkness worked his
pump twenty-six hours without accident and with great
efficiency. M^en then tendered their services in abundance,
and the problem was soon solved.

But the air is full of modern instances of the triumphs
of engineering skill in overcoming great natural obstacles :
the use of the inclined plane in the zig-zag roads over which
horses trot in safety and at ease from Alpine heights to the
valleys below ; the application of compressed air to the two
purposes of sinking caissons and driving machines at a great
distance from the source of power ; the use of the friction
clutch, the air brake, and a thousand other examples of the
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application of the familiar principles of science to the solu-
tion of mechanical problems. In each case, however, it will
be noticed that one may understand physics thoroughly, as
thousands of men have understood the subject, and another
may understand the construction of machinery, but not one
of the triumphs of engineering above mentioned be achieved.
The theoretical knowledge of physics and the practical com-
mand of machinery must come together ; if this happy con-
junction occur in one and the same man, the best results
follow. Then the same affluent good comes forth in the
domain of mechanics that abounded in the Middle Ages,
where the artist and the artisan were one ; when Peter Vis-
cher and Ouentin Matsys worked at blacksmithing, and
Michael Angelo cut stone, and Benvenuto Cellini hammered
silver and gold, each touching the iron, or the stone, or the
silver, with a beauty and value that all the ages since have
only enhanced.

Here some one will surely interpose the fact that E. B.
Bigelow, the inventor of the modern carpet loom, and one
of the greatest of American inventors, could neither make
one of his own machines nor the working drawings for it.
His head was an amazing tangle of mechanical contrivances,
but the draftsman and mechanic were indispensable to the
successful evolution of them. This, of course, was a temper-
amental matter with him. We can not change the fact that
many inventors can not express their own ideas ; nor am I
going to claim that any amount of training or of any other
kind of training is likely to aid a so-called mechanical genius
very much. Indeed, Mr. Bigelow never admitted, to me at
least, that a course in technology would have aided him ;
the nearest approach to such a concession was the remark,
at the close of a busy forenoon spent in studying the Wor-
cester school : "Well, I'll go home and consider how all this
would have affected me had I begun here as a boy." I do
not think he would have begun there or in any other school,
for he was a genius in the best sense. A genius is a law

Dr. Thompson's Inaugural Address. 51

to himself ; the processes by which the mass of men must
gain knowledge are strange and useless to him ; generally he
is a poor adviser in educational questions. He can never
be educated in any sense in which the word is understood
by ordinary men. Still, by a knowledge of the principles of
mechanism and the methods of expressing and applying
those principles, the ordinary inventor would secure to his
use the benefit of his own inventions which somebody else
so often appropriates, and would save the Patent Office
much of its costly and superfluous rubbish. No graduate
of any school is at that time an engineer. The qualities of
good judgment and efficient reason grow only in the atmos-
phere of experience. Hence no diploma can be regarded as
meaning anything more than that the possessor has passed
successfully the examinations that are set at any particular
school. Graduates should begin at the bottom of their pro-
fession, and their school training will tell best and most
effectively in the rate of their advancement. They will
advance more rapidly than others along the lines which are
determined by their natural aptitudes.

The Almighty makes superintendents and leaders of men
— no school can do this. But the training required for a
superintendent must be that of his subordinates. All the
best experience of the world sanctions this rule. A superin-
tendent who has not had the training of the shop is as useless
as Achilles without his weapons — he may seem and assume
to direct and to lead, but he does not; on the other hand,
the man who attempts to lead without natural leadership,
however wise, is as useless as the weapons without Achilles.

The question how men shall best be trained for engineer-
ing was asked long ago before any practical result ensued.

The Marquis of Worcester, imprisoned in the Tower of
London, 1645, working industriously upon his .steam and
water engines, cast eyes upon a lot which he could see from
his window, and instructed his agent to buy it, intending,
he said, as soon as he was set at libertv to erect a school

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wherein boys might learn something of the principles of the
mechanic arts. But he was never allowed the opportunity
to carry out his ideas.

There is an interesting letter from President Leonard
Hoar, of Cambridge, to Robert Boyle, in which the good
man, after acknowledging some favors from Boyle, dis-
closes to him some darling projects of his own about the
improvement of the course at the University, and says : " I
would have a large, well-sheltered garden and orchard for
students addicted to planting; an ergasterium for mechanic
fancies, and a laboratory chemical for those philosophers
that by their senses would cultivate their understanding ; for
the students to spend their times of recreation at them ; for
reading or notions are but husky provender." Boyle did
not encourage the President, and his project slumbered for
two centuries, but was at last substantially realized in the
Lawrence Scientific School.

The first independent polytechnic school was the Ecole
Polytechnic, in Paris, founded in 1794. The Ecole Centrale
followed, and during the first quarter of this century similar
schools were established all over France, Switzerland, and
Germany.

In this country the best appointed and, on the whole,
the most worthy of study as far as methods go, is the Mili-
tary Academy at West Point ; then we have the Columbia
School of Mines at New York, the Sheffield at New Haven,
the Rensselaer at Troy, the Institute of Technology at Bos-
ton, the Stevens Institute at Hoboken, and many others.
These are examples of pure and independent schools of tech-
nology, each with a special end of its own, but possessing
all the generic features of the class. They all arose from the
demand for engineers in the arts of peace and of war. To
this list must be added the State colleges of agriculture and
the mechanic arts, several of which have made provision for
effective teaching in engineering. The polytechnic school
has always offered to the qualified average boy a good edu-

Dr. Thompson's Inaugural Address. 53

cation based on drawing, the mathematics, the living lan-
guages and the physical sciences, tending to qualify him for
immediate entrance upon the duties of an engineer. The
course of study in a polj^echnic school is determined by
long experience, and in all countries is substantially the
same. It includes:

Mathematics — Beginning with algebra and geometry,
and proceeding through trigonometry, analytical and de-
scriptive geometry, the calculus, theoretical and applied
mechanics.

Physics — From the elements to the solution of problems,
sometimes with laboratory practice.

Chemistry — With laboratory practice.

Language — The elements of German and French (Eng-
lish replacing one of these in European schools), and the
mother tongue.

Drawing — Beginning with free-hand and including per-
spective, orthographic, and isometric projection, shades and
shadows.

Geology and mineralogy as far as time permits. The
other natural-history sciences are necessarily omitted, except
in special cases. In all these schools the instruction is given
with a strong practical bearing, and generally the students
learn the manipulation of the instruments used in surveying,
and the more important of those used in physical researches.

It is necessary to remark at this point that technological
schools do not include schools of design. There is a great
interest in European countries and in the United States at
the present time in what is called industrial art, meaning
the study of form, color, and ornament to render structures
and manufactured goods intrinsically more beautiful, and to
increase their value by this means. A department of draw-
ing and design has a place in the school of technology, but
engineering does not naturally include the work of a school
of design.

But polytechnic schools as they were did not meet all

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the wants of the new era. Practical men detected a lack in
engineers who had been trained without actual contact with
a machine shop — there was a surplus of theoretical engi-
neers and a dearth of practically efficient ones.

The principle of the division of labor resulted in making
it next to impossible for a boy to find a place in any machine
shop to learn the trade. The owner did not want him be-
cause it could not be in any way conducive to his business
interests to employ a person ignorant of his business; and
if he employed him at all, he kept him on a single sort of
piece-work, from motives of self-interest. Trades unions
conspired to keep out apprentices from shops, and so it came
to pass that a boy could not get a good working knowledge
of machine-shop practice except by stealth.

This demand for mechanical engineers with work-shop
training, and the practical impossibility of finding a place
for a boy in any good machine shop, led to the establishment
of a polytechnic school in which a manufacturing machine
shop is a prominent and thoroughly-administered feature.
This is the school known as the Worcester Free Institute.

This institution was organized under the influence of a
belief that, after all that has been done in technology, there
is still need of a system of training boys broader and
brighter than "learning a trade," and more simple and direct
than the so-called "fiberal education"; that while the boys
should be thoroughly trained in all the essentials of a poly-
technic course, they should also find a workshop open where
they could get all the essentials of a trade; so that upon
graduating they should have sufficient knowledge of ma-
chinery and handicraft to enable them to earn a living while
pushing their way up to the highest positions for which
nature and their training had qualified them.

It was held that not the least important of their qualifica-
tions for high positions is a good experience of the lower
positions.

"It is the undoubting opinion of the managers of the

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Institute, and of all who have watched its operation, that
the connection of academic culture and the practical applica-
tion of science is advantageous to both, in a school where
these objects are started together and carried on with har-
mony and equal prominence. The academy inspires its in-
telligence into the work of the shop, and the shop with eyes
open to the improvements of productive industries prevents
the monastic dreams and shortness of vision that sometimes
paralyze the profound learning of the college." * This
school was opened in 1868, with the following fundamental
ideas :

1. That all mechanical engineers will find their account,
in future, in going through a workshop training.

2. This workshop instruction may precede, accompany
or follow the intellectual training, but for many reasons it
preferably accompanies it.

3. The workshop instruction is best given in a genuine
manufacturing machine shop where work is done that is to
be sold in open market and in unprotected competition with
the products of other shops.

4. That in a course of three and a half years, working
800 hours the first half year and 500 hours a year thereafter,
a boy beginning without any knowledge of mechanics can
acquire skill enough to offer himself at graduation as a
journeyman and will be found on trial not inferior to those
who have spent the entire time of three and a half years in
a regular machine shop.

5. That the workshop practice must be a part of every
week's work in the institution ; that it shall be momentarily
supervised by skilful men, and that the student must not
expect or receive any pecuniary advantage from it.

6. That the question who shall be a superintendent or
foreman or engineer in designing or drafting machinery
can not be settled in any school — that being a question to

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be determined only by actual trial ; because the discipline of
the judgment by actual practice into which personal respon-
sibility enters is vitally essential to a valid claim to the post
of superintendent. Hence, it will follow that, while all
receive the preliminary training requisite for engineering,
many will not attain to it, but these will find a full reward
for all their time and labor in superior intelligence as work-
men — in being masters and not servants of the machines
which they make or run.

7. A seventh principle was announced when the first
class graduated, and has been inculcated into all their suc-
cessors, viz. : that the value of the education they have
received will show itself in the rate of their advancement
and will be easily detected by their employers, and that they
should not be so much concerned, in seeking places, about
great wages or high positions as about the chances ahead for
advancement; indeed, there might be cases in which they
could well afford to work a while for a bare subsistence,
such would be the value of their experience.

These principles have now been tested under as favorable
conditions as could be desired for fourteen years, and this
experience all goes to confirm them. No valid objection has
been urged and no adverse criticism worth a moment's atten-
tion has been heard. The expense attending the proper
development of this plan is the only difficulty in the way of
its general adoption ; but, within the brief period of its
existence, the Worcester School has seen two great institu-
tions founded on its plan, the Miller School of Virginia
and the Rose School at Terre Haute. No argument is
needed to prove that an engineer should have practical
acquaintance with handicraft and with the machine shop
in general. The great demand for men who have this quali-
fication and the surplus of unemployed theoretical engineers,
otherwise able and competent men, who lack it, shows that
the point is well taken. The experience of the older coun-
tries sustains this view. It is found in Austria, so the Baron

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Von Eybesfeld, Minister of Public Instruction, told me, that
there is a great excess of graduates of the polytechnic over
the demand, and that he is now engaged in organizing a new
kind of school in which workshop instruction shall form
part of the course, so that the country may have some men
for foremen and superintendents of works who are thor-
oughly versed in the practical details of machine-shop work.
In carrying out this new policy, the latest phase, it will be
noticed, of technology, the great Gewerbe Museum has been
organized and put in charge of Dr. Exner, a strikingly com-
petent and efficient man. He has started two totally distinct
sorts of schools ; the first is substantially a half-time school,
in which boys from the higher common schools work half
the day and study the other half, receiving instruction ac-
cording to the polytechnic plan as far as the time permits;
the course being two years, these boys do not receive as
much instruction as the polytechnickers, but they have the
immense advantage of practical power in the shop, which
secures them a living and adds to their value. Every stroke
of work in the shops is done with reference to the sale of
the articles, and no fact was mentioned oftener, or with
more evident satisfaction by Dr. Exner in proof of the solid
excellence of the school, than that they sold in the first year
a thousand gulden worth of their work. It is intended to
multiply these schools so that they shall provide a great
variety of mechanical practice (the two now in operation
being devoted wholly to wood working) and to extend the
course to four years. When this has been done there will
be in Vienna two schools in which all the principles of the
Worcester Institute will be adopted and applied.

The second line along which the Austrians are moving is
in cultivating what are known as cottage industries. This
movement is so interesting that I shall venture to say some-
thing about it, though it is not immediately germane to our
purpose. There is a marked tendency in Austria to concen-
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has grown from 800,000 to 1,200,000 within ten or twelve
years, and other cities show a great increase. This has
occurred without a corresponding increase in the total pop-
ulation. The inference is, that the growth of the cities is
depopulating the villages — an unmistakable and alarming
fact. Inquiry into the causes of this movement has brought
out the fact that peasants of these villages have lost the
market for their baskets and other wares, because their
Swiss and French neighbors, who have had abundant
schools of industry, have devised new and more attractive
forms for the same wares. The peasants of Austria were
unable to compete, because, through their ignorance of
design, they were confined to the old and unsalable forms,
and with the fatuous haste so often seen, crowd the cities in
the vain hope of bettering their lot. Dr. Exner, under the
general direction of the wise and acute Minister of Public
Instruction, has started schools for basket weaving — by
far the most important of these household industries. Half
of the day is devoted to learning new and better ways of
basket weaving, and half to drawing and modeling in clay,
the result being that the pupils learn how to do things that
are now in demand, and are clothed with power to design
whatever forms the future may suggest. Anybody may
attend these schools who chooses to come to Vienna ; for
there only can a museum of examples be gathered suf-
ficiently ample to enable the Minister to multiply the schools
so as to provide for other industries as well as basket
weaving. The hope is, that the more intelligent young
peasants will attend these schools and carry back to their
villages the new ideas ; this being done, a check will be put
upon the tendency of people to leave the villages, because
they can again be prosperous and happy where thev are.
Upon the question whether workshop instruction should
precede, accompany, or follow the school training, opinions
diflfer, and a full discussion of the subject is impossible
within the limits of this address. This subject occupied the

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attention of the American Institute of Mining Engineers
through two prolonged and intensely active sessions in
1876, and the results are embodied in a valuable pamphlet
which presents the views of the ablest engineers in the
country.

I will briefly summarize the facts and motives which
seem to leave us practically no alternative but to incorporate
the shop practice with the school work. Boys fitting for a
polytechnic school can not leave the preparatory school
younger than sixteen ; if they are to get their shop training
before the polytechnic, they must spend three years at it,
and at the end of the time they will be rather too old to get
the best advantage of the school, and miss the all-important
opportunity of applying their theoretical knowledge as they
go along.

If, on the other hand, boys defer the shop till after
graduation, they will find many excuses for slighting it or
for not doing it at all. At the age of twenty, with a good
knowledge of drafting and well-disciplined faculties, Amer-
ican boys would be far more likely to turn into draftsmen
or to take their chances in business than to submit to the
dull routine of elementary shop practice. Theoretically,
there is much to be said in favor of this plan, for it brings
to the workshop the trained powers of the school and makes
the practice continuous. It is the plan of the Russians, in
the Imperial Institute of Technology at St. Petersburg, cer-
tainly one of the best technological schools in the world,
where the students, after a four years' course in technology,
with the usual holidays and vacations, return on the first
day of September and work in the machine shops till the
first day of the following September, ten hours a day with-
out vacations, and the results are very satisfactory. But
the Russians can carry out such a system because the gov-
ernment controls the positions to which the students aspire,
and without which they must starve, and makes the fifth
year of practice compulsory. Very few who have had much

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experience in teaching American boys believe that such a
plan could be successfully adopted here.

There are many solid, positive reasons in favor of incor-
porating the shop practice with the intellectual discipline.
The period of a boy's life between sixteen and twenty-one
is the period of sharp acquisition ; ideas taken then remain
in a special sense a part of the mental furniture forever.
Probably no one, whose course of education is uninter-
rupted, acquires as much as between the ages mentioned, or
retains what he acquires as long. It is an interesting fact
that the enthusiasm which an American boy cherishes for
his college, an English boy feels for his school, where the
training he most values was received. The American hur-
rahs for Yale or Harvard — the English for Eton or Rugby.
The same would be true here were all our boys fitted for
college at a few large schools and fitted as well. This being
true, shop practice has an advantage it would otherwise lose
in coming into this period.

Again, a man whose matured and furnished mind has laid
hold of the strong problems of theoretical mathematics in
school, and who finds himself on the threshold of manhood,
does not bend himself with just the same ease as an ungrad-
uate to the elements of machine-shop practice. There is
some advantage, too, in beginning shop life in periods of
five hours semi-weekly over ten hours a day; for less time
proportionally is wasted. And, finally, a great economy of
the precious time of the students is secured because shop
work serves the double purpose of practice and of exercise.

Why the school workshop should not be a shop in a
complete sense, and not a mechanical laboratory or some
other device for escaping the hard but necessary discipline
of a shop, has not yet been stated. There is a difficulty in
meeting the first cost and inevitable annual deficit, but if
any other valid objection has been made to the plan it has
escaped my attention. It oflFers every advantage of every
other form of school shop, with immense additions.

Dr. Thompson's Inaugural Address. 6i

The advantages of a shop in which actual construction
is made to aid in instruction are numerous ; a few only can
be mentioned. These boys are all hoping to be engineers ;
at least they may expect to become skilled workmen or
draftsmen. In any event, the more the faculty of judgment
is cultivated, and the more the boys realize the nature and
extent of the difficulties that actual practice presents, of
which the best theoretical knowledge gives no hint, the
nearer they are to attaining the end they seek. We have
seen that no graduate of a school is an engineer, but is in
the best way to become one. Why not advance him as far
as possible? If now the student's comprehension of the
principles of engineering is clear, and his weekly practice
enables him to see those principles in action under conditions
as like as possible to those which he will meet in real life,
his entrance upon the life of an engineer will be an expan-
sion of his school life, and not an abrupt transition from it
to a new mode of life. The more his work is subjected to
the inexorable tests of business, and the more he feels in
the use of his materials just the same responsibility that
rests upon an actual workman, the better he is. He must
make the things that are to be used, and not those con-
trived to suit the peculiarities of his temperament, the exi-
gencies of his situation, or the mere purpose of instruction.
There is nothing that a student needs to make in a school
workshop from which he can not gain something if he puts
the article into its final serviceable form.

Applying the stern test of serviceableness is the only
way to know whether the things that have been made were
worth the making or not, and is the only way to correct any
tendency to visionary structure that is so apt to infect a
school workshop, and to prevent that sublimation of com-
mon sense which is apt to ensue when responsibility for the
correct use of costly materials is removed.

There is no merit or charm in work, considered merely
as work ; to work to produce something that some one else

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wants and can not make for himself, and is able to pay for,
is the stimulus of industry. All work in school shops or
any other will ultimately obey this law, or else it will
evaporate into exercise or sport.

Workshops into which the principle of construction does
not enter are liable to exalt the importance of the purely
literary aspect of mechanical knowledge. It is possible to
know the five hundred and seven mechanical movements,
to know the best cutting angles of saws, files, and edge tools,
and not be a mechanic or be in the way of becoming one.
This kind of knowledge is useful and attractive and desir-
able when it is not offered as a substitute for the dexterity
that can be obtained only by the use of the tools. It will
not do to regard our ancestors, the skilled mechanics, as
fools. There is still but one way to learn to file, and that is
to file. The most expert filer I ever saw could not write his
name. I do not think he could have filed any better had this
simple accomplishment been added to his merits; he would
have been a better and a happier and a more useful man
with more knowledge, but he did that one thing as well as
it could be done at that time.

But this thought instantly suggests another of the great-
est importance, viz. : handicraft occupies a constantly nar-
rowing place in the mechanic arts ; machinery a constantly
widening one. Every year adds to the number of trades
from which the machinist has driven the craftsman. It is
clear, then, that no training of boys for the life of mechanics
is complete which does not make them familiar with ma-
chinery and machine construction.

There is one demand sometimes made upon the school
shop which is unjust, namely, that it should pay its way.
How can it pay its way when so large a part of its force is
spent in teaching boys? If so many machine shops in this
country, fitted up and managed with especial reference to
money making, fail in business, or only make the ends meet
by the most painful efforts, how can a shop one-half of

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whose effective force is spent in teaching boys, who can not
for the first half of their time produce anything salable,
hope to pay its way? Teaching in school shops costs as
teaching elsewhere costs.

In the Rose School the following plan will be attempted ;

1. The course of study will be four years.

2. The practice will be concentrated in the first year
and diminished in the fourth, so as to allow time for more
instruction in machine design.

3. While the same subjects will be taught, perhaps
more attention will be given to the humanities.

4. A different view will be taken here of the profession
of civil engineering from the one usually held. The young
men who propose to be civil engineers will spend a part of
their practice time in the machine shop.

Civil engineering can not easily be separated from me-
chanical, because the most important business of a civil
engineer nowadays is not surveying and mapping, but bridge
and building construction, the setting of water-wheels and
other engines, and such like undertakings which involve a
knowledge of mechanics, so that two or three of the best
so-called civil engineers in the country have given it as their
judgment that a course in mechanics, including workshop
instruction, is the best way to prepare for the practice of
civil engineering.

But, on the other hand, the building of new highways
and railroads still goes on, and calls for a certain number of
young men who are expert in the use of the transit and level
(especially in railroad problems), who know how to draw
and who understand mensuration ; hence, training for this
sort of employment can not be neglected in a polytechnic
school. It would conduce to clearness to call such work
topographical engineering.

An added consideration of some weight in favor of re-
taining a distinct department of topographical engineering
is, that many of the young men who frequent technological

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schools have no taste or aptitude for mechanical work, and
some have not the requisite physical vigor for it, whose
fitness for success in field work or in mapping is unques-
tionable. But it will be clearly advantageous to all to have
some workshop practice. No changes will be made except
such as reason and a large experience show to be desirable
and advantageous to the student.

But a healthy child wants food. An adequate beginning
must be sustained by continual contributions in order to
good progress. We want the sympathy and patient consid-
eration of the community. We want books, apparatus, and
models constantly in excess of the resources of our funds.
The examples of our founder are worthy of attention and
imitation.

The machine shop is ready ; a reference library will soon
be on the shelves ; a cabinet of minerals is on hand ; ample
models are ready for the proper equipment of rooms for
drawing and design ; the bricks for a new building for a
chemical laboratory are now lying in the yard : apparatus
for chemistry, physics, and field work is in the building or
provided for; commodious recitation and lecture rooms are
ready when wanted.

I hope also, in the course of time, to collect models and
examples of the best mechanical devices, and also of leading
manufactures. These collections of models play a very
important part in European technological schools, and for
obvious reasons. Indeed, the outlay in some cases is enor-
mous and would be insupportable did not manufacturers
find their account in placing here examples of their best
work. At Chemnitz I saw two examples of this class : one
a perfect working model of the Hartman locomotive, which
cost $3,000, and the other a large working model of the
Merkel stationary engine, worth $250 — each presented by
the manufacturer.

In order to any effective use of these resources two
things are vitally requisite : good teaching before the stu-

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dents enter the Institute and good teaching afterward. It is,
on the whole, a mistake to suppose that fitting for the poly-
technic is essentially different from fitting for any form of
manly labor in this world which depends upon a sound,
instructed brain. Technically, boys will be examined for
the present in English grammar, geography, United States
history, arithmetic, and algebra as far as quadratic equa-
tions ; but these are the essentials of any success at all in
the polytechnic ; the more a boy knows before he comes, the
broader and deeper his success will be. The polytechnic is
a professional school, and must concentrate itself upon its
own special work ; but the broader the base upon which it
builds, the more massive the structure that can be reared.
A^^^ether the polytechnic course shall rear an obelisk or a
pyramid depends on the preparation of its students.

Men are born as ignorant as they ever were, and the
same steps from ignorance to the elements of all knowledge
must be taken by every one. This work usually occupies
the first fifteen years of every human life.

It is very desirable that every boy who presents himself
for admission here should have at least a full high school
course ; if he can not get that, let him make the closest pos-
sible approach to it. Youth once passed, the opportunity
for acquiring the rudiments of knowledge is usually gone
forever. And eye hath not yet seen nor ear heard a sadder
thing than the lament of a man who, amid the emergencies
of life, suddenly confronts his need of some simple knowl-
edge which he might have got for the asking in his youth.

The greatest solicitude will be ever cherished here about
the quality of the teaching. It is not intended that students
shall find more assiduous or competent teaching in the
various branches of the course than will be constantly found
in this Institute.

But there is one peril and annoyance to which the new
polytechnic is subject: handicraft in school, never having
been used before except for reformatory purposes, the im-

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pression gets abroad that the institution must lower its
intellectual standing to raise the handicraft. I do not know
an institution in this country except West Point where boys
achieve as much good work or are better prepared intellec-
tually for effective service as engineers than they are at
Worcester. We propose to give the same training here.

If what has now been said seems to have a too exclusive
bearing upon the study and practice of mechanics, it is
because this is the leading department, and presents the only
novel and difficult features of our enterprise ; but there will
be departments of civil engineering, physics, chemistry, and
design organized on the same general plan ; the studies will
be the same in all departments — the practice different
according to the purpose for which it is intended. These
departments naturally group themselves; for chemistry,
physics, and drawing must be taught to mechanics, and the
additional expense required to give practice in each of these
departments to those who prefer it to mechanical practice
is justified by the demand.

Later in our enterprise a department of mining engineer-
ing may be organized ; and in the department of physics
special attention will be given to electrical engineering. All
this will come about in due time. It will be observed, how-
ever, that only one kind of practice can be profitably taken
by any student during the course. Full particulars in regard
to all these matters will be seasonably given.

If this account of the origin and method of the techno-
logical school be correct, it is obvious that it is no longer an
experiment, that it fills a gap, that it is a natural, inevitable,
every way desirable and welcome concomitant of modern
civilization. It does for the industrial arts what the colleges
have so well done for the learned professions by fitting men
in a carefully planned course of study for the intelligent
discharge of their duties.

The polytechnic seeks to work as an ally of the old
classical college, and hopes that her old friend may find

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something to her advantage in studying the economy of
force which prevails in the methods and results of the new-
comer. The polytechnic does not sustain any organic rela-
tion to the college such as the academy has on the one hand
and the professional school on the other ; yet in a deeper
sense it sustains a very important relation to it. Whatever
tends to increase or foster the desire for knowledge tends
at once to foster all institutions whose object is to promote
knowledge. Every new institution tends to increase the
interest in the old — provided the old are worthy. Of
course, I do not mean by "new institutions" repetitions of
old types, such as the multiplication of small colleges, for
this is generally an evil rather than a good (except in new
States), but I mean new institutions, like polytechnic
schools, that strike their roots into new soils and make what
was once a desert blossom as the rose.

Technical schools have not aflfected the colleges unfavor-
ably in the matter of attendance ; for, in spite of the crowds
that have flocked to their doors, the classes in the colleges
have steadily increased. More new colleges have been
founded during the period of the rise of polytechnic schools
in this country than in any similar period before ; the old
colleges have received munificent increase in their resources
and have more than held their own in the matter of attend-
ance, and all the students attending the State universities in
the course of liberal arts may be reckoned as a solid addition
to the ranks of the college.

For obvious reasons the polytechnic school flourishes
best when separate and distinct from the college; but the
more it flourishes the more it will directly benefit the college
by providing for the instruction of the youth who demand
the so-called "practical courses," and thus leave the college
free to pursue her own legitimate work. Toward all forms
of knowledge technology is hospitable, and toward all who
know, engineers are affectionate. The study of science in
a teachable and reverent spirit does not beget intolerance or

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bigotry. Science inculcates hatred of pretense, and is intol-
erant of dogmatism ; but, mindful of the counsel of her
greatest discipline, she utters the solemn words of Bacon :

"This also we humbly beg that human beings may not
prejudice such as are divine, neither that from the unlocking
of the gates of sense, and the kindling of a greater light,
anything of incredulity or intellectual night may arise in our
mind toward Divine mysteries."

The day has forever passed when the old idea that the
study of Latin, Greek, and the humanities is the only educa-
tion. The definition of an educated man will bear still more
expansion, but it has broadened rapidly during the last
quarter century. *"The vulgar argument that a study of
the classics is necessary to make a gentleman is beneath
contempt. Honor and gentleness are not a dye or a lacquer,
but warp and woof. It is true that a certain social consid-
eration attaches to persons who are supposed to know Latin
or Greek, whether they are gentlemen or not"; but society
is rapidly adapting itself to the new era in which men and
women are to be taken for what they are, and not what they
are said to be.

It is an unique and interesting fact that most of the
polytechnic schools have been founded and endowed by
private benefactors. The colleges, seminaries, and acad-
emies have depended at times upon legislative fostering.
Hardly a session of a State legislature passed prior to 1873
without considering some bill in aid of an educational insti-
tution. But the strong point about polytechnic schools is,
that the enormous expense of founding and administering
them has been provided in most cases by individual citizens
who knew their value. The Ecole Centrale in Paris, next
to the Polytechnic the best in France, was the joint product
of the brains of Dumas, Pictet, and Ollivier and the pocket
of their friend Lavallee. who paid all the expenses of start-

President Eliot.

Dr. Thompson's Inaugural Address. 69

ing and running the school for five years, and at the end of
that time presented it to the government. In this country
Lawrence at Cambridge, Van Rensselaer at Troy, Sheffield
at New Haven, Stevens at Hoboken, Boynton, Washburn,
and Salisbury at Worcester, Rose at Terre Haute, Case at
Cleveland, and many others, have said in tones which many
generations will hear what they think of the value and im-
portance of technical education, and have made the State
the recipient and not the nurse of their bounty.

In the city of Glasgow, nothing impresses a traveler
more amid all its teeming industries than two monuments,
one of great height and majesty to John Knox, the other
a simple tablet in the wall of the cathedral to the memory
of George Bailey, who founded unsectarian schools and
libraries for the operative classes.

The city of Terre Haute will cherish none of her treas-
ures longer than the memory of her princely benefactor;
but her choicest heritage is the inalienable right to put upon
his monument with a change of name the inscription which
can be read at the grave of Copernicus in Warschau :

To Chaunc^y Rose, Our Frllow Citizen.

BOARD OF MANAGERS.

Colonel William K. Edwards.

Colonel W. K. Edwards was born near Zanesville, Ky.,
in 1820, and died in his room in the Terre Haute House
September 26, 1878. He was a graduate of the Indiana
State University and -the Transylvania University of Lex-
ington, Ky. In 1843 he came to Terre Haute and began
the practice of the law. He took an active interest in public
affairs, and was several times elected to the State Legisla-
ture, serving one term as Speaker. He was the first Mayor
of Terre Haute, under city organization. He was asso-
ciated with the management of the T. H. & I. and T. H.
& E. Railroads and with banking interests. He was Trustee
of the Indiana State University, and at the time of his death
President of the Board. In all public affairs he was active
and influential.

For many years Colonel Edwards was the agent, attor-
ney, and trusted friend of the founder of the Polytechnic
Institute. Mr. Rose consulted him almost daily on business
matters, and he was his chosen instrument for such investi-
gations as were needed in reference to contemplated bene-
factions. When his advancing years admonished him that
he must restrict his business activities, he began with in-
creasing interest to turn his attention to formulating plans
for so disposing of his fortune that it might prove of the
greatest benefit to the community in which it was acquired
and to the people and their descendants among whom he had
lived as neighbor and friend, he discussed his plans with
Colonel Edwards and directed him to secure such informa-
tion and do such work as it required. Colonel Edwards was,

Board of Managers. 71

in fact, Mr. Rose's business agent in many matters, chiefly
of this sort, and it is to be said to his credit that he served
the master spirit with-such fidelity and ability as to always
retain the confidence and esteem of his elder friend. He
was present at most of the conferences in the historic library
office room of the Rose home, when the matters of founding
a scientific school and an orphans' home and a free dis-
pensary were maturing, and was a member of the Poly-
technic Board from the first until his death. Every task
assigned to him in this connection he executed with fidelity.
Colonel Edwards was a man of varied interests. In
addition to his professional duties and public positions, he
was for many years an active and influential member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, filling in turn all the
offices in the local lodge, and holding many high places in
the Grand Lodge and Encampment. On the occasion of his
funeral, Sunday, September 29, 1878, there was a notable
gathering of representative and distinguished men from all
over Indiana, who had met and served with him in some
public station. In his death the Rose Polytechnic lost an
earnest friend.

Gene;rai, Charles Cruft.

General Charles Cruft, eldest son of John F. and Eliza-
beth A. Cruft, was born in Terre Haute, January 12, 1826.
He died at his home in this city March 23, 1883.

Despite the disparity in their ages, he was an intimate
friend of Chauncey Rose, who appointed him one of the
original members of the Board of Managers of the Rose
Polytechnic Institute, and relied greatly on his judgment in
the formulation of the plans for its establishment.

Charles Cruft received his early education in Terre
Haute, the latest of his boyhood instructors being Rev.
Robert B. Croes, rector of St. Stephen's Church. He
entered Wabash College at Crawfordsville, graduated in
1843, and in 1846 received the honorary degree of Master

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of Arts. For a few months succeeding his return from
college he was an assistant in the academy of the Rev.
Mr. Croes.

Later he obtained a position as bookkeeper in the local
branch of the old State Bank of Indiana, of which Judge
Demas Deming was President. During this period he
studied law, having as his preceptor the late W. D. Griswold.

After a brief period of legal practice, General Cruft
was chosen President of the St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute
Railway Company, and held the position for several years.
In 1 86 1 he formed a law partnership with John P. Baird,
which partnership continued until the death of Colonel
Baird in 1881.

In i860 he purchased the Terre Haute Express, which
he owned for a number of years, though not actively en-
gaged in its publication.

In September, 1861, he enlisted in the army, and was
appointed Colonel of the Thirty-first Indiana Volunteers.
He served throughout the war, and rose to the rank of
Major-General.

During the closing years of his life, after the death of
his partner, he retired from the active practice of his pro-
fession and devoted a large portion of his time to the Rose
Polytechnic Institute, . with which he had been identified
from its inception, having materially assisted Mr. Rose in
maturing the plans which culminated in its foundation.

Samue;l S. Early.

Samuel Stockwell Early was elected a member of the
Board of Managers of the Rose Polytechnic Institute
November 2, 1878, to succeed William K. Edwards, de-
ceased. He was at once elected Secretary, filling the
vacancy caused by the death of his predecessor. His serv-
ices, as a member and Secretary, were invaluable, and he
was especially active in the difficult task of starting the
Institute, making several trips East in connection with the

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selection of a President and of other members of the Faculty
and in securing the equipment.

Mr. Early was born at Flemingsburg, Ky., July 12, 1827,
the only child of Jacob D. and Mary (Stockwell) Early.
In 1833 he came to Terre Haute with his father, who, up
to his death in 1869. was one of the leading business men
of the town. In 1841 he was sent to Asbury University,
graduating with high honors. In 1849, after a few years
in his father's counting room, he went abroad, for a stay
of fifteen months, devoting his time to the study of art and
literature. Upon his return he engaged in business with his
father. He was married in 1855 to Miss Andrews, of Balti-
more, daughter of General T. P. Andrews, who became
Paymaster-General during the Civil War. Mr. Early and
his wife went abroad a few years afterward, and traveled
extensively in Europe and Asia Minor.

For a few years he was a director and later President
of the Prairie City Bank. In 1864 he was elected President
of the Board of Trustees of St. Agnes Hall, a female college
in Terre Haute. In 1871 he went to Baltimore, Md., and
was one of the editors of the Baltimore Bulletin, a weekly
journal devoted to literature and art, and during this period
he won high distinction as a writer and art critic, and was
elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.
Returning to Terre Haute to reside in 1876, he at once took
a permanent position in social and business circles, though
not actively engaged in business.

On his election to the Board of Managers of the Rose
Polytechnic Institute, he devoted a large part of his time
to furthering its interests. Up to the time of his death,
which occurred suddenly September 18, 1884, he contributed
largely to its success, his life work coming to an end just
as the Institute began its career. One of his sons and his
namesake graduated in the Class of 1885.

74 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

RoBieRT S. Cox.

Robert S. Cox was born at Zanesville, Ohio, February
7, 1833, and died at his home in Terre Haute November
18, 1886.

He came to Terre Haute in 1855 and entered into part-
nership with his father, Robert S. Cox, Sr., in the wholesale
grocery business. His father died in 1864, but the business
was continued as before until 1870, when it was merged into
the firm of Hulman & Cox. His great executive capacity
and sound views on business materially assisted in the devel-
opment of this great establishment. In 1882 he bought a
one-third interest in the Terre Haute Car Works, and was
the directing head of that large enterprise at the time of
his death.

Mr. Cox was a man of broad views on education, and
his connection with the Rose Polytechnic Institute as a
member of the Board of Managers enabled him to render
service that was as congenial to him as it was valuable to
the school. Faithful in attendance on the meetings, never
missing when in the city, he brought to the discharge of
the duties of the position a ripe judgment and keen interest.
A son and namesake later became a member of the Board,
serving until he removed from the city; and two sons,
Frank P., of the Class of '87, now with the General Electric
Company, of Lynn, Mass., and John S., of the Class of '91,
a resident of Terre Haute, graduated from the Institute.

During the earlier portion of his extended connection
with the Institute, many matters arose in regard to which
there were no precedents. A comparatively new field was
under exploration, the lines of education were reaching out
in new directions, new problems were constantly arising and
pressing for solution. On all these matters his associates
relied greatly on the soundness of his judgment, a marked
characteristic of his mental equipment. Though many inter-
ests claimed his attention, it was always possible to enlist his
services when the welfare of the Institute was concerned.

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FiRMIN NiPPERT.

Firmin Nippert was a trusted friend of Chauncey Rose
for many years, and so, when the plans for establishing a
Polytechnic Institute were under consideration, he was con-
sulted, becoming one of the members of the original Board,
organized September 10, 1874. From that time until his
death, November 3, 1889, he missed no meeting of the
Board when he was in town and physically able to be
present. To the business in hand he brought an ardent
desire to do his full duty, intense interest in the Institute,
and an unflagging purpose to carry out the wishes of his
friend, the founder of the school. Upon his shoulders fell
much work, and it was willingly borne.

Firmin Nippert was born September 25, 1819, at Guin-
lange, France, one of a large family. His father, Bernard
Nippert, was a teacher.

Firmin came to the United States in 1839, landing at
New Orleans. For there he went to Portland, Ky. In turn
he lived for a short time at Springfield, Salem, and Potoka,
all in Indiana, and in 1844 came to Terra Haute, which was
thereafter, until his death, his home. From 1844 to 1863
he was engaged in merchandising. Not actively engaged m
business from 1863 to 1869, he went to Europe for an
extended stay.

In 1869 he became connected with the nail works, and
managed its afifairs very successfully, continuing in the
position until 1888, when he resigned and went to the Pacific
Coast for a stay of several months.

Thereafter he did not actively engage in business, but
devoted his time to caring for his diversified property inter-
ests and to work in behalf of the Rose Polytechnic Institute,
toward which he contributed both time and money.

76 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

JOSEPHUS COLLETT.

Josephus Collett was born in Vermillion County, Indiana,
a son of Stephen S. and Sarah ( Groenendyke) Collett,
August 17, 1832. He died in Terre Haute February 13,
1893. He attended Wabash College for three years, but
was unable to complete the course owing to ill health. For
a time he engaged in stock dealing, merchandising, and
pork packing, in Vermilion County. But he found the
occupation for which he was especially fitted when backed
by Chauncey Rose; he built the Evansville, Terre Haute &
Chicago Railroad from Terre Haute to Danville, 111. This
was the real beginning of his association with Mr. Rose,
which grew into warm friendship and endured until the end.
Mr. Collett built and managed this road until he leased it
to the Chicago & Eastern Illinois road, of which it is now a
part. Later he built the Genessee Valley Railroad of New
York, also the Otter Creek Valley Railroad through Vigo
and Clay Counties, Indiana. He served as Superintendent
of the Nevada Central Railroad for two years, and became
President and General Manager of a railroad in Texas.
His interests in manufacturing, mining, and industrial enter-
prises were many and varied, and to them all he brought
indefatigable industry and a comprehensive knowledge of
details. Mr. Rose found in him a congenial spirit. In
many mental attributes the men were alike. Mr. Rose
counseled with him in regard to the proposed Scientific
School, found him keenly interested, and appointed him a
member of the original Board. Mr. Collett was once Presi-
dent of the Board of Managers under Mr. Rose's presi-
dency, and succeeded to the presidency when Mr. Rose laid
down the office shortly before his death. Mr. Collett, as
President of the Board, labored in and out of season for
the welfare of the school. He knew how dear it was to his
dead friend, of whose estate he was one of the executors.
In the erection of the buildings and in their equipment and
in all the work incident to the establishment of the school

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he was profoundly interested, and to it he devoted a good
portion of his time. Meetings of the Board were held in his
office. When it came to the selection of a President and
other members of the Faculty, he made several trips to the
East with Mr. Early, Judge Mack, and others. Indeed,
during the afternoon of his life, the Rose Polytechnic Insti-
tute seemed to interest and concern him more than his
private affairs. And when he died, it was found that he
had remembered it in his will, leaving it a bequest of
$75,000.

Recognition of this gift was later shown by the Board
of Managers in naming the Chair of Mechanical Engineer-
ing the Josephus CoJlett Chair of Mechanical Bngineering,
and directing that it always thereafter be thus designated
in the annual catalogues.

Geology and archaeology greatly interested him for many
years, and. he devoted much time and many thousands of
dollars to the collecting of geological and archaeological
specimens. This splendid cabinet, probably the finest private
collection in the country, containing over 14,000 specimens,
he gave to the Rose Polytechnic Institute, where it is held
and where it is hoped it may be rendered more available for
study when the Institute shall be able to provide it with
adequate room for its proper display. Mr. Collett's name
is perpetuated in Terre Haute by a park that he gave to the
city, but his private benefactions were numberless, though
only a fraction of them ever became known, for he was one
of those rare men who do good not that they may be seen
of men.

Charles R. Peddle.

Charles R. Peddle was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Octo-
ber 5, 1820, and died at his home in Terre Haute April 19,
1893. A portion of his youth was spent at an excellent
school at Plainfield, Conn.

His early fondness was for mechanical pursuits ; he was

78 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

the very type of manhood for the development of which the
Rose Polytechnic was intended. Had that school been in
existence, he would no doubt have availed himself of the
advantages of its course. As it was, he was active in his
mature life in its organization, equipment, and launching
forth. He saw a son graduate, afterward to become a mem-
ber of its Faculty; a daughter is Registrar of the Institute.

Denied the benefit of a professional career, such as Rose
provided, for there were no such schools in that day, he
began in a practical way as an apprentice in the machine
shop of Norris & Son, in Philadelphia.

From there he went to Reading, Pa., and in 1849
accepted a position on Indiana's first railroad, that from
Madison to Indianapolis.

April I, 1 85 1, he met Mr. Rose by appointment at the
Astor House, New York, and at that time there began a
business connection and a personal acquaintance that
ripened into close friendship and continued to the end of
the life of the elder man.

To Mr. Peddle was assigned the task of bringing from
Boston to Indiana four locomotives, to be used in the con-
struction and operation of the Terre Haute & Indianapolis
Railroad, then building. Two of them were brought to
Terre Haute by canal from Toledo ; the other two by canal
to Cincinnati, thence by river to Madison, and then by rail
to Indianapolis.

From that time to his death Mr. Peddle was identified
with the T. H. & I. Railroad, having charge of the loco-
motives and machinery during the road construction, and
becoming Master Mechanic. Upon his judgment in all
matters relating to the mechanical equipment and operation
of the road Mr. Rose relied, for he realized that in him he
had found a man who knew what to do and how to do it.

During the many years of their intimate business connec-
tion they came to a mutual recognition of the necessity for
men mentally and physically trained for the mechanic arts.

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Out of these experiences grew the conferences that led
to the plans for a school of industrial science. Naturally,
Mr. Peddle became a member of the first Board, and had
an important part in formulating and in afterward carrying
out the plans. His heart was in the work, and he gave it
an increasing portion of his attention, leaving nothing he
could do undone. And to his faithful efforts much of its
success is due.

In September, 1884, he succeeded Mr. Early as Secre-
tary of the Board of Managers, and served in this capacity
until his death. As member of the Shop Committee he gave
liberally of his time to visiting it and aiding in its admin-
istration.

William Mack.

Judge William Mack, to use the title by which he was
known during the later part of his life, was born in Ham-
ilton County, Ohio, September 29, 1827, and died in Terre
Haute May 19, 1898.

His early education was received in the country schools
of Butler County, his father being a farmer. Later he
attended Farmers' College, then studied law at the New
York State and National Law School at Ballston Springs,
N. Y. He was admitted to the bar of New York in 1850,
but afterward attended the Cambridge Law School.

He first located in 185 1 at Grand Rapids, Mich., but
after a few months removed to Columbus, Ind., then to
Bloomfield, from which town he moved to Terre Haute,
his residence until his death.

He became one of the foremost members of the bar. and
served with honor and distinction as Judge of the Circuit
Court.

Elected to the State Legislature, he became Speaker of
that body. He was a public-spirited citizen, active in all
affairs of general interest, and spent much time in Europe.

Fond of literature, he was instrumental in organizing the

8o Rose Polytechnic Institute.

Terre Haute Literary Club, and continued to be one of its
most active members. In October, 1877, he became a mem-
ber of the Board of Managers of the Rose Polytechnic Insti-
tute, succeeding Mr. Rose. From that time until his death
he identified himself thoroughly with its interests.

No meeting ever was held that did not record him pres-
ent if he was in the city. Several times he was one of those
who visited other institutions and individuals in the difficult
work of securing the men who were to constitute the Fac-
ulty. At all times and on all occasions he visited the school,
became acquainted with the students, and concerned himself
in their welfare.

Up to the very end the Rose Polytechnic Institute was
near and dear to him, and to him much of its early success
was due.

Richard Wigginton Thompson.

Richard W. Thompson was born June 9, 1809, in Cul-
pepper County, Virginia, and died at his home in Terre
Haute, February 9, 1900.

His early education was obtained in the schools of the
neighborhood, but his father's home was frequented by the
prominent men of the time, and there a fondness for public
affairs and history and the law was early acquired. At an
early age he made a trip on horseback to Tennessee, and
later, on arriving at his majority, he went to Louisville, and
from there to Bedford, Ind., where he clerked in a store,
taught school, studied law, and entered into practice. Dur-
ing the thirteen years of his residence in Bedford he was
elected a member of the lower branch of the Legislature
twice and of the State Senate once, and was elected to and
served one term in Congress with great credit. At the expi-
ration of his term in Congress, he moved in 1843 to Terre
Haute, which was ever thereafter his home. In 1847 he
was again elected to Congress. Among his colleagues was
Abraham Lincoln. Although actively participating in every

William J\1ack.

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political contest, both in Indiana and other States (for his
fame as an orator was national), he never thereafter per-
mitted his friends to nominate him for an active political
office. His marked preference, so far as he was personally
concerned, was for private life.

But it is known that he declined a tender of the appoint-
ment as Secretary of State, later that of Minister to Austria
by President Taylor, of General Solicitor of the Land Office
by President Fillmore, of Judge of the Court of Claims by
President Lincoln, a life position, and of Examiner of the
Central Railroad. Indeed, he expended more effort to keep
out of office than most men do to get office, so decided was
his preference for private life.

At the outbreak of the Civil War he was much in Wash-
ington and at the State Capital in conference with President
Lincoln and Governor Morton. His law practice was laid
aside and he accepted an appointment ; was Provost Marshal,
and organized and drilled the Seventy-first, Eighty-fifth, and
Ninety-seventh Regiments at Camp Dick Thompson.

After the close of the war he served as Collector of
Internal Revenue and Judge of the Circuit Court by appoint-
ment.

At a still later period he was Secretary of the Navy in
the Cabinet of President Hayes, resigning a few months
before the close of the administration to accept the chair-
manship of the American Committee of the Panama Canal
Company.

For a period of twenty-five years he was General Coun-
sel of the T. H. & I. Railroad, continuing with it after it
became merged into the Vandalia System, under the presi-
dency of his lifelong friend, William R. McKeen.

Colonel Thompson, as he was called for many years,
was an omnivorous but discriminating reader, and became a
writer of notable books on politics and religion. His book
of Reminiscences is a valuable contribution to the history of
the country.
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Early in his career in Terre Haute he became associated
with Mr. Rose, and the intimacy was close and cordial ; and
of all the high positions he held, it is doubtful if he prized
any more than his membership on the Board of Managers
of the Rose Polytechnic Institute, of which he was Presi-
dent at the time of his death. He was profoundly interested
in everything that concerned the young. Doing things for
them seemed to renew his youth, and he devoted to his duties
in connection with the Polytechnic, as well as to those of
the Rose Orphans' Home, and of the State Normal School,
of which he was at one time a trustee, a very large part of
his time. He always attended the Commencement exercises,
and his eloquent words in addressing the students will be
long remembered by those whose large privilege it was to
hear him.

His death was a loss to the community, the common-
wealth, and the country.

WiLUAM A. Jones.

William A. Jones was the first President of the Indiana
State Normal School. Under his direction the curriculum
of that school for the training of teachers was mapped out
and put in successful operation. While engaged in the work
he made the acquaintance of Mr. Rose, and so strongly was
the latter impressed with the character and attainments of
Mr. Jones that when he came to formulate the plans for the
Polytechnic he wanted him to become one of the original
Board of Managers. In this capacity he served with charac-
teristic energy and ability. But before the Polytechnic re-
ceived its first students, Mr. Jones, owing to failing health,
felt compelled to resign the presidency of the Normal
School. He then went to Iowa, where several years after-
ward he died.

Board of Managers. 83

Barnabas C. Hobbs.

Barnabas C. Hobbs was born near Salem, Washington
County, Indiana, October 4, 181 5, and died at Bloomingdale,
Parke County, Indiana, June 22, 1892.

His early education was received in the schools of the
neighborhood, and especially at the County Seminary.
Later, going to the Cincinnati College, he received instruc-
tion in mathematics under Prof. C. M. Mitchell, the eminent
geographer. He taught school at Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, and
at Richmond, Ind. In 1847 he became Superintendent of
the school established by the Society of Friends, of which
he was a member, at Richmond. This school later became
Earlham College. He moved to Parke County, Indiana,
April 8, 185 1, and entered upon his duties as President of
Bloomingdale Academy, which he held for more than fifteen
years. Upon the establishment of the State Normal School
in 1865, he was appointed one of the Trustees. In 1866 he
became President of Earlham College, and in 1868 was
elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction. For
many years he was an intimate friend of Mr. Rose, who
conferred with him in regard to many matters and who
appointed him a member of the original Board of Managers
of the school, now known as the Rose Polytechnic Institute.
His long connection with educational institutions made his
services very valuable, and it was with great regret that his
removal from this part of the State made it necessary for
him to discontinue his membership.

Alumni Representatives.

The Alumni of the Rose Polytechnic Institute have ever
shown themselves enthusiastically loyal to its interests. This
loyalty has found expression in manifold ways and on every
proper occasion. At the Commencement exercises, and
especially at the Alumni banquets, it led to the desire to
assist those in charge and finally to the suggestion that the

84 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

Alumni be given special representation on the Board of
Managers.

The articles of association having been suitably modified,
this finally took form, and at the meeting of June 24, 1898,
the following amendments to the by-laws of the articles of
incorporation were adopted and spread on record.

AMENDED BY-LAWS.
"Resolved, That the Board of Managers increase its membership
so that there shall be two more members than at the present time,
and that provision be made whereby the two vacancies thus created
shall be filled by the Rose Polytechnic Alumni Association in the
following manner:

1. That the said Association shall nominate Alumni of at least
four years' standing, by ballot, two each for terms of one and two
years respectively, the term of each nominee to be particularly speci-
fied, and the said terms to expire at the end of Commencement week
at the end of said term.

2. That no two of the persons so nominated shall be of the
same class unless nominated for the same year, and that the said
persons shall represent at least two of the five engineering courses
offered by the institution.

3. That all Alumni shall have the privilege of voting for the
nominees provided for the first article, either in person or by letter
ballot.

4. That after the first two Managers are so nominated by the
Association and elected by the Board, the successors of said two
Managers shall be appointed for a term of two years, one each year,
in the following manner:

(0) A committee of three on election shall be appointed by the
Association, said committee being composed of Alumni living in or
near Terre Haute.

(&•) It shall be the duty of said committee, during the month
of March of each year, to notify each Alumnus by letter and request
him to make one nomination for the vacancy, which will occur at the
end of the following Commencement week.

(c) On the isth day of May, or the week following said day,
the committee shall count the ballots received by them, and shall
select for the nominees the two persons receiving the highest number
of votes, and shall arrange the names of said two persons in order
according to the number of votes received by each, placing the high-
est first, provided always that each of the said two persons shall have

Board of Managers. 85

been an Alumnus of at least four years' standing at the Commence-
ment following the nomination. When the list has been prepared, a
copy thereof shall be forwarded to each Alumnus with the request
that he vote for one of the persons named therein, either by personal
vote or by letter ballot, on or before the day of the annual meeting
of the Association, said day to be designated in the notice.

(d) The poll shall be closed at the opening of the annual busi-
ness meeting of the Association, and it shall be the duty of the elec-
tion committee to count the votes, and certify the name of the person
receiving the greatest number of votes to the Secretary of the Asso-
ciation, who shall then certify the same to the Board of Managers.

(e) The Board of Managers to agree, except for some good
and sufficient reason to be formally set forth in writing to the Sec-
retary of the Alumni Association, to elect the person so certified to
membership on the Board.

(0 Any person so nominated by the Association and elected by
the Board may be renominated and reelected for a second term of
two years, but no person so nominated and elected shall serve as an
Alumni representative on the Board of Managers for more than two
successive terms of two years each."

In accordance with the provisions and amended by-laws
the Alumni Association, the ensuing year, held an election,
and June 16, 1889, its Secretary, John B. Aikman, of the
Class of 1887, himself a member of the Board of Managers,
reported the election of Benjamin McKeen, '85, of St. Louis,
for the two-year term, and Victor K. Hendricks, '89, of St.
Louis, for the one-year term, which action was at once con-
firmed. June 22, 1900, Victor K. Hendricks, '89, was
reelected. Other elections occurring in June each year were
as follows:

June, 1901, W. Arnold Layman, '92, of St. Louis.

June, 1902, Frederick F. Hildreth, '94, Terre Haute.

June, 1903, W. Arnold Layman, '92, St. Louis.

June, 1904, Herbert Foltz, '86, Indianapolis.

June, 1905, Theodore L. Condron, '90, Chicago.

June, 1906, Herbert Foltz, '86, Indianapolis.

June, 1907, Arthur M. Hood, '93, Indianapolis.

June, 1908. W. E. Burk, '96, Louisville, Ky.

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ROSTER OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS.
Se;ptembe;r 10, 1 874- 1909.

Preside^nts.

Chauncey Rose, Terre Haute from Sept. 10, 1874, to June. 1877

Josephus Collett, Terre Haute from June, 1877, to February, 1893

R. W. Thompson, Terre Haute... from March, 1893, to March, 1900
William C. Ball, Terre Haute from June, 1900

Vice;-Pre;side;nts.

Josephus Collett, Terre Haute, from September, 1874, to June, 1877
Charles R. Peddle, Terre Haute, from June, 1877, to October, 1884

R. W. Thompson, Terre Haute from April, 1885, to March, 1893

William Mack, Terre Haute from June, 1893, to May, 1898

William C. Ball, Terre Haute from May, 1898, to June, 1900

Treasurer.

Demas Deming, Terre Haute from Sept. 10, 1874

Secretaries.

Wm. K. Edwards, Terre Haute, from Sept. 10, 1874, to Sept., 1878

Samuel S. Early, Terre Haute from Nov., 1878, to Sept., 1884

Charles R. Peddle, Terre Haute, from October, 1884, to April, 1893

R. G. Jenckes, Terre Haute from April, 1893, to June, 1900

John B. Aikman, Terre Haute from June, 1900, to June, 1902

George M. Crane, Terre Haute from June, 1902

Members.

Chauncey Rose, Terre Haute from Sept. 10, 1874, to June, 1877

Charles R. Peddle, Terre Haute from Sept., 1874, to April, 1893

William A. Jones, Terre Haute from Sept., 1874, to March, 1883

Josephus Collett, Terre Haute from Sept., 1874, to Feb'y, 1893

Barnabas C. Hobbs, Bloomingdale. .. .from Sept., 1874, to June, 1878
Demas Deming, Terre Haute from September, 1874

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Firmin Nippert, Terre Haute from Sept., 1874, to Nov., 1889

Ray G. Jenckes,* Terre Haute from Sept., 1874, to Jan'y, 1879

Charles Cruft, Terre Haute from Sept., 1874, to Sept., 1878

VVm. K. Edwards, Terre Haute from Sept., 1874, to Sept., 1878

William Mack, Terre Haute from Oct. 17, 1877, to May, 1898

Samuel S. Early, Terre Haute from Nov. 2, 1878, to Sept., 1884

Robert S. Cox, Terre Haute from Jan. 31, 1879, to Nov., 1886

Preston Hussey, Terre Haute .from Jan. 31, 1879

R. W. Thompson, Terre Haute, from March 31, 1883, to March, 1900

William C. Ball, Terre Haute from March 31,' 1883

Leslie D. Thomas, Terre Haute, from March 17, 1888, to June, 1895

W. S. Rea, Terre Haute from March 7, 1893

Robert S. Cox, Terre Haute from April 25, 1893, to June, 1899

H. I. Miller, Terre Haute from April 8, 1898, to June, 1901

John B. Aikman, Terre Haute from April 8, 1898

George M. Crane, Terre Haute from Oct. 12, 1901

Samuel S. Early, Terre Haute from Oct. 12, 1901, to June, 1905

W. S. Roney, Terre Haute from Oct. 12, 1901, to June, 1907

James S. Royse, Terre Haute from June 10, 1908

Charles Minshall, Terre Haute from June 10, 1908

Of the ten members, including Mr. Rose, constituting the first
Board of Managers, all are dead save two. Mr. Demas Deming,
President of the First National Bank, one of the original Board,
was selected by Mr. Rose himself to be the Treasurer^ and during
all these years has managed the finances of the Institute with rare
fidelity and ability, keeping the endowment funds safely and profit-
ably invested and looking after the vast amount of details.

Committees of the Board.

Committee on Shops — Aikman, Hood, and Jenckes.

Library Committee — Minshall, Deming, and Ball.

Finance Committee — Deming, Hussey, and Jenckes.

Committee on Buildings and Grounds — Rea, Burke, and Aikman.

Auditing Committee — Royse, Rea, and Crane.

Committee on P acuity and Discipline — Royse, Crane, and Ball.

*Mr. R. G. Jenckes resigned from the Board on his removal from
the city in 1879, and on his return was reelected March, 1893.

PAST PRESIDENTS.

CHARLES OLIVER THOMPSON, A.M., Ph.D.
First Pr^sidknt.

Charles Oliver Thompson, A.M., Ph.D., who entered
formally into the office of President of the Rose Polytechaic
Institute on the 7th of March, 1883, was born September
25, 1836, in East Windsor, Conn,, where his father, William
Thompson, D.D., was then professor in a Connecticut The-
ological Seminary. He was fitted for College in the East
Windsor Academy, and entered Dartmouth College in 1854,
graduating in 1858.

He attained high standing in the College, with special
proficiency in the departments of chemistry and mechanical
philosophy. He received his degree of Master of Arts in
1 86 1 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1870.

Teaching was evidently Dr. Thompson's "destined end
and way"; for, while yet a pupil in Windsor Academy, he
received an apprenticeship in the district schools of his
neighborhood for two winters, and this teaching he con-
tinued, as occasion offered, until the completion of his col-
lege course.

In September, 1858, he became Principal of Peacham
Academy, in Vermont, and continued till November, 1864,
with an interval of some months, which were devoted to
practical work as surveyor and engineer. In 1864 he was
called to inaugurate the conversion of the Old Getting Acad-
emy of Arlington into the Cotting Public High School, con-
tinuing there until February, 1868, when he was elected
Principal of the Worcester Free Institute of Industrial
Science. Besides filling the duties of Professor of Chem-
istry, he was charged with the inauguration of a scientific

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and practical course of instruction, which had then no
recognized type or model in this country.

But before entering on his duties of this position he
spent eight months in visiting institutions in Europe having
the same general aims.

Entering on his duties as President of the Worcester
Free Institute of Industrial Science in November, 1868, he
soon brought it into prominence as one of the leading insti-
tutions of its class.

It required persistent persuasion on the part of the
Board of Managers of the Rose Polytechnic Institute then
in search of a President to induce him to take charge of
this new Indiana school. In all the preliminary negotiations
leading up to his election and acceptance of the presidency
of the Rose Polytechnic Institute, Professor Thompson's
advice to the Board of Managers in regard to the opening
of the Institute and the scope of its work was found in-
valuable.

Acting on his advice, the Board had followed his direc-
tions, so that when he came here, March 7, 1883, he found
things much as he had planned, and was able to take up and
carry on the work thus auspiciously begun. Classes had
entered, and under his skillful directions instruction was
begun.

With intense activity he plunged into the difficult duties
of his position. His whole thought was of the school and its
future. Keenly alive to the responsibilities he had as-
sumed, he labored at his task with an energy that overtaxed
his strength.

So, at the beginning of his career, which was rich in
promise of results, he was suddenly stricken ill, and almost
before his family or friends realized the seriousness of his
condition, he died in the early morning of March 17, 1885.

Though during his mature life actively engaged in edu-
cational work, he yet found time to write a long list of
reports and papers which are recognized as authorities on

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the subjects treated, and will keep alive his name and fame.
In his death the Rose Polytechnic Institute sustained a very
serious loss, as did the cause of education.

Fittingly at the ensuing Commencement exercises special
memorial exercises were held in his honor. General John
B. Eaton, United States Commissioner of Education, on
invitation of the Board of Managers, was present, and de-
livered an extended and scholarly tribute to his memory.

General Eaton had known President Thompson long
and well, and his address was an eloquent tribute to his
worth and work.

On Wednesday, March 7, 1883, General Eaton had de-
livered an address at the inauguration exercises when his
friend had assumed formal control of the school. It was a
pathetic circumstance that only a little over two years there-
after, standing in the same chapel, he paid tribute to the
memory of his dead friend.

THOS. CORWIN MENDENHALL, Ph.D., LL.D., Sc.D.

SECOND President.

Assumed the duties of President in September, 1886,
and served until June, 1889. For several years thereafter
he still acted in an advisory capacity through an interim
when the Institute was supplied only by Acting Presidents.
He was born in Hanoverton, Ohio, October 4, 1841. In
1868 began his career as teacher in the public schools of
Columbus, Ohio, and in 1870 was made Professor of Phys-
ical Science in the Columbus High School, where he served
until 1873, when he was selected as Professor of Physics in
the Ohio State University, then known as the State Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College, serving until 1878. In 1878
was selected as Professor of Physics in Imperial University
of Japan at Tokio. He returned to the States in 1881, and
again served in the Ohio State University until 1884, when
he was selected to the position of Chief of the United States
Signal Corps at Washington. D. C, remaining until 1886.

T. C. -Mendenhauu.

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As stated above, from 1886 to 1889 served as President of
Rose, resigning to follow a call of the President of the
United States to become Superintendent of the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey, where he remained until
1894, when he again returned to active educational work by-
accepting the presidency of the Worcester Polytechnic In-
stitute at Worcester, Alass., remaining until 1901, when,
because of failing health, he resigned. Since then he has
been living in Europe. Tliough not physically able to carry
the responsibilities and cares associated with active par-
ticipation in educational affairs and scientific work, he con-
tinues to take great interest in them. He has by correspond-
ence shown the Institute and its Alumni how affectionately
he remembers them. He has by wise counsel helped in the
solution of many problems affecting its welfare. He reads
and studies continually, and all who have been privileged to
greet him in foreign lands, where he has found it best to
sojourn because of his health, have been permitted to share
the results of his studies and to enjoy the stimulating and
elevating influence of a clear mind and a great heart.

During the period of his Government service was also
Superintendent of Weights and Measures and member
United States Lighthouse Board, member Behring Sea Com-
mission, Alaska Boundary Commission, and Chairman
Massachusetts Highway Commission. He was awarded a
gold medal at the Paris Exposition in 1900, and one by the
American Geographical Society in 1901 for work done in
seismology and terrestrial gravity and chartography. He
received degree of Ph.D. from the Ohio State University,
degree LL.B. from Michigan, and Sc.D. from Rose. He
was a delegate to the International Electrical Congress,
member of the National Academy, F. A. A. A. S, Philo-
sophical Society, American Academy, Antiquarian Society,
Honorary Fellow National Geographical Society, American
Geographical Society, Massachusetts Historical Society.
Honorary Fellow Franklin Institute, etc. In all the various

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activities which the above record shows, Dr. Mendenhall
left his imprint upon the work he undertook. As scientist
he ranks among the first. As organizer and administrator
his record is equal to that of the best, and yet those whd
have known him intimately and have been associated with
him recognize that perhaps his greatest and most enduring
work was along educational lines. While engaged in purely
scientific and research work in the laboratories of the Uni-
versities and the Government, he still remained active as an
educator.

All who are familiar with the educational activity in the
Central West, and even in the East, still see the impress of
his work, which he has left in common schools, high schools,
and colleges. Year after year he devoted much time to m-
struction in teachers' institutes through Ohio and Indiana,
and was frequently called East, His work in giving instruc-
tion in physical science, and making of it a real, live subject
in high schools and colleges, is pioneer. As a popular scien-
tific lecturer he has had no peer. His wonderful faculty
in presenting scientific subjects in such a way that they
could be grasped and comprehended by those who had not
made of them a special study, was remarkable. In colleges
and universities, however, his versatility, his ability as or-
ganizer and teacher, was most marked. He had a happy
faculty of going to the heart of things by the most direct
course, and in so doing compelled the admiration and affec-
tion of all with whom he came in contact. At Rose evidence
of this appreciation and affection was shown by the prepara-
tion and presentation to him of a bronze tablet setting forth
the estimate in which he is held by the students. When he
resigned to enter into Government service, the Faculty, the
Board of Managers, and all friends of the Institute felt
that when he left, a tower of strength was taken away from
the Institute.

During his administration the growth of the Institute
was most rapid, and to his broad views, organizing ability,

Ienrv T. Eddv.

'Past Presidents. 93

and wisdom may be attributed, in large measure, the stand-
ing which the Institute holds among technical colleges and
schools.

HENRY TURNER EDDY, A.M., Ph.D., LL.D.
Third President.

Dr. Eddy assumed the duties of President in January,
1 89 1, and served until September, 1894. He was bom in
Stoughton, Mass., June 9, 1844, and graduated from Yale
with degree of A.B. in 1867, received the degree of Ph.B,
in 1868, A.M. in 1870, C.E. in 1870, and Ph.D. in 1872
from Cornell, and LL.D. from Center College in 1892. The
years from 1879 to 1880 he spent in study in Berlin and
Paris. In 1867 and 1868 was Instructor in Field Work
Shefifield Scientific College. In 1868 and 1869 was Instruc-
tor in Latin and Mathematics in University of Tennessee.
Assistant Professor in Mathematics and Civil Engineering
Cornell, from 1869 to 1873, and Adjunct Professor in
Mathematics in Princeton from 1873 to 1874. Professor
of Mathematics, Astronomy, and Civil Engineering Uni-
versity of Cincinnati from 1874 to 1890. Was Dean of the
Faculty of the University of Cincinnati from 1874 to 1877
and 1884 to 1889, and President in 1890. Served from 1891
to 1894 as President of the Rose Polytechnic Institute, when
he resigned and accepted the position of Professor of Engi-
neering and Mechanics in the University of Minnesota.

Since 1906 has been also Dean of the graduate school of
Engineering of that LTniversity. He is a member of the
American Philosophical Society, of the American Mathe-
matical Society, the American Physical Society, the A. A.
A. S., and other educational and learned societies. Dr.
Eddy is author of a number of text-books both in pure and
applied mathematics.

He has especially distinguished himself in investigations
in graphical statics. Dr. Eddy brought to the Institute ripe

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experience in teaching and administration. From this expe-
rience the Institute benefited. He took up the work of his
predecessors, and without radical change in organization
or plans made such changes in the course of instruction and
the work of the Institute as strengthened it and kept '*■
abreast of the demands of the times. The large classes and
the constant growth in attendance presented problems which
he met successfully, and during his administration it may
well be said that the institution continued to prosper. Upon
his resignation Dr. Eddy carried with him the respect and
good will of all who were associated with him either as
co-workers or students.

THOMAS GRAY, B.S., Ph.D.

Vick-Preside;nt and Jossphus CollETT Professor of
Dynamic Engineering.

Thomas Gray, first Professor of Dynamic Engineering,
served from September, 1888, to the time of his death,
December 19, 1908. He was born February 4, 1850. in
Lochgelly Fifeshire, Scotland, and received his primary
education in the schools of that district. He was appren-
ticed in handicraft for several years, and entered the Uni-
versity of Glasgow, graduated in 1878 as B.Sc. in engineer-
ing. He became experimental scholar under Lord Kelvin,
then Sir William Thomson. While in the University he
gained many distinctions in the classes of engineering and
mathematics, receiving several prizes. Shortly after grad-
uation he was awarded the Cleland Gold Medal of the Uni-
versity for "An Experimental Determination of Magnetic
Moments in Absolute Measurements."

In 1879 he was Professor of Telegraph Engineering and
Demonstrator in the Physical Laboratories in the Imperial
University of Tokio, Japan. He had as colleagues Ayrton,
Perry, Milne, and Dyer. He contributed a number of

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Thomas Gray. 95

papers, during this period, to the Royal Societies of London
and Edinburgh and a number of papers to the philosophical
magazines. The first papers were upon experimental work
in Heat and Electricity.

While in Japan he became interested in Seismology.
Wrote a number of papers on Earthquakes and Earth-
quake Measurements, some in collaboration with Milne.
He invented several forms of apparatus for the measure-
ments of earthquakes. In 1881 he returned to Scotland and
entered the laboratory of Lord Kelvin again and took up
research work in Electricity and Magnetism for Kelvin.
He then represented the engineers. Lord Kelvin and Pro-
fessor Jenkin, in the manufacture and laying of the Com-
mercial Company's two Atlantic cables. He took part in all
the expeditions of the Faraday made in connection with
that undertaking. After the completion of this task he
again returned to Kelvin's laboratory and became his
assistant. During this time he aided in the design and
manufacture of the well-known Kelvin Balances, and pub-
lished a number of papers on Electrical Measurements. He
wrote the article on the Electrical Telegraph and Telephones
for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Dr. T. C. Mendenhall became acquainted with Dr. Gray
during their period of service in the University of Tokio,
and in 1888, when Dr. Mendenhall was President of Rose,
he became instrumental in bringing Dr. Gray to the Insti-
tute, as Professor of Dynamic Engineering. Dr. Gray or-
ganized the department and equipped the testing laboratory
with appliances of his own designs, and continued to carry
on experimental work along the lines of both mechanical
and electrical study. He published a number of papers on
Strength of Materials and Electrical and Magnetic Meas-
urements. He designed an autographic recording apparatus
for the study of the elastic behavior of materials. In 1891
he prepared the definitions for the Electrical and Magnetic
Terms for the Century Dictionary.

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In 1 89 1 delivered the address at the Centennial Patent
Celebration in Washington on Electrical Patents. In 1894
and 1895 prepared the Smithsonian Physical Tables pub-
lished in 1896, revised in 1897, 1903, and 1904.

He had under preparation a text-book on Electrical En-
gineering, which unfortunately remains unfinished.

His services as an expert in Mechanical and Electrical
Engineering and in patent litigation were widely sought.
He was a most careful experimentalist, accurate and in-
genious in inventing devices for research, and rarely have
any of his results been questioned.

His writings are models of direct, clear exposition. As
expert he invariably showed a commanding knowledge of
the subject. As teacher he was attractive, and presented the
subject in such a masterly manner that the student who
was otherwise prepared could not help but follow in its
development.

His personality was so attractive that he gained the
affection of students at once. So strong was his manliness
that their respect was compelled. A great, lovable man was
he, whose work will live long after him, whose influence in
the Institute will endure. He is and will be missed by
alumni, students, friends, the city, for everywhere he filled
his place and did well whatever should be done.

Work and Activities of Thomas Gray.

He was a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,
the B. A. A. Sc, the A. A. A. S., A. I. N. a', A. S. P. E. E.,
A. S. M. E., Indiana Academy of Science, etc. He was a
contributor to all of these, and held office in most of them.
Some of the more important papers published by him are:

On the Determination of Magnetic Moments in Absolute
Measure.

On the Specific Heats of Saline Solutions. Proc. R. S.
E. Phil Mag.

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On the Specific Resistance and Specific Inductive Ca-
pacity of Glass. Phil. Mag.

On the Effect of Permanent Elongation on the Specific
Resistance of Metals. Trans. R. S. E.

On a Seismometer and Torsion Pendulum Seismograph.
Trans. S. S. Japan, Vol. I.

On Steady Points for Earthquake Measurements.
Trans. S. S. Japan, Vol. III.

On Instruments for Recording Earthquake Motions.
Phil. Mag.

On the Best Arrangement for Wheatstone's Bridge for
the Measurement of any Particular Resistance. Phil. Mag.

On a Seismograph for Large Motions. Trans. S. S.
Japan.

On a Method of Compensating a Pendulum so as to
make it Astatic. Trans. S. S. Japan.

Two papers on a New Seismograph. Phil. Mag.

On the Variation of the Specific Resistance of Glass
with Density, Temperature, and Chemical Composition.
Proc. R. S., Vol. XXXIV.

On the Graduation of Galvanometers for the Measure-
ment of Currents and Electromotive Forces in Absolute
Measure. Electrician.

On Gray and Milne's Seismographic Apparatus. Quar-
terly Journal Geol. Soc.

On the Size of Conductors for the Distribution of Elec-
tric Energy. Phil. Mag.

On the Measurement of the Horizontal Component of
the Earth's Magnetic Field. Phil. Mag.

On a New Standard Sine-Galvanometer. Phil. Mag.

On the Electrolysis of Silver, and of Copper, and the
Application of Electrolysis for the Standardizing of Electric
Currents and Potential Meters. Phil. Mag.

On Silk and Wire Suspensions in Galvanometers, and
on the Rigidity of Silk Fibres. Phil. Mag.

On an Improved Form of Seismograph. Phil. Mag.

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On Electrical Measurements. Industries.

On a New Reflecting Galvanometer of Great Sensibility
and on New Forms of Astatic Galvanometers. (Jointly
with A. Gray.) Proc. R. S., No. 230.

On the Relation between the Electrical Qualities and the
Chemical Composition of Glass and Allied Substances.
(Jointly with A. Gray and J. J. Dobbie.) Proc. R. S.,
No. 231.

Earthquake Observations and Experiments in Japan.
(Jointly with John Milne.) Phil. Mag.

On the Strength and Elasticity Constants of Certain
Rock. (Jointly with John Milne.) Quarterly Journal
Geol. Soc. of London.

Seismic Experiments. (Jointly with John Milne.)
Phil. Trans. R. S., Part III.

On the Application of the Electrolysis of Copper for the
Measurement of Electric Currents. Phil. Mag.

On Properties of Materials, six papers before the A. S.
M. E., from 1888 to 1908.

On the Magnetic Properties of Iron. R. S. E.

Some of his designs and inventions from 1888 to 1908:

Transformer Testing Apparatus.

Automatic Recording Apparatus for Testing Machines.

Continuous Indicator.

Integrating Indicator.
• Belt Dynamometer.

Tool Dynamometer.

Automobile Shock Absorber.

Rotary Pump.

Journal Friction Testing Machine.

Torsional Testing Machine.

Extensometer.

Electrometer for measuring dielective capacity, and
manv similar devices.

ROSTER OF OFFICERS AND FACULTY.

Presidents.
Charles Oliver Thompson, A.M., Ph.D., 1883-1885.
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, A.M., Ph.D., LL.D., 1886-

1889.
Henry Turner Eddy, A.M., Ph.D., LL.D., 1891-1894.
Carl Leo Mees, Ph.D., 1895—.

Acting Presidents and Vice-Presidents.
Clarence Abiathar Waldo, A.M., Actings President, 1885-

1886 and 1 889- 1 890.
Carl Leo Mees, Ph.D., Acting President, Sept., 1890, to

June, 1891, and 1894 and 1895.
Thomas Gray, B.S., Ph.D., Vice-President, 1891 to 1908.
Malverd Abijah Howe, C.E., Vice-President, 1909 — .

REGISTRAR.

Sarah P. Burton, 1883—.

Facui,Ty.
William L. Ames, B.S., M.E., Professor of Drawing, 1883-
91 ; Professor of Descriptive Geometry, 1891 ; Professor
of Machine Drawing and Design, 1894-96.
Edward S. Cobb, B.S., Superintendent of Shops, 1883-88;

Instructor Machine Design, 1887-88.
Charles A Colton, E.M., Professor of Chemistry, 1883-85.
Clarence A. Waldo, A.M., Professor Mathematics, 1883-92.
James A. Wickersham, A.M., Professor of Languages,

1883—
Charles C. Brown, C.E., Professor Mathematics and In-
structor in Field Work, 1884-85.
Lucien I. Blake, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, 1884-86.

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William A. Noyes, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, 1885-
1903.

Asa B. Fitch, C. E., Professor of Civil Engineering during
1886.

Malverd A. Howe, C.E., Professor of Civil Engineering,
188^-.

Carl Leo Mees, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Physics, 1886-
89; Professor of Physics, 1889 — .

Thomas Gray, Ph.D., Professor of Dynamic Engineering,
1887-1908.

Charles S. Brown, B.Ph., Superintendent of Shops and
Instructor Machine Design, 1888-1896; Professor of
Machine Design, 1890-96.

R. W. Mahon, Ph.D., Substitute Professor of Chemistry in
absence of Professor Noyes in 1888.

William H. Kirchner, B.S., Instructor in Mathematics,
1888-89; Junior Professor in Drawing, 1889-93.

Arthur S. Hathaway, B.S., Professor of Mathematics,
1892—.

Robert L. McCormick, C.E., Instructor in Mathematics,
1891 ; Instructor in Civil Engineering, 1894; Assistant
Professor Mathematics. 1902 ; Assistant Professor Math-
ematics and Assistant Professor Civil Engineering, 1908.

John B. Peddle, M.E., Instructor in Drawing, 1893 ; Pro-
fessor of Machine Design, 1896 — .

Arthur Kendrick, A.M., Associate Professor of Physics,
1 895- 1 90 1.

Frank C. Wagner, A.M., Professor of Steam and Electrical
Engineering. 1896 — .

Edwin S. Johonnott, Jr., Ph.D., Associate Professor of
Physics, 1899.

Alvah W. Clement, B.S., Superintendent of Shops and In-
structor in Shop Management, 1900- 1907.

John White, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, 1903 — .

Edwin Place, M.M.E., Instructor Laboratories and Lecturer
on Electrical Construction, 1890-99.

Faculty Roster. lOl

Neil H. Williams, M.S., Instructor of Physics, 1904 — ;

Assistant Professor of Electricity, 1905- 1908.
Clarence Knipmeyer, Assistant Professor of Electricity,

1909.

Instructors and Assistants.
Edward G. Waters, B.S., Fellowship Instructor in Physical

Laboratories, 1888.
R. R. C. Simon, Instructor in German, 1894-95.
Joseph D. Harper, B.S., Instructor in Civil Engineering,

1895-96.
Charles Wilbur, Instructor in Civil Engineering, 1895-96.
Arnold Tschudy, B.A., Instructor in German, 1895-96.
William E. Burk, B.S., Instructor in Chemistry, 1896-97.
Orange E. McMeans, B.S., Instructor in Drawing, 1896-99.
Albert A. Faurot, A.M., Instructor in German, 1896-1901.
John W. Shepherd, A.M., Instructor in Chemistry, 1897-98.
Arthur Winslow, B.S., Instructor in Civil Engineering,

1898-99.
George W. Mitchell, Instructor in Drawing, 1899- 1900.
William H. Insley, B.S., Assistant in Architecture, 1900-01.
William M. Blanchard, Ph.D., Instructor in Chemistry,

1900-01.
Emery E. Harris, Instructor in Drawing, 1900-01.
Robert E. Earhart, Ph.D., Instructor in Physics, 1901-03.
Austin M. Patterson, Ph.D., Instructor in Chemistry,

1901-03
Harry A. Schwartz, B.S., Instructor in Drawing, 1901-02.
Edmund J. Hirschler, A.B., Instructor in German, 1901-03.
Arthur J. Paige, B.S., Instructor in Drawing, 1903-08.
John M. Nelson, B.S., Instructor in Chemistry, 1903-05.
Frank W. Bennett, A.B.. Instructor in German, 1904-09.
Chester L. Post, B.S., Instructor in Civil Engineering,

1904-06.
Alfred W. Homberger. B.S.. Instructor in Chemistry,

1905-07.

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Roger De L. French, B.S., Assistant in Civil Engineering,
1906.

Luther Knight, M.S., Instructor in Chemistry, 1907-08.

William R. Plew, B.S., Instructor in Mathematics and Civil
Engineering, 1907 — .

Carl Wischmeyer, B.S., Instructor in Drawing and Descrip-
tive Geometry, 1908.

Rufus A. Barnes, B.S., Instructor in Chemistry, 1908.

Frank W. Pote, B.S., Instructor in Laboratories, 1908.

Superintendents in Shops.

Edward S. Cobb, 1882-1888.
Charles Sumner Brown, 1888- 1896.
J. F. W. Harris, 1896- 1899.
Alvah W. Clement, 1899- 1907.
Elmer H. Willmarth, 1907 — .

Instructors in Machine Shops.

William M. Towle, 1886-1887.
Garrett W. Logan, 1889—.

Instructors in Wood Shops.

James H. Sherman, 1883-1890.
William P. Smith, 1 891- 1896.
Edward T. Wires, 1897—.

STATISTICAL HISTORY.

In March, 1883, the first preliminary circular of the
Rose Polytechnic Institute announced a faculty of instruc-
tors of six professors and instructors, with three professor-
ships unfilled. In September the number was increased to
seven, in 1884 to eight, in 1888 to nine. From 1888 on, men
in the shops, whose time was almost entirely given to in-
struction, were counted as instructors, so that in 1888 the
number was fifteen, in 1889 and 1890 sixteen, 1891 and
1892 seventeen, 1893 and 1894 eighteen, 1895 twenty, from
1895 to 1905 twenty-one, from 1905 to 1909 twenty-two.

From 1883 to 1887 the Mechanical Engineering Course
was the only one fully organized. There was no regular
Professor of Civil Engineering, though instruction in Civil
Engineering was given.

In 1887 the Civil Engineering Course was fully estab-
lished, and in 1888 the first student was regularly graduated
from that course.

In 1889 the course in Chemistry was fully established,
and the first student graduated from that course.

In i8qo the demand for a special course in Electricity
led to a modification of the Mechanical Engineering Course.
A considerable amount of laboratory and class work in
Electricity was substituted for shop work. In the modified
course this was not recognized in the degree.

In 1893 the Electrical Engineering Course had been elab-
orated, and the degree of B. S. in Electrical Engineering
was conferred.

In 1898 the course in Architecture was established, and
in 1900 the first student in this course graduated.

Modifications in all courses were made from time to time
to meet changing conditions, improve and advance the cur-
riculum. In 1903 a limited number of electives in all

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courses were introduced, and the system of grading and
passing changed. Before this time a general average of
60 per cent, was required for passing. The different studies
were weighted in proportion to the time given to each in the
course. Any subject in which the grade average was below
40 per cent, meant failure. Under the elective system every
student is required to attain an average of 60 per cent, in
each subject to receive credits for it. For graduation 126
credits in required subjects and 19 credits in elective sub-
jects are needed. These changes advanced the required
scholarship considerably.

In 1891 conditions for earning the degree of M.S. in the
respective courses were fixed, also the requirements for the
securing of the engineering degrees in the several courses
were defined. The first M.S. degree was granted in 1892
to Taro Tsuji, of Tokio, Japan, Class of '90, and the first
C.E. degree in 1896 to Taro Tsuji. In 1897 the first degree
of M.E. was conferred upon William R. McKeen, Jr., of
Terre Haute, Class of '89, and the first E.E. degree in 1898
to Svend Johanneson, of St. Louis. Mo., Class of '93.

In 1883 the minimum requirements for admission were
equivalent to about two years of high school work, such as
is offered to-day. Examinations in Arithmetic, United
States History, Geography, English Grammar, and Com-
position, and Algebra to Quadratic Equations, were held for
entrance. In 1886 the requirements were advanced to an
equivalent of at least three years of high school work.
Plane Geometry and Algebra through Quadratics were ex-
amination subjects. In 1897 the entrance requirements were
further advanced. All of Geometry, plane and solid, was
required. No conditions for admission were allowed under
these standards. In 1905 the requirements were made fully
equivalent to a four years' high school course. Fifteen
units are necessary for entrance, and admission can be
gained either by diploma from recognized schools or by ex-
amination.

Statistical History.

105

From 1883 to 1908, 1,460 different students have at-
tended the Institute; 526 have graduated. The students
have come from forty-one different States and Territories
and eleven foreign countries. The Alumni in 1908 were
professionally engaged in forty-two different States and
Territories and fourteen foreign countries.

Ninety-three per cent, of the living graduates are en-
gaged in pursuits for which an engineering education may
be said to be essential. Seventeen per cent, of the graduates
were located in Indiana.

In 1888 Mrs. S. A. Heminway contributed a fund for
the establishment of a gold medal, of the value of fifty dol-
lars, to be awarded annually to that member of the Senior
Class whose standing was highest during the whole course.

A year later a bronze copy was added, to be awarded
for the highest standing in the Freshman year.

The awards have been :

Gc

yld Medal—

Bronze Medal—

1888

E. G. Waters.

1889

A. J. Hammond.

A. M. Dietrich.

1890

George R. Putnam.

A. M. Hood.

1891

R. L. McCormick.

C. E. Mendenhall

1892

A. M. Dietrich.

W. 0. Mundy.

1893

E. S. Johonnott.

0. E. McIMeans.

1894

C. E. Mendenhall.

H. S. Heichert.

189s

L. E. Troxler.

A. C. Eastwood.

1896

W. R. Sanborn.

J. J. McLellan.

1897

H. S. Heichert.

J. I. Brewer.

1898

H. B. Stilz.

R. N. Miller.

1899

J. J. McLellan.

C. E. Cox.

1900

J. I. Brewer.

B. C. Jacob.

1901

R. N. Miller.

H. A. Mullett.

1902

A. J. Paige.

H. L. Watson.

1903

( B. C. Jacob.
( R. B. Arnold.

C. Wischmeyer.

1904

H. A. Mullett.

E. J. Miner.

1905

J. C. Sproull.

C. B. Andrews.

1906

C. Wischmeyer.

J. A. Shepard.

1907

E. J. Miner.

H. J. Madison.

1908

C. B. Andrews.

E. A. Mees.

INSTITUTE ORGANIZATIONS.

THE TECHNIC.

In 1890 the question of the pubHcation of a college paper
was agitated, and found such approval from the President,
Dr. Eddy, the Faculty, and the students, that in 1891 The
Technic was established and the first number issued. Much
of the credit for the establishment of this paper is due to
Mr. Arnold Layman, of '92, whose energy, untiring efforts,
and marked ability laid the foundation for success. During
the first year the struggle was severe, as the expenses of
The Technic had to be met from subscriptions. So excel-
lent was the publication and so popular, that very rapidly
the financial problem no longer presented serious difficulties.
The paper was enlarged and new departments were added.

During the first year a number of changes occurred in
the editorial board and management, as the work was largely
experimental. Later on, through experience, the mainte-
nance of the high standing of the publication was made
easier. After the first four years of its existence, owing to
constantly increasing cost of its production, the financial
problem again became serious, and the size of the paper had
to be reduced. This reduction continued until 1899, when
The Technic received support from the Students' Council
by appropriation of a portion of the students' funds to
defray the expenses of publication, and all students who
contributed to the fund became entitled to a copy of The
Technic, thus eliminating the subscription element for reg-
ular students in the Institute. The excellence of The Tech-
nic throughout the years of its existence has been com-
mented upon by all who, through exchanges or otherwise,
have read it. It is acknowledged to be one of the best
college papers of its kind.

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io8 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

THE MODULUS.

The Class of 1892, near the close of its college career,
conceived the idea of preparing a class publication which
should picture college life in the characteristic way in which
it is viewed from the student's standpoint.

The name of Modulus was chosen. The first Modulus
appeared in 1892, full of matter interesting to students and
the friends and the Faculty of the Institute, and containing
many things of historical interest and value.

The Class of 1896, as Juniors, issued the second Modu-
lus. Thereafter a Modulus has been published every two
years by the Junior Class. The whole series forms a col-
lection which gives a pleasant picture of college life.

ATHLETICS AND ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.

Before 1888 there was little in the way of organized
athletic work. In that year, largely through encouragement
given by Dr. T. C. Mendenhall, then President, the athletic
organizations had their beginning. A baseball nine was
organized in that year, as well as an Athletic Association,
so that at the Commencement of 1888 a part of the pro-
gram consisted of a Field Day with athletic exercises. The
organization was temporary, but in the following year was
made formal and permanent by the adoption, in general
assembly, of a constitution. Officers were elected and sys-
tematic work begun. From that time on the Association
continued as an independent organization, supported by the
voluntary subscriptions of those students who became mem-
bers of the Association.

In 1889, 1890 and 1891 Field Days were held at Com-
mencement time. In addition, in 1891 there was an Inter-
collegiate Field Day, and the Association became affiliated
with the Indiana colleges, forming the Intercollegiate League.
In subsequent years the Intercollegiate Field Days took the

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place of the Institute Field Days, which before that formed
a part of Commencement Week exercises.

The President of the Institute was ex-officio chairman
of the Board of Directors. During all these years through-
out the State athletics were pursued simply and solely for
the pleasure and profit that the students might derive from
taking part in them, and did not become organized so as
to make competitive superiority in athletics a kind of an
advertising feature for institutions, until subsequent years.

During the first years, when athletics was sport only.
Rose carried oflf all the honors and trophies. As athletics
throughout the State became a larger factor, the character
of the work changed, and it was found necessary to make
provisions to meet this condition, which was done in the
erection of the gymnasium in 1894.

By voluntary subscription from students and Alumni
about $1,200 was raised, the remainder of the required sum
being appropriated by the Institute. Until 1899 all expenses
incident to athletic work were met by membership fees, vol-
untary contributions, and proceeds of Field Days. The
funds of the baseball, football and tennis clubs were kept
separate. In 1899, with the organization of the Students'
Council, the financial needs of the Athletic Association were
met by assigning a proportion of the Students' Fund for
the defraying of necessary expenses. From 1899 on, all
of the different teams were governed through the Athletic
Association.

ORCHESTRA.

In November, 1889, the Class of 1893 organized the
Orchestral Club. In June of the following year the club
was enlarged and made an Institute organization.

Mr. S. E. Johannesen, Class of 1893, an accomplished
musician, was made leader and President of the club. Until
his graduation the Polytechnic Orchestra flourished, and
gave a number of concerts of merit. After Mr. lohan-

no Rose Polytechnic Institute.

nesen's graduation it was directed for a short period by
Charles E. Mendenhall, of 1894, Dow Sandham, C. L. Mees
and Mr. Colberg.

Following 1896 the orchestra was rather passive for sev-
eral years, until in 1902 Mr. A. J. Paige, then Instructor, and
Ira Marshall, student, reorganized it, and regular rehearsals
were again held.

In November, 1902, the club was so fortunate as to
obtain the services of Mr. Hugh McGibeny, of Indianapolis,
as director, who, on account of his interest in the work, has
continued to act in that capacity at considerable personal
inconvenience.

Through his enthusiastic, unselfish, and excellent en-
deavor the orchestra has become most proficient, and has
rendered programs of great musical merit.

GLEE CLUB.

The Glee Club grew out of the meetings of a band of
young men, who met from time to time with Professor
Wickersham at his home to sing German college songs and
Volkslieder. These meetings were so stimulating that a
taste for chorus and quartette singing was developed.

About 1896 a number of high-school boys, who expected
to enter the Institute, formed a "Black Sheep" club, and
when they entered the Institute organized themselves into a
Glee Club, under the directorship of Mr. A. J. Paige.

Later a permanent organization was formed, and Mrs.
A. G. Adams became leader. The club has been prosperous,
and has added much to the pleasures of Institute life.

Mrs. Adams has been untiring in her efforts, and has
trained the club from year to year to a high degree of pro-
ficiency. She has composed a number of songs especially
for it, which have been effectively rendered.

For some years a number of excellent concerts and per-
formances have been given in conjunction with the orchestra.

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THE MANDOLIN CLUB.

A Mandolin Club was organized in 1893, and has, under
the able leadership of Mr. Brandenberg, prospered, and in
concerts and entertainments added much to the pleasure of
all friends of the Institute.

Y. M. C. A.

In 1892 the first formal organization was effected.
Meetings were held in the lecture rooms of the Central
Presbyterian Church. Since that time the association has
been growing in influence and strength, and much good has
been accomplished.

The organization appeals to all students alike, and there
is a common ground upon which to meet. It has done much
in furnishing good social relaxation. Its work in taking
care of new students, and aiding them in securing rooms
and accommodations, and making them acquainted with one
another, has been most effective, of aid to the authorities,
and grateful to all new comers.

CAMERA CLUB.

The Camera Club seems to have grown out of individual
taste of students for photography, stimulated by Professor
William L. Ames, who, before an organization was effected,
gave instructions in photography to all who were interested.
Just when a formal organization resulted is not definitely
known. A dark room for the use of students was arranged
in the Institute in the eighties.

The club has continued active, and the excellent pho-
tographs that are exhibited in prize contests and the large
number of students who engage in the competition, show the
interest that has been aroused and the educational value it
has exerted.

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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY.

In 1894 the Scientific Society was organized. The object
was to give practice to students in reading and public speak-
ing; to encourage collateral reading and the study of sci-
entific topics, other than those that were treated of in the
regular course. Students and professors prepared and read
at monthly meetings papers and lectures, often experiment-
ally illustrated, and these were discussed.

The society has continued to meet, though not at regular
intervals, and many excellent papers have been presented,
and in a measure it has accomplished its purpose.

THE TELEGRAPH ASSOCIATION.

As early as 1885 several students in the Institute desired
to acquire some practical knowledge of telegraphy, and
erected a few lines strung across housetops and upon trees.
Mr. Edward Waters, of 1888, an expert operator, was the
moving spirit. Through the aid of Mr. Sweeney, of the
Vandalia Line, connection was made with the Train Dis-
patcher's ofifice, and a time service furnished the Institute.

The interest in telegraphy became so general that in 1889
an association was formed, known as the R. P. I. Tele-
graph Association. Lines were extended and a considerable
number of instruments installed.

The association continued active until within the past
year, when increasing difficulty in securing permission to
run lines led to its dissolution. While it existed, much
profitable practice was gained and a number of quite expert
operators were developed.

THE STUDENTS' COUNCIL.

Established 1899. The object of the organization is to
coordinate the work of the different societies and clubs, and

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to cooperate with the Faculty in all matters pertaining to the
welfare of the institution and its students.

The work of the Council has been effective and the
results attained gratifying, and many problems in college
life have been handled and solved in a satisfactory manner
through the cooperation of the Council and Faculty.

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.

As a permanent organization, the Alumni Association of
the Rose Polytechnic Institute first sprang into existence on
June 23d, 1887, when, in response to an invitation by Presi-
dent Mendenhall, a dinner was given by the Board of Man-
agers to the members of the graduating class, the Faculty,
and the Alumni. After the dinner a meeting was called,
which has since been termed the first annual meeting of the
Rose Polytechnic Alumni Association. At this meeting it
was resolved to make the Alumni of the R. P. I. a perma-
nent organization, and in order to do this a President, Vice-
President, and Secretary-Treasurer were chosen, and two
committees appointed by the President. One of these com-
mittees was directed to draw up a constitution and by-laws
and submit the same at the next meeting of the Association.
The second committee was called the Executive Committee,
and to it was delegated power to make all arrangements
necessary for annual meetings, banquets, etc.

At the second annual meeting of the Alumni. June 21,
t888. which was held after a dinner given by the Asso-
ciation to the Board of Managers, Faculty, and themselves,
in the private parlor of the Terre Haute House, the consti-
tution prepared by the committee appointed a year before
was adopted, subject to a revising board, and officers were
elected for the next year.

At the third annual meeting, June 21, 1889. the consti-
tution was approved, adopted, and ordered printed, and a
copy sent to each Alumnus.
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At the meeting in June, 1890, the colors then in use by
the undergraduates, to-wit: "Rose and White," were rec-
ognized and adopted as the official colors of the student and
graduate body. The class pin of the Class of 1890 was
adopted as the Alumni pin, but this action of the fourth
annual meeting has never been accepted by the members.

In June, 1891. the question of an official pin was referred
to a special committee, and at the meeting in 1892 that now
commonly in use by the undergraduates was adopted.

In 1894 the Association was requested to select an
"Alumni Orator" to address the graduating class of 1895,
and since that time the Association has been represented at
each Commencement.

As the Association grew there came to be a feeling that
more could be done to advance the Institute if the Asso-
ciation cooperated more practically with the Board of Man-
agers. Consequently, early in 1896 the Board invited the
Association to appoint an advisory committee of three to
visit the Institute and advise the Board.

The invitation of the Board came up for consideration
at the tenth annual meeting in June, 1896, and resulted in
a careful canvass of the entire situation. Carefully-consid-
ered recommendations were made by the St. Louis and
Indianapolis sections, and the entire matter of cooperation
with the Board was referred to a committee, with instruc-
tions to report at the next annual meeting.

The Committee on Alumni Representation made a full
report at the 1897 meeting, advocating the appointment of
Alumni representatives to serve for limited terms on the
Board of Managers, and this report was adopted.

Prior to the 1898 meeting the Board of Managers pro-
vided for Alumni representatives in accordance with the
request of the Association, and in June, 1899, Messrs. Ben
McKeen, '85, and V. K. Hendricks, '89, were elected as the
first of such representatives. The Association is also rep-

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resented on the Board by two life members, Messrs. J. B.
Aikman, '86, and J. S. Royse, '94.

The Association also has in process of building an "En-
dowment Fund" of several thousand dollars, which has been
added to the General Endowment Fund of the Institute.

There is also a growing "Loan Fund," which can be
drawn upon by worthy needy students recommended by the
Faculty. This fund is now being drawn upon.

The attitude of a large majority of the Alumni is one
of firm loyalty to the Institute.

TECH CLUBS.

In 1895 several Rose Tech Clubs were formed, the first
one in Chicago, others in St. Louis, Indianapolis, Pittsburg,
Louisville, New York, and Terre Haute. The primary
object was to bring together Rose men in a social way. At
the meetings it became apparent that these clubs could be
of help to the Institute and Alumni. From time to time the
President and members of the Faculty were invited to the
gatherings, and the activities and needs of the Institute dis-
cussed. Many valuable suggestions have come from the
Alumni at these informal gatherings, and much good has
come to the Institute through their activity. The organi-
zation of these clubs, with the exception of the New York
Club and the Terre Haute Club, has not been of a permanent
character; no roster of officers can be given.

The New York Club has been one of the most active;
it has welcomed and made pleasant the stay of all Rose
men who visit the metropolis, and has aided many young
Alumni in securing positions. The St. Louis, Chicago, Pitts-
burg, and Louisville Clubs have entertained the Seniors on
their trips, and made these trips profitable and long to be
remembered.

Rose Polxtechnic Institute.

Past Officers of Alumni Association,

Year.

1890.
1891.
1892.
1893.
1894.
1895-
1896.
1897.
1898.
1899.
1900.
1901.
1902.
1903.
1904.
1905.
1906.
1907.
1908.
1909.

Presidents.
.Benjamin McKeen, '85.
. Samuel S. Early, '85.
.H. St. Clair Putnam, '86.
.John B. Aikman, '87.
.Frank T. Hord, '88.
.William J. Davis, Jr., '92.
.Clinton B. Kidder, "88.
.William R. McKeen, Jr., '89.
.Victor K. Hendricks, '89.
.George H. Chapman, '88.
.Samuel D. Collett, '90.
.John B. Peddle, 'SS.
.Robert L. McCormick, '91.
.Herbert W. Foltz, '86.
.Herbert W. Follz, '86.
.Robert L. McCormick, '91.
.Robert L. McCormick, '91.
.John B. Peddle, '88.
.John B. Peddle, '88.
.William E. Burk, '96.
.Edson F. Folsom, "92.
.John B. Aikman, '87.

Vice Presidents.
Edward C. Elder, '86.
John A. Parkhurst, '86.
William R. McKeen, Jr., '89.
George R. Putnam, '90.
Omar C. Mewhinney, '91.
Edward C. Elder, '86.
Herbert W. Foltz, '86.
Austin H. Mory, '94.
John B. Peddle, '88.
Howard M. Stanton, '94.
W. Offutt Mundy, '95.
J. David Ingle, '97.
Fred F. Hildreth, '94.
Edwin S. Johonnott, '93.
Robert L. McCormick, '91.
Edwin S. Johonnott, '93.
John B. Peddle, '88.
Edwin S. Johonnott, '93.
Edwin S. Johonnott, '93.
George M. Davis, '88.
Harry G. Brownell, '86.
Harry G. Brownell, '86.

Secretary- Treasurer.

Year.

I. .Herman F. Goetz, '87.

). .Clinton B. Kidder, *88.
g^l Herman F. Goet.-, '87.
892.. George M. Davi?, '88.

Year.

1893)

to > John B. Aikman, '87.
1905 J
1906)

to [■ Arthur M. Hood, '93.
1909 J

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Commencement Speaker.

Year.

1895. .Francis T. Hord, '88.

1896. .John B. Aikman, '87.

1897. .Herbert Foltz, '86.

1898. .VV. Arnold Layman, '92.
1899.. Edwin S. Johonnott, '93.
1900. .William H. Boehm, '91.
1901.. Walter B. Wiley, '89.

Year.

1902.. Samuel S. Wales, '91.

1903. .Chas. E. Mendenhall, 94.

1904. .Edson F. Folsom, '92.
1905.. Ozni P. Hood, '85.

1906. .William E. Burk, '96.

1907. .W. M. Anderson, '94.

1908. .John G. D. Mack, '89.

1909.. H. St. Clair Putnam, '86.

Alumni Members of Board of Managers.

Year.

1899-01. .Benjamin McKeen, '85.
1809-02. .Victor K. Hendricks, '89.
1901-03 ) ^Y Arnold Layman, '92.

1903-05 S

1902-04. Fred F. Hildreth, '94.

Year.

1004-06 )

1906-08 [Herbert Foltz, '86.

1905-07. .Theo. L. Condron,'9o.
1907-09. .Arthur M. Hood, '93.
1908-10. .William E. Burk, '96.

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ABBREVIATIONS USED.

A. A. A. S. — American Association for the Advancement of Science.
F. A. A. A. S. — Fellow American Association for the Advancement

of Science.
A. S. P. E. E. — American Society for the Promotion of Engineering

Education.
A. S. C. E. — American Society of Civil Engineering.
A. S. M. E. — American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
A. I. E. E. — American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
A. R. E. M. W. A. — American Railway Engineering and Maintenance

of Way Association.
A. I. N. A. — American Institute of Naval Architects.
A. P. S. — American Physical Society.
A. G. S. — American Geographical Society.

A. C. S. — American Chemical Society.

B. A. A. S. — British Association for the Advancement of Science.
R. S. E.— Royal Society of Edinburgh.

ALUMNI BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

1. Eari,y, Samuel Stockvykll. 1885.

Admitted to Institute in September, 1883, at the age of 19, from
the Worcester Free Institute of Massachusetts ; graduated in the
Mechanical Engineering Course in June, 1885; residence at the
time of entrance was Terre Haute. After graduation entered
the employ of S. S. Hepworth & Co., of Yonkers, N. Y., manu-
facturers of sugar machinery, centrifugals, and engine lathes.
This firm suspended operations in April, 1886 — as Mr. Early
states in his autobiography, not because of the munificent salary
which they paid him. From April, 1886, to September, 1886,
served with Benjamin Silliman, architect, of Yonkers, N. Y., in
architectural work. From September, 1886, to December, 1887,
served with Sooysmith & Co., of New York City, contractors
and builders of subaqueous foundations for railroad bridges,
lighthouses, etc., severing his connection with that firm because
of failure in health. In March, 1888, he became private secre-
tary to President W. R. McKeen, of the Vandalia Railroad, who
was an intimate friend, remaining with him until June 30, 1893;
this brought him back to his home at Terre Haute. In July of
1893 was made General Manager and Treasurer of the Terre
Haute Shovel and Tool Company, manufacturers of shovels,
spades, scoops, etc., in which capacity he served until 1903, when
these works became absorbed by the Ames Shovel and Tool
Company. He was transferred on July i, 1903, to North Easton,
Mass., as Manager of the Oliver Ames & Sons Corporation
Plant, of the Ames Shovel and Tool Company, which position
he holds at the present date. On January 21, 1891, he was mar-
ried at Terre Haute. Served on the Board of Managers of the
Rose Pol)rtechnic Institute from 1901 until his position was
vacated because of removal from Terre Haute to North Easton,
Mass., and President of the Alumni Association 1891 and 1908.

2. Hood, Ozni Porter. 1885.

Born June 14, 1865, in Lowell, Mass. Entered the Rose Poly-
technic Institute on September 18, 1883. He was admitted from
the Junior class of the Worcester Free Institute of Massa-

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chusetts. His residence at the time of entrance to the R. P. I.
was Indianapolis, Ind. Graduated in the Mechanical Engineer-
ing Course. Immediately after his graduation in 1885 served
with H. P. Hood at Indianapolis as patternmaker, and iecame
Superintendent of the Royal Manufacturing Company in 1886.
From September, 1886. to 1887, acted as Superintendent of the
shops of the Kansas State Agricultural College. In 1887 was
made Professor of Mechanics and Engineering, which profes-
sorship he held until June, 1898, when he was elected Professor
of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering in the Michigan
School of Mines, which position he has filled with signal suc-
cess. He has combined with his professorial and teaching work
the work of Consulting Mechanical Engineer, and acts in this
capacity for more than twenty of the copper and iron mines in
Michigan. His work has been along both the lines of teaching
and practical engineering. The degree of M.S. was conferred
upon him in 1895 and that of M.E. in 1898, both from Rose.
He is a member of the A. S. M. E., A. I. M. E., S. P. E. E..
and A. A. A. S. He has been a contributor to technical liter-
ature. In the American Machinist and Transactions of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers account of his work
may be found. He was married at Terre Haute on July 31, 18K4.
Commencement speaker, 1905.

3. McKee;n, Be;njamin. 1885.

Born at Terre Haute January 29, 1864. Admitted to the Rose
Polytechnic Institute September, 1883, from the Worcester Free
Institute, where he had attended the years of i88i-'83; grad-
uated in Mechanical Engineering Course in 1885. In Septem-
ber, 1885, entered the railroad service as draftsman in the office
of Superintendent of Motive Power and Machinery of the T. H.
& I. Railroad. Later served as rodman in the engineering corps,
and in April, 1886, was appointed resident engineer on the work
of cutting down the Rockville grade on the Logansport Division
of that railroad. On January i, 1887, was appointed Engineer
of Maintenance of Way, Logansport Division, and in 1889 was
Chief Engineer of Construction in completing the Indiana &
Lake Michigan Railroad in addition to being Engineer of Main-
tenance of Way of the Logansport Division. On completion of
the I. & L. M. R. R., 1890, was made Engineer of Maintenance
of Way of that division. August i, 1892, was transferred to
the Peoria Division as Engineer of Maintenance of Way, and
on January 5, 1894, was advanced to the position of Superin-

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tendent of that division. June lO, 1901, was appointed Super-
intendent of the Main Line Division of the Vandalia Railroad.
April I, 1902, was appointed Superintendent of the Chicago
Terminal Divisions of the Pennsylvania Lines west of Pitts-
burg. This transferred his residence to Chicago. On Decem-
ber IS, 1903, was further advanced to the position of General
Manager of the Vandalia Line, with office at St. Louis, Mo.,
which position he holds to-day. In 1895 he became a member
of the A. S. C. E. On October 20, 1901, he was married in
Terre Haute. Mr. McKeen has been continuously in railroad
service since graduation. He was the first President of the
Alumni Association in 1888, and served as Alumni member on
the Board of Managers in 1899 and 1901.

4. Brokaw, Charles Cruft. 1886.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute March, 1883, age 19.
Graduated from Mechanical Engineering Course in 1886. Was
draftsman for Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company
for two years ; then was with the Benner Iron Company, of
Chicago, for more than a year ; then in Bridge Department of
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. In 1892 was Assistant
Engineer of Brown Hoisting and Conveying Company, and in
1893 Chief Draftsman of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railway,
which position he held until his death in 1894.

5. BrowneIvL, Harry Galt. 1886.

Born at Elmhurst, 111., August 9, 1866. Entered the Institute
in September, 1883; graduated from Mechanical Engineering
Course in 1886. After graduation entered the employ of the
Chicago Edison Company, with which company he remained
until 1887. Then became Assistant City Foreman of the Belding
Motor and Manufacturing Company, remaining with them until
1890. Then was Foundry Superintendent with George E. Lloyd
& Co., of Chicago. Also acted as designer of machinery, and
became identified with the National Schools of Electricity, in
charge of lecture and class-room work until 1895. Was then
elected to the position of Principal of the Manual Training
High School at Louisville, where he served until 1903, when he
resigned, and identified himself with the University School of
Louisville, remaining until 1908. During this whole time acted
in various establishments as consulting engineer. Since he
severed his connection with the University School has acted

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entirely as consulting engineer. Was married in Terre Haute,
May, 1888. Mr. Brownell's work has been both along the engi-
neering and educational lines. He planned equipment for sev-
eral large power plants in Louisville, and while associated with
the Belding people designed one of the first compound-wound
electro-plating dynamos.

6. Chappi^e, John Tucker. 1886.

Entered the Institute on March 6, 1883, at the age of 16, from
Terre Haute; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1886. From 1887 to 1891 occupied a position with Nordyke
& Marmon Mills and Mill Equipment Company at Indianapolis.
From 1891 to 1894 he was engaged with the Indianapolis Bicycle
Company at Indianapolis. From 1895 to 1900 he was with the
firm of J. T. Chappie & Sons, plane sifter mills, at Mitchell.
From 1901 has been engaged in mercantile business in Mitchell.
No record has been obtainable from him in recent years.

7. Elder, Edward Cunton. 1886.

Entered the Institute on March 6, 1883, age 19, from Indianap-
olis. Graduated in 1886, and was employed with the Indianap-
olis Rolling Mill Company at Indianapolis from 1887 to 1888;
in 1889 with the Archer Gas and Fuel Company of Cleveland,
Ohio ; in 1890 with the P. H. & F. M. Roots Company at Con-
nersville. From 1891 to 1898 was Secretary of the Clay Shingle
Company at Indianapolis. Then studied medicine, graduating
from the Indianapolis Medical College with the degree of M.D.
April, 1901. In 1902 became Senior Assistant Physician of
the Northern Indiana Hospital for the Insane at Logansport,
remaining there until 1905. To date has been a practicing
physician, his home address being Indianapolis.

8. FoLTz, Herbert. 1886.

Born at Indianapolis, February 23, 1867; entered the Institute
March, 1883; graduated in the Course of Mechanical Engineer-
ing in 1886. In 1887 entered the service of the Illinois Steel
Company at Joliet, 111., remaining four years, after which en-
tered the Art Institute at Chicago, and in 1891 began practice
of architecture at Indianapolis, in which work he has continued
to date. In 1904 associated himself with Wilson B. Parker,
firm style, Foltz & Parker, Associated Architects. In 1898 was

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elected to Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects.
Some of the larger commissions which have come to him are
the plans for the Southeastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane,
at Madison, the aggregate appropriations already made for this
amounting to $1,500,000 ; the Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. ; Terre
Haute Y. W. C. A. ; La Porte County Jail; College of Medi-
cine, Indiana University; Science Building of Earlham College,
a considerable number of public school buildings, and many of
the most attractive residences in Indianapolis. He was married
at Joliet, 111., on August 3, 1893. Mr. Foltz's unselfish services
in connection with the Institute as member of the Board of
Managers and as official in the Alumni Association are noted
elsewhere.

9. Hedges, Arthur Willis. 1886.

Entered the Institute March, 1883, from Clinton, Ind.. age 18;
graduated in the course of Mechanical Engineering in 1886.
After graduation entered into business pursuits in Clinton, and
in 1892 became associated with the Citizens' Bank at Clinton.
Was made cashier of that bank in 1894, which position he holds
to date.

10. Masterson, Wesley Cline. 1886.

Born at Carrollton, Ky., July i, 1866. Entered the Institute in
March, 1883; graduated in 1886. From 1886 to 1895 occupied a
position in the drafting room of the Indianapolis Car and Man-
ufacturing Company. From 189S to 1900 was engaged in the
Railway Mail Service; from 1900 to 1902 in the drafting room
of the Outing Bicycle Company; from 1902 to 1903 with the
Hearsey Vehicle Company. Since 1893 he has been in service
as Secretary with the E. P. King Company. Residence, Indian-
apolis, Ind.

11. Park HURST, John Adelbert. 1886.

Born in Dixon, 111., September 24, 1861. Entered the Institute
in September, 1883; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering
Course in 1886. From September, 1886, to June, 1888, Instructor
in Mathematics in the Institute. From 1888 to 1898 he gave his
time to the study of astronomy in his private observatory at
Marengo, 111. In 1898 was made Instructor of Astronomy at
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to date. Was granted the degree of M.S. by Rose in 1897, and
the degree of A.B. by Wheaton College in 1906. Is a member
of the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America, of
the Astronomische Gesellschaft, and of the Royal Astronomical
Society. Was married at Terre Haute in 1888. His original
work has been mainly the determination of the Period and Light
Curves of Variable Stars, the Spectra Stars, Determination of
Faint Stellar Magnitudes, which work was done in 1906 under
the auspices of the Carnegie Institution, and original work on
the Absolute System of Photographic Magnitudes of Stars. His
work on variable stars is classic, and his study has opened a
new field in Stellar Photometry and Photographic Photometry.

12. Putnam, Henry St. Clair. 1886.

Born at Davenport, Iowa, July 8, 1861. Entered Rose Poly-
technic Institute on September 18, 1884. Before entering the
Institute studied law with his father, and graduated from the
Law Department of Iowa State University with honors in 1882,
with the degree of LL-D. His early desire to become an engi-
neer culminated in his entering the Junior class of the Insti-
tute. He graduated in 1886 from the Mechanical Engineering
Course. In 1887 entered the service of the Thomson-Houston
Electric Light Works at Lynn, Mass., remaining with them until
1888, at which time the Thomson-Houston Carbon Company
was organized, of which he was made Director, Treasurer, and
Engineer, works at Fremont, Ohio. From 1892 to 1894 acted in
various capacities as Electrical Engineer, and in 1894 was made
General Manager of the American Carbon Works at Nobles-
ville. In 1895 began the work of Consulting Engineer, with
offices in Chicago, remaining until 1900, when he removed to
Philadelphia, and was associated with Horatio A. Foster, and
in 1904 removed to New York, associated in partnership with
L. B. Stillwell. He was granted the degree of M.S. by Rose in
1905 and the degree of E.E. in 1907. He has membership in
the A. I. E. E., A. A. A. S., A. G. S., Davenport Academy of
Science, Railroad Club of New York, Engineers' Club of New
York, and various social clubs. His work as electrical engineer
has been varied, the most important of it having to do with the
electric transportation problem. He has contributed to scientific
literature some twenty-eight articles and papers upon electrical
engineering subjects. President of the Alumni Association,
1890.

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13. Sames, Chari^es McCaughey, 1886.

Entered Rose Polytechnic Institute in March, 1883, age 17, from
Rockford, 111. ; graduated in Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1886. Entered service of the Thomson-Houston Electric
Company at Lynn, Mass., immediately after graduation, remain-
ing until 1887. In 1887 was made Superintendent and Business
Manager of the Wagon and Implement Works of Peter Sames,
his father, at Rockford, 111. Served almost continuously in this
capacity with some interruptions until 1900. In 1890 for a short
time was Electrical Engineer for the Shaw Electric Crane
Company at Milwaukee, Wis., and also engaged in the manu-
facture of electric motors at Rockford, 111. In 1901 he removed
to Jersey City, N. J., and spent several years in travel, and in
preparing a manuscript for a pocket book of Mechanical Engi-
neering, first issued in 1905, reaching a third edition in 1908.
From 1903 to 1906 he acted as Consulting Mechanical Engineer,
and in 1906 became editor of Book Publications for the Engi-
neering News Publishing Company at New York City. In 1907
became editor of the Engineering Digest, first founded under
the name of Technical Literature, and has been acting in this
capacity to date. He was married on December 20, 1899. Mr.
Sames's pocket book has received merited recognition, as is
indicated from the rapid call for new editions.

14. Sanderj^n, David Powers. 1886.

Born at Cedar GrovCj Ind., October 4, 1863 ; entered the Insti-
tute March 6, 1883 ; graduated in Civil Engineering Course in
1886. In 1887 became Assistant Engineer with P. M. Blake,
Hydraulic Engineer, at Hyde Park, Mass. From 1888 to 1889
acted as Assistant Engineer for the N. P. Railway through
Montana, Idaho, and Washington, with headquarters at Tacoma.
In 1890 became Engineer for Anacortes and Fidalgo City,
Wash., and Chief Engineer for the F. C. & A. Electric Railway.
In 1891 removed to South Bend and served with James & Rixon.
Then returned to railway work, entering the Operating Depart-
ment, serving with the Great Northern Railway at Seattle in
1893, and with the Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad at Seattle
from 1894 to 1896. Since then served the Traffic Department as
General Agent of the Great Northern Railway at Vancouver,
B. C. Was married March 25, 1900.

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15. Scott, Charles Edgar. 1886.

Entered the Institute March 6, 1883, at the age of 22, from Terre
Haute; graduated in Mechanical Engineering Department in
1886. From 1887 to 1889 served as draftsman with E. S. Bab-
cock, Architect, at San Diego, Cal. In 1889 entered the service
of the California Tool Company at San Francisco. In 1890
entered the office of Reid Bros., Architects, in San Francisco.
In 1892 removed to Danville, III, and became a member of the
firm of Mater & Scott, Architects. In 1893 removed to Terre
Haute, and has been professionally engaged as architect to date.
He made plans for and superintended the construction of many
of the large business blocks and warehouses.

16. Seath, James Ross. 1886.

Entered the Institute March 6, 1883, at the age of 20, from
Terre Haute; graduated from the Mechanical Engineering De-
partment in 1886. In 1887 entered the service of the Terre
Haute Car and Manufacturing Company, of which his father
was Superintendent. In 1888 became a member of the firm of
King-Seath Stove Foundry, Terre Haute. In 1892 served as
draftsman with the Medart Patent Pulley Works at St. Louis,
Mo. In 1893 returned to Terre Haute and became Secretary of
the Terre Haute Car and Manufacturing Company. No record
of his activities after 1898 at hand.

17. Shrader, William Henry. 1886.

Entered Institute in March, 1883, at the age of 16, from Terre
Haute; graduated in 1886 in the Mechanical Course. In 1887
was graduate student at the Royal Polytechnic in Berlin, and
in 1888 changed to the University of Strassburg ; in 1901 be-
came assistant to Professor Kohlrausch in the Royal University
of Strassburg. Returned to this country in 1892 and was made
Assistant Professor of Physics in the University of Missouri.
In 1893 became Professor of Electrical Engineering, which posi-
tion he filled with distinguished ability until his death at
Columbia, Mo., on August 13, 1896.

18. Sullivan, Lucien Norris. 1886.

Born at Indianapolis, Ind., April 16, 1864. Entered the Institute
in March, 1883 : graduated in June. 1886, from the Mechanical
Engineering Course. Acted as rodman with the Missouri Pa-
cific Railway in Missouri from 1886 to 1887. In 1887, draftsman
for the San Diego & Coronado Beach Company at San Diego,

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Calif., in 1888 draftsman of the Union Iron Works at San
Francisco, and in 1890 draftsman of the Starr Milling Company
at Crockett, Calif., remaining with them until his removal to
Chicago, where he entered the Car Department of the C. & N.
W. Railway, serving until 1894. In 1894 was made Inspector
of Public Works for the City of Indianapolis. From 1895 to
1896 acted as Superintendent and Engineer with drainage con-
tractors at San Antonio, Texas, and also had charge of the
street improvements and paving of the City of Monterey,
Mexico. In 1896 removed to Chicago, serving as draftsman for
Fraser & Chalmers Manufacturing Company and the Fred W.
Wolf Company. In 1898 was elected Instructor in Mechanical
Engineering in the Lehigh University at Bethlehem, Pa., and
in 1899 was with the Bethlehem Steel Works. During 1900 he
traveled in Europe, and in inoi returned to New York, serving
with Babcock & Wilcox Boiler Company. From 1902 to 1906
he again served as Instructor of Metallurgical and Mining
Design in Lehigh University. He spent the summer of 1903 in
South America as Engineer, and in 1906 became Engineer of
the Mines Division at Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. In 1908 re-
turned to the States, and is serving now on the General S'?ff
of the War Department, in the Army War College at Washing-
ton, in connection with the translation of Spanish, French, Ger-
man, and Italian works. He received the degree of M.S. from
Lehigh University in June, 1905, and the degree of M.E. from
Rose in 1908. Is a member of the A. S. M. E., A. A. A. S.,
N. G. S., and the Washington Society of Engineers. He was
married in Washington, D. C, November. 1905.

19. WiivKiNS, John Thomas. 1886.

Entered the Institute September, 1883, from Terre Haute, age
20; graduated in the Mechanical Department in 1886. From
1887 to 1890 served with Root Bros., manufacturers of blowers,
at Connersville. From 1890 to 1893 was draftsman for the
P. H. & F. M. Roots Company at Connersville. In 1893 became
Engineer for the Connersville Blower Company, maufacturers
of rotary blowers, pumps, etc. Acquired a large interest in this
concern, and has been identified with it to date. Was granted
the degree of M.S. from Rose in 1893, and the M. E. degree
in 1895. Member of A. S. M. E. ^Ir. Wilkins especially devel-
oped and holds patents on cycloidal form of blowers and pumps,
the machinery for the manufacture of which was the subject of
study and design for a number of years. Married.

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20. Airman, John Barr. 1887.

Born at Washington, Ind., July 15, 1866; entered the Institute
in September, 1883 ; graduated in June, 1887, from the Mechan-
ical Engineering Department. Served as draftsman for I. D.
Smead Company at Toledo, O., from August ist to October,
1887. In 1887 became Cashier for the Colorado Midland Rail-
road at Leadville, Colo. The same year became Cashier for
the Arkansas Valley Smelting Company., remaining in their
service to March i, 1889. In 1889 returned to Terre Haute,
acquiring an interest in the firm of J. R. Duncan & Co., whole-
sale stationery and paper company, becoming Assistant Manager
of the business in 1901. Upon the death of Mr. J. R. Duncan,
became General Manager of the business, which, in 1905, was
incorporated into the J. R. Duncan Paper and Stationery Com-
pany, of which company he is President and General Manager,
also of several allied companies, dealers in supplies. Branch
houses of this business are maintained at Mattoon and Decatur,
111. Married December 5, 1888. at Terre Haute. Mr. Aikman
vk'as elected to the Board of Managers of the Rose Polytechnic
Institute in 1898. His services in connection with the Alumni
Association have been active and may be found in the roster
of the Alumni officers.

21. Baur, Oscar. 1887.

Born September 9, 1867, at Terre Haute ; entered the Institute
September, 1883, and graduated in June, 1887. Became drafts-
man with E. P. Allis & Co. Reliance Works at Milwaukee, Wis.,
in July, 1887, and continued with them until June, 1888. From
July to November, 1888, served with the Liquid Carbonic Com-
pany at ^lilwaukee. From 1889 to 1892 engaged in orange
growing on a plantation at Tallahassee, Fla. Since 1892 has
been engaged as General Engineer and Superintendent with the
Liquid Carbonic Acid Company of Milwaukee, Chicago, Pitts-
burg, and New York. Married December 16, 1897.

22. Cox, Frank Povvkll. 1887.

Born at Terre Haute, Ind., December 31, 1866; entered the
In.stitute in September, 1883 ; graduated in the Mechanical
Course in 1887. From 1887 to 1888 was graduate student at
Johns Hopkins University. In 1889 became Electrician for the
Kester Motor Company at Terre Haute. In 1890 entered service
of the Thomson Electric Welding Company at Lynn, Mass.

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In 1893 was transferred to the electric meter department of the
Thomson-Houston Electric Company at Lynn, Mass. In 1895
became Electrical Engineer for the General Electric Company
at Lynn, which position he holds to date. Married at Balti-
more, June 7, 1888. Member of the A. L E. E. Mr. Cox's
work, especially in the Meter Department, while associated with
the General Electric Company, was recognized by the awarding
of the silver medal at the St. Louis Exposition, which he mod-
estly states should have been divided among a number of the
engineers who worked under him.

23. GoETz, Herman Fred. 1887.

Entered the Institute in September, 1883, at the age of 16, from
Terre Haute. Graduated in 1887 from Mechanical Department.
After graduation became associated with the firm Temple &
Goetz, planing mill, Terre Haute. From 1891 to 1894 engaged
in business of furniture dealer with his father, F. Goetz. From
1895 to 1897 was engaged in brokerage business at Quincy. 111.
In 1897 took up study of medicine at Kirksville, Mo. He has
been engaged in the practice of his profession since 1902 at St.
Louis, Mo. Was Secretary-Treasurer of Alumni Association,
1887-90 and '91.

24. HiBBiTS, Frank Ney. 1887.

Entered Institute September 18, 1883, at the age of 18, from
Aluncie. Graduated in 1887. After graduation engaged as
draftsman at Chattanooga, Tenn. In 1889 became Assistant
Inspector for the C. C. C. & W. Railroad, Pullman, 111. In
1890, Inspector of car and foundry work for the C. C. C. & St. L.
Railroad, St. Louis. In 1891 was in the Drafting Department
of the same railroad at Indianapolis. In 1892 entered the Engi-
neering Department of the Erie Railroad Company at Susque-
hanna, Pa. In 1893 became Mechanical Engineer for the N. Y.,
L. E. & W. Division of the Erie Railroad at Susquehanna,
serving until 1896. Then became Trainmaster of the Eastern
Division of the Erie Railroad at Port Jervis, N. Y., remaining
until 1899. Was then transferred to the Jefferson Division at
Carbondale, Pa., in 1900. In 190T was with the New York
Division at Rochester, N. Y. From 1901 to 1904 was Mechan-
ical Engineer for the LTnion Pacific Railway at Omaha, Neb.,
and in 1904 Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway at
Washington, D. C. : in 1905 ]\Iechanical Superintendent for the
N. Y.. N. H. & H. Railroad at New Haven, Conn. In 1907

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became Superintendent of Motive Power of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad at South Bethlehem, Pa. Thus Mr. Hibbits' service
in railroad work extends from 1889 to date, with constant
advancement.

25. Mack, John Givan Davis. 1887.

Born at Terre Haute September 5, 1867. Entered Institute
September, 1883; graduated in June, 1887. Entered Cornell
University as graduate student in 1888. From 1889 to 1892 em-
ployed with the firm of Jones & Rogers, Mechanical Engineers,
at Cincinnati ; 1892 to 1893 with the firm of Jones & Mack,
Mechanical Engineers, Cincinnati. In 1894 became Instructor in
Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.,
and in 1901 was made Professor of Machine Design of the Col-
lege of Engineering, University of Wisconsin. Given the degree
of M.E., Cornell, in 1888. Member A. S. M. E. In addition to
his work as Professor in the University of Wisconsin, Mr. Mack
has had to do with engineering work and served in the Valua-
tions for the Wisconsin Tax and Railroad Commission for the
past five years, and is now in charge of the Mechanical Work
on Railroads and Public Utilities, a commission of that State.
He was married in 1903 at Cincinnati, O. In 1908 he repre-
sented the Alumni at Rose as Commencement speaker.

26. Mering, Barclay George. 1887.

Born at Cincinnati, Ohio, July 22, 1864. Entered Institute Sep-
tember, 1883 ; graduated in 1887. From 1888 to 1890 served as
draftsman with the John T. Noye Manufacturing Company at
Buflfalo. From 1890 to 1892 with Theo. A. Elliott, Mechanical
Engineer, at Buffalo. Engineer with R. Dunbar & Son, Eagle
Iron Works at BuflFalo, Architects and Contractors, from 1892 to
1897. From 1897 to 1900 acted as Mechanical and Consulting
Engineer at Buffalo. From 1900 to 1904. Mechanical Engineer
with the American Cereal Company at Chicago. From 1904 to
1907, associated as Grain Elevator Contractor with Barnard &
Leas Manufacturing Company at Moline, 111. From 1907 to
date. Mechanical Engineer for the American Hominy Company,
of Indianapolis. Married at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1895. Received
degree of M.S. from Rose in 1897. Mr. Mering's larger work
has been in connection with the building of brick and reinforced
concrete grain elevators and power plants for the Quaker Oats
Company, the American Hominy Company, etc.

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27. PAI.MER, W1L1.1AM Henry. 1887.

Born January 25, 1867, at Watseka, 111. Entered Institute Sep-
tember, 1883; graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 1887.
After graduation, with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company
until 1890. From 1890 to 1891 was in the service of the Wen-
strom Consolidated Dynamo and Motor Company at Baltimore.
Owing to illness his work was interrupted, and he was not able
to take it up again for some time. From 1891 to 1892 acted as
clerk and telegraph operator with the P. D. & E. Railroad at
Peoria. In 1892 became Superintendent of the Omaha Con-
solidated Electric Company. In 1893 entered service of the
h; E. & St. L. Railroad at St. Louis, and from 1894 to 1899 was
associated with the Missouri Edison Electric Company at St.
Louis. His work there was especially in connection with under-
ground and conduit work. From 1899 to 1900 was Engineer
for the Great Northern Railway at St. Paul, Minn., doing
experimental work in connection with train lighting system,
remaining until 1906, when he established an office as Consulting
Engineer. Acted as Engineer of Tests of Steam and Power
Plants for the Tennessee Copper Company, Copperhill, Tenn.
In 1907 became Master Mechanic of the I. & L. Traction Com-
pany at Scottsburg, Ind. From 1908, Manager and Secretary-
Treasurer of the Zionsville Water and Electric Light Company.
Married September 17, 1895, at Edgewater, 111.

28. Chapman, George; Henry. 1888.

Entered the Institute 1884, at the age of 17. from Indianapolis.
Graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1888.
After graduation, from 1889 to 1891, was with the Northwestern
Lumber Company, of Eau Claire, Wis. In 1891 with the Mon-
treal River Company, Gile, Wis. In 1892 returned to Eau Claire
with the Northwestern Company. In 1902 was made Sales Man-
ager, and in 1903 also Secretary of the Linderman Box and
Veneer Company, Eau Claire. In 1905 was made General Man-
ager of the Northwestern Lumber Company, Stanley, Wis., with
which company he has served to date. No further personal
record of Mr. Chapman is at hand.

29. Davis, George M. t888.

Bom December 22, 1868, at Waveland, Ind. Entered the Insti-
tute 1884. Graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in

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1888. After graduation took up the study of law, receiving
degree of LL.B. from the University of Michigan. He special-
ized in the practice of law along the line of railroads, mining,
and corporation litigation together with expert and legal work
in connection with the securing of United States patents and
patent law litigation. He is associated with his father in a law
office of Davis & Davis, of Terre Haute. He was married
December 8, 1896.

30. Haring, Harry D. 1888.

Born at Aurora, Ind., March 3, 1867. Entered the Institute
1884, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
June, 1888. In 1889 served with the Van Depoele Electric
Manufacturing Company, of Chicago. In 1890 with the Sprague
Electric Company, of Chicago. In 1891 with the United Edison
Companies, of Chicago. In 1892 with the Edison General
Electric Company, of Cincinnati. In 1893 with the Card Elec-
tric Motor and Dynamo Company, of Cincinnati. From 1894
to 1896 was Assistant to the Chief Engineer of the Fort Wayne
Electric Company at Fort Wayne, Ind. From 1896 to 1899 was
made agent for the Fort Wayne Company at Cincinnati. From
1899 to 1902 served in the Sales Department of the Western
Electric Company, of Chicago, and in 1902 was made Indiana
State Agent for the same company, with office at Indianapolis,
serving in that capacity to date. He was married June, 1897,
at Indianapolis.

31. HoRD, Francis Triplett. 1888.

Entered from Indianapolis in 1884, age 17. Graduated in the
Mechanical Engineering Course in 1888. After graduation spent
a year in Europe. Then entered the law office of General
Harrison in Indianapolis. In 1890 entered the University of
Michigan as a student of law. Received the degree of LL.B.
in 1892. In 1893 returned to Indianapolis, and was of the firm
of Hord & Perkins, Attorneys at Law. Served as member of the
Indiana Legislature in that year. In 1894 the firm became Hord,
Perkins & Miller. Continued the practice of law until the time
of his death. May 16, 1901. Was married in 1889 in Terre
Haute. Delivered the first Commencement Address that repre-
sented the Alumni, in June, 1895. President of the Alumni
Association, 1892.

Alumni Biographical Dictionary. 133

32. Kidder, Ci^inton Baxter. 1888.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute 1884, at the age of 17,
and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1888.
In 1889 entered the service of the Sprague Electric Equipment
Company, of Chicago, working in connection with the installing
of the electric street railway lines in Cincinnati, Ohio, for the
Cincinnati Incline Plane Street Railway Company, and re-
mained with that company as the Electrician in charge of their
electrical equipment until 1890, when he returned to Terre
Haute and entered the service of the Terre Haute Street Rail-
way Company, installing electric equipment and erecting steam
plant, and remained as Electrical Engineer in charge of same,
also acting as Manager of the Willard Kidder Cooper Shops.
In 1894 entered the service of the Overman Wheel Company
at Chicopee Falls, Mass., manufacturers of the Victor bicycles,
as Consulting Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, and later
as Superintendent of the factory until 1899. He then entered
the service of Stone & Webster, Consulting Engineers, of Bos-
ton, serving as Manager of the Street Railway and Lighting
properties of the Terre Haute Electric Company, Brazil Elec-
tric Lighting Company, Edison Electric Illuminating Company,
of Savannah, Ga., and Savannah Electric Company, until 1894;
all of these were Stone & Webster plants. In 1904 he was
engaged in installing electric hydraulic mining plants in the
Yukon territories. From 1905 to date he has looked after the
interests of farm properties belonging to his father, and also
serves as Manager of the Northern Light Electric Company
at Wahpeton, North Dakota. Was married in 1896. President
of Alumni Association, 1894; Secretary-Treasurer, 1888.

33. Moore, Allen Henry. 1888,

Born at Rutland, Vermont, February, 1865. Entered the Insti-
tute in 1886 with Junior standing on credit? from the University
of Vermont. Entered from Danville, 111., and graduated in the
Mechanical Engineering Course in 1888. Entered the student
course of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company at Lynn,
Mass., in 1888. From 1889 to 1892 served as Erecting Engineer
for the Thomson-Houston Company and the Thomson-Houston
International Company in the United States, Mexico, Canada,
and Germany until 1892. From 1892 to 1899 was Manager
of the works of the Union Elektricitates Gesellschaft, Berlin,
Germany. From 1899 to 1902 was Manager of the works of the

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British Thomson-Houston Company at Rugby, England. He
was recalled to America in 1902 by the General Electric Com-
pany to Schenectady, N. Y., where he has remained to date as
Chairman of the Standardizing Committee. He is a member
of the A. S. M. E. Was married in Boston, Mass., in i8qi.

34. PEDDI.E, John B. 1888.

Born February 27, 1868, at Terre Haute. Entered the Institute
in 1884; graduated in Mechanical Engineering Course in 1888.
After graduation was with the Thomson-Houston Electric
Company at Lynn, Mass., for one year and a half. Then a year
with the Dodge Coal Storage Company at Nicetown, Pa. Three
and a half years with the Worthington Hydraulic Company,
Brooklyn, N. Y. From 1894 to date, teaching at Rose Poly-
technic Institute, first as Instructor in Drawing Department,
and since 1896 as Associate Professor and Professor of Machine
Design. Married June 21, 1897, at Nashville, Tenn. Received
M.S. degree in 1895, and M.E. in 1900, both from Rose. Was
President of the Alumni Association in 1899, 1905, and 1906.

35. Rauchfuss, Oscar R. 1888.

Entered the Institute in 1884 from Golconda, 111., at the age of
18. Graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1888. In 1889
served as Engineer in the Maintenance of Way Department of
the B. C. & E. Railroad at Belville, 111. From 1890 to 1892
served as Assistant Engineer on the N. & K. Railroad, Cooke-
ville, Tenn. In 1892 with the Baltimore City Passenger Rail-
road Company at Baltimore. From 1893 to 1896 was City
Engineer of Joliet, 111., and associated himself with Mr. Zinn
in the firm of Rauchfuss & Zinn. From 1896 to 1899 was
Engineer and Superintendent for Campbell & Davis, General
Contractors, of Joliet. From 1899 to 1901 acted as Manager of
the Diamond Soda Works, Milwaukee, Wis. From 1902 to 1903
served as Manager of the Liquid Carbonic Acid Gas Manufac-
turing Company at Milwaukee and Pittsburg. In 1903 entered
the service of the Gulf Refining Company at Port Arthur, Texas,
as District Sales Manager, removing to New Orleans in 1905,
and died in the summer of 1906.

36. Scroll, Julian. 1888.

Born April 28, 1867, at Indianapolis. Entered the Institute
September, 1884; graduated from the Mechanical Engineering

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Course in 1888. From 1888 to 1890 served as machinist and
draftsman for the Harrisburg Foundry and Machine Works at
Harrisburg, Pa. Was engaged especially in automatic engine
and steam roller design and construction. In 1890 entered the
service of the Weston Engineering Company, manufacturers of
automatic steam engines at Painted Post, N. Y. In 1891 estab-
lished himself as Mechanical Engineer in New York City, also
representing the Weston Engineering Company. He equipped
many of the large buildings in New York with complete
steam and pawer plants. Still interested in the design of road
machinery, he continued his work along that line. In 1893
began the building and manufacturing of a line of road ma-
chinery, which developed in the Universal Steam Rollers and
Reliance Stone Crushers, exhibited at the World's Fair in St.
Louis. He has continued to date in the design and development
of road machinery under style of Julian Scholl, of New York.

37. Waters, Edward Guy. 1888.

Born in Peru, Ind., in 1866. Entered the Institute from Terre
Haute September, 1884; graduated from the Mechanical Engi-
neering Course in 1888. In the year 1888 to 1889 was a graduate
student at Rose, and also acted as Laboratory Instructor. In
1890 entered the service of the Thomson-Houston Electric
Company at Lynn, Mass., and from 1891 to 1896 was Manager
of the Pittsburg office. From 1896 to 1903 he was Assistant to
the First Vice President of the General Electric Company at
New York. From 1903 to 1906 was Manager of the Commercial
Department of the British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd.,
Rugby, England. In March, 1906, was recalled to Schenectady,
N. Y., as Assistant to the First Vice President and Secretary of
the Sales Committee of the General Electric Company. This
position he occupies to date. He is a member of the A. I. E. E.
Was married in 1893 at Terre Haute, Ind. For nineteen years
has been in the service of the General Electric Company.

38. Weller, Edward Anderson. 1888.

Entered the Institute 1884 from Canonsburg, Pa., at the age of
18; graduated from the Mechanical Course in 1888. In 1889
entered the service of the United States Scale Works, of Terre
Haute, in the capacity of Superintendent. From 1890 to 1892
served with the Carnegie-Phipps Company at Pittsburg, Pa.
From 1892 to 1894 with Schoenberger & Co. Juanita Iron and
Steel Works, Pittsburg. In 1894 served with the Linden Steel

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Compan}^ Pittsburg. In 1895 with the Mackintosh, Hemphill
Company, Pittsburg. 1895 to 1896 with the Jones & Laughlin
Company at Pittsburg. From 1896 to 1899 with M. E. Anderson
Foundry and Machine Works, Anderson. Ind. From 1899 to
1901 was Mechanical Engineer with the Illinois Steel Company
at Chicago. From 1901 to 1906 Mechanical and Electrical Engi-
neer for Hoover & Mason, Contracting Engineers, of Chicago.
From 1906 to 1907 Superintendent of the Berger Manufacturing
Company, Canton, Ohio, remaining with this company to date
as Mechanical Engineer, with office in Chicago, 111. Mr. Weller
is married, although the date and place of marriage have not
been reported.

39. Galloway, John Debo. 1889.

Entered the Institute 1885 from Napa City, Cal., at the age
of 16. Graduated from the Civil Engineering Course in 1889.
After graduation served as transitman for the Fairhaven &
Southern Railroad, Fairhaven, Wash. In 1891 became Assistant
Engineer for the Great Northern Railroad at Fairhaven, and
in 1892 with the Whatcom County Tide Lands. From 1892 to
1896 was Chief Engineer for Healy, Tibbits & Co., bridge
builders and contractors, San Francisco. In 1896 established
the firm of Galloway, Townley & Co.. Engineers and Contractors.
In 1897 was with the Pacific Rolling Mill Company. From 1898
to 1900 acted as Instructor in Mechanical and Architectural
Drawing, California School of Mechanical Arts. In 1900 be-
came Engineer for Colusa Stone Company. Since 1901 his work
has been that of Consulting Engineer, with office in San Fran-
cisco. Mr. Galloway's work has been in both structural and
hydraulic engineering, having designed and had charge of large
works in the West.

40. Gilbert, Elmer Ellsworth. 1889.

Entered the Institute September, 1885, from Gettysburg, Ohio,
at the age of 21. Graduated from the Mechanical Engineering
Course in 1889. Entered the service of the Thomson-Houston
Electric Company as apprentice in Boston. From 1891 to 1893
served in the Isolated Lighting Department of the Thomson-
Houston Company in New York City. From 1893 to 1898 with
the General Electric Company. New York City. From 1898 to
1903 Assistant to General Manager Lighting Department, and
from 1903 to date. Sales Manager in the Turbine Department of
the General Electric Company at Schenectady, N. Y. His work

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is both of the engineering and business kind. Is a member of
the A. I. E. E. He has been for twenty years in the service of
the General Electric Company.

41. Hammond, Alonzo J. 1889.

Entered the Institute September, 1885, from Frankfort, at the
age of 16, and graduated in 1889 from the Civil Engineering
Course. From July, 1889, to September, 1890, was City Engi-
neer of Frankfort, and served as draftsman in his father's office,
who is a practicing architect. From iSgo to 1S91 took a grad-
nate course in the M. I. T. From iSqt to 1898 again served
as City Engineer of the City of Frankfort, at the same time
carrying on architectural practice. From 1898 to 1901 acted as
Assistant to Chief Engineer of the Vandalia Railroad, especially
in terminal work for the city of South Bend. In 1901 he was
made City Engineer of South Bend, which office he has occu-
pied to date. During all this time has carried on a consulting
engineering practice together with discharging his duties as City
Engineer. Designed a system of sewers for Sullivan, Ind., and
Dowagiac, Mich., in the early years of his practice, later on
designing a waterworks system, electric light system for Berrien
Springs, Mich., and other plants in Michigan and Northern
Indiana. Served as Consulting Engineer for the Elkhart Power
Company for the development of water power. Also acted as
Chief Engineer for some of the electric roads out of South
Bend, for the Northern Indiana Railroad, and was Engineer of
Bridges for St. Joseph County. Some more important works
were the Jeflferson Street concrete arch highway bridge. South
Bend, and several other bridges of magnitude. He was granted
degree of M.S. in 1894 and degree of C. E. in 1898, both from
Rose. He served as President of the Indiana Engineering
Society and is a member of the A. S. C. E. Was married in
1893 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

42. Hendricks. A'ictor K. 1889.

Born in Indianapolis May 28, 1869. Entered the Institute Sep-
tember, 1885. Graduated from the Civil Engineering Course in
1889. From 1889 until 1890 served as draftsman for the Edge
Moor Bridge Works, Wilmington. Del. In 1890 Recorder on
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Charleston, S. C.
1890 to 1892 draftsman and transitman on construction. Fair-
haven & Southern Railroad, at Fairhaven, Wash. 1892 to 1893
Assistant Engineer in charge of construction, Bellingham Bay

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& Eastern Railroad, at Fairhaven, Wash. In 1893 draftsman at
Indiana Bridge Works, Muncie, Ind., and at Lafayette Bridge
Works, Lafayette, Ind. 1893 to 1894 Assistant Engineer
T. H. & I. Railroad Company, Terre Haute. 1894 to 1902
Engineer ^Maintenance of Way of the Michigan Division of
the Vandalia Railroad Company, Terre Haute and Logansport.
From 1902 to 1905 Assistant to Engineer Maintenance of Way
B. & O. Railroad, Baltimore, Md. 1905 to 1907 Division Engi-
neer, Baltimore Division. 1907 to 1909 Assistant Engineer
Maintenance of Way, Frisco Lines, St. Louis, Mo. 1909 to
date Office Engineer, Frisco Lines, St. Louis, Mo. President
of Alumni Association, 1896. Representative on Board of Man-
agers, 1899 and 1901. Received degree of M.S. from Rose
in 1900. Is associate member A. S. C. E. Member of the
American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Asso-
ciation and other railway clubs. Married May 28, 1909, in Terre
Haute. Mr. Hendricks's work has been mainly in railway
maintenance. He made some special investigations in the mat-
ter of timber preservation while in the employ of the B. & O.
Railway.

43. Holding, Herbert Holmes. 1889.

Entered the Institute from Paris, 111., in 1885, at he age of 17,
graduating in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1889.
With the Thomson-Houston Electric Company at Lynn, 1890,
at Boston, 1891-2, and Cincinnati in 1893. Then with the
General Electric Company at Cleveland in 1894. In 1895 to 1898
Electrician for the Lorain Steel Railway Company, Lorain,
Ohio. In 1898 Manager of the Cleveland office of the Eddy
Electric Manufacturing Company. From 1899 to 1902 Vice
President of the Pelton Engineering Company, Cleveland. 1903
to 1908 Vice President Bosworth-Dilley-Holding Company,
Cleveland, Ohio. 1909, Sales Manager for the Cleveland Feed
Water Regulator Company.

44. Jones, Theodore D. 1889.

Entered the Institute September, 1885, from New Harmony,
age 19; graduated from the Civil Engineering Course in 1889.
In 1890 with the L. & N. and O. & J. Railroad, Memphis, remain-
ing until 1892. In 1892 Resident Engineer of the Danville &
East Tennessee Railroad Company, Bristol, Tenn. From 1893
to 1896 practiced civil engineering and surveying in Jacksonville

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and Tampa, Fla. In 1898 Resident Engineer Canon City &
Cripple Creek Electric Railway Company, Canon City, Colo.
In 1900 with the Oxnard Construction Company, Ames, Neb.
In 1901 Assistant Engineer on Location and Construction of the
Colorado Midland Railway. In 1902 Assistant Engineer Taylor
Park Railroad on preliminary surveys. Aspen, Colo., remaining
until 1905. Then Engineer Cananea Yaqui Pacific, Santiago
Xquintia, District de Tepic, Mexico. In 1907 Chief Engineer
G. & N. R. & U. Railroad, Greeley, Colo., which position he has
occupied to date. Personal notes of Mr. Jones are not furnished.

45. McKeen, William Riley, Jr. 1889.

Born in Terre Haute, Ind., October 7, 1869. Entered the Insti-
tute in 1885, graduating in 1889 in the course of Mechanical
Engineering. After graduation attended Johns Hopkins Insti-
tute for a two years' course in electrical engineering. In 1890
and 1891 pursued an advanced course in electricity and mechan-
ical engineering at a polytechnic institute in Berlin, Germany.
After traveling in Europe, returned to America, entering the
car shops of the P. C. C. & St. L. Railroad at Columbus, Ohio,
and became Master Car Builder of the T. H. & I. Railroad in
1893. Then Superintendent of the car and locomotive shops of
the T. H. & I. Railroad, remaining until 1898. He then became
Vice President of the P. V. Manufacturing Company. In
December. 1898, entered the service of the Union Pacific Rail-
road, becoming District Foreman at North Platte, Neb. May
ist was made Master Mechanic of the Wyoming Division at
Cheyenne, Wyo. In June, 1902, appointed Superintendent of
Motor Power and Machinery of the Union Pacific, with head-
quarters at Omaha. He continued in this position until 1908,
and resigned to become President and General Manager of the
McKeen Motor Car Company, to build the well-known and
successful gasoline railway motor cars, known as the McKeen
Car. In 1896 he was granted the degree of M.S. from Rose and
in 1907 the degree of M.E. President of Alumni Association,
1895. He is a member of the New York Railway Club, the
Chicago Railway Club, and the A. S. M. E. Mr. McKeen's
original work has been especially in the direction of designing
and constructing his gasoline motor car, gasoline weed burner,
gasoline switching locomotives, and the introduction and devel-
opment of the use of steel shapes in box car, passenger coach,
and mail car construction. His work along this line is recog-
nized as pioneer work.

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46. Roberts, Donn M. 1889.

Entered the Institute September, 1885, from Terre Haute, at the
age of 18, and graduated from the Mechanical Engineering
Course in 1889. In 1890 he was elected City Engineer of Terre
Haute, and from 1891 he was associated with Kelley, Roberts
& Smith, Lawyers, of Terre Haute. From 1892 to 1898 he
operated in real estate claims, and from 1898 to 1906 has done
contracting work as Manager of the Indiana Construction Com-
pany and Roberts & Co., Engineers and Contractors, of Terre
Haute. Married.

47. Wiley, Walter Brown. 1889.

Born in Terre Haute, Ind., September 20, 1866. Entered the
Institute September, 1885, and graduated from the Chemical
Department in 1889. In September and October, 1889, was
Volunteer Assistant, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division
of Chemistry. October, 1889, to Alarch, T890, Chemist Belle
Terre Sugar House, Donaldsonville, La. March, 1890, to No-
vember, 1901, Assistant in Laboratory, Illinois Steel Company,
Milwaukee, Wis. November, 1891, to June, 1893, Chemist Coke
Laboratory, Illinois Steel Company, Mt. Pleasant, Pa. 1893 to
1895 Chemist and Coke Inspector, Illinois Steel Company,
Bramwell, W. Va. 1895 to 1897 Coke Inspector and Car Agent,
Illinois Steel Company, ^Tt. Pleasant, Pa. 1897 to 1899 Chemist
Union Works, Illinois Steel Company, Chicago, 111. 1899 to
1903 Chemist and Coke Inspector and Car Agent, Illinois Steel
Company, Bramwell, W. Va. 1903 to 1905 Chemist and Fuel
Engineer, L^nited States Coal and Coke Company, Gary, W. Va.
1905 to date fuel and expert and sampling of materials, So.
Works, Illinois Steel Company, Chicago, 111. Is a member of
the A. C. S. Married July 13, 1893. Mr. Wiley is the first
graduate in the Chemical Course from the Rose Polytechnic
Institute, and has been engaged in a special line of work in
connection with fuel engineering, especially to improve the
quality of coke and the investigation of coking coals. Com-
mencement speaker, 1901.

48. AUSTERMILLER, JOHN AuGUST. 189O.

Entered the Institute September, 1885, from Terre Haute, Ind.,
at the age of 16, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering
Course in 1890. After graduation took service with the Van-
dalia Railroad in the freight offices. Later became associated
with Allen & Austermiller, operating boiler and machine shop

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in Terre Haute. In 1897 was employed in the office of City
Engineer of Terre Haute, Ind., in which position he remained
until 1908, when he became Deputy Revenue Collector at Terre
Haute, Ind.

49. CoLLETT, Samuel Dunlap. 1890.

Entered the Institute September, 1886, from Newport, Ind., at
the age of 17, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering
Course in 1890. From 1890 to 1891 took a special civil engineer-
ing course in the Rose Polytechnic Institute, for which he re-
ceived degree of B.S. in civil engineering. In 1892 entered the
service of the Thomson-Houston Electric Company at Lynn,
Mass., and from 1893 to 1895 was with the Pennsylvania General
Electric Company at Pittsburg. In 1895 became associated with
the Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company in New
York, and in 1898 was made Eastern Manager of the Elevator
Supply and Repair Company in New York, remaining with the
company until 1905, when he became Vice President and Eastern
Manager of the Electric Supply and Repair Company, which
position he holds to date. He was granted degree of M.S from
Rose in 1894. President of Alumni Association, 1898. Is asso-
ciate member of the A. I. E. E., a member of the A. S. M. E.
and Engineering Club of Manhattan, Building Trade Club of
Manhattan. Blue Room Engineering Club of Manhattan, the
N. G. S., and various social clubs. Mr. Collett equipped some
of the largest buildings in New York with elevators, pumps,
etc. April 12th Mr. Collett registers himself as not married.
From a social column of the Brooklyn Eagle it is judged that
this information will speedily have to be amended.

50. CoNDRON, Theodore Lincoln. 1890.

Entered the Institute in 1886, at the age of 20, from Washington,
D. C, and graduated from the Civil Engineering Course in
1890. In 1891 became Assistant Engineer with the Burlington
Bridge Company, Burlington, Iowa. In 1892 Assistant in the
Testing Laboratory, Washington University, St. Louis. In 1893
in Chief Engineer's office, St. Louis, Merchants' Bridge and
Terminal Company. In 1894 became Assistant Engineer with
Edw. Flad, C. & M. E., St. Louis. In 1895 to 1901 Resident
Engineer, Pittsburg Testing Laboratory, Chicago. In 1902 he
opened an office as civil engineer in Chicago, but retained his
connection with the Pittsburg Testing Laboratory. In 1905 he
severed his connection with the Pittsburg Laboratory, and con-

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tinued in the practice of civil engineering. In 1906 he asso-
ciated himself with Mr. Sinks, of the Class of '96, under the
firm name of Condron & Sinks Company, Civil Engineers, Chi-
cago. Of this firm Mr. Condron is President. He was married
in Terre Haute, Ind. He was given the degree of M.S. from
Rose in 1894. Is a member of the A. S. C. E., S. W. E.,
A. S. M. W,, and other engineering societies. Served as Alumni
representative on the Board of Managers, 1905 to 1907. Has
been active in all work pertaining to the improvement and
betterment of the Institute. His consulting engineering work
has been in connection with some of the most important struc-
tures, and has extended from coast to coast.

51. Elder, William Datus. 1890.

Entered the Institute in 1887, at the age of 19, from Kalamazoo,
Mich., and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1890.
From 1890 to 1891 he was Assistant Engineer for the Northern
Pacific Railroad, St. Paul. 1892 to 1899 Assistant City Engi-
neer, Kalamazoo. From 1900 to 1903 Assistant Engineer with
the Michigan Central Railroad, Niles, Mich. 1903 to 1905
Draftsman Chief Engineer's office Michigan Central Railroad,
Detroit, Mich. From 1905 to date Assistant Chief Engineer
Detroit River Tunnel Company, Detroit. Mr. Elder received
degree of M.S. from Rose in 1893. He was married November
I, 1901.

52. Fitch, Maxwell Bryon. 1890.

Bom in Greenville, 111., March 23, 1869. Entered the Institute
in 1886, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1890. Immediately after graduation was put in charge of the
field corps of the Terre Haute & Logansport Division of the
Vandalia Railroad, and remained in the service until 1892, when
he was appointed Assistant City Engineer of Terre Haute. In
1893 was made City Engineer of Mattoon, 111., where he re-
mained until 1896. From 1896 to 1898 was in the employ of the
Graphic Mining and Smelting Company, Magdalena, N. M.,
serving both as Metallurgist and Engineer. In 1897 he wa.s
made Superintendent of the smelting works, serving in this
capacity until 1903. From 1904 to 1906 he served as Manager
of the Southwestern Lead and Coal Company, Engle, N. M.
From 1906 to date he has carried on the business of mining
engineering at El Paso, Tex. Is married, but date unknown.
A member of the A. S. M. E.

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53. Galloway, Mason. 1890.

Entered the Institute in 1886 from Chico, Cal., at the age of 23,
and graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1890.
In 1891 he was with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company,
Lynn, Mass. From 1892 to igoo Electrician Marion Electric
Street Railway, Marion, Ind. From 1900 to 1903 Assistant to
Electrical Engineer, Snoqualmic Falls Power Company, Seattle,
Wash. 1906 with the Nevada Power and Mining Company,
Columbia, Nev. From 1906 to date he has been engaged in
engineering work, mostly in Arizona, where he is compelled
to remain because of the condition of his health.

54. Hess, Otto Georgk. 1890.

Entered the Institute in 1886 at the age of 19, and graduated in
1890 in the Mechanical Engineering Course. Immediately after
graduation in 1891 became Engineer of the refrigerating plant
of the Reymann Brewing Company, Wheeling, W. Va. In 1892

was made Chief Engineer nf all their works, which position he
occupies to date.

55. Lefler, Harvey James. 1890.

Entered the Institute in 1887 from Cincinnati, O., at the age of
18 ; graduated in Civil Engineering Course in 1890. In 1891 was
made Resident Engineer with the Cincinnati Southern Railroad.
In 1893 removed to Anderson, Ind., and in 1897 to Indianapolis.
In both places he engaged in general manufacturing business.
In 1898 he removed to New York, becoming Engineer with the
Metropolitan Street Railway Company, where he has lived to
date, engaged in general contracting and engineering work. Is
unmarried. Mr. Lefler while in New York had charge of the
construction of the underground trolley for the Metropolitan
Company, and during the Spanish-American War had charge of
the fortifications of Fort Slocum, at New York Harbor. Was
engaged in river and harbor improvements in New York, and
for the last ten years has been engaged mainly in building
constructions in New York City.

56. Putnam. George Rockwell. 1890.

Born at Davenport, la. Entered the Institute in 1887 at the
age of 22; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1890. After graduation assisted in the Coast and Geodetic Sur-
vey, and remained in government service to date. He received

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the degree of }iI.S. from Rose in 1894. Member M. S. C. E.,
Washington Academy of Science, Washington Philosophical
Society, Washington Society of Engineers, and several social
clubs. Is unmarried. Was on ]\Iexican and Alaskan boundary
surveys ; accompanied expedition to Greenland as astronomer
in 1896: engaged on survey of Pribilof Islands in 1897, and of
the delta of the Yukon River, 1898-99 ; made observations con-
necting American and European gravity stations, 1900; Director
of Coast Surveys in the Philippine Islands in 1900-06. His orig-
inal work was in a transcontinental series of measurements of
the force of gravity; planning the survey of the coasts of the
Philippine Islands ; planning the survey of the delta of the
Yukon River, Alaska, and designing of charts of the Philippine
Islands, Alaska, and the United States. His publications are :
Nautical Charts, Wiley & Sons, New York, 1908; Papers in
Annual Reports of Coast and Geodetic Survey; Proceedings of
Philosophical Society of Washington, and Engineering News.

57. Raymond, Stephen Spinning. 1890.

Entered the Institute in 1886, at the age of 16, from Cincin-
nati, O., and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1890. After graduation spent a year in Montana, and in the
fall of 1891 took a graduate course in mining in the Colum-
bia College, in New York. In 1893 served with the Anaconda
Smelting Works at Anaconda. In 1894 had charge of the Elec-
trolytic Refinery of the Anaconda Mining Company. In 1895
was made President and General Manager of the Madison
Mining and Milling Company, Sappington, Mont. In 1898 was
Chief Assayer Montana Ore Purchasing Company, Butte, Mont. ;
1899 to 1902, General Superintendent Copper King Company,
San Francisco, Cal. ; 1903, Mining and Metallurgical Engineer,
San Francisco. Since 1903 no record has been furnished of his
activities.

58. S HOVER, Barton Roy. 1890.

Entered the Institute in 1885, at the age of 18. In 1886 was
compelled to withdraw from the Institute on account of affec-
tion of eyes. Reentered in 1887, and graduated in the Mechan-
ical Engineering Course in 1890. After graduation entered the
laboratory of Carpenter-Nevins Electric Heating Company, Min-
neapolis. In 1891 was Electrician for the Electric Street Rail-
way. Richmond, Ind. ; 1892. Electrician for the Citizens' Street

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Railway, Indianapolis; 1893, Superintendent of the Neptune
Electric Company, Asbury Park, N. J. ; 1894, Electrician Youngs-
town Street Railway Company, Youngstown, O. ; 1895, with the
Ohio Steel Company, Youngstown; 1897, Assistant Electrician
Ohio Steel Company; 1900, Electrician Ohio Steel Company;
1902 to 1906, Electrical Superintendent Ohio Works, National
Steel Company ; 1907 to date, Electrical Engineer Indiana Steel
Company, Gary, Ind. Mr. Shover was given the degree of M.S.
from Rose in 1895. Member of the A. I. E. E. Mr. Shover's
most important work has been planning and installing the
electrical plant for the transmission of electric power at the
Gary plant of the Indiana Steel Company, the largest plant of
this kind in the world.

59. Thompson, Ralph Fowler. 1890.

Entered the Institute in 1886 from Bradford, 111., at the age of
19; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1890.
After graduation served with the Edison Electric Company of
Chicago until 1892, and removed to Montana, where he remained
from i8q2 to 1896 as Electrical Engineer in Marysville and
Helena. From 1896 to 1899 he served as Superintendent of the
Electric Light and Waterworks at Alexandria, La. There is no
record at the Institute of Mr. Thompson's location or work after
this date.

60. Thurston, Edward Chase. 1890.

Entered the Institute in March, 1883, from Indianapolis, at the
age of 16. Withdrew from the Institute in October. Reentered
in September, 1886, and graduated from the Mechanical Engi-
neering Course in 1890. After graduation entered the firm of
Moore & Thurston, operating an electrical plant and manufac-
turing chain pumps at Rockville, Ind. In 1892 was with the firm
of W. A. Fulwider & Co., operating planing mills in Bloom-
ington, Ind. In 1893 entered as draftsman with the Brown &
Sharpe Manufacturing Company, Providence, R. I. No response
has been received from him after 1897.

61. Tsuji Taro. 1890.

Entered the Institute in 1888 from Tokio, Japan, at the age of
19; graduated in Civil Engineering Course in 1890. After grad-
uation became Assistant Engineer with the firm of Waddell &
Hedrick on the Pacific Short Line Bridge in Sioux City, la. In
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1901 he returned to Japan and became Civil Engineer in gov-
ernment service. In 1903 became Engineer of the Imperial Gov-
ernment Railroads in the Ministry of Communications. In 1908
was given the entire charge of government railways. Received
degree of M.S. in 1892 and C.E. in 1896, both from Rose. Is
married. Mr. Tsuji had charge of the military railway con-
struction during the Russian-Japanese War. He has retained
all his interests in Rose, and has attained a high position in
government service.

62. Balsley, Abe. 1891.

Entered the Institute in 1887 from Bedford, Ind., at the age of
22, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1891.
From 1891 to 1893, Expert Department General Electric Com-
pany, Lynn, Mass. ; 1893 to 1894. Ship Electrician United States
and Brazil Mail Steamship Company, New York; 1894 ^^ 1896,
Superintendent Seymour Ice and Light Company, Seymour,
Ind. : 1896 to 1901, Chigf Electrician and Superintendent of
Lighting. Terre Haute; 1901 to 1903, Operating Superintendent
Lachine Rapids Hydraulic and Land Company, Montreal ; 1903
to 1905, Electrical Engineer Georgia Railway and Electric Com-
pany, Atlanta. Ga. ; 1905 to 1907, Superintendent of Motive
Power, Sao Paulo Tramway, Light and Power Company, Brazil,
S. A. : 1908, special work, examinations and reports on electric
properties ; 1909, with the Edison Company, Chicago, Operating
Engineer's Department. Mr. Balsley was given the degree of
M.S. from Rose in 1904. Is associate member of A. I. E. E.
and associate member of C. S. C. E. Some of his most impor-
tant work is in connection with large water power and trans-
mission systems, street railway systems, and car installation
work. Mr. Balsley spent a year and a half in Brazil, S. A., and
spent some months traveling in Europe. Was married in 1900
in Indianapolis.

63. BOEIIM, WlI.LTAM H. T89I.

Entered the Institute in September, 1887, from Memphis, Tenn.,
at the age of 19, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering
Course in 1891. From the time of graduating to 1893 was a
graduate student at Cornell University. From 1893 to 1897 was
Mechanical Engineer and Draftsman, Chickasaw Iron Works,
Memphis, and St. Louis Water Works, St. Louis, and Instructor
in Mechanical Engineering, Washington LTniversity. From 1897
to 1901, Professor of Engineering and Director of Engineering

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School, Clemson College, the State College of South Carolina.
From 1901 to date, Superintendent Steam Boiler and Fly Wheel
Department, Fidelity and Casualty Company, New York. Mr.
Boehm was granted the degree of M.M.E. in 1893 from Cornell.
Is a member of the A. S. M. E. Was married September 20,
1897. Mr. Boehm's more important work has been machine and
steam engine designing and the organizing and establishing of
a Fly-wheel Insurance Department. His publication on "Fly-
wheel Fractures" is authoritative. Commencement speaker in
1900.

64. Bt^CKLEv, Frederick James. 1891.

Entered the Institute in 1888 from Kalamazoo, Mich., at the age
of 21, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1891. From 1891 to 1901 was Mechanical and Electrical Man-
ager for the Buckley Electric and Manufacturing Company,
Kalamazoo. In 1903, Secretary and Manager for the Buckley
Electric and Manufacturing Company. In 1904, President and
Manager of the Kalamazoo Foundry and Machine Company,
Kalamazoo, which position he holds to date.

65. Carothers, George Robert. 1891.

Entered the Institute in 1888, and graduated in Mechanical
Engineering in 1891. In 1892 was Instructor in Drawing and
Superintendent of Shops, Manual Training School, Honolulu.
From 1893 to 1896, Director Manual Training Department,
Public Schools, Tacoma, Wash. From 1896 to 1899, Principal
Lowell Manual Training School, Lowell, Mass. In 1899, with
William Sellers & Co., Philadelphia. No further record of Mr.
Carothers has been received at the Institute.

66. Cox, John Strain. 1891.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, Ind., in 1886, at the age
of 16, and graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1891. In 1892 was Assistant Superintendent of the Terre
Haute Car and Manufacturing Company, Terre Haute. From
1893 to 1896, Secretary of the Terre Haute Car and Manufac-
turing Company, Terre Haute. From 1896 to 1901, Superin-
tendent of the Terre Haute Car and Manufacturing Company,
Terre Haute. From 1902 to date, President of the Terre Haute
Automobile Company. Mr. Cox was married in Terre Haute,
Ind., in 1892.

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67. GiLLETT, Vernor John. 1891.

Entered the Institute from Eckford, Mich., in 1887, at the age
of 18; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1891.
In 1892 was with Frank B. Race, Electrical Engineer, Detroit,
Mich. In 1893 was Assistant Manager with Frank B. Race.
From 1894 to 1897 was with the firm of Cameron & Gillett, Con-
tractors, Detroit. From 1898 to 1900, Superintendent of the
Detroit Galvanizing and Sheet Metal Works, Detroit. In 1901
with the DeLaval Separator Company, Eckford, Mich. In 1902,
Editor of the Calhoun County Farmer. From 1903 to 1906,
Advertising Manager of the Phosphite Ford Company, Detroit.
From 1907 to date. Assistant Engineer American Electromobile
Company, Detroit Mich. Mr. Gillett was married in Terre
Haute, Ind.

68. Harper, Joseph Durfee. 1891.

Entered the Institute from Durango, Col., in 1888, at the age of
21, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1891.
In 1892 was with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, Cin-
cinnati, O. From 1894 to 1896, of the firm of Harper & Harper,
Civil and Mining Engineers, Durango, Col. From 1896 to 1899,
Instructor in Civil Engineering at the Rose Polytechnic Insti-
tute. From 1899 to 1901, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
and Director of Shops, Kansas « Agricultural and Mechanical
College, Manhattan, Kan. From 1901 to 1907, Assistant Man-
ager Fairbanks, Morse & Co., St. Louis. From 1908 to date,
President of the Texas Machinery and Supply Company, Dallas,
Tex. Mr. Harper was granted the degree of M.S. in 1897 from
Rose. For the last few years he has given much attention to
the development and introduction of producer gas and oil
engines, for high-grade power purposes, electric light and power
installations, waterworks plants, refrigeration equipment, and all
having internal combustion engines as the prime mover. Mr.
Harper was married at Fort Wayne, Ind., November 17, 1897.

69. Harris, William Herschel. 1891.

Entered the Institute in 1887. at the age of 17, and graduated
in the Civil Engineering Course in 1891. In 1892 was Assistant
Draftsman for the American Terra Cotta Company, Chicago.
From 1895 to 1900 was County Surveyor, Terre Haute, Ind.
From 1900 to date has been engaged in general construction
work as a Contractor, building pike roads, paving brick streets,

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and is now putting in a sanitary sewerage system for the city
of Bloomington, Ind. Mr. Harris was married in Brazil, Ind.,
in 1905.

70. HuPE, Alexander Louis. 1891.

Entered the Institute from Louisville, Ky., in 1887, at the age
of 16, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1891. In 1892 was a graduate student at Cornell University. In
1893, Draftsman for L., St. L. & T. H. R. R. Co., Louisville, Ky.
In 189s, with Herman Meth, Consulting Engineer, Louisville.
From 1896 to 1898, Draftsman with Louisville Bridge and Iron
Company. From 1898 to 1901, Assistant Engineer for the Louis-
ville Bridge and Iron Company; 1903, Chief Draftsman for the
Louisville Bridge and Iron Company; 1907, Assistant Engineer
for the Louisville Bridge and Iron Company; 1908 to date,
Assistant Engineer Louisville Water Company, Louisville, Ky.

71. HuRLBERT, Frank Wymond. 1891.

Entered the Institute from Aurora, Ind., in 1887, at the age of
17, and graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1891. In 1892 and 1893 was Electrician with the Detroit Electric
Wiorks, Detroit, Mich. In 1894 was Assistant Superintendent
of the Detroit Citizens' Street Railway Company, Detroit. In
1895, Railway Expert, with the Brush Electric Company, Cleve-
land, O. In 1896, Assistant Engineer with Gilbert Wilkes, Con-
sulting Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, Detroit. In 1897,
with the General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. From
1898 to 1903, Engineer in the Railway Engineering Department,
General Electric Company, Schenectady. From 1903 to date,
Engineer in Foreign Department, General Electric Company,
New York City, N. Y.

y2. Jones, Horace Benemen. 1891.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, Ind., in 1887, at the
age of 17, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1891. In 1893 with the Premier Steel Works, Indianapolis,
Ind. In 1895 with Herbert Foltz, Architect, Indianapolis. From
1896 to 1899, Mechanical Draftsman, Indianapolis. In 1901 with
G. H. Patterson, Mining Engineer, Terre Haute. In 1905 with
the B. & O. R. R. Co., Cincinnati, O. Since 1905 no record has
been received.

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73. McCabe, Eugene Francis. 1891.

Entered the Institute from Renovo, Pa., in 1887, at the age of
22; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1891.
In 1892 and 1893 with the Snead & Co. Iron Works, Louisville,
Ky. From 1894 to 1896 with the General Electric Company,
Schenectady, N. Y. ; 1896 to 1902, Superintendent Electric and
Gas Properties in Chatham, N. Y. From 1902 to date. General
Manager and Vice-President Mifflin County Gas and Electric
Company, Lewistown, Pa. Is a member of the A. I. E. E.,
A. G. I., N. E. L. A., and Pennsylvania Electric Association.
Some of the more important works engaged upon were Super-
intendent of the iron construction on the Congressional Library
at Washington, and the designing and construction of several
gas and electric plants. Was married in Renovo, Pa., in 1896.

74. McCoRMicK, Robert Lee. 1891.

Entered the Institute from Charlestown, Ind., in 1888, from
Indiana University, at the age of 21, and graduated in the Civil
Engineering Course in 1891. Since his graduation he has been
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering at
the Rose Polytechnic Institute. Was granted degree of M.S.
in 1906 and C.E. in 1907, both from Rose. Is a member of the
A. Ry. E. and M. W. A. Mr. McCormick was married in Terre
Haute, Ind., in 1894. Mr. McCormick has done a considerable
amount of engineering work outside of his work as Professor
in the Institute. In 1890 was with the United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey in primary triangulation. In the summer of
1892 Engineer for the Bedford Belt Railroad. In 1896 in the
City Engineer's office, Terre Haute. In 1897 took advanced
mathematical work in University of Chicago. In 1899 and 1902
engineering work on West Side Elevated Railroad, Chicago. In
1901 in the Pittsburg Testing Laboratory, and later with the
firm of Condron & Sinks. Among other things, he has designed
a reinforced concrete arch. He also had charge of the engineer-
ing work in a group of mines in districts surrounding Terre
Haute. Mr. McCormick was President of the Rose Alumni
Association in igoo, 1903, and 1904.

75. Menden, Wiluam Stevens. 1891.

Entered the Institute in 1887 from Evansville, Ind., aged 18
years, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1891.
From 1892 to 1905 was with the Metropolitan West Side Ele-

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vated Railway Company as Assistant Engineer, Chief Engineer,
and General Superintendent. From 1905 to date, Chief Engi-
neer, General Superintendent, and Assistant General Manager
of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, Brooklyn, N. Y. Is
a member of the A. S. C. E. For eighteen years he has given
his attention to rapid transit problems in large cities, and has
achieved distinction.

y6. Mewhinney, Omar. 1891.

Entered the Institute in 1887 from Terre Haute at the age of
16, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1891. After graduation was made Vice-President of the A. B.
Mewhinney Company, which position he has held to date. He
was married in Nebraska City, Neb., in 1900. His special work
has been the designing of candy machinery, and in improving
and building up of the candy manufacturing business established
by his father in 1874.

yy. Paige, William Robert. 1891.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, Ind., in 1887, aj the
age of 18, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1891. In 1892 was Assistant City Engineer of Terre Haute.
In 1893 with J. Pitzman's Company of Surveyors and Civil
Engineers, St. Louis, Mo. In 1895 Assistant City Engineer,
Terre Haute. From 1899 to 1901 Civil Engineer, Terre Haute.
In 1901 Surveyor of Vigo County, Ind. From 1904 to date.
Civil Engineer and Surveyor, Terre Haute.

78. Wales, Samuel Sigourney. 1891.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, Ind., in 1887, at the
age of 16, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1891. In 1891 and 1892 took a post-graduate course at the
Institute, and for three months in 1892 was a student with the
Thomson-Houston Electric Company. In 1892 was in the test-
ing laboratory of the Westinghouse Electric Company, Pitts-
burg. In 1893 with the Homestead Steel Works as Motor
Inspector. In 1894 Superintendent Electrical Department of the
Ohio Steel Works, Youngstown, O. In 1899 Superintendent of
the Electrical Department, Homestead Steel Works, and from
1905 to date Superintendent of Armor Plate Department. Was
granted degree of M.S. in 1902 and of E-E. in 1905, both from
Rose. Is a member of the A. I. E. E. Mr. Wales has devel-

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oped a special alloy steel, for use in protective deck plate for
battleships, with a ballistic value too per cent, above nickel steel.
Married. Commencement speaker in 1902.

79. BixBY, Allan Smith. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Grand View, III., in 1888, at the age
of 18, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1892. In 17892 and 1893 was Draftsman for the Ewart Manu-
facturing Company, Indianapolis, Ind. In 1894 Foreman in the
Mechanical and Pattern Department. In 1895 Superintendent
of the Metallic Manufacturing Company. One year designing
small tools and appliances, Ben Hur Cycle Company. In 1902
Superintendent of the National Malleable Castings Company,
Indianapolis, which position he occupies to date. Mr. Bixby is
a member of the A. S. M. E. and the A. S. for T. M.

80. BoYLEs, Thomas Dickinson. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Riverside, 111., in 1888, at the age of
18, graduating in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1892.
In 1892 with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company, Lynn,
Mass. From 1895 to 1897 with the General Electric Company,
Schenectady, N. Y. From 1897 to 1899 in Railway Engineering
Department of the General Electric Company. In 1899 in the
Switchboard Engineering Department, and in 1900 was Assist-
ant Engineer for the company. Mr. Boyles was married in 1901,
and died November 30, 1901, in Schenectady, after a brief but
painful illness, in the midst of a promising career.

81. Davis, William J., Jr. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Louisville, Ky., in 1888, at the age
of 20, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1892. In 1892 with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company,
Lynn, Mass. In 1894 was a member of the firm of Davis & Cox,
Electrical and Mechanical Engineers and Contractors, Louis-
ville, Ky. From 1895 to 1899 in the Engineering Department of
the General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. From 1899
to 1908 Electrical Engineer in Railway Engineering Depart-
ment, General Electric Company. In July, 1908, was made
Engineer Pacific Coast DisfVict, General Electric Company, San
Francisco, Cal. Mr. Davis was granted degree of M.S. in 1895
from Rose. Was President of Alumni Association in 1893 and
Secretary-Treasurer in 1892.

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82. Dietrich, Arthur Maximilian. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Kansas City, Mo., in 1888, at the age
of 17, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1892. From July, 1892, to September, 1893, Erecting Engineer
American Linseed Company, Kansas City, Mo. From Septem-
ber, 1893, to September, 1894, Superintendent Dillon Cement
Plaster Works, Kansas City. From September, 1894, to May i,
1901, Assistant Superintendent American Linseed Company.
From May. 1901, to September, 1905, Secretary and Manager
American Fly Paper Company, and from September, 1905, to
date Superintendent Baker Castor Oil Company, Jersey City,
N. J. Mr. Dietrich was married April 25, 1894.

83. Ehrsam, William John. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Enterprise, Kan., in 1888, at the age
of 17, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1892. From 1893 to 1897 was in charge of the Drafting Depart-
ment of the J. B. Ehrsam Machine Company, Enterprise, Kan.
From 1897 to 1901 of the firm of J. B. Ehrsam & Sons Machine
Company. From 1903 to date Secretary and Treasurer of the
same.

84. Fogarty, William James. 1892,

Entered the Institute from Dayton, Ohio, in 1888, at the age
of 19; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1892. From 1893 to 1896 was Draftsman and Foreman with the
Connersville Blower Company, Connersville, Ind. From 1897
to 1899 Superintendent Cambridge City Punch, Shear and Roll
Company. From 1899 to 1905 Superintendent and Vice-Presi-
dent and Manager Magnetite Foundry Company, St. Louis, Mo.
From 1905 to the present time Foreman Foundry Department,
Barney & Smith Car Company, Dayton, Ohio. Was granted
degree of M.S. in 1897 from Rose. Mr. Fogarty was married
in 1902.

85. FoLSOM, Edsox Fessenden. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Indianapolis, Ind., in 1888, at the
age of 18, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1892. In 1893 was graduate student at Cornell University
and Inspector Mechanical Department World's Columbian Fair.
From 1895 to 1897 was in the lumber and mill business in
Indianapolis. From 1897 to 1903 with Brown-Ketcham Iron

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Works, Indianapolis. On the death of his father he took up his
business. From 1904 to 1908 Special Agent for Massachusetts
Mutual Life Insurance Company. From 1908 to date General
Agent for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company,
Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. Folsom was granted degree of M.M.E.
in 1893 from Cornell University. Was married in Indianapolis
June 20, 1900. Mr. Folsom has given much time to the further-
ing of the Institute's interests, representing the Alumni as Com-
mencement orator in 1904.

86. Frank, Sigmund S. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, Ind., in 1887, at the
age of 18, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1892. In 1893 was in the Electrical Engineering Department
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago. In 1894 with Geo. E.
Lloyd & Co., Manufacturers of Machinery, Chicago. In 1895
Electric Light Inspector Chicago Fire Department. From 1896
to 1898 with the Edison Illuminating Company, St. Louis, Mo.
From 1898 to 1901 with the Western Electric Company, Chicago.

1901 Manager H. Krantz Manufacturing Company, Brooklyn.

1902 with Geo. A. Fuller Company, New York. 1903 Engineer
Mechanical Department Geo. A. Fuller Company. From 1905
to 1906 with Stanley Electric Manufacturing Company, Pitts-
field, Mass. From 1907 to the present time with L. K. Comstock
& Co., Contracting Engineers, New York City.

87. HusseY, Warren. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, Ind., in 1888, at the
age of 16, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1892. In 1893 with the Sand and Mortar Company, Wau-
kegan. 111. In 1894 of the firm of Condit & Hussey, Chicago, 111.
From 1896 to 1901 in the National State Bank, Terre Haute.
From 1904 Cashier of the Terre Haute National Bank, until in
1908 he was compelled to take a leave of absence on account of
health. Mr. Hussey was married in Terre Haute, Ind.

88. Laux, Ernst Carl. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Los Angeles, Cal., in 1888, at the
age of 16. and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1892. From 1893 to 1895 was with the Westinghouse Electric
Company, Pittsburg, Pa. Ne report has been rceived at the
Institute from Mr. Laux since 1895.

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89. Layman, Waldo Arnold. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1888, at the age of
18, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1892. Entered the service of Wagner Electric Manufacturing
Company in September, 1892, and served as Draftsman and
Assistant in Testing Department for two years, Assistant Super-
intendent four years. Assistant General Manager two years,
Assistant General Manager and Treasurer two years. General
Manager five years, and First Vice-President and General Man-
ager to date. Mr. Layman was granted degree of M.S. in 1894
and degree of E.E. in 1899, both from Rose. Is a member of
the A. I. E.E. and associate member of the B.I.E.E.. Also is
a member of several other St. Louis clubs. Was married June
8, 1896, at Richmond, Ind. He served on the Board of Man-
agers from 1901 to 1904, and was Commencement speaker in
1892. He was one of the founders of the RosE Technic, estab-
lished in 1891, and is always active in Institute life.

90. Oglesby, Milton Landis. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1888, at the
age of 17, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1892. From 1893 to 1895 was in the service of R. H. Officer
& Co., Assayers, Salt Lake City. In 1895 was with the Salt
Lake and Ogden Gas and Electric Light Company, Salt Lake
City. From 1896 to 1898 Superintendent Emerald Mining Com-
pany, Mammoth, Utah. From 1898 to 1901 Superintendent
Emerald and Annandale Mining Companies, Robinson. Utah.
From 1906 to date Mechanical and Mining Engineer of Oglesby
& Oglesby, Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. Oglesby was granted
degree of M.S. in 1895 from Rose.

91. Ott, Claude. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Rockville, Ind., in 1888, at the age
of 18, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1892. From 1893 to 1895 in Expert Department General Electric
Company, Schenectady, N. Y. From 1895 to 1898 County Sur-
veyor, Rockville, Ind. From 1898 to 1900 Assistant Engineer
on Construction of the Chihuahua & Pacific Railroad. In 1900
Resident Engineer and Division Engineer on Construction of
El Paso & Southwestern Railroad. In 1903 Locating Engineer
for St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company on various
lines in Arkansas and Louisiana. In 1906 Assistant Chief Engi-

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neer on Construction of Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction
Company, Rushville, Ind. Afterward Chief Engineer of Con-
struction of the Salsich Branch of Tacoma Eastern Railroad.
Was married in Rockville, Ind., in 1903.

92. Putnam, Benjamin Risley. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Davenport, Iowa, in 1889, at the age
of 18, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1892. In 1893 was a graduate student in mining at Columbia
. College, New York. From 1894 to 1897 Chemist with the Illi-
nois Steel Company, South Chicago. In 1897 Chemist Columbia
Land and Improvement Company, Victoria, B. C In 1898
Chemist Montana Ore Purchasing Company, Butte, Mont.
From 1900 to 1906 Head Assayer for Montana Ore Purchasing
Company. In 1906 Smelter Superintendent for Bingham Con-
solidated M. & S. Co., West Jordan, Utah. From 1907 to date
Metallurgical Chemist of Dozier & Putnam Company, Chemists
and Engineers, Redding, Cal. Mr. Putnam was granted degree
of M.A. in 1893 from Columbia College. Was married in June,
1907.

93. Rock, Samuei. Moorehead. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Latrobe, Pa., in 1888, at the age of
19; graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1892.
In 1892 Assistant to Master Mechanic Homestead Steel Works,
Munhall, Pa. From 1893 to 1896 Draftsman with the Carnegie
Steel Company, Homestead, Pa. In 1896 Engineer United
States Revenue Cutter Service on Pacific Coast. 1900, Assistant
Engineer United States Revenue Cutter Service, which position
he holds to date. His most important work has been the inspec-
tion and installation of steam machinery in vessels of Revenue
Cutter Service. Was an officer in the United States Navy
during the Spanish-American War, and has traveled extensively,
having made several trips to Alaska and one extending into the
Arctic Ocean. Mr. Rock was married June 24, 1896, in Home-
stead, Pa.

94. Rose, Luther S. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Springfield, Ohio, in 1889, at the age
of 20, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1892.
After graduation he was Rodman and Assistant Engineer for
the C. C. C. & St. L. Railroad until the fall of 1895. Was Road-

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master of the Central Vermont Railroad from 1895 to the spring
of 1896. From 1896 to 1897 was Assistant Engineer of the
C. C. C. & St. L. Railroad. In 1897 was Supervisor of Track
until September, 1899, and from that time to June, 1907, was
Engineer Maintenance of Way C. C. C. & St. L. Railroad Com-
pany at Mattoon, 111. From June, 1907, to date has been Signal
Engineer C. C. C. & St. L. Railroad, Cincinnati, Ohio. Is a
member of the American Railway Engineers' and Maintenance
of Way Association. Mr. Rose was married in Springfield,
Ohio. He was in the Sandford powder explosion at Sandford,
Ind., two years ago, but. though seriously injured, is now as
hale and hearty as ever.

95. Sperry, Herbert Bell. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Malone, N. Y., in 1888, at the age
of 21 ; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1892.
After graduation he accepted a position with the Walter A.
Wood Harvester Company, of Minneapolis, Minn. From 1895
to 1898 Draftsman for the St. Albans Foundry and Machine
Company, of St. Albans, Vt. From 1898 to 1907 with the Inter-
national Harvester Company as Designer. Chief Draftsman and
Superintendent of Experiments. From 1907 to the present
with the Dain Manufacturing Company, of Ottumwa, Iowa.
While with the International Harvester Company Mr. Sperry
obtained a number of patents for improvements in machinery
built by them, and was awarded a medal and diploma by the
jury of awards of the St. Louis Exposition for work in col-
laboration with the International Harvester Company. Mr.
Sperry was married in Terre Haute, Ind.

96. TiNSLEY, Samuel B. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Louisville, Ky., in 1888, at the age of
21, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1892. In
1893 was a graduate student and Instructor in Civil Engineering
at Rose Polytechnic Institute and later was with the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey on Alaskan botmdary. From
1895 to the present time Professor of Mathematics in Male High
School, Louisville, Ky. Is a member of the Engineers' and
Architects' Club of Louisville. While connected with the Gov-
ernment on the Alaskan Boundary Survey Mr. Tinsley had
charge of one triangulation party. "U'as married June 30, 1896,
in Louisville. Kv.

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97. Tippy, Bruce Oren. 1892.

Entered the Institute from New Carlisle, Ind., in 1888, at the
age of 21, and graduated from the Mechanical Engineering
Course in 1892. From 1892 to 1898 Engineer Grand Rapids Gas
Works, Grand Rapids, Mich. In 1898 Engineer Detroit City
Gas Company, Detroit, Mich. From 1903 to 1904 Superin-
tendent of Manufacture, Detroit. From 1907 to the present
time Vice-President and General Manager Grand Rapids Gas
Lighting Company, Grand Rapids, Mich., and Consulting Gas
Engineer.

98. Wetherbee, Harry Luther. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Marshalltown, Iowa, in 1888, at the
age of 19; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1892. In 1893 was Instructor in Wood Shop Santee Normal
Training School, Santee Agency, Neb. From 1894 to 1901
farmer. In 1901 Draftsman Charter Gas Engine Company,
Sterling, 111., and the latter part of that year became Draftsman
for the Fairbanks-Morse Company, Beloit, Wis. From 1903 to
1905 Draftsman Berlin Machine Works, Beloit. In 1906 with
the Olds Gas Power Company, Lansing, Mich. From 1907 to
date with the Illinois Steel Company, South Chicago, 111. Mr.
Wetherbee was married August 30, 1902.

99. WicKHAM, Walter Morse. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Huron, Ohio, in 1888, at the age of
16, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1892. In 1893 with the Kilby Manufacturing Company, Cleve-
land, Ohio. From 1894 to 1896 Draftsman for the Johnson
Company, Lorain, Ohio. In 1897 Draftsman for the McCord
Tube Company, Beaver Falls, Pa. In 1898 Draftsman Carnegie
Steel Company, Pittsburg. In 1899 Draftsman in the Copper
Mills of C. G. Hussey, Pittsburg. In 1900 Draftsman Lacka-
wanna Iron and Steel Company, Scranton. In 1901 Chief
Draftsman Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company, Buffalo. In
1902 and 1903 Engineer Blast Furnace Lackawanna Steel Com-
pany, Buffalo. From 1904 to 1906 Draftsman and Engineer
Semet Solvay Company, Syracuse, N. Y. From 1906 to 1909
Chief Draftsman with the Indiana Steel Company, Gary, Ind.,
which position he resigned. His present address is 6215 Wash-
ington Avenue, Chicago. Mr. Wickham has written several
articles for engineering magazines.

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TOO. Wicks, Albert Wood. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Areola, 111., in 1888, at the age of 17;
graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1892.
In 1893 was in the Mechanical Department World's Columbian
Exposition, Chicago. From 1894 to 1899 with Hyde Park Elec-
tric Company, Chicago. From 1899 to 1901 in Southern District
Offices Commonwealth Electric Company, Chicago. In 1903
Contract Agent for Chicago Edison Company, Chicago. In
1904 Manager of Chicago office The Electric Machinery Com-
pany, Chicago. In 1907 General Manager Economy Light, Fuel
and Power Company, Lockport, N. Y. From 1908 to date with
Power and Mining Department General Electric Company, Chi-
cago, 111. Mr. Wicks was married November 7, 1901.

loi. Wilson, Robert Lee. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Shelbyville, 111., in 1888, at the age
of 18, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1892. In 1893 in Expert Department General Electric Company,
Schenectady, N. Y. In 1894 graduate student Johns Hopkins
University. From 1895 to 1898 with the Westinghouse Electric
Company, Pittsburg. From 1898 to 1901 Electric Engineer
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Pittsburg.
In 1902 Resident Engineer Westinghouse Electric and Manufac-
turing Company, New York. 1904, Superintendent of Construc-
tion Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Pitts-
burg. From 1905 to the present is Superintendent of Railway
Construction Westinghouse Electric Company. Mr. Wilson
was married in 1901. He has had charge of the installation and
erection of some of the largest plants, notably the plants of the
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, New York City Railway,
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. Also the electrification of
the N. Y., N. H. & H. Railway and the St. Clair Tunnel.

102. Wood, George Roy. 1892.

Born at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, July 29, 1872. Entered in 1888;
graduated in Mechanical Engineering Course in 1892. Took
graduate course in Civil Engineering at Rose in 1893. In 1894
with the Cleveland, Loraine & Wheeling Railroad Company,
Martin's Ferry. From 1895 to 1899 with the General Electric
Company in the Mining Department, successively as Assistant
to Construction Foreman, Construction Foreman, and Sales
Engineer. During this time, located at Pittsburg, represented

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the Philadelphia office of the company. His work has been
along the line of the application of electricity to mining work.
Some of the largest plants in the country were installed by
him. From 1899 to 1902 Superintendent of Electrical Equipment
Pittsburg Coal Company, Pittsburg, Pa. From 1903 to date
Consulting Electrical and Mining Engineer. Is a member of the
A. I. E. E., A. I. M. E., The Franklin Institute, the N. G. S.,
associate member of A. S. C. E-, also a member of the Uni-
versity Club of Pittsburg.

103. Young, Charles James. 1892.

Entered the Institute from Davenport, Iowa, in 1889, at the
age of 19, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1892. In 1893 in the Drafting Department E. P. Allis Com-
pany, Milwaukee, Wis. In 1894 was a graduate student at
Cornell University. From 1895 to 1898 Manager of the People's
Lighting Company, Davenport. From 1898 to 1902 Manager of
the People's Lighting Company, Davenport, and Superintendent
People's Power Company's station, Moline, 111. 1902 with the
Woodward Governor Company, Rockford, 111. 1903 Secretary
and Treasurer of the Woodward Governor Company. From
1904 to 1906 General Superintendent of the Saginaw-Bay City
Railway and Light Company, Saginaw, Mich. In 1907 Depart-
ment Sales Manager Cooper, Hewitt Lamp Company, Chicago,
and to date traveling Construction Engineer.

104. Albert, Clifford Edmund. 1893.

Born January 13, 1872, at Cincinnati, Ohio. Entered the Insti-
tute in 1889; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1893. From 1893 to 1896 with Branham, Gest & Co., General
Contractors, Cincinnati. From 1896 to date with the United
States Playing Card Company, also the United States Printing
Company, from 1906 to date, as General Accountant. Mr.
Albert was married in 1899 3t Cincinnati, Ohio.

105. Albert, Walter Henry. 1893.

Born August 17, 1870, at Cincinnati, Ohio. Entered in 1889,
and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1893.
From 1894 to 1900 was Accountant. From 1900 to 1901 Sec-
retary of the Barron-Boyle Company. Cincinnati, Ohio, and
from 1902-4 Vice-President and Secretary. From 1905-6 Spe-
cial Examiner the Adams Express Company. From 1907 to
date Assistant Treasurer the Adams Express Company, Sec-

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retary and Treasurer the Morris European and American Ex-
press Company, Treasurer Hollywood Hotel and Cottage Com-
pany, Treasurer Dodd & Childs' Express Company, New York
City. Married December 31. 1901, at McKeesport, Pa.

106. Allen, Burgess F. 1893.

Entered the Institute from Otter Creek Junction, Ind.. in 1889,
at the age of 21, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering
Course in 1893. In 1894 was Artist and Designer, Indianapolis.
In 1895 of Allen Bros., Monumental Architects and Designers,
Indianapolis. From 1903 to 1905, B. F. Allen, Designer. Indi-
anapolis, and in December. 1905, died in Indianapolis.

T07. Becker, Maurice Emil. 1893.

Entered the Institute from Connersville, Ind., in 1886, aged 18;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1893. From
1894 to 1905 Draftsman for the Connersville Blower Company,
Connersville. 1905 and 1906 Draftsman for the Piqua Foundry
and Machine Company, Piqua. Ohio. From 1907 to date Engi-
neer Piqua Foundry and Machine Company, Piqua, Ohio.

108. Dale, James. 1893.

Entered the Institute from Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1890, at the age
of 24; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1893.
In 1893 and 1894 selling and installing light and power plants,
Cincinnati. In 1895 with the National Cash Register Company,
Dayton, Ohio. In 1896 Salesman for the National Cash Register
Company, Minneapolis, Minn. 1897 to 1898 in the bicycle busi-
ness in Denver, Col. From 1899 to 1901 Salesman Hallwood
Cash Register Company, Minneapolis, Minn. From 1902 to 1905
Sales Agent for the Hallwood Cash Register Company, Indi-
anapolis, Ind. From 1906 to 1908 Office Manager National Cash
Register Company, Cleveland. Is now Office Manager of the
National Cash Register Company at Detroit, Mich. Mr. Dale
was married in Alinneapolis April i, 1899.

109. Hart, Harry Stillson. 1893.

Entered the Institute from Clinton, Iowa, in 1889, at the age of
19, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1893.
In 1894 was connected with the Siemens & Halske Electric
Company, Chicago. From 1895 to 1897 with the Fostoria Car-
bon Company, Fostoria, Ohio. From 1897 to 1899 with the

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Crouse-Tremaine Carbon Company. In 1899 with the Rodger
Ballast Car Company. From 1900 to 1901 Secretary and Treas-
urer of the Rodger Ballast Car Company. In 1902 and 1903
Vice-President of the Rodger Ballast Car Company. In 1904
was made President of the Rodger Ballast Car Company, which
position he still holds. Is also President of the National Dump
Car Company, Chicago, 111., and the Hart-Otis Car Company,
Canada. Mr. Hart holds a number of patents on hopper steel
car construction and on convertible types of cars.

1 10. Hood, Arthur Merrill. 1893.

Entered the Institute from Indianapolis, Ind., in 1889, at the
age of 17. and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1893. From 1894 to 1896 Fourth Assistant Examiner United
States Patent Office, Washington, D. C. From 1896 to 1898
junior member of H. P. Hood & Son, Patent Attorneys, Indi-
anapolis, Ind. From 1898 to 1902 Patent Attorney, Indianapolis.
From 1902 to the present time of the firm of Bradford & Hood,
Patent and Trademark Attorneys. Indianapolis, Ind. Was
given the degree of LL.B. from Columbian University in 1895,
and the degree of M.S. from Rose in 1898. Is a member of the
bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Supreme
Court of Indiana. Was married April 16, 1895, in Washington,
D. C. At the time Mr. Hood was examined for the Patent
Office service he was the only one of seven candidates who
passed. He has been Secretary-Treasurer of the Alumni Asso-
ciation from 1906 to date, and also represents the Alumni on
the Board of Managers.

111. HUTHSTEINER, RoBERT EdWARD. 1893.

Entered the Institute from Tell City, Ind., in 1889, at the age
of 17, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1893. Tn 1894 was Private Assistant to Professor Gray at the
Rose Pol5i:echnic Instititte. From 1895 to 1897 Engineer in the
Ice Factory. Tell City, Ind. From 1898 Erecting Engineer
Frick Company, Waynesboro, Pa. From 1898 to 1903 with the
General Electric Company in the Switchboard Department,
Schenectady, N. Y. In 1903 Assistant Manager Switchboard
Department General Electric Company. From 1908 to date
Manager of the El Paso Ice and Refrigerator Company, El
Paso, Tex. Is a member of the A. I. E. E. and Society of
Engineers of Eastern New York. Was married September 19,
1894.

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112. JOHANNESEN, SvEND EmANUEL. 1893.

Entered from Erie, Pa., in 1889, age 23; graduated in the Civil
Engineering Course in 1893. From 1893 to 1895 was Engineer
in the Testing Department and from 1895 to 1902 Engineer in
charge of Transformer Department Wagner Electric Manufac-
turing Company, St. Louis, Mo. From 1902 to 1906 Section
Engineer in charge of Air Blast and Railway Transformer
Department Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Com-
pany, Pittsburg. From 1906 to the present time Engineer in
charge of Commercial Transformer Department General Elec-
tric Company, Pittsfield, Mass. Was granted degree of M.S. in
1895 and E.E. in 1898 from Rose. Is a member of the
A. I. E. E. Has written several articles for technical publica-
tions. Was married in Terre Haute June 5, 1895. Was one of
the organizers of the first Rose Orchestra.

113. JoHONNOTT, Edwin Sheldon, Jr. 1893.

Born Richmond, 111., November 9, 1869. Entered the Institute
in 1887 ; in 1889 withdrew because of defective eyesight ; re-
entered in 1891 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1893. Was Assistant Examiner jn the Patent Office in 1893.
In 1894 Professor of Mathematics Drury College. In 1895
graduate student Johns Hopkins University. 1896 graduate
student Chicago University, and in 1897-99 Fellow in Physics
University of Chicago. From 1899 to date Associate Professor
of Physics Rose Pol)i;echnic Institute. Was granted degree of
M.S. in 1897 from Rose, and Ph.D. from Chicago in 1898.
Member of American Physical Society' and A. A. A. S. Pub-
lished articles are "Thin Liquid Films," in Philosophical Maga-
zine, June, 1899, and June, 1904, and "Alternating Currents," in
Physical Review and Electrical World and Engineer, 1904.
Was married August 22, 1900. Commencement speaker, 1899.

114. Klotz, August Henry. 1893.

Entered the Institute from Sandusky, Ohio, in 1880, at the age
of 21, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1893. From 1894 to 1900 with the George Feick Company,
Architects and Builders, Sandusky, Ohio. From 1900 to 1903
Managing Owner of the Klotz & Kromer Machine Company,
Sandusky, Ohio. From 1904 to date Proprietor of the Klotz
Machine Company, Sandusky, Ohio. Mr. Klotz was married
February 6, 1908.

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115. McDermott, Harry E. 1893.

Entered the Institute from Stockport, Ohio, in 1889, at the age
of 19, and graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1893. From

1895 to the present time has been connected with the General
Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.. as Engineer and in
charge of the Calculating Department.

116. McGregor, James Charles, Jr. 1893.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1889, at the age of
17; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1893. In
1894 with the Westinghouse Electric Company, Pittsburg. In

1896 in office of Corporation Counsel. New York City. In 1897
Assistant Corporation Counsel, New York City. In 1898 junior
member of the law firm of Large & McGregor, New York City.
From 1901 to 1903 in the United States Army. In 1904 mining
in Cananea, Sonora, Mexico. Received degree of LL-B. from
Columbia University. Since 1904 no report has been received
at the Institute from Mr. McGregor.

117. Moth, Robert HnysTRv. 1893.

Entered the Institute from Kenosha, Wis., in 1889, at the age
of 17, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1893.
From 1898 to 1901 Civil Engineer with the Davy Burnt Clay
Ballast Company, Kenosha, Wis. From 1901 to date City Engi-
neer and Superintendent of Water Works, Kenosha, Wis.

118. Rice, Arthur. 1893.

Entered the Junior Class from Indianapolis in 1891, at the age
of 20, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1893. In 1896 with the Metropolitan Telegraph and Telephone
Company, New York. From 1897 to 1906 Engineer in Con-
struction Department New York Telephone and Telegraph
Company. From 1907 Interior Block Engineer New York
Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York
City. Some of Mr. Rice's more important work has been the
installation of the Interior Block System of Telephone Dis-
tribution in New York City and the consequent removal of
overhead wires. Is a member of the A. I. E. E., New York
Electrical Society, and the New York Telephone Society. Was
married in New York City September 15, 1906.

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119. Rose, Clarence Charles. 1893.

Entered the Institute from Little Rock, Ark., in 1889, age 17;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1893. From
1893 to 1894 with the General Electric Company, Chicago.
From 1894 to 1901 Secretary and Treasurer of the Camden
Power and Light Company, and President of the Camden
Machinery and Supply Company, Camden, Ark. From 1901 to
1902 Vice-President of the W. W. Dickinson Hardware Com-
pany, Little Rock, Ark. From 1902 to date President of Rose-
Lyon Hardware Company, Little Rock, Ark. Mr. Rose was
married in Little Rock in 1898.

120. Ross, Taylor William, 1893.

Entered the Institute in 1888 from Madison, Ind., age of 16;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1893. In
1893 with Thos. Graham & Co., Manufacturers of Wood Mate-
rials, Madison. In 1894 graduate student Cornell University.
In 189s Second Assistant Engineer United States Revenue
Cutter Survey, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C. From
1898 to 1901 Second Assistant Engineer United States Revenue
Cutter Survey, Seattle, Wash. In 1901 with the New York
Ship Building Company, Camden, N. J. From 1903 to the pres-
ent time with the Newport News Ship Building and Dry Dock
Company, Newport News, Va. Mr. Ross was granted degree
of M.E. from Cornell University in 1894.

121. Valentine, Robert David. 1893.

Entered the Sophomore Class from Cannon Falls, Minn., in
1890, at the age of 26; graduated in the Electrical Engineering
Course in 1893. From 1894 to 1896 with the Westinghouse
Electric Company, Pittsburg. In 1896 with the Cannon Falls
Electric Company. From 1906 to 1908 installed several electric
plants operated by gasoline engines. In 1898 with the Electric
Machine Company, Minneapolis. From 1900 to 1903 of the firm
of Valentine Bros., Machinists and Electricians, Minneapolis.
From 1904 to date Secretary and Shop Superintendent of Valen-
tine Bros. Manufacturing Company, Minneapolis, Minn.

122. Waite, William Henry. 1893.

Entered the Institute from Toledo, Ohio, in 1889, age 18; grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1893. In 1894
Draftsman with the Vulcan Iron Works. Toledo, Ohio. From

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1895 to 1898 Engineer Bucyrus Company, Steam Shovel and
Dredge Department, South Milwaukee. From 1898 to 1905
Chief Engineer with the Vulcan Iron Works, Toledo. In 1905
Chief Engineer National Drill and Manufacturing Company,
Barberton, Ohio. In 1906 Manager Steam Shovel Department
Browning Engineering Company, Cleveland, Ohio, and in 1907
became Sales Manager of the Browning Engineering Company,
which position he holds to date. Mr. Waite was married in
Terre Haute, Ind., in 1898.

123. Wenzel, Charles Gotix>b. 1893.

Born October 25, 1870, Cincinnati, Ohio. Entered the Institute
from Toledo, Ohio, in 1890; graduated in the Electrical Engi-
neering Course in 1893. From September, 1893, to 1907 Instruc-
tor Toledo Manual Training School. From 1906 to 1908 Super-
intendent Shaw-Kendall Engineering Company and Toledo
Machine and Tool Company. At present in manual training
work at Central High School, Toledo, Ohio. Mr. Wenzel was
married in Toledo in 1895.

124. Anderson, Warwick Miller. 1894.

Entered the Institute from Louisville, Ky., in 1890, at the age
of 18; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1894.
From 1894 to 1896 Draftsman with the L. & N. Railroad Com-
pany, Louisville, Ky. In 1896 and 1897 Instructor in English
Louisville Male High School. Graduate student in Mathematics
and Physics University of Chicago during the summers of 1896
to 1900, inclusive. From 1807 to 1902 Instructor in Physics
Manual Training High School, Louisville. In 1902 and 1903
graduate student in Mathematics and Physics Johns Hopkins
University. From 1903 to the present time Instructor in Mathe-
matics at the Patterson-Davenport School, Louisville, Ky. Mr.
Anderson was married in 1898 in Louisville. He represented
the Alumni as orator at the Commencement, 1907.

125. Andrews, Morton Clark. 1894.

Entered the Institute from State Line, Ind., in 1890, at the age
of 21, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1894.
In 1895 was Instructor in Civil Engineering Rose Polytechnic
Institute. From 1896 to 1899 Superintendent of Construction
Williamsport Stone Company, Williamsport, Ind. From 1899
to 1903 Civil Engineer and Superintendent of Construction

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Williamsport Stone Company, Williamsport, Ind. 1906 Civil
Engineer of firm of W. P. Carmichael Company, Engineers and
Contractors, Williamsport, Ind. At the present time is junior
partner of W. P. Carmichael Company.

126. Blinks, Walter Moulton. 1894.

Entered from Michigan City, Ind., in 1890; graduated from the
Chemistry Course in 1894. In 1894 was with the Michigan City
Gas Company ; from 1895-98 Manager of the Isabella Gas
Works, Frederick, Md. From 1908 to 190.3 Superintendent
Michigan City Gas Light Company. From 1903 to present time
Assistant Manager General Gas Light Company, Kalamazoo,
Mich. Was also Secretary and Treasurer Michigan Enameling
Works, Kalamazoo. Was married in 1898.

127. Brown, Elmer. 1894.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1889, at the age of
16; graduated in Chemistry in 1894. In 1895 was with the
County Surveyor, Terre Haute. In 1906 with the Ohio Steel
Company, Youngstown. Ohio. In 1897 was in Indianapolis.
In 1898 with the Maryland Steel Company, Sparrows Point, Md.
Mr. Brown died in 1899.

128. Denehie, John Franklin. 1894.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1890, age 19; grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1894. From 1895
to 1903 in Testing Department Louisville Electric Light and
Gas Company, Louisville, Ky. From 1908 to date has had the
additional charge of all repairs with the same company. Is a
member of the Louisville Engineers' and Architects' Club. Was
married June 26, 1902.

129. Frohman, Edward D. 1894.

Born August 12, 1873, Erlangen, Germany. Entered the Insti-
tute from Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1890; graduated in Chemistry in
1894. In 1894 and 1895 ■^^'as a graduate student in Chemical
Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bos-
ton. In 1896 in the Chemical Department Pittsburg Testing
Laboratory, Pittsburg. From 1897 to 1900 of the firm of O.
Hommel & Co., Pittsburg. From 1900 to 1901 Manager of the
Paint Department S. Obermayer Company, Cincinnati, Q.
From 1902 to the present time Secretary and Treasurer of the

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S. Obermayer Company at Pittsburg. Pa. Mr. Frohman is a
member of the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania
and Pittsburg Foundrymen's Associations. His work in the last
few years has been in the use of coal as purifier in glass manu-
facturing and the perfection of core compounds in foundry
practice.

130. Hedden, Oran Roberts. 1894,

Entered the Institute from Robinson, 111., in 1890, age 19; grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1894. In 1895
was with the Chicago Telephone Company. From 1895 to 1902
PrinciparHigh School, Robinson, 111. From 1903 to 1904 Super-
intendent of Schools, Newman, 111. From 1907 to date City
Engineer of Robinson, 111.

131. Henrikson Sigurd Lund. 1894.

Entered the Institute from Chicago, 111., in 1890, at the age of
17, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1894.
From 1894 to 1895 with the Bostedo Packing and Cash Carrier
Company, Chicago. In 1895 \\ith Siemens & Halske Electric
Company, Chicago. In 1896 with the Illinois Steel Company,
Chicago. From 1897 to 1901 Draftsman Union Iron Works.
San Francisco, Cal. October 18, 1902, Mr. Henrikson died at
Pasadena, Cal.

132. HiEDRETH, Fred Foster. 1894.

Entered the Institute from Bridge Hampton, L. I., in 1890, age
24; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1894. In 1894
connected \vith the L. I. Railroad Company as instrument man,
Bridge Hampton, L. I. From 1895 to 1898 Assistant Engineer
T. H. & I. Railroad Company, Terre Haute, Ind. From 1898 to
1900 Assistant Engineer of Motive Power T. H. & I. Railroad
Company. From 1900 to 1903 Acting Master Mechanic T. H.
& I. Railroad Company. In 1903 Master Mechanic T. H. & I.
Railroad Company. From 1904 to the present time Mechanical
Engineer Vandalia Railroad Company, Terre Haute, Ind. Mar-
ried. Mr. Hildreth has been connected with the Vandalia Rail-
road for fifteen years throughout its period of development
from an isolated road to one of the most important branches of
the Pennsylvania System. He has served as Alumni representa-
tive on the Board of Managers from 1902- 1904, and has held
office in the Association.

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133. Holding, James Ci,ark Carlisi^e. 1894.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, Ind., in 1890, age 17;
graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1894. In 1895 '"
the Engineering Department Johnson & Co., Lorain, Ohio.
From 1896 to 1898 with the Shiffler Bridge Company, Pittsburg.
From 1898 to 1904 with the Keystone Bridge Works, Carnegie
Steel Company, Pittsburg. From 1904 to the present time with
Sales Bureau Carnegie Company, Pittsburg, Pa.

134. KiT.BouRNE, Hubert Gorham. 1894.

Born October 12, 1872, Terre Haute. Entered the Institute in
1890; graduated in Chemistry in 1894. From 1894 to 1896 Con-
tracting, Heating, and Ventilating Engineer Kilbourne & Kil-
bourne, Terre Haute. From 1896 to 1897 Manager Shafer
Acetylene Generator Company, Terre Haute. From 1897 to
1898 Superintendent Heating Department John Watson's Sons
Company, Terre Haute. From 1899 to 1903 Superintendent
Liquid Carbonic Gas Company Soda Fountain Department, Chi-
cago. From 1903 to 1905 Sales Department American Soda
Fountain Company, New York. From 1905 to 1907 Manager
L. A. Becker Company, New York. In 1908 Manager Franklin
Automobile Company, Boston. In 1909 of the firm of Kil-
boume-Corlew Motor Company, Boston, Mass. Mr. Kilbourne
is a member of the Drug and Chemical Club, New York City.

135. McCuLLOCH, David. 1894.

Entered the Institute from Indianapolis, Ind., in 1890, age 18;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1894. I"
189s and 1896 was in the Engineering Department of the Deer-
ing Hardware Company, Chicago. In 1896 a medical student at
Rush College, Chicago. March 13, 1898, died in Indianapolis,
Ind.

136. Mendenhall, Charles Elwood. 1894.

Born August i, 1872, Columbus, Ohio. Entered the Institute
from Washington, D. C, in 1890; graduated in the Electrical
Engineering Course in 1894. From 1894 to 1895 Assistant In-
structor in Physics at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
From 1895 to 1897 graduate student at Johns Hopkins Uni-
versity. From 1897 to 1898 Fellow in Physics Johns Hopkins
University. From 1898 to 1901 Instructor in Physics Williams
College, Williamstown, Mass. From 1901 to 1905 Assistant

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Professor in Physics, and from 1905 to the present time Pro-
fessor of Physics University of Wisconsin. Was granted degree
of Ph.D. in 1898 from Johns Hopkins University. Is a member
of A. A. A. S. and of the American Physical Society. He has
written various papers on Experimental Physics, chiefly along
the line of gravity and radiation. Was married at Talcottville,
N. Y., February 14, 1906. Mr. Mendenhall represented the
Alumni as Commencement orator in 1903.

137. MiscHLEjR, Paul. 1894.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1889, age 16; grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1894. Imme-
diately after graduation went to Denver, Col., on account of his
health, and died there November 8, 1895.

138. iNloRY, Austin Van Hoesen. 1894.

Entered the Institute from Manchester, Iowa, In 1891, age 21;
graduated in Chemistry in 1894. In 1895 assisted building gas
plant, Waltham, Mass. From 1896 to 1899 Chemist in Labora-
tory of Armour & Co., Chicago. From 1899 to 1901 Superin-
tendent Analytical Laboratory Armour & Co., Chicago. From
1902 to 1906 Chemist for Armour Packing Company, Kansas
City, Mo. In 1907 Chemist with Food Laboratory, Bureau of
Chemistry, Washington, D. C. From 1908 to date Acting Chief
United States Food and Drug Inspection Laboratory, Kansas
City, Mo. Is married.

139. RiEDEir, Edward. 1894.

Entered the Institute from Cloverport, Ky., in 1890, age 20;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1894. From
189s to 1899 was Assistant Electrician for the Louisville Street
Railway Company, Louisville. From 1900 to 1901 with the
Metropolitan Street Railway Company, New York City. From
1902 to 1904 with the Westinghouse Electric Company, Pitts-
burg. From 1904 to 1905 with the Westinghouse Electric Com-
pany, St. Louis. From 1906 to date District Engineer Westing-
house Electric Company, St. Louis, Mo.

140. Robinson, Edgar Franklin. 1894.

Entered the Institute from Earlington, Ky., in 1890, age 16;
graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1894. In iSoS
Mining Engineer for the Consolidated Coal Companies of East-

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ern Tennessee, Newcomb, Tenn. From i8g6 to 1899 in the
Maintenance of Way Department of the St. Louis Division Big
Four Railway, Mattoon, 111. 1899 Assistant Roadmaster N. Y.
Central Railroad, Lyons, N. Y. In 1900 Roadmaster West End
St. Paul & Sioux City Division, Worthington, Minn. From
1902 to 1903 Superintendent Maintenance of Way of Butte,
Anaconda & Pacific Railway Company, Anaconda, Mont. 1904
Engineer of Track Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway,
Rochester, N. Y. From 1907 to date Chief Engineer Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburg Railway, Rochester, N. Y.

141. RoYSE, James Samuel. 1894.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, Ind., in 189Q, age 17;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1894. I" 1894
and 1895 was a graduate student at Rose Polytechnic Institute.
In 1899 Draftsman in the City Engineer's office, Terre Haute.
From 1900 to 1905 with the Terre Haute Trust Company, Terre
Haute, and from 1905 to May, 1909, Vice-President and Secre-
tary of the Terre Haute Trust Company, since which time he
has been President, succeeding Mr. I. H. C. Royse, deceased.
In 1900 Mr. Royse was married at Milford, 111. Elected to
Board of Managers in 1908.

142. Speex), James Buckner. 1894.

Entered the Institute from Louisville, Ky., in 1890, age 18; grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1894. From 1894
to 1896 Assistant Superintendent Louisville Electric Light Com-
pany. From 1896 to 1897 iri Electrical Contracting, Louisville,
Ky. From 1897 to 1898 with United States Engineering Depart-
ment and in Spanish War. From 1898 to 1905 with the South-
ern Pacific Railroad Company in various capacities, San Fran-
cisco, Cal. From 1905 to 1909 Consulting Engineer, Berkeley,
Cal. Was granted degree of M.S. in 1896 from Rose. Was
married in 1900.

143. Stanton, Howard Maxwell. 1894.

Entered the Institute from Indianapolis, Ind., in 1889, age 18;
on account of sickness was obliged to withdraw for a year dur-
ing his course; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1894. From 1895 to 1899 of the firm of Stanton & Denny,
Attorneys, Indianapolis. From 1899 to date of the firm of
Stanton & Stanton, Attorneys, Indianapolis, Ind. Was granted

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degree of LL.B. from the Indianapolis Law School. December
28, 1897, Mr. Stanton was married in Chicago. Mr. Stanton
has been kindly remembered by Rose people, who owe to his
efforts the comfort of sidewalks from Eighth Street to the
Institute.

144. Winters,, George Harold. 1894.

Entered the Institute from Dawn, Ohio, in 1890, age 20; grad-
uated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1894. December, 1894,
to June. 1905, with the National Cash Register Company, Day-
ton, Ohio. From 1896 to 1898 Assistant Engineer Big Four
Railway. From 1898 to 1900 Roadmaster Mexican National
Railway Company at Saltillo, Mexico. From 1900 to 1902 Resi-
dent Engineer on the construction of the Coahuila & Pacific
Railway. From 1902 to 1903 Resident Engineer Mexican Na-
tional Railway. From January to April. 1903, with the Waters-
Pierce Oil Company, Vera Cruz. From .April. 1903, to January,
1904, Engineer in charge of the United Railways of Yucatan.
From January to July, 1904, Engineer and Contractor, build-
ing twelve miles of railroad through swamps of State of
Tobasco, Mexico. From July to October, 1904, returned to
United Railways of Yucatan. From October, 1904, to June,

1906, Assistant Chief Engineer on reconstruction work on the
Tehuantepec National Railway. From June, 1906, to December,

1907. Engineer in charge of construction for the Cuba Eastern
Railway. From December, 1907, to June, 1908, Superintendent
of Construction and Chief Engineer, finishing up twenty miles
of macadam road in Cuba. From June, 1908, to the present
time regaining his health after tropical sickness, doing light
work in Civil Engineering at his old home, Greenville, O.

145. Anderson, Lewis Clieeord. 1895.

Entered the Institute from Delaware, Ohio, in 1891, age 17;

graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1895. In
1896 was with the Crouse Tremaine Carbon Company, Fostoria,
Ohio. From 1897 to 1903 of the firm of Weis & Anderson,
Electrochemists, and with the American Writing Paper Com-
pany. From 1903 to the present time Secretary and Treasurer
of the Franklin Electric Light Company, and Consulting Elec-
trical Engineer, Franklin, Ohio. He was married June 7, 1905,
at Franklin, Ohio. Mr. Anderson's work lies especially along
the line of power plant designing and investigations on elec-
trolysis.

Alumni Biographical Dictionary. 173

146. BiGEivOw, Henry Waite. 1895.

Born May 8, 1868. at Colchester, Conn. Entered the Institute
in 1889; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1895.
From July i, 1895, to September i, 1895, Engineer in Boot and
Shoe Factory, Colchester. From 1895 to 1900 in Testing De-
partment Pope Manufacturing Company, Hartford, Conn. In
1900 to 1906 with the Hartford Rubber Company, Hartford,
Conn., in charge of the Experimental Department. In 1905
and 1906 Superintendent Rubber Works, Hartford, Cofin. From
1907 to the present time Superintendent Insulated Wire and
Cable Departments The Simplex Electrical Company, Cam-
bridgeport, Mass. Mr. Bigelow was married October 11, 1905.

147. Brown, Samuel George. 1895.

Born March 7, 1872, at Willoughby, Ohio, and entered the Insti-
tute in 1891 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1895. In 1895-6 was graduate student at Cornell University.
1896 Draftsman Terre Haute Manufacturing Company. From
1896 to 1899 fruit grower, Willoughby, Ohio. From 1899 to

1900 in the Engineering Department of the Printing Telegraph
Company. Allegheny, Pa. From 1901 to the present time a
fruit grower. Willoughby, Ohio.

148. BuRTis, Edwin Ransome. 1895.

Born August 18, 1870, in New York. Entered the Institute from
Manhattan, Kan., in 1892 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineer-
ing Course in 1895. From 1895 to 1896 Draftsman for Auto-
matic Coal Recorder Company. Denver, Col. From 1899 to

1901 with F. A. Walters, Fuel Contractor for Colorado & South-
ern Railway. Denver. In 1905 Superintendent Sugar Loaf Mine,
Copley, Cal. Since 1905 no record has been received at the
Institute.

149. Craver, Harry Weirauch. 1895.

Born August 10, 1875. Owaneco, 111. Entered the Institute from
Terre Haute in 1891 ; graduated in Chemistry in 1895. 1895 to
1896 graduate student in Chemistry at Rose. From 1896 to 1897
Chemist to Kirkpatrick & Co.. Pittsburg, Pa. From 1897 to
spring of 1899 Chemist to the Shoenberger Steel Company, of
Pittsburg. Then Metallurgist to the Duquesne Reduction Com-
pany, of Pittsburg, till January. 1900. Then was with the Vir-
ginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company until April, 1900, when he

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accepted a position with the Carnegie Library at Pittsburg. Re-
mained until March, 1902, and then resigned to become Assistant
Superintendent of the Allegheny Steel and Iron Company, of
Pittsburg. In August of same year returned to the Carnegie
Library, where he has since remained. Was Technology Libra-
rian until September, 1908, when was appointed Librarian. Is
a member of the A. A. A. S., A. L. A., the A. C. S., the Engi-
neers' Society Western Pennsylvania, and the Keystone Library
Association. Was married in 1902.

150. CrockweIvL, Charles Roland. 1895.

Born August 12, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Entered the Insti-
tute in 1891 ; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1895.
From 189s to 1896 Engineer in War Department, River and
Harbor Commission, Council Bluffs. From 1897 to 1900 junior
member of the firm of J. D. Crockwell & Son, Council Bluffs.
From 1901 to 1903 Chief Engineer Cambria Mining Company,
Cambria, Wyo. From 1903 to 1907 Contracting Engineer for
The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, Columbus, Ohio. From
1907 to the present time Sales Manager Jeffrey Manufacturing
Company, St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Crockwell was married in Coun-
cil Bluffs in June, 1902.

151. Crowe, Walter Wayne. 1895.

Born February 16, 1869, Richmond, Ind. Entered the Institute
from Terre Haute in 1891 ; graduated in the Electrical Engi-
neering Course in 1895. From 1896 to 1898 with Hilly & Heine,
Electrical Engineers and Contractors, Chicago. From 1898 to

1902 Mechanical Engineer City Court Building, Chicago. In

1903 with Becker Bros., Electrical Engineers, Chicago. In 1906
rancher, Hussum, Wash. Since 1906 no report has been received
at the Institute from Mr. Crowe.

152. Darst, Edward Arrents. 1895.

Born April 27, 1869, Eureka, 111. Entered the Institute in 1891,
age 20; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1895.
From 1896 to the present time Mr. Darst has been a farmer,
and his address is Eureka, 111.

153. McTaggart, James Richardson. 1895.

Born January i, 1875, Richmond, Ind. Entered the Institute
from Terre Haute in 1891 ; graduated in Chemistry in 1895. In
1896 was with the Illinois Steel Company, Chicago. In 1897

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Resident Chemist for the Pittsburg Testing Laboratory, Niagara
Falls, N. Y. From 1898 to 1900 Chemist Pittsburg Reduction
Company, Pittsburg. In 1900 Manager of the Sterling Manu-
facturing Company, Pittsburg. In 1901 Superintendent Liquid
Carbonic Acid Manufacturing Company, Pittsburg. In 1902 in
Technical Science Department Carnegie Library, Pittsburg.
From 1902 to date City Chemist of Pittsburg, Pa. Was mar-
ried in Pittsburg in 1902.

154. Miller, Francis Hegan. 1895.

Born April 24, 1874, Louisville, Ky. Entered the Institute in
1891 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1895.
Since September 27. 1895, with the Louisville Railway Com-
pany as Laborer, Assistant Shop Superintendent, Superintend-
ent Line Work, Assistant Station Superintendent, and in igoo
was made Superintendent of Motive Power, which position he
holds to date. Mr. Miller was granted degree of B.A. from
University of Louisville in 1891, the degree of M.S. in 1897 and
degree of E.E. in 1899, both from Rose. Is an associate member
of A. I. of E. E. and Engineers' and Architects' Club of Louis-
ville, Ky. Some of the important work Mr. Miller has been
engaged upon is reconstructing the power station of Louisville
Railway Company, changing same from straight D. C. distribu-
tion to combined D. C. and A. C, with five sub-stations. Was
married in Louisville in 1902.

155. MuNDY, William Offutt. 1895.

Born September 11, 1873, Louisville. Entered the Institute in
1891 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1895.
In 1896 was Shop Superintendent Louisville Railway Company,
Louisville, Ky. From 1897 to 1900 Station Superintendent
Louisville Railway Company. In 1900 with the General Electric
Company, Schenectady, N. Y. From 1902 to 1904 Master Me-
chanic St. Louis Transit Company, St. Louis, Mo. In 1904
Commercial Engineer Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing
Company, Pittsburg, Pa. He was granted the degree of M.S.
in 1897 and E.E. in 1899, both from Rose. Mr. Mundy died at
Pittsburg March 29, 1905.

156. Phillips, George W. 1895.

Born October 15, 1870, Champaign, 111. Entered the Institute
from Ellsworth, Ind., in 1891 ; graduated in the Electrical Engi-
neering Course in 1895. From 1^99 to rgoo with Liquid Car-

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bonic Acid Gas Company, Chicago. From 1900 to 1902 Chief
Draftsman American Smelting and Refining Company, Perth
Amboy, N. J. From 1902 to 1903 Constructing Engineer Amer-
ican Smelting and Refining Company, Old Mexico. From 1903
to 1906 Designing, Heyl & Patterson, Engineers, Pittsburg.
From 1906 to 1908 Superintendent Construction Trussed Con-
crete Steel Company, Detroit. At present Manager of the
Denver office of the Trussed Concrete Steel Company. One
year, 1907 to 1908, Mr. Phillips was a representative of the
Trussed Steel Company in the Orient, and erected a seven-story
building at Shanghai, China, the first large reinforced concrete
building erected in the Far East.

157. Robinson, Arthur Lee, Jr. 1895.

Entered the Institute from Louisville, Ky., in 1891, age 19; grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1895. In 1895 and
1896 was Electrician Southern Railway Company, Knoxville, in
charge of lighting plants for the company in Atlanta and Spen-
cer, N. C, and in charge of installation Southern Railway Com-
pany's piers. Pinners Point, Va. From the latter part of 1896
to 1898 Assistant Roundhouse Foreman, Spencer, N. C. May,
1898, passed examination and entered United States Navy as
Assistant Engineer, and honorably discharged December, 1898.
From 1899 to 1901 Electrical Engineer Southern Railway Com-
pany, Washington, D. C. From 1902 to 1903 Manager of
Eclipse Mine, Auburn, Cal. From 1904 to 1905 Master Me-
chanic of St. Louis-Louisville Lines, Southern Railway Com-
pany, Princeton, Ind. From 1905 to date Electrical Engineer
on Canal Construction, Culebra, Panama.

158. Shaneberger. Edgar Leon. 1895.

Entered the Institute from Indianapolis, Ind., in i8gi, age 19;
graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1895. From 1896
to 1899 with the Lake Erie & Western Railway Company, Indi-
anapolis. In 1899 Assistant Engineer Big Four Railvv^ay Com-
panj\ Chicago Division, Indianapolis. In 1900 Assistant to
Maintenance of Way Engineer Vandalia Railway, Terre Haute.
In 1901 Engineer Maintenance of Way Peoria Division Van-
dalia Railway, Terre Haute. In 1905 Superintendent Peoria
Division Vandalia Railway, Terre Haute. In 1906 Engineer
Maintenance of Way Logansport Division, Logansport. From
1907 to the present time with the Interstate Sand and Gravel
Company, Terre Haute, Ind. Was married in Terre Haute.

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159. Spee:d, William Shallcross. 1895.

Born September 10, 187.3, Louisville, Ky. Entered the Institute
in 1891 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1895.
From 1895 to 1897 with the Louisville Cement Company and a
member of the firm of J. B. Speed & Co. From 1897 to the
present time is Vice-President and General Manager of the
Louisville Cement Company and President of the J. B. Speed
Company, Louisville, Ky. Was granted degree of M.S. in 1897
and M.E. in 1897, both from Rose. Is a member of the A. S.
M. E. and the Engineers' and Architects' Club of Louisville.
Was married in Louisville in 1904.

160. Troxler, Laurence Edward. 1895.

Entered the Institute from Louisville, Ky., in 1891, age 18;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1895. From
1896 to 1900 with the Louisville Railway Company, Louisville.
From 1900 to 1901 Station Superintendent Louisville Raihvny
Company. In 1902 Electrical Manager L. & P. V. Electric
Light Company, Louisville. From 1905 to 1906 Superintendent
of Shop Construction United Railway Company. St. Louis, Mo.
From 1907 to the present time Electrical Engineer for St. Joseph
Lead Company and Doe Run Lead Company. Flat River. Mo.

161. Tuller, Arthur Veach. 1895.

Born August 15, 1872, Milford, 111. Entered the Institute in
1891 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1895.
Since his graduation and up to the present time has been in the
lumber, farming, and banking business at Carrier Mills, 111.
Was married at Mt. Vernon, 111., July 24, 1901.

162. Wade, Archie E. 1895.

Born November 16, 1871. Monroe County. Mo. Entered the
Institute from Boulder Valley. Mont, in 1891 : graduated in
the Electrical Engineering Course in 1895. From October, 1895,
to September. 1897, with the Diamond Electric Company,
Peoria. 111. From September. TS97. to June, 1898, student Brad-
ley Polytechnic Institute, Peoria. From June. 1898, to February,
1903, Vvfith the Peoria General Electric Company, People's Gas
and Electric Company, and Peoria Gas and Electric Company.
From February, 1903, to June, 1903, with Colean Manufacturing
Company, Peoria. From July, 1903, to March, 1905, with Ohio

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Quarries Company, Amherst, Ohio. From June, 1905, to date
with the North Shore Electric Company, Evanston, 111., as
Operating Engineer. Received the degree of M.S. in 1906 from
Rose. Is a member of the N. A. S. E. Was married in Peoria
in 1905.

163. Wiggins, Wiluam D. 1895.

Born April 28, 1873, Richmond, Ind. Entered the Institute in
1891 ; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1895. From
1896 to 1898 Engineer Corps Pittsburg Division P. C. C. & St.
L. Raihvay, Pittsburg. In 1898 Assistant Chief Engineer Penn-
sylvania Railway Company, Pittsburg. From 1899 to 1900 Act-
ing Assistant Chief Engineer Pennsylvania Railway Company,
Ft. Wayne. In 1901 Assistant Engineer P. C. C. & St. L. Rail-
way, Pittsburg. June, 1901, Engineer Maintenance of Way
C. & M. V. Railway, Zanesville. Ohio. October, igoi, Engineer
Maintenance of Way C. & M. V. Railway, Cambridge, Ohio.
From 1903 to 1905 Engineer Maintenance of Way C. & M. V.
Raihvay, Toledo, Ohio. From 1905 to the present time Engineer
Maintenance of Way Pittsburg Division P. C. C. & St. L. Rail-
way, Pittsburg, Pa. Is an associate member A. S. C. K. and
member of the A. R. E. M. W. A.

164. Bekbe, Robert Wallace. 1896.

Entered the Institute from Sidney, Ohio, in 1892. age 17; grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1896. In 1897 of
the firm of Wells & Beebe, Electrical Contractors, Terre Haute,
Ind. In 1898 Electrical Contractor, Terre Haute. In 1901
Manager Motor Truck and Vehicle Company, Columbus, Ohio.
From 1903 to 1907 in Sales Department Westinghouse Electric
Company, Cleveland, Ohio. No further record has been re-
ceived at the Institute from Mr. Beebe.

165. BuRK, William Emmett. 1896.

Entered the Institute from Richmond, Ind., in 1893, age 21 ;
graduated in Chemistry in 1896. In 1896-7 was Instructor in
Chemistry Rose Polytechnic Institute. 1897 and 1898 Assistant
Superintendent and Chemist for Granite Basin Mining Com-
pany (California). From 1898 to 1905 in charge of Chemical
Department Louisville Male High School. Chemical Engineer
in Louisville from 1903 to 1906. From September, 1905, to the
present time Chief Chemist and Bacteriologist for Louisville

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Water Company, Louisville, Ky. Was granted degree of M.S.
in 1901 from Rose. Married in Terre Haute in 1897. Mr. Burk
has made studies of bituminous sandstones of Kentucky, and of
the fluorite, lead, and zinc deposits of Western Kentucky; also
on Portland cement industries in Southern Indiana and in the
Republic of Mexico. He served as President of the Alumni
Association in 1907, and is now Alumni representative on the
Board of Managers — at all times a loyal worker.

166. Carr, Uhei. Ulery. 1896.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, Ind., in 1892, age 17;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1896. From
1896 to 1900 with the Vandalia Railroad Company, Terre Haute,
as Apprentice, Material Inspector, and Shop Foreman. From
1900 to 1901 with the Pressed Steel Car Company, Pittsburg.
From 1901 to 1904 with Heyl & Patterson Company, Contracting
Engineers, Pittsburg. From 1904 to 1907 with the Eagle Iron
Works Company, Terre Haute. From 1907 to the present time
Mechanical Engineer Monongahela River Consolidated Coal and
Coke Company, Pittsburg, Pa. Mr. Carr was granted degree
of M.S. in 1899 from Rose, and was married in August, 1900.

167. Decker, Walter Lowry. 1896.

Born December 2, 1874. Evansville Ind. Entered the Institute
in 1892, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1896. From 1896 to 1898 with the Sprague Electric Elevator
Company, New York City. In 1898 with the Elevator Supply
and Repair Company, New York. From 1899 to 1900 Chemist
and Assayer Graphic Mines and Smelting Works, Magdalena,
N. M. In 1903 in Mechanical Department The Geo. A. Fuller
Company, New York. From 1904 to 1907 Electrical Engineer
Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co., New York City. From
1907 to date Designing Engineer with W. J. McGuire, Limited,
Toronto, Can. Mr. Decker was married April 3, 1902. at
Brooklyn, N. Y.

168. Failey, Bruce Franklin. 1896.

Born August 20, ,1874, Indianapolis. Entered the Institute in
1892; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1896.
From 1896 to 1898 Secretary of the Blair & Failey Company,
Terre Haute. Mr. Failey at the present time holds the follow-

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ing positions : Treasurer Terre Haute Brewing Company since
1898; Secretary and Treasurer Southern Indiana Gas Company
from 1898; Vice-President Wabash Realty and Loan Company
from 1903 ; Secretary Jackson Hill and Coke Company from
1900; Treasurer Lafayette Box Board and Paper Company from
1904; Secretary Root Glass Company from 1901 ; Director in
Terre Haute National Bank and United States Trust Company
since their organizations. Mr. Failey was married in Terre
Haute April 27, 1898.

169. FABiRINGTON, JamES. 1896.

Born December 28, 1873, Terre Haute. Entered the Institute in
1892; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1896.
From 1896 to 1900 with the Ohio Steel Company, Youngstown,
Ohio. In 1900 Assistant Electrician Ohio Steel Company,
Youngstown. 1901 Electrical Superintendent and Master Me-
chanic American Steel and Wire Company, Neville Works,
Pittsburg. From 1901 to 1903 General Superintendent Youngs-
town Engineering Company, Youngstown. From 1903 to date
Superintendent Electrical Department LaBelle Iron Works,
Steubenville, Ohio. Was granted degree of M.S. in 1898 from
Rose. Is a member of the Association of Iron and Steel Elec-
trical Engineers. Was married September 28, 1904.

170. Green. Frank T. 1896.

Born April 12, 1870, Oskaloosa, Iowa. Entered the Institute in
1892; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1896.
From 1897 to 1901 Secretary and Assistant Superintendent
Sioux City Brass Works, Sioux City, Iowa. In 1903 Superin-
tendent Fox River Valley Telephone Company. Appleton, Wis.
In 1906 with the Pacific States Telegraph and Telephone Com-
pany, Los Angeles, Cal. No further record has been received at
the Institute.

171. Harris, Ellsworth Benjamin. 1896.

Born May 8, 1873, Hagerstown, Md. Entered the Institute
from Indianapolis, Ind., in 1892; graduated in the Chemical
Department in 1896. In 1896 was Chemist for Armour & Co.,
Chicago. From 1897 to 1898 First Assistant Chemist Armour
& Co., Chicago. From 1899 to 1901 Chemist Kodak Park
Works, Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester. Mr. Harris died
March 13, 1901.

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172. Hunt, Frederick Gang. 1896.

Born April 2, 1872, Freeport, 111. Entered the Institute from
Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1891, and withdrew on account of sickness;
reentered in 1892; graduated in the Electrical Engineering
Course in 1896. In 1896-1897 graduate student Freiburg, Sax-
ony. From 1897 to 1898 with Fleischmann & Co., Cincinnati.
From 1898 to 1900 Assistant Superintendent Riverside Malt and
Elevator Company, Cincinnati. In 1901 with the Cincinnati
Gold Placer Mining Company, Cincinnati. From 1907 to the
present time with the Remington Oil Engine Company, Stam-
ford, Conn. Since graduation he has traveled extensively, and
since his marriage in London, England, May i, 1902, has been
in Algiers, Athens, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Cairo, and up
the Nile to Associan, through Italy, Paris, London, and parts
of England and Scotland, and also Germany.

173. K1.1NGER, Peter Wert. 1896.

Born October 29, 1874, Greenville, O. Entered the Institute in
1892; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1896.
From March i, 1897, to March 29 served as Electrical Inspector
for the Barney & Smith Car Company, at the General Electric
Works at Schenectady, N. Y. From March 29, 1897, to March
22, 1898, Electrician Barney & Smith Car Company. From
March 22, 1898, to September i, 1902, Machine Foreman in
addition to Electrician. From September i, 1902, to September
I, 1904, office duties for this company. From September i, 1904,
to November 21, 1908, Assistant Superintendent of this company.
From November 21, 1908, to date Superintendent of the Barney
& Smith Car Company, Dayton, Ohio.

174. Klinger, Watson Joseph. 1896.

Born February 28, 1871, Arcanum, Ohio. Entered the Institute
from Greenville, Ohio, in 1891 ; withdrew in 1892 ; reentered in
1893, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1896. In 1897 was with the Ellwood Weldless Tube Company,
Ellwood, Pa. From 1902 to 1903 Foreman of Assembling Room
T. B. Jeffrey & Co., Manufacturers Rambler Automobiles,
Kenosha, Wis. In 1903 Erecting Engineer for New Era Iron
Works, Dayton, Ohio. From 1904 to 1906 Foreman Tool and
Governor Department New Era Gas Engine Company, Dayton,
Ohio. In 1906 with the Kay & Ess Company, Dayton, Ohio.
At present is Proprietor of the Dayton View Machine Com-
pany, Dayton, Ohio.

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175. Liggett, Harry Thompson. 1896.

Born October 9, 1874, Louisville, Ky. Entered the Institute in
1892, and graduated in Electrical Engineering Course in 1896.
From 1896 to 1903 with the Cumberland Telephone Company,
Louisville, Ky. From 1903 to date Instructor in Mathematics
in Manual Training High School, Louisville, Ky. Was granted
degree of M.D. in 1905 from the Kentucky School of Medicine.
Is a member of the American Medical Association. Was mar-
ried January i, 1900, at Louisville, Ky.

176. McDargh, Harry John. 1896.

Entered the Institute from Dayton, Ohio, in 1892, age 17, and
graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1896. In 1897
with City Engineer, Dayton, Ohio. 1898 Draftsman and Topog-
rapher, Springfield, Ohio River & S. A. Railroad. In 1899
Draftsman City Engineer's office, Dayton, Ohio. 1900 Civil
Engineer Dayton Water Works, Dayton. 1901 Engineer West
Kootenay Light and Power Company, Rossland, B. C. From
1902 and 1903 First Assistant City Engineer, Dayton. 1904 of
Folsom & McDargh, Consulting Civil and Hydraulic Engi-
neers, Dayton. 1905 to 1908 Consulting Civil and Hydraulic
Engineer, Dayton, and Maintenance Engineer Water Depart-
ment, Dayton, Ohio. At present Civil Engineer with Luyster
& Lowes, General Contractors, Dayton. Was granted degree
of M.S. in 1900 from Rose. Is a member of the American
Society of Civil Engineers and the American Water Works
Association. Was married in Dayton June, 1899.

177. McMeans, Orange Edward. 1896.

Born July 30, 1869, Richmond, Ind. Entered the Institute in
1892; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1896.
From 1896 to 1899 Instructor in Drawing Rose Polytechnic
Institute. From 1899 to 1900 Assistant Professor Mechanical
Drawing University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. From 1900 to
1902 Mechanical Engineer Richmond City Mill Works, Rich-
mond, Ind. From 1902 to 1904 Chief Draftsman Mill Engineer-
ing Department Nordyke & Marmon Company, Indianapolis.
From 1904 to date of the firm of McMeans & Tripp, Con-
sulting Engineers, Indianapolis, Ind. Was granted degree of
M.S. in 1900 and degree of M.E. in 1901 from Rose. Is a
junior member A. S. of M. E. Was married November 26, 1896.

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178. Meadows, Harvey Hatchett. 1896,

Entered the Institute from Evansville, Ind., in 1890, age 18;
withdrew in 1901 ; reentered in 1893 ; graduated in the Civil En-
gineering Course in 1896. From 1896 to 1898 with the Pittsburg
Testing Laboratory in Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and New York.
From 1898 to the present time Assistant District Sales Manager
of the Babcock & Wilcox Company, Atlanta, Ga.

179. Meriwether, Richard. 1896.

Born October 13, 1875, Frankfort, Ky. Entered the Institute
from Louisville, Ky., 1892; graduated in the Electrical Engi-
neering Course in 1896. In 1897 in Motive Power Department
Southern Railway, Knoxville, Tenn. From 1898 to 1901 with
the Western Electric Company, Chicago. In 1902 Superintend-
ent Underground Cable Company, Chicago. In 1903 Assistant
Superintendent of Power Louisville City Railway, Louisville.
1905 Superintendent of Lines and Feeders Louisville Railway
Company, Louisville. In 1906 Superintendent Overhead Con-
struction Louisville Railway Company, and from 1907 to the
present time General Superintendent of Louisville & Eastern
Railroad Company, Louisville, Ky. Is a member of the A. I.
E. E. and Engineers' and Architects' Club of Louisville, Ky.

180. O'Brien, Barrington. 1896.

Entered the Institute from St. Peter, Minn., in 1888, age ig'
withdrew in 1892 ; reentered in 1895, and graduated in the Elec-
trical Engineering Course in 1896. In 1898 Superintendent
Electric Light Company, St. Peter, Minn. Since 1899 no report
has been received.

181. Rice, Oscar Guido. 1896.

Born May 2, 1876, Vienna, Austria. Entered the Institute from
Terre Haute, Ind., in 1892, and graduated in the Electrical Engi-
neering Course in 1896. In 1897 in Department of Maintenance
New York Telephone Company, New York. In 1898 in Brook-
lyn, N. y. From 1900 to 1902 with the B. F. Sturtevant Com-
pany, New York. Was married in Chicago April 23, 1902, and
died of typhoid fever in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 6, 1902.

182. RiDGELY, Clarence Medial. 1896.

Born November 26, 187 1, Adams County, 111. Entered the In-
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ill health ; reentered 1894 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineer-
ing Course in 1896. From July, 1896, to April, 1897, Machinist
in Locomotive Shops of Chicago & Alton Railroad, Blooming-
ton, 111. From April, 1897, to December, 1898, Circulation Man-
ager for Galesburg Evening Mail, Galesburg, 111. From March,
1899, to July, 1901, Draftsman Litchfield Foundry and Machine
Company, Litchfield, 111. From July, 1901, to December, 1902,
Superintendent ^tna Foundry and Machine Company, Litch-
field, III. From December, 1902, to the present time Mechanical
Engineer Litchfield Foundry and Machine Company, Litchfield,
111. In this capacity some of his more important work has been
the general improvement of designs and construction of mine
haulage and hoisting engines, also of endless-rope haulage ma-
chinery for the handling of standard railroad cars about coal
and ore storage plants, steamship docks, etc. ; also head gear
arrangements for self-acting gravity inclines. Mr. Ridgely
was married July 29, 1897. at Bloomington, 111.

183. Sanborn, Wallis Remsen. 1896.

Born May 20, 1874, Rockford, 111. Entered the Institute in
1892 ; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1896. In
1897 with the H. & B. I. Railroad, Hammond, Ind. From 1898
to 1899 Mining Engineer, Klondike. In 1900 Division Engineer
I. I. I. Railroad Company, Streator, 111. In 1901 Acting Road-
master I. I. I. Railroad Company, Kankakee, 111. From 1904 to
1906 Engineer Indiana, Illinois & Iowa Railroad, Kankakee, 111.
From 1907 to the present time Treasurer and General Manager
Lehigh Stone Company, Kankakee, 111. Was granted degree of
M.S. from Rose in 1900. Is a member of W. S. E. Mr. San-
born was married June 19, 1901.

184. Sanford, Linus, Jr. 1896.

Entered the Institute from Jackson, Mo., in 1892, age 19, and
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1896. In
1897 was with Brooks & Ponder, Civil Engineers, Cape Girar-
deau, Mo. From 1898 to 1900 in Jackson, Mo., and from 1900
to 1901 with the Western Electric Company, Chicago, 111. Since
1901 no report has been received.

185. Sinks, Frank Forest. 1896.

Born May 12, 1873, West Milton, Ohio. Entered the Institute
from Troy, Ohio, in 1892; graduated in the Civil Engineering

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Course in 1896. In 1897 with the H. & B. I. Railroad, Ham-
mond, Ind. From 1898 to 1900 with the Chicago, Hammond &
Western Railroad Company, Lagrange, 111. In 1900 Office Engi-
neer I. I. & I. Railroad, Streator, 111. In 1901 Pittsburg Testing
Laboratory, Chicago. From 1903 to 1905 with Theodore Con-
dron, Consulting Engineer, Chicago. From 1906 to date Vice-
President Condron & Sinks, Civil Engineers, Chicago, 111.

186. Smith, Ferdinand Elbert, Jr. 1896.

Born October i, 1874, Prattville, Ala. Entered the Institute
from Birmingham. Ala., in 1892, and graduated in the Elec-
trical Engineering Course in 1896. From 1897 to 1901 with
Smith Sons Gin and Machine Company. Birmingham. From
1904 to the present time Superintendent Avondale Factory Con-
tinental Gin Company. Avondale, Ala.

187. Van Auken, James Milton. 1896.

Born June 9, 1873, Mishawaka, Ind. Entered the Institute from
Chicago in 1892; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in
1896. In the latter part of 1896 was with the C. U. Telephone
Company, Indianapolis, Ind. In 1897 Assistant City Engineer
Terre Haute, Ind. From 1898 to 1899 Civil Engineering work
in Vigo and Parke Counties. From 1900 to 1902 Draftsman
Bellefontaine Bridge and Iron Company, Bellefontaine, Ohio.
From 1902 to 1903 Chief Engineer Elkhart Bridge Company,
Elkhart, Ind. From 1905 to the present time Contracting Engi-
neer for Steel and Iron Structures, South Bend, Ind.

188. Walser, Edward. 1896.

Bom March 5, 1874, St. Joseph, Mo. Entered the Institute
from Terre Haute, Ind., in 1892; graduated in Chemistry in
1896. In 1897 graduate student Rose Polytechnic Institute.
From 1898 to 1900 Cyanide Expert General Gold Extracting
Company, Denver. 1900 with the Cochiti Gold Mining Com-
pany, Bland, N. M. In 1901 with Fox & Walser, Assayers and
Chemists, Denver. 1903 Cyanide Expert Gold and Silver Ex-
traction Company of America, Ltd., Denver. 1904 Manager
Cyanide Department Dorcas Mining, Milling and Development
Company, Florence, Col. 1905 and 1906 Chief Chemist Montana
Zinc Company, Walkerville, Mont. From 1906 to date Chief
Chemist Pittsburg and Montana Copper Company, Butte, Mont.

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189. Wells, George Eugene. 1896.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, Ind., in 1892, age 17,
and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1896.
In 1897 with Terre Haute Electric Company. In 1898 Superin-
tendent Electrical Contracting Department Indianapolis Dis-
trict Telephone Company, Indianapolis. From 1899 to 1901 in
Engineering Department Wagner Electric Manufacturing Com-
pany, St. Louis. In 1901 of the firm of Reubel & Wells, Con-
sulting Electrical Engineers, St. Louis. 1903 of the firm of
Reubel-Schwedtman & Wells, Consulting Electrical and Me-
chanical Engineers, St. Louis. In 1908 resigned from this firm
to accept a position as Chief Engineer in charge of the Mechan-
ical Department of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Company, and
holds this position to date. Received degree of M.S. in 1899
and of E.E. in 1901, both from Rose. Is an active member of
the A. I. E. E. Was married in St. Louis in 1903.

190. Werk, Isaac Michael Louis. 1896.

Entered the Institute from Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1892, age 19, and
graduated in Chemistry in 1896. From 1896 to 1898 Chemist for
the M. Werk Company, Cincinnati. Since that time has been in
the oil business in Cincinnati. Is a member of the American
Chemical Society.

191. Arn, William Godfrey. 1897.

Entered the Institute from Scottsboro, Ala., in 1893, age 16;
graduated in Civil Engineering Course in 1897. From 1897 to
1900 was connected with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad as
Rodman, Masonry Inspector and Building Inspector L. & N.
Terminal Company, Nashville, Tenn. From 1901 to 1905 Assist-
ant Engineer Maintenance of Way ; 1905-6 Division Roadmaster
L. & N. R. R. In 1906 Superintendent Southern Bitulithic Com-
pany, Nashville. In 1907 Assistant Engineer Illinois Central,
Birmingham, Ala., and at present Assistant Engineer Main-
tenance Department, Corinth. Miss. Had charge of terminal
construction and stations in Nashville, New Orleans and Bir-
mingham.

192. Camp, Theodore Lyman, 1897.

Entered the Institute from Jackson, Mich., in 1893, age 18;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1897. In 1898
was Mechanical and Electrical Engineer for the American Elec-

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trie Vehicle Company, Chicago. From 1899 to 1901 Manufac-
turer of Soap Wrapping Machines, Chicago. In 1902 Manager
Mechanical Department Camp Wrapping Machine Company,
Chicago. From 1904 to date Manager United Wrapping Ma-
chine Company, New York City, N. Y. Was married August 21,
1901, at Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Camp exhibited his first soap wrap-
ping machine at the Commencement in 1897. Its design was his
thesis subject.

193. Chandler, Benjamin Foster. 1897.

Entered the Institute from South Coventry, Conn., in 1893, age
23 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1897.
From 1899 to 1901 with the Electric Light Company, North-
ampton, Mass. In 1901 Electrician for the American Bicycle
Company, Cleveland, Ohio. In 1905 and 1906 graduate student
Massachusetts Institute Technology, Boston, Mass. In 1907
in Testing Department General Electric Company, Schenectady,
N. Y. No record has been received at the Institute from Mr.
Chandler since 1907.

194. Frank, Edmund. 1897.

Entered the Institute from Petersburg, Ind., in 1893, age 17, and
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1897. Grad-
uate student Johns Hopkins University, 1898-9. In Testing
Department General Electric Company, Schenectady, 1899-1901.
In 1901 with the General Electric Company at Cincinnati, Ohio.
July 18, 1901, his body was found floating in the river at Mem-
phis, Tenn. Was last seen alive July 16, at 11:45 p.m., at
the Traction Company's power house, where he was erecting
machinery. There was a contusion over his eye and he had
been robbed of $125. This information was received from his
, brother, Mr. Sol Frank, of Petersburg.

195. Fry, Charles Herman. 1897.

Entered the Institute from Fort Worth, Texas, in 1893, age 19;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1897. From
1898 to 1900 Assistant in Office of Superintendent of Motive
Power Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, Lima, Ohio.
1901 graduate student in Railway Engineering Purdue Uni-
versity. From June, 1901, to February, 1902, with the Chicago
& Alton Railroad, Bloomington. From February, 1902, to the
present time Associate Editor of the Railroad Gazette and of

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the Railroad Age Gazette, Chicago. Was granted degree of
M.S. in 1907 from Rose, and degree of B.S.M.E. from Purdue
University, 1901.

196. Gordon^ Arthur Franklin. 1897.

Born October 16, 1875, Terre Haute. Entered the Institute in
1893; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1897.
In 1897 with the Standard Wheel Company, Terre Haute. 1898
and 1899 Engineering Department C. E. & I. Railroad, Danville,
111. In 1900 with the Liquid Carbonic Acid Company, Pitts-
burg. In 1901 vi^ith S. V. Huber & Co., Constructing Engineers,
Pittsburg. From 1902 to 1906 Draftsman with McClintock-
Marshall Contracting Company, Rankin, Pa. In 1907 Chief
Draftsman Union Iron Works, Cincinnati, Ohio. From 1908
to the present time Foreman Signal Department Rock Island
Railway, Wilton Junction, Iowa. Was married August 14,
1900, in Terre Haute, Ind.

197. Hall, Jay Houghton. 1897.

Entered the Institute from Ypsilanti, Mich., in 1893, age 18;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1897. After
graduation till 1899 Chief Electrician at Illinois Institute for
Deaf and Dumb, Jacksonville, 111. From 1899 to 1901 Drafts-
man in Electrical Department Homestead Steel Works of the
Carnegie Steel Company at Munhall, Pa. From 1901 to 1902
Electrical Engineer Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Com-
pany, Danville, 111. From 1902 to 1904 Chief Draftsman and
Assistant Superintendent Youngstown Engineering Company,
Youngstown, Ohio. From 1904 to the present time with the
Electric Controller and Manufacturing Company, Cleveland,
Ohio, as Draftsman, Chief Draftsman, Assistant Engineer, and
at present Sales Manager. Was granted degree of M.S. in 1906
and degree of E.E. in 1908, both from Rose. Member
A. I. E. E. Married May 11, 1909.

198. Haney, James Briggs. 1897.

Entered the Institute from Wellsburg, W. Va., in 1893, age 24;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1897. In
1898 with the Lozier Manufacturing Company, Toledo, Ohio.
In 1899 Draftsman with the Harbeser & Walker Company,
Pittsburg. In 1900 Draftsman with the Riter-Conley Manufac-
turing Company, Pittsburg, and Draftsman in United States

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Ordnance Department, Washington, D. C, until 1904. In 1904
Draftsman Ordnance Department at large United States Army,
Fort Hancock, N. J. From 1905 to 1906 Draftsman Ordnance
Department at large United States Army, Washington, D. C.
At the present time Fortification Draftsman United States
Engineer Department, Honolulu, H. T.

199. Heichert, Herman Smith. 1897.

Entered the Institute from Marion, Ind., in 1893. age 19; grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1897. Tn 1898
with the P. C. C. & St. L. Railroad, Logansport, Ind. From 1899
to 1900 Instructor in Mechanical Engineering Worcester Poly-
technic Institute, Worcester, Mass. In 1901 Designer in Win-
chester, Mass. From 1902 to 1908 Draftsman Pittsburg Plate
Glass Company, Pittsburg, Pa. From 1908 to the present time
Engineer with the Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, Ford City,
Pa. Was married in 1902.

200. Hellweg, John Henry, Jr. 1897.

Born August 25, 1875, Chicago. Entered the Institute from
Hayward, Wis., in 1893 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineer-
ing Course in 1897. Since graduation has been with the West-
ern Electric Company. Chicago, 111., and at present is the Tele-
phone Sales Department Manager for the company at the fac-
tory, Hawthorne, 111. Was married April 12, 1899.

201. HOLDERMAN, ChAUNCEY HaRCOURT. 1897.

Entered the Institute from Hutsonville, 111., in 1891, age 21 ;
graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1897. From 1897
to 1901 Secretary of the Hutsonville Brick and Tile Company,
Hutsonville. 111. In 1902 County Surveyor Crawford County,
Mt. Carmel, 111. In 1902 in Maintenance of Way Department
Big Four Railroad Company, Mattoon, 111. From 1904 to 1905
Resident Engineer with Indianapolis Southern Railway, Indi-
anapolis. In 1906 with Engineering Department Big Four Rail-
road, Robinson, 111. From 1907 Superintendent Manatee Light
and Power Company. Bradentown. Fla. Was married October
12, 1905.

202. Ingle, John David, Jr. 1897.

Born October 5, 1875, Evansville. Entered the Institute from
Oakland City, Ind., in 1893 ; graduated in the Civil Engineering

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Course in 1897. Since graduation with the Ayeshire Coal Com-
pany as Surveyor, Superintendent, and now General Manager,
Oakland City, Ind. Was married October 5, 1904.

203. Kessler, John Jacob, Jr. 1897.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, age 17; graduated in
1897 in the Chemistry Course. From 1897-99 Chemist in Test-
ing Laboratory General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
From 1899-igoi Chemist and Engineer of Insulation for the
Wagner Electric and Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, Mo.
From 1901 to date with the Dielectric Manufacturing Company
as Vice-President, General Manager, and, since 1907, President
and General Manager. In 1905 associated with H. E. Wiede-
mann, firm of Kessler & Wiedemann, Consulting Chemists, St.
Louis. His work has been largely in the study and preparation
of electrical insulating materials now manufactured by the
Dielectric Company.

204. Lendi, John Henry. 1897.

Born in Dubuque, Iowa, June 25, 1874. Entered the Institute
from Wichita, Kan., in 1893; graduated in the Electrical Engi-
neering Course in 1897. In 1898 graduate student at Rose
Polj^echnic Institute. From September, 1898, to September,
1899, in the Engineering Department of the Chicago Telephone
Company, Chicago. From September, 1899, to September, 1901,
in charge of the Experimental Department of the Kellogg
Switchboard and Supply Company, Chicago. From September,
1901, to February, 1904, in charge of the Experimental Depart-
ment Western Electric Company, Chicago. From February,
1904, to the present time Electrical Engineer of the Belden
Manufacturing Company, Chicago, 111. Was married June 27,
1908, in Chicago.

205. Lufkin, John Edwin, Jr. 1897.

Entered the Institute from Anna, III., in 1893, age 19; grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1897. From 1897
to 1900 Engineer in various capacities, mainly in Texas and
Mexico. In 1900 Erecting Engineer Electric Plant, Boswell,
N. M. From October i, 1901, Electrical Engineer C. & E. I.
Railway, Danville, 111. From 1902 to 1904 in Electrical Work
in Mexico. In 1905 with the Union County Traction and
Power Company, Anna, 111. 1906 Superintendent Construction

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Pocahontas Ice and Power Company, Pocahontas, Ark. From
1907 to the present time Superintendent of Mines, Santa Eulalia,
Union Mining Company, Chihuahua, Mexico.

206. Martin, Walter Huber. 1897.

Born May 13, 1875, Danville, 111. Entered the Institute from
Danville, 111., in 1893, and graduated in the Civil Engineering
Course in 1897. From June, 1897, to May, 1899, Chief Engineer
Illinois Eastern Hospital for Insane, Kankakee, 111. Since May,
1809. to the present time City Engineer Danville, 111.

207. Meyer, August Henry. 1897.

Born April 17, 1875, Appleton, Wis. Entered the Institute in
1893 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1897.
From 1897 to 1901 Superintendent Camden Light and Power
Company, Camden, Ark. From 1901 to date Secretary and
Treasurer of Langstadt & Meyer Construction and Supply Com-
pany, Appleton, Wis. His more important work has been the
construction of electric, steam, hydro-electric, and water works
plants.

208. Moore, Odus Burdette. 1897.

Botn December 29, 1871, Cedar City, Mo. Entered the Institute
from Fulton, Mo., in 1893, and graduated in the Electrical Engi-
neering Course in 1897. In 1908 Assistant Mechanical Engineer
Hawley Dow n Draft Furnace Company, Chicago. In 1899 was
Electrician in United States Navy on Gunboats Yankton and
Vixen. From 1900 to 1905 in Electrical Engineering Department
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Pittsburg.
In 1906, because of ill health of his brother, temporarily became
partner and Proprietor of Moore's Drug Store, Fulton, Mo.
Was married October 23, 1902. While with the Westinghouse
Company his work was especially on insulation. He contributed
several articles to scientific journals on this subject, and holds
some patents.

209. Newbold, Roger Merrick. 1897.

Born May 30, 1876, Pittsburg, Pa. Entered the Institute from
Birmingham, Ala., in 1893 ; graduated in the Electrical Engi-
neering Course in 1897. In 1898 Fuel Inspector L. & N. Rail-
way, Birmingham, Ala. From 1899 to 1901 of R. M. Newbold

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& Co., Consulting Engineers and Contractors, Birmingham.
1901 with the Louisville Railway Company, Louisville, Ky.
From 1902 to 1903 Electrician L. & N. Railway, Birmingham.
1904 and 1905 Patentee and Manufacturer Newbold Railway
Electric Lighting System, Louisville and Chicago. From 1906
to the present time Electrical Engineer for Adams & Westlake
Company, Chicago. Was granted degree of M.S. in 1907 and
degree of E.E. in 1908, both from Rose. Is a member of the
Engineers' Association of the South and A. L E. E. Was mar-
ried in November, 1900, at Monrovia, Cal. Holds a number of
patents protecting the Adlake-Newbold Car Axle Lighting
System.

210. Philip, Robert Ashby. 1897.

Born August 2, 1874, Sacramento, Cal. Entered the Institute
in 1893 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1897.
From 1897 to 1900 with the General Electric Company, Schenec-
tady, N. Y. In 1900 with the Tacoma Electric Company, Ta-
coma. Wash. 1901 with the Seattle Electric Company, Seattle,
Wash. In 1903 and 1904 Electrical Engineer Columbia Im-
provement Company, Tacoma, Wash. In 1905 in the Engineer-
ing Department Stone & Webster, Boston, Mass. From 1906
to date Electrical Engineer of the Stone & Webster Engineer-
ing Corporation, Boston, Mass. Is a member of the Pacific
Northwest Society of Engineers (Seattle) and associate mem-
ber of the A. I. E. E.. Was married May 25, 1904. Since 1904
has had general oversight of the electrical engineering work
done by Stone & Webster for the railway and lighting com-
panies which they manage, the number of which at present is
about thirty, and distributed in location from Key West, Fla.,
to BelHngham, Wash. Also design and installation of large
Western Hydro-electric Power plants.

211. PiERSox, Temple Guy. 1897.

Born February 3, 1875, Freedom, Ind. Entered the Institute
from Spencer, Ind., in 1892; withdrew in 1S93, and reentered
in 1894; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1897.
Since graduation has been Manager of the J. L. Pierson Lumber
Company, Spencer, Ind. Has been a member of the House of
Representatives. Indiana Legislature, and is a member of the
State Executive Committee of the Young Men's Christian
Association. Was married in Terre Haute in June, 1906.

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212. RypiNSKi, Maurice Charles. 1897,

Entered the Institute from Bryan, Texas, in 1893, age 16; grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1897. From 1897
to 1902 Engineer with the General Electric Company, Schenec-
tady, N. Y. From 1902 to 1904 Superintendent of Factory of
the Empire Electrical Instrument Company, New York City.
From 1904 to 1906 President of the Simplex Company, Newark,
N. J. From 1906 to 1908 in the Engineering Department of the
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, New York
City. Was married in November, 1905.

213. Shaver, Archie Grant. 1897.

Entered the Institute from Lakeview, Mich., in 1893, age 18;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1897. From
1898 to 1900 Electrical Repairman C. & E. I. Railroad Com-
pany, Danville, 111. In 1900 Electrician C. & E. I. Railroad
Company, Danville, 111. 1901 to 1906 Signal Engineer Union
Pacific Railroad Company, Omaha, Neb. From April, 1906, to
1908 with the Hall Signal Company at Garwood, N. J. From
June, 1908, to the present time Signal Engineer Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific Railroad, Chicago, 111. Was married February
12, 1902, in Danville, 111.

214. Tucker, Clarence Howe. 1897.

Entered the Institute from Washington, D. C, in 1893, age 17,
and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1897.
From 1898 to 1900 with Driggs-Seabury Gun and Ammunition
Company, Derby, Conn. In 1900 in Designing and Experimen-
tal Department Otis Elevator Company, Yonkers, N. Y. Mr.
Tucker died May 8, 1900.

215. Westfall, Herbert Cochran. 1897.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1893, age 19; grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1897. Was grad-
uate student in Civil Engineering in 1898 at Rose. From 1899-
1901 with the Big Four Railroad at Mattoon, 111. Then till 1903
in Engineering Department C. O. & G. Railroad Company, Lit-
tle Rock, Ark. From 1903-05 with the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific Railroad, Chicago. From 1905-07 Locating Engineer
Chicago, ^Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad in Washington and
[Montana. From 1908 to date Assistant Engineer Northern
Pacific Railroad, St. Paul, Minn. ^^larried in Terre Haute in
1902.
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216. WiLLius, GusTAV, Jr. 1897.

Entered the Institute from St. Paul, Minn., in 1893, age 20;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1897. In

1898 Engineer for the Mississippi Valley Telephone Company,
St. Paul, Minn. From 1899 to 1901 in charge of Electrical
Engineering work for the Great Northern Elevator Company,
West Superior, Wis. From October, 1901, to 1903 in charge of
Electrical Engineering work for the Great Northern Railway
Lines, St. Paul. 1905 and 1906 Mechanical Engineer Great
Northern Railway Lines, St. Paul. 1907 Mechanical Engineer
for Robinson, Cary & Sands Company, St. Paul, Minn., which
position he still holds.

217. Austin, Ned Magill. 1898.

Born October 12, 1874, Terre Haute. Entered the Institute in
1894; graduated in Chemistry in 1898. After graduation em-
ployed in the laboratory of Parke, Davis & Co. at Detroit. In

1899 was Chemist for Kirkpatrick & Co., Ltd., Leechburg, Pa.
In 1900 Assistant Chemist for Shoenberger Works of the
American Steel and Wire Company, Pittsburg, and with the
Duquesne Steel Works, Duquesne, Pa. In 1901 Chemist for
Walser Soap Company. In 1902 Chemist for Apollo Iron and
Steel Company. Vandergrift, Pa. From 1903 to 1904 Metal-
lurgist for United Engineering and Foundry Company. Vander-
grift, Pa. From 1905 to 1906 Superintendent of Open Hearth
Furnaces for the American Sheet Steel Company, Vander-
grift, Pa. In 1907 with the United Engineering and Foundry
Company, Vandergrift, Pa. At present with the American Roll
and Foundry Company, Canton, Ohio. Was married on Octo-
ber 15, 1901, in Leechburg, Pa.

218. Brachmann, Frederick Charles. 1898.

Entered the Institute from Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1894, at the age
of 19, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1898. In 1898 Draftsman for Dietz, Schumacher & Boye, Ma-
chine Tool Builders, Cincinnati, O. From 1899 to 1900 in Test-
ing Department General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
In 1901 in Switchboard Department General Electric Company.
Schenectady, N. Y. While still in the service of the General
Electric Company was affected by severe rheumatic ailments,
which caused him to leave the service of the company and go

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to his home in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has remained at Cincinnati
since, and whenever physically able assists his father in busi-
ness. He has maintained his interest in engineering work, and
remains a loyal son of Rose. His present address is No. 2632
Eden Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio.

219. Eastwood, Arthur Clark. 1898.

Born February 11, 1877, Louisville, Ky. Entered the Institute in
1894; graduated from the Electrical Engineering Course in

1898. From July to October, 1898, was with the firm of Meig-
han & Co., Birmingham, Ala. From October, 1898, to March,

1899, was in the Electrical Department of the Homestead Steel
Works for the Carnegie Steel Company at Munhall. From 1899
to 1900 Superintendent of the Electrical Department of the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, Ensley, Ala.
From 1900 to date has been associated with the Electric Con-
troller and Supply Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, which changed
its firm name last year to the Electric Controller and Manufac-
turing Company. He rose from the position of Engineer to
that of General Manager and Engineer, then Vice-President
and General Manager, and is now the President. From 1901
to 1905 also acted as Consulting Engineer for the Wellman-
Seaver Engineering Company, of Cleveland, Ohio. Received
degree of M.S. in 1900 and that of E.E. in 1902 from Rose. Is
a member of the A. I. E. E., Franklin Institute of Pennsylvania,
New York Railroad Club, and the Engineering Club of New
York. Mr. Eastwood's work has been mainly along the line of
devising and developing electrical devices especially in iron and
steel works for the control of various machinery there used.
He also has given his attention to the developing of lighting
magnets. Many of his devices are patented, having control of
some ninety or more patents. Married in January, 1891, at Bir-
mingham, Ala.

220. Fletcher, Thomas. 1898.

Entered the Institute from Little Rock, Ark., age 18, and grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1898. From 1899
to 1901 Vice-President of the Moose & Gin Company, Mor-
rillton. Ark. In 1906 President Burrow-Moose Mercantile
Company, Morrillton, Ark. From 1907 to date has devoted his
attention to farming, and his address is Scotts, Ark.

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221. Ford, William Ellis. 1898.

Entered the Institute from Little Rock, Ark., in 1894, age 18;
graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1898. From grad-
uation to April, 1906, was on construction work on railroads in
Arkansas, Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Since that
time he has been in the Philippine Islands superintending con-
struction work on the Philippine Railway. Has several thou-
sand men under his direction. His work is arduous and the
climate trying, but he expects to remain unless his health
breaks down.

222. FrEUDENREICH, WiLLIAM FREDERICK. 1898.

Born December 21, 1877, Terre Haute. Entered the Institute
in 1894; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1898. From July, 1898, to May, 1902, Assistant Examiner
United States Patent Office, Washington, D. C. From May,
1902, to June, 1904, practiced Patent Law in Boston, Mass.
From June, 1904, to April, 1907, Assistant Attorney in Patent
Department General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
From April, 1907, to the present time practiced Patent Law in
Chicago. Is member of the firm of Chamberlin & Freuden-
reich, Chicago. Was granted degree of LL.B. in 1901 from
National Law School and degree of M.P.L. in 1902 from the
Columbian University. Was married January 15, 1903, in New
York City.

223. HuBBELL, John Edmund. 1898.

Born October 11, 1876, Altona, 111. Entered the Institute in
Sophomore Class, 1895, and graduated in the Electrical Engi-
neering Course in 1898. From 1898 to 1901 Assistant Examiner
Patent Office, Washington, D. C. From 1902 to 1906 Assistant
Attorney in Patent Department General Electric Company,
Schenectady, N. Y. From 1906 to date Patent .\ttorney with
Francis T. Chambers, Philadelphia, Pa. Was given degree of
LL.B. in 1901 from National University and degree of M.P.L.
in 1902 from Columbian University. Is married.

224. Kidder, Ned Solon. 1898.

Born April 10, 1874. Entered the Institute in 1894, and grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1898. In 1898
with Lead and Zinc Mines, Webb City, Mo. In 1899 with the
Pope Manufacturing Company, Storage Battery Department,
Hartford, Conn. From 1900-04 with the Wabash Mills, Terre

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Haute. In 1904 also on Government Public Land Survey, Isle
Royale, Lake Superior. In 1905-06 City Engineer Terre Haute.
From 1907 to the present time Salesman and Promoter with
American Asphaltum and Rubber Company, Chicago. Married
December 20, 1900, at Terre Haute.

225. Kloer, Charles. 1898.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, Ind., in 1894, age 18,
and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1898.
In 1899 in the T. H. & I. Railway Shops, Terre Haute. From
1900 to date with the Liquid Carbonic Acid Manufacturing
Company, Chicago, 111.

226. KlvOER, GUSTAVE FREDERICK. 1898.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, Ind., in 1894, age 20;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1898. In

1899 in the T. H. & I. Railway Shops, Terre Haute. From

1900 to date with the Liquid Carbonic Acid Manufacturing
Company, Chicago.

22y. Lansden, John McMurray. 1898.

Born July 8, 1877, at Cairo, 111. Entered the Institute in 1894;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1898. From
1899 to 1901 of J. M. Lansden & Co., Electrical Engineers and
Manufacturers, Birmingham, Ala. In 1903-04 President of the
Birmingham Electrical and ^Manufacturing Company. From
1905 to date of the Lansden Company, Electric Automobiles,
Newark, N. J. Has been associated with Thomas Edison in the
perfection of the Edison Storage Battery used in the Lansden
Automobile.

228. Montgomery, John Tuli.. 1898.

Born March 4, 1876, CarroUton, Mo. Entered the Institute in
1894; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1898. 1899
Draftsman with the Falkenau Construction Company, Chicago.
From 1900 to 1905 Resident Manager Roebling Construction
Company. Chicago. In 1906 ^Manager M. A. Mead & Co., Man-
ufacturers of Watches, Pittsburg, Pa. From 1908 to date Vice-
President and Manager ]M. A. Mead & Co., New York City.
Some of his more important work has been the fireproofing of
the Iroquois Theater of Chicago, of the Thomas Orchestra
Building of Chicago, the First National Bank of Cincinnati.
Was married June 18, 1901, in Chicago.

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229. PiRTLE, CIvAiborne;. 1898.

Born December 4, 1875, Louisville, Ky. Entered the Institute
in 1894; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1898.
In 1899 in Testing Department and 1900 in the Lighting Depart-
ment General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. From
1901 to the spring of 1904 Agent for the General Electric Com-
pany in North Carolina and Southern Virginia. From April,
1904, to the present time with the Electric Controller and Man-
ufacturing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, and now the Vice-Presi-
dent and General Manager. Was married early in 1909.

230. Roberts, Shelby Saufley. 1898.

Born April 13, 1874, at Louisville, Ky. Entered the Institute in
1894; graduated in 1898. From 1899-1905 with the Louisville
& Nashville Railway, from Track Apprentice and Rodman to
Engineer in Charge of Terminal Construction, Roadmaster,
Engineer Maintenance of Way, and Office Engineer. From
1905-08 Assistant Engineer Illinois Central Railway, Chicago.
From 1908 to date Assistant Professor Railway Civil Engineer-
ing, University of Illinois. Was granted degree of C.E. from
Rose in 1907. Is member of the Engineering Association of
the South, A. R. E. and M. W. Association, A. S. C. E., Engi-
neers' and Architects' Club of Louisville. Was married in
Louisville November 26, 1901. Has had much work in planning
terminals. Has in preparation a "Handbook of Track For-
mulae and Tables."

231. Ryder, Waldo Brigham, Jr. 1898.

Born June 4, 1876, Charlotte, N. C. Entered the Institute in
1894; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1898.
In 1899 with the Southern Railway, Charlotte, N. C. From
1900 to 1901 Electrician Union Copper Mine, Gold Hill, N. C.
In 1903 Treasurer Ryder Wagon Works, Charlotte, N. C. 1904
Secretary and Assistant Superintendent Ryder Wagon Works,
Thomasville, N. C. In 1906 with the Charlotte Cotton Ex-
change and Board of Trade, Charlotte, N. C. Mr. Ryder died
September 26, 1907, after a few months' illness.

232. Schneider, Frederick Wilhelm. 1898.

Born September 3, 1875, Evansville, Ind. Entered the Institute
in 1894, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in

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1898. From 1899 to 1901 with the General Electric Company,
Schenectady, N. Y. In 1904 Electrical Inspector of New York
City, N. Y. Mr. Schneider was married April 3, 1902, in New
York City. Since 1904 no record has been received at the Insti-
tute in regard to him.

233. Stewart, Morton Bishop. 1898.

Born September 26, 1876, Muscatine, Iowa. Entered the Insti-
tute in 1894; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course
in i8g8. In 1899 graduate student in Civil Engineering at the
Rose Polytechnic Institute. 1900 with the Indiana Southern
Railway Company. From 1900 to 1903 with the Missouri
Edison Company, St. Louis, Mo. From 1904 to 1906 with the
Union Electric Light and Power Company, St. Louis, Mo.
From 1906 to the present time Mechanical and Electrical Engi-
neer Minas Tecolotes Anexas, Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mex-
ico. Is a member of the Western Society of Engineers and the
A. I. E. E. Was married in St. Charles, Mo., January 7, 1901.

234. Stilz, Harry Ball. 1898.

Born in Louisville, Ky., February 9, 1876. Entered the Institute
in September, 1894; graduated from the Electrical Engineering
Course in 1898. After graduation was Foreman of Electric
Welding Equipment used in Welding Street Car Tracks in
Brooklyn, N. Y. From 1899-1900 was with William Cramp &
Sons' Shipbuilding Company, Philadelphia. 1900-01 in Bureau
of Construction and Repair Navy Department, Washington.
From 1901-05 with the Naval Construction Department at Bath,
Me., and Seattle, Wash. In summer of 1906 with Steam Tur-
bine Department General Electric Company, Schenectady. In-
structor of Mechanical Engineering University of Pennsylvania,
1906-07. Received degree of M.S. at Rose in 1902. Has been
for some time engaged in the development of a type of internal
combustion engine, and in this interest went to England in the
winter of 1908. This type was partially described in the Rose
Technic, October, 1905, and more fully discussed in the Bngi-
neering Nezus lately.

235. Theobald, Charles Edwin. 1898.

Born February 28, 1877, Archbold, Ohio. Entered the Institute
in 1894. and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in

200 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

1898. From 1898 to the present time with New York Telephone
Company as Engineer in the Plant Department. Is a member
of the New York Electrical Society. Was married in New
York October 17, 1903. He has been studying Wireless Teleg-
raphy.

236. VOORHES, KlMBROUGH EnOCH. 1898.

Born December 28, 1875, Danville, III. Entered the Institute
in 1894; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1898. In 1899 with the McKay Metallic Fastening Association,
Winchester, Mass. From 1900 to 1901 in the Mechanical Engi-
neering Department New York Ship Building Company, Cam-
den, N. J. In 1904 with Henry R. Worthington, Harrison, N. J.
In 1907 Mechanical Engineer for Champion Coated Paper Com-
pany, Sunburst, N. C. No further record of Mr. Voorhes has
been received at the Institute.

237. WaxVisley, Calk. 1898.

Born May 16. 1868, Terre Haute. Entered the Institute in 1894,
and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1898. From
1898 to 1900 Assistant Engineer, and from 1900 to 1901 Super-
intendent of Track Big Four Railway Company, Mattoon, 111.
In 1901 Assistant Engineer Great Northern Railway Company.
From 1901 to 1902 Resident Engineer Oklahoma & Western
Railway, Oklahoma City. From 1902 to 1904 Resident Engi-
neer Texas & Oklahoma Railway, Shawnee. From 1904 to 1905
Assistant Engineer Big Four Railway Company, Mattoon, 111.
From 1905 to 1907 Maintenance of Way Inspector Missouri
Pacific Railway, Kansas City, Mo. From 1907 to the present
time Division Engineer Missouri Pacific Railway, Aurora, Mo.
Was married December 27, 1899.

238. Written, Frank Allen. 1898.

Born March 28, 1876. Entered the Institute from Sloan, Iowa,
in 1894, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1898. In 1898 Draftsman with the Buckeye Engine Company,
Salem, Ohio. From 1899 to 1906 Engineer in Testing Depart-
ment Henry R. Worthington's Works, New York City. From
1906 to the present time Engineer and Superintendent for the
Lansden Automobile Company, Newark, N. J. Was granted
degree of M.S. in 1902 from Rose. Married October 11, 1905.
at South Berwick, Me.

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239. Wiley, Brent. 1898.

Born April 10, 1876, Paris^ 111. Entered the Institute in 1894;
gradirated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1898. From
1898 to 1899 in the Electrical Department Ohio Steel Works,
Youngstown, Ohio. From 1899 to 1904 in Electrical Depart-
ment Homestead Steel Works, Munhall, Pa. From 1904 to
1906 Electrical Engineer Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Engineering
Company, Cleveland, Ohio. From 1906 to the present time
Commercial Engineer Westinghouse Electric Company, Pitts-
burg, Pa. Is an associate member of the A. I. E. E. and mem-
ber of the Engineers' Society Western Pennsylvania. Was
granted degree of M.S. in 1902 from Rose, and was married
October i, 1908, at Paris, III.

240. Burt, Nathaniel Pratt. 1899.

Born August 27, 1877, Leavenworth, Kan. Entered the Insti-
tute in 1895, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1899. In 1899 was a graduate student in Chemistry at the
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass. From 1900
to the present time is Foreman for the Great Western Stove
Company, Leavenworth, Kan.

241. Butler, Noble Charles, Jr. 1899.

Born July 27, 1874. Entered the Institute from Indianapolis in
1895, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1899. From 1900 to 1906 with the Henry R. Worthington's
Hydraulic Works, Brooklyn, N. Y. From 1906 to the present
time with the same company at Harrison, New Jersey.

242. Crebs, Walter David. 1899.

Born June 3, 1877, Dayton, Ohio. Entered the Institute in
1895 ; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1899.
From 1899 to 1901 with the Thresher Electric Company, Day-
ton, Ohio. From 1902 to the present time with the Beaver Soap
Company, Dayton, Ohio, now as Superintendent. Was married
November 6, 1902.

243. Davis, William Griffith. 1899.

Born October 22, 1875, Washington, D. C. Entered the Insti-
tute in 1895 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1899. From time of graduation until January, 1903, with the
General Electric Company at Schenectady. N. Y., in the Test-

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ing, Construction, Drafting, and Engineering Departments.
From October, 1903, until July, 1905, with the Electric Storage
Battery Company, Philadelphia, Pa. From July, 1905, to May,
1906, with Charles L. Seeger, Mexico City, Mex. From 1907
to the present time with the Westinghouse Machine Company,
New York City, N. Y., as their Storage Battery Representative
in the E^st.

244. Edwards, Edmund Perkins. 1899.

Born in Louisville, Ky., January 12, 1877. Entered the Institute
in 189s, and graduated in June, 1899, from the Electrical Engi-
neering Course. Immediately after graduation was with the
Ohio Steel Company at Youngstown, Ohio, in the Electrical
Department. In November, 1899, entered the service of the
General Electric Company at Schenectady, N. Y., where he has
remained to date. After completing his apprentice course
entered into the executive and commercial part, specializing
along the line of switchboard appliances, especially for the
United States Government in connection with the coast and
interior defenses. Later on was transferred to the Lighting
Department, of which he has entire commercial charge. He
has also been interested in wireless telegraphy and appliances
for same.

245. Froehlich, Frederick Herman. 1899.

Born May 6, 1875, Toledo, Ohio. Entered the Institute in 1895,
and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1899.
From 1899 to 1902 with the Edward Ford Plate Glass Company,
Toledo, Ohio. In 1903 Electrical Engineer Toledo & Western
Railroad Company, Sylvania, Ohio. 1904 Electrical Engineer
Patrick Hirsch Company, Toledo. In 1905 Electrical Engineer
Toledo & Western Railway, Sylvania, O. In 1906 Electrical
and Mechanical Engineer Toledo, Ann Arbor & Detroit Rail-
way, Toledo, O. From 1907 to the present time Consulting
Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, Toledo, Ohio. Member
A. I. E. E. Married, 1902, Terre Haute.

246. HoLLiGER, Jesse Elmer. 1899.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, age 19, in 1895, and
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1899. In
1899 with the Kester Electric Company, Terre Haute. 1900
Draftsman in the Vandalia Shops, Terre Haute. In 1901

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Draftsman for the Baldwin Locomotive Company, Philadelphia,
Pa., and later Draftsman in the office of the Chief of Engineers
United States Army. From 1902 to 1905 Assistant Examiner
Patent Office, Washington, D. C, and from 1906 to the present
time Examiner in the Patent Office. Was granted degree of
LL.B. from the National University and degree of M.P.L. from
the George Washington University, the first in 1904 and the
second in 1905.

247. Howell, Cecil A. 1899.

Born October 4, 1876, Mt. Sterling, Ky. Entered the Institute
in 1895, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1899. In 1900 in the Testing Department General Electric
Company, Schenectady, N. Y. 1901 Assistant Engineer Wag-
ner Electric Company, St. Louis, Mo. In 1902 doing experi-
mental work in Wireless Telegraphy for the Texas Midland
Railway at Terrell, Texas, and with the Bullock Company,
Cincinnati, Ohio. From September, 1902, to 1906 Engineer in
charge of Transformer Department Wagner Electric Company,
St. Louis, Mo. From 1906 to date Foreman of the Testing
Department Edison Electric Company, Los Angeles, Cal. Mr.
Howell was married March 24, 1905.

248. Jumper, Frank Jacob. 1899.

Born August i, 1877, Terre Haute. Entered the Institute in
189s, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1899. In 1900 was with the American Car and Foundry Com-
pany, Terre Haute. In 1901 Assistant Master Mechanic of the
Pressed Steel Car Company, McKee's Rock, Pa., and in July
of that year was made Civil Engineer for the company at Alle-
gheny, Pa. In 1902 Civil Engineer for the Standard Steel Car
Works, Butler, Pa. From 1904 to 1906 Chief Draftsman in
Mechanical Department and Civil Engineer for the Standard
Steel Car Company, Butler, Pa. From 1906 to the present time
Assistant Mechanical Engineer Union Pacific Railway, Omaha,
Neb. Mr. Jumper was married in Vincennes, Ind., October
I, 1901.

249. Keyes, Clift Button. 1899.

Born August 24, 1877, at Crown Point, New York. Entered
the Institute in 1895; graduated in the Electrical Engineering
Course in 1899. Since graduation has held various positions

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with the General Electric Company, and now represents the
Railway and Traction Engineering Department in their New
York office. Is a member of the A. I. E. E. and the American
Street and Interurban Railway Association. Was married June
i6, 1904, at Fitchburg, Mass. Was connected with the Elec-
trification of the New York Central Railway in New York City
and the West Jersey & Seashore Railway.

250. Kidder, Arthur Dale. 1899.

Born March 26, 1876, Terre Haute. Entered the Institute in
189s ; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1899. I"
1900 was Superintendent Blue Bell Mining Company, Webb
City, Mo. In 1901 was in General Land Office, Washington,
D. C. In March, 1901, took examination for Examiner of
Surveys, and made first grade. Received appointment in April
as Examiner of Surveys, and since that time has been in active
service, and has done much valuable work for the Government.
Was granted the degree of M.S. in 1901 from Columbian Uni-
versity. Was married in Terre Haute March 31, 1904.

251. KlTTREDGE, HarVEY GayLORD. 1899.

Born April 6, 1878, Dayton, Ohio. Entered the Institute in 1895,
and graduated in Chemistry in 1889. From time of graduation
to the present has been Secretary and Treasurer of the Kay &
Ess Company, Dayton, Ohio. Is also a Director of The Rice
Electric Display Company. Is a member of the American
Chemical Society, Society of Chemical Industry, the A. A.
A. S., and the American Society for Testing Materials. His
important work has been the manufacture of paint and varnish.

252. LiKERT, George Herbert. 1899.

Born October 3, 1874, Terre Haute. Entered the Institute in
1894, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1899. From 1898 to 1903 in the Union Pacific Shops, North
Platte, Neb. From 1903 to 1906 Assistant Master Mechanic
Wyoming Division U. P. Railroad Company, Cheyenne, Wyo.
From 1906 to 1907 Master Mechanic of the Colorado Division
at Denver. From 1907 to date Assistant Superintendent of the
Nebraska Division Union Pacific Railroad Company. Omaha,
Neb. Is a member of the Master Mechanics' and Master Car
Builders' Association and Western Railway Club. Mr. Likert
was married October 15, 1902.

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253. McLellan, James J. 1899.

Born December 25, 1872, Louisville, Ky. Entered the Institute
in 1895 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1899.
In 1899 Master Telephone Exchange, Salem, Ind. 1900 to 1902
Superintendent of Mills American Zinc, Lead and Smelting
Company, Webb City, Mo. From 1902 to 1906 Instructor in
Physics Manual Training High School, Louisville, Ky. From
1906 to the present time Superintendent of Mines, Webb City,
Mo. His special work is designing and erecting concentrating
plants for zinc and lead ores. Mr. McLellan is a member of
the Engineers' and Architects' Club of Louisville and the Engi-
neering Society of Southwest Missouri, Joplin, Mo. Was mar-
ried December 25, 1902.

254. Platts, John Milton. 1899.

Born July 30, 1873, at Buchanan, Mich. Entered the Institute
in 1894; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1899.
Was with the Fairbanks-Morse Company in Beloit, Wis., for a
few months, and then with the Western Electric Company until
the spring of 1908, when, on account of poor health, resigned
his position and went to live at Klamath Falls, Oregon, where
he is engaged in mercantile business.

255. ScHWABLE, Henry Conrad. 1899.

Born r^Iarch 26, 1878, Greenville, Ohio. Entered the Institute
in 1895 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1899-
In 1900 with the Electric Appliance Company, Chicago. In
1901 Sales Manager Electric Supply and Manufacturing Com-
pany, Cleveland. From 1901-04 with the Ohio Brass Company,
Mansfield. In 1904 Secretary of the Pittsburg Stoker and
Manufacturing Company, Pittsburg, Pa. From 1906 to the
present time with Stephen T. Williams & Staff, New York City.
His special work is along organization.

256. ScHWED, John Frank. 1899.

Born July 31, 1875, at Cleveland, Ohio. Entered the Institute
in 1895 ; graduated in 1899. In 1900 was with the Chicago &
Northwestern Railway at Council Bluffs, Iowa. From 1901-07
in Engineering Department Southern Railway at Birmingham,
Ala., and Knoxville, Tenn. In 1907 in Construction Depart-
ment Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, Franklin, Pa.,
and from 1898 to the present time with the same company at
Cleveland, Ohio. Was married at Cleveland February 5, 1902.

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257. Smyth, Cubitt Beve^rly. 1899.

Born December 10, 1873, Hamilton, Canada. Entered the Insti-
tute from Winnipeg, Canada, in 1895, and graduated in the
Mechanical Engineering Course in 1899. I" 1899 was Drafts-
man for the Colorado Iron Works, Denver, and Millwright
Colorado Iron Works. From 1900-08 with the Union Pacific
Railroad Company as Machinist and Erecting Foreman, North
Platte; Erecting Foreman, Cheyenne; Round House Foreman,
Laramie; Erecting Foreman, Omaha; District Foreman, Sid-
ney, Neb., and Assistant Mechanical Engineer, Omaha. From
1908 to the present time Superintendent McKeen Motor Car
• Company, Omaha. Is a member of the Western Railway Club
and the Omaha Railway Club. Was married in Denver March,
1903.

258. Stone, Arthur Prentice. 1899.

Born April 2, 1877, Terre Haute. Entered the Institute in 189S,
and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1899. In
1899 was with the Wheeling Corrugating Company, Wheeling.
In 1900 with the Brown Hoisting and Conveying Company,
Cleveland. Also with the Forest City Steel and Iron Company,
Cleveland. In 1901 Draftsman with the Webster, Camp & Lane
Machine Company, Akron, Ohio. 1902 Assistant Engineer
Maintenance of Way St. Louis Division Big Four Railroad,
Mattoon, 111. From 1903 to 1904 Draftsman with Heyl & Pat-
terson Company, Pittsburg. 1905 with the Big Four Railroad
Company, Cleveland, Ohio. In 1906 with the Big Four Rail-
road Company, Mattoon, 111. 1907 with the Missouri Pacific
Railroad, Tallulah, Fla. From 1908 to the present time with
the Big Four Railroad as Civil Engineer, Terre Haute, Ind.

259. Thompson, Arthur C. 1899.

Born November 15, 1870, Terre Haute. Entered the Institute
in 1895 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1899.
From 1900 to the present time with the Ridgeway Dynamo and
Engine Works, Ridgeway, Pa.

260. Trumbo, Chari^es Franklin, 1899.

Born January 9, 1877, Mt. Sterling, Ky. Entered the Institute
in 1895, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1899. From 1900 to 1901 Engineer with the Blue Bell Mining
Company, Webb City, Mo. In 1901 with the General Electric

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Company, Schenectady, N. Y. In 1906 with F. O. Blackwell,
Consuhing Engineer, New York. No further record of Mr.
Trnmbo has been received at the Institute.

261. APPI.ETON, W11.UAM Courtney. 1900.

Born February 24, 1876. Entered the Institute from Dayton,
Ohio, in 1896, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering
Course in 1900. From 1900 to T903 with the General Electric
Company, Schenectady, N. Y. From 1903 to IQ05 with the
same company, Atlanta, Ga. From 1905 to the present time
with the Crocker-Wheeler Company, Ampere, N. J. Mr. Apple-
ton was married June 22, 1904, at Charleston, S. C. Member
of A. I. E. E.

262. Brewer, Jesse Irving. 1900.

Born March 7, 1880, Terre Haute. Entered the Institute in
1896, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1900. From 1900 to 1901 Instructor in Department of Engi-
neering Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. From 1901 to
1902 Draftsman in office Mechanical Engineer Pennsylvania
Railroad, Altoona, Pa. In 1903 Assistant Engine House Fore-
man New York Central & Hudson River Railway at Albany,
and later in New York City. From April, 1903, to the present
time with the Interborough Rapid Transit Company as Drafts-
man, and July i, 1905, was made Assistant Engineer for the
company. Was granted degree of M.S. in 1902 and degree of
M.E. in 1904 and degree of C.E. in 1907, all from Rose.

263. Insley, William Henry. 1900.

Born January 16, 1870, in Terre Haute. Entered the Institute
in 1895; withdrew for one year; graduated in 1900 in the Archi-
tectural Course. In 1901 was Structural Draftsman for Brown-
Ketcham Iron Works, Indianapolis, and 1902-05 Structural
Draftsman and Estimator for Haugh-Noelke Company, Indian-
apolis. From IOCS to the present time President of the Insley
Iron Works, Indianapolis. In 1908 company was reorganized
and name changed to Insley Manufacturing Company. Member
I. E. S. Married in 1903 at Corning, N. Y.

264. Kidder, Sidney Jesse. 1900.

Born June 3, 1878, in Terre Haute. Entered the Institute in
1896, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1900.

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In 1900 visited the mining districts in Arizona, New Mexico,
and British Columbia. From 1901 to 1902 with the Pittsburg
Testing Laboratory, Chicago, 111. From 1903 to 1904 graduate
student School of Mines, Columbia University. From 1904 to
1906 Mining Engineer with Bamberger-DeLamar Gold Mines
Company, DeLamar, Nev. From 1906 to the present time with
the Tonopah Mining Company, Desert Mill, Millers, Nev. Mr.
Kidder was granted degree of E.M. in 1904 from the Columbia
University.

265. Larson, Charleys John. 1900.

Born March 2, 1872, at Lake Park, Minn. Entered the Institute
in 1896, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1900. From 1900 to 1905 was Erecting Engineer for the
Allis-Chalmers Company, Milwaukee, Wis. From 1905 to 1907
District Superintendent, New York Territory, for the Allis-
Chalmers Company. From 1908 to the present time Chief Engi-
neer Union Electric Company, Dubuque, Iowa. Is a member
of the A. S. M. E. and the A. I. E. E. Was in charge of the
building of the power stations for the Milwaukee Electric Rail-
way, the New Orleans Railway Company, the St. Louis Expo-
sition, the New York Subway, Washington, D. C, Drainage
Station, Washington Water Works, the Boston Sewerage Sta-
tion, and the New York High Pressure Fire Service. Mr.
Larson was married in Chicago, 1902.

266. Lesrr, Henry. 1900.

Born June 10, 1878, in Indianapolis. Entered the Institute in
1896 ; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1900. From
1901 to 190,3 Assistant on Engineering Corps in Maintenance of
Way Department of the Pittsburg Division of the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway. In 1905 was Assist-
ant in Engineering Department of the Louisville Division, P., C,
C. & St. L. Ry., Louisville. In 1906 in Engineering Department
of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, New York City,
and in July, 1907, was appointed Assistant Engineer of the
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, New York City, N. Y.
In Jtme, 1908, was married in New York CUy.

267. i^OOFROUROW, J ESSE HeALY. I9OO.

Born November 12, 1875, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Entered the
Institute in 1896; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in
1900. In 1901 was in office of Engineer Maintenance of Way

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Pittsburg Division Pennsylvania Lines west of Pittsburg, Pitts-
burg, Pa. No further report has been received at the Institute
from Mr. Loofbourow.

268. Madison, Herbert Frederick. 1900.

Entered the Institute in 1896, age 23, ; graduated in Chemistry in
1900. Was Assistant Chemist Cambria Steel Company, Johns-
town, Pa. Then Assistant Chemist, Ohio Works, U. S. Steel
Company, Youngstown, O. Then Chief Chemist Salem Iron
Company, Leetonia, O. In 1906 returned to Youngstown as
Consulting Chemist and Estimator of Costs for the Youngs-
town Foundry and Machine Company. Remained with this com-
pany until 1908, when, on account of his health, was compelled
to go to California, where he lived on a ranch until 1909, when
he acted as Librarian of the Clovis Public Library. Was
married May 5, 1904, at Youngstown, O.

269. Maier, Gustave Adolph. 1900.

Born February 5, 1878, in Danville, 111. Entered the Institute
in 1896, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1900. From July, 1900, to August, 1901. with the General Elec-
tric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. From August, 1901, to Sep-
tember, 1902, with the Milwaukee Electric Company, Milwaukee,
Wis. From October, 1902, to February, 1904, in Testing Depart-
ment ; from February, 1904. to June, 1906, in Induction Motor
Department, and from June, 1906, with the Power and Engi-
neering Department General Electric Company, Schenectady,
X. Y. Mr. Maier is a member of the Schenectady branch of the
A. I. E. E.. and was married April 8, 1908.

270. Mees, Curtis Adolph. 1900.

Born September 16, 1877, in Woodville, O. Entered the Rose
Polytechnic Institute in 1896; graduated in the Civil Engineer-
ing Course in 1900. From 1901 to 1902 with Engineering Corps
of the E. & A. Division of the Pennsylvania Lines west of Pitts-
burg. In 1902 with Chief Engineer of the New York Central &
Hudson River Railway, New York City. From 1902 to 1904
Assistant Engineer of the Catawba Power Company. Rock Hill,
S. C. In 1904 Assistant City Engineer Columbus, O. Since
April. 1905. Designing Engineer Southern Power Company,
Charlotte, N. C. Was granted the degree of CE. in 1908 from
Rose. Is a member of the A. S. C. E. Association, A. S. M. E.
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Association, A. I. E. E., and member Eng. Asso. of the South.
His work has been mainly along the lines of hydro-electric
power plants and high-tension transmission.

271. Me;riwether, David, Jr. 1900.

Born February 27, 1879, in Louisville, Ky. Entered the Insti-
tute in 1896; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1900.
From June, 1900, to March, 1901, with the Engineering Corps
of the Pennsylvania Lines west of Pittsburg at Cincinnati, O.
From March, 1901, to October, 1902, in Construction Depart-
ment of the Southern Railway, Louisville, Ky. From October,
1902, to June, 1905, Assistant Engineer with the Southern Rail-
way, and from that time to the present is Assistant Engineer,
Construction Department, Southern Railway Company, Knox-
ville, Tenn. Mr. Meriwether does not report whether he con-
tinues to play football.

272. Phiu-ips, Edward Frazier. 1900.

Entered the Institute from Danville, 111., in 1892 ; withdrew in
1893; returned in 1896, and graduated in Chemistry in 1900.
From 1901 to 1904 Draftsman with the Brown-Ketcham Iron
Works, Indianapolis, Ind. From 1904 to 1906 Assistant Cashier
First National Bank, Artesia, N. M. In 1907 Cashier Joyce-
Pruit Company, Artesia, N. M-. From 1908 to the present time
Cashier of the First National Bank, Artesia, N. "SI. Was mar-
ried October 8, 1902, in Terre Haute, Ind.

2yT,. Richardson, Harry Steele. 1900.

Born August 6, 1878, in Terre Haute. Entered the Institute in
1896; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1900.
From 1901 to 1903 Draftsman in Ordnance Office, War Depart-
ment, Washington, D. C. From 1903 to 1904 with the Long
Arm System Company, Mechanical and Electrical Ship Out-
fitters, Cleveland, O. From 1904 to 1905 with the Electric Con-
troller and Supply Company, Cleveland, O. From 1905 to the
present time Chief Draftsman of the Electric Controller and
Supply Company, Cleveland, O. Was granted the degree of
M.S. in 1902 from Rose, and was married in Washington, D. C,
in April, 1904. In 1901, when Mr. Richardson took the Civil
Service examination for the position in the Ordnance Depart-
ment, only two out of thirty candidates passed, he being one.
While in the Ordnance Department his chief work was on
disappearing gun carriages.

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274. WiTHERSPOON, Thomas Dwight, Jr. 1900.

Born December 25, 1874, in Louisville, Ky. Entered the Insti-
tute in 1896; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1900. From 1900 to 1901 in Testing Department of the National
Malleable Castings Company, Chicago. From 1901 to 1902 in
Superintendent's Office of the Vandalia Railway, Terre Haute.
From 1902 to 1903 Draftsman Youngstown Engineering Com-
pany, Youngstown, O. From 1903 to 1907 Electrical Engi-
neer and Assistant Master Mechanic Toledo Furnace Com-
pany, Toledo. In 1908 Consulting Engineer Magnolia Land and
Lumber Company, Magnolia, N. C. In 1909 Draftsman Union
Electric Light and Power Company, St. Louis, Mo. Is an Asso-
ciate member of the A. I. E. E. Was married December 8, 1903,
in Chicago, 111. Mr. Witherspoon was Editor of The Technic
and active in the organization of the Students' Council.

275. York, Robert. 1900.

Born October 24, 1879, in Pine Bluff, Ark. Entered the Insti-
tute in 1896; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1900. From June, 1900, to March, 1901, Master Mechanic
and Assistant Manager of the Bluff City Lumber Company,
Clio, Ark. From March to July, 1901, in charge of construc-
tion of power house for the Citizens' Light and Transit Com-
pany, Pine Bluflf, Ark. From 1901 to 1903 Manager Bluff City
Lumber Company, Kearney, Ark. From IQ03 to 1904 Super-
intendent Citizens' Light and Transit Company, Pine Bluff, Ark.
From 1905 to 1907 with the Citizens' Light and Transit Com-
pany, Pine Bluff. From 1908 to date Vice-President of the
York-Browning Lumber Company, Memphis. Tenn., the Grant
Lumber Company and the Burt Lumber Company, Rison, Ark.
Was granted the degree of M.S. in 1902 from Rose. Is an asso-
ciate member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

276. Clay, George Harry. 1901.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, Ind., in 1897, age 18;
graduated in Chemistry in 1901. From June i, 1901, to 1902,
Assistant Chemist Allegheny Steel and Iron Company, Taren-
tum. Pa. From 1902 to 1903 Assistant Chemist Procter &
Gamble Company, Ivorydale, O. In 1904 Superintendent Glycer-
ine Department Procter & Gamble Company, Ivorydale, O.
From November i, 1904, to August, 1908. Chemist Procter &
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charge of the Packing Department, Kansas City, Kan. Is a
member of the A. C. S. Was married in March, 1906.

277. Crawford, Gilbert. 1901.

Entered the Institute from Paola, Kan., in 1897, age 21 ; grad-
uated in Chemistry in 1901. From July, 1901, to June, 1902,
with the Fairbanks-Morse Company, Beloit, Wis. From June,
1902, to 1903, Assayer in American Smelting and Refining
Company, Pueblo, Col. From 1904 to 1906 Head Assayer and
• Chemist Montezuma Lead Company, Santa Barbara, Chihuahua,
Mexico. In 1907 Assayer and Chemist American Smelting and
Refining Company, Monterey, Mexico. At present Mr. Craw-
ford is at his home in Paola, Kan.

278. Gibbons, Walter Ray. 1901.

Born January 31, 1879, in Indianapolis. Entered the Institute
in 1897, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1901.
In 1901 graduate student and Assistant in Civil Engineering
at Rose Polytechnic Institute. From 1902 to 1905 with the
Waddell & Hedrick Company, Kansas City, Mo., as Assistant
Engineer Omaha and Resident Engineer Bayou Sara, La. From
1905 to the present time Assistant Engineer of the Big Four
Railway at Cincinnati, O. Was married in Terre Haute, Ind.,
August 4, 1904.

279. Hadley, William. 1901.

Entered the Institute from Hadley, Ind., in 1897, age 19; grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1901. In 1901 in
the Electrical Department of the Homestead Steel Works, Mun-
hall. Pa. Continued in this position until April, 1903. From
April, 1903, to February, 1904, with the Wilmington Malleable
Iron Works, Wilmington, Del. In 1904 Superintendent Elec-
trical and Mechanical Department Malleable Iron Works, Wil-
mington. In 1905 with the E. I. DuPont Company, Wilmington,
Del. In 1906 Assistant Engineer Eastern Dynamite Company,
Barksdale, Wis. From 1907 to the present time with the Elec-
trical and Mechanical Departments Isthmian Canal Commission,
Culebra, Canal Zone.

280. Ham MEL, Max Jacob. 1901.

Entered the Institute from Appleton, Wis., in 1897, at the age
of 18; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1901.

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From the fall of 1901 to the fall of 1904 with the Milwaukee
Electric Railway and Light Company, and since that time to
date with A. Herz, Terre Haute. Mr. Hammel was married in
Terre Haute April 27, 1905.

281. HeivMer, Leslie L. 1901.

Born November 11, 1877, in Terre Hjiute. Entered the Institute
in 1896 ; withdrew on account of defective vision ; reentered in
1898, and graduated in Chemistry in 1901. After graduation
was in the Chemical Laboratory of the Pittsburg Testing Labo-
ratory until January, 1902, Then in the Chemical Department
of the N. & G. Taylor Company, at Cumberland, Md. In May,

1902, was transferred to the Blackplate Department of the same
company as Assistant Superintendent. In March, 1903, became
Superintendent of the company, and in 1906 was made General
Manager, which position he holds to date. Was married June,
1907, in Cumberland, Md.

282. King, Everett Edgar. 1901.

Entered the Institute from Warren, Ind., in 1899, at the age
of 22, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1901.
From June, 1901, to December, 1902, Assistant Engineer Central
Railway, Mexico. December, 1902, to 1903, Assistant Engineer
Vandalia Railway. From September, 1903, to 1904, Assistant
Engineer on C, R. I. & P. Ry., Chicago. October, 1905, Division
Engineer Pacific & Idaho Northern Railway, Weiser, Ida. In
1906 Assistant Superintendent with the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific Railway, St. Louis, Mo. In 1907 Resident Engineer
C, R. I. & P. Ry., El Reno, Okla. In 1908 Associate Professor
of Civil Engineering at A. and M. College, Stillwater, Okla.,
which position he holds to date. Is associate member A. S. C. E.
and member Okla. Eng. Society. Was married October 3, 1903.

283. Lyons, Albert Carleton. 1901.

Born November 2, 1875, Terre Haute. Entered the Institute in
1897; graduated in the Chemical Department in 1901. From
June, 1901, to November, 1901, Assistant Chemist, Carnegie
Steel Works, Duquesne, Pa. From November, 1901, to August,

1903, Assistant Superintendent Chiapas Mining Company, Chia-
pas, Mexico. From 1903 to 1904 Instructor in Chemical Labora-
tory, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. From 1904 to 1907
of the firm of Burk & Lyons, Analytic and Consulting Chem-

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ists, Louisville, Ky. From 1907 to date Vice-President and
Manager Kansas City Testing Laboratory, Kansas City, Mo.
Granted degree of B.S. from Rose. Is a member of the A. C. S.
and the Kansas City Technological Society for Testing. Was
married June 25, 1905, at Columbia, Mo. Gave special attention
to study of Portland cement and waterproofing of concrete mix-
tures.

284. Miller, Robert Nei^herland. 1901.

Born September 12, 1879, Louisville, Ky. Entered the Institute
in 1897, and graduated in the Chemical Course in 1901. In 1901
and 1902 Assistant Professor of Chemistry and English in the
Male High School, Louisville, Ky. From 1903 to 1906 student
at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass., and with Legal Aid
Society, New York City. Since 1906 Practicing Law in Louis-
ville as Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Was granted degree
of LL.B. at Harvard in 1906. Member of the Engineers' and
Architects' Club, Louisville, Ky.

285. Perkins, Hugh Espey. 1901.

Entered the Institute from Rising Sun, Ind., in 1897, at the age
of 22; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1901. From
June, 1901, to 1902 with the Metropolitan Elevated Railway
Company, Chicago. In 1902 with Engineer Maintenance of
Way Terre Haute & Logansport Railway, Logansport, Ind.
From 1902 to 1903 with the Northwestern Elevated Railway
Company, Chicago. In 1904 Assistant Engineer of the North-
western Railway Company, Chicago. In 1905 and 1906 Assistant
Engineer with the Chicago & Oak Park Elevated and North-
western Elevated Railroads, Chicago. From 1907 to date As-
sistant Engineer Northwestern Elevated Railroad, Chicago.

286. Peeeging, Frank William. 1901.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, Ind., in 1896, at the
age of 20, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1901. In 1901 Signal Inspector Union Pacific Railway,
Omaha, Neb. From March, 1903, Signal Foreman Union Pa-
cific Railway, Omaha, Neb. From 1904 Supervisor of Signals
Colorado and Wyoming Division, Cheyenne, Wyo. At present
is Supervisor of Signals of the Union Pacific Railroad at Chey-
enne, Wyo.

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287. Piper, Harry D. 1901.

Born January 22, 1879, Paris, 111. Entered the Institute in 1897,
at the age of 19, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering
Course in 1901. In 1901 was with the Fairbanks-Morse Com-
pany, Beloit, Wis. From 1902 to 1906 in the Engineering De-
partment of the Ewart Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis.
From 1906 to the present time is Chief Engineer Ewart Works,
Link Belt Company, Indianapolis, Ind. Was married June 18,,
1905.

288. RiGGs, James Robert. 1901.

Entered the Institute in Junior Class from Erlanger, Ky., in
1899, at the age of 23, and graduated in the Electrical Engineer-
ing Course in 1901. In 1901 with the Link Belt Company, Indi-
anapolis, Ind. In 1902 and 1903 in the Motive Power Depart-
ment of the Vandalia Railroad, Terre Haute. 1904 and 1905
Assistant Engineer Vandalia Shops, Terre Haute. 1906 Assist-
ant Engineer of Motive Power Vandalia Railroad, Terre Haute.
From 1907 to the present time General Foreman Mechanical
Department Michigan Division of the Vandalia Railroad, Lo-
gansport, Ind. Was married in Terre Haute, Ind., November
II, 1903.

289. Rochester, Robert Kendall. 1901.

Entered the Institute from Dayton, Ohio, in 1897, at the age of
17, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1901. In
1901 was with the American Car and Foundry Company, De-
troit, Mich. In 1902 Assistant Engineer Maintenance of Way
L. & T. and T. H. & L. Railways, Logansport, Ind. In 1903
Engineer Maintenance of Way L. & T. and T. H. & L. Rail-
ways, Logansport, Ind. 1905 Engineer Maintenance of Way
Michigan Division Vandalia Railroad, Logansport, Ind. 1906
Principal Assistant Engineer Vandalia Railroad, Indianapolis,
Ind. From 1907 to the present time Principal Assistant Engi-
neer Vandalia Railroad, St. Louis, Mo. Has had charge of
track elevation in Indianapolis.

290. Schwartz, Harry Adolph. 1901.

Entered the Institute from Louisville, Ky., in 1897, at the age
of 17, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1901. From June to September in Power Plant Louisville Rail-
way Company. From September, 1901, to June. 1902, was In-
structor in Drawing Rose Polytechnic Institute. From June,

2i6 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

1902, to date with the National Malleable Castings Company,
Indianapolis, Ind. Was granted degree of M.S. in 1903 and
degree of ]\I.E. in 1905, both from Rose. Member of the
A. C. S., the S. for T. M.., the A. F. A., junior member
A. S. M. E.

291. Troll, Martin Neal. 1901.

Entered the Institute from Kansas, 111., in 1897, at the age of
18; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1901.
From 1901 to 1905 with the National Malleable Castings Com-
pany, Indianapolis, Ind. In 1906 with the National Malleable
Castings Company, Chicago. In 1907 Superintendent Solvay
Foundry Company, Solvay, New York. From 1908 to date
Electrical Engineer, Seattle, Wash.

292. Warfel, Rob Roy. 1901.

Entered the Institute from Monticello, Ind., in 1896. at the nge
of 20; graduated in the Chemical Course in 1901. In 1901 with
the Homestead Steel Works. In 1902 with the Allegheny Steel
and Iron Works, Avenue, Pa. 1902 and 1903 Chemist Allegheny
Steel and Iron Works, Brackenridge, Pa. Rrom 1904 to 1907
Chemist Babcock & Wilcox Boiler Company, Bayonne, N. J.
From 1907 to date Chemist, Seattle, Wash.

293. Cox, Claude Ernest. 1902.

Born April 10, 1879, Libertyville, Ind. Entered the Institute in
1898; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1902.
From the time of graduating to 1905 with the Standard Wheel
Company, Terre Haute, Ind., as Traveling Salesman, Drafts-
man, Superintendent of the Automobile Department, and Man-
ager of the Automobile Department. From 1905 to 1906 Man-
ager of the Automobile Department of the Standard Wheel
Company at Indianapolis, Ind. From 1906 to 1908 General
Manager and Treasurer of the Overland Automobile Company,
Indianapolis, Ind. 1908 designing Interstate Car and planning
the Interstate factory and equipment. From November, 1908,
to date Engineer and Assistant Manager Interstate Company at
Muncie, Ind. Was granted degree of M.S. in 1904 and the
degree of M.E. in 1906. both from Rose. Is a member of the
A. S. M. E. and Society of Automobile Engineers. Some of his
more important work has been the designing and building of
the Overland Car and the Interstate Car and the building and
equipping the Interstate and Overland factories.

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294. DiCKERSON, John Thomas. 1902.

Entered the Institute from Atlantic, Iowa, in 1897, at the age of
17; withdrew in 1899 to work in engineering office, Chicago;
reentered in 1900; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in
1902. After graduation in 1902 was with the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy Railroad Company, Chicago. In 1903 Assistant
Engineer of Bridges C. B. & Q. Railroad Company, Chicago.
From April 4, 1903, Assistant Engineer of Bridges with the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, Chicago. In 1904
with Kohen Iron Works, American Bridge Company, St. Louis,
Mo. From 1904 to date Assistant Engineer Scherzer Rolling
Lift Bridge Company, Chicago, 111.

295. FiSHBACK, Frederick R. 1902.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in i8g8, at the age of
18, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1902.
From graduation until September, 1903, with the Union Pacific
Railway, Cheyenne, Wyo. In 1903 in the shops of the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois Railroad at St. Elmo, 111. In 1904 Round
House Foreman of Shops of the Frisco System, Cape Girardeau,
Mo. From 1905 to 1907 Draftsman with the Electric Controller
and Supply Company at Cleveland, Ohio. From 1908 to the
present time Manager of the New York office of the Electric
Controller and Manufacturing Company, New York City. Mar-
ried.

296. Flory, Edgar Lee. 1902.

Entered the Institute from Dayton, Ohio, in 1898, at the age of
24, and graduated in Chemistry in 1902. After graduating in

1902 with the G. H. Hammond Company, Hammond, Ind. In

1903 with the G. H. Hammond Company, St. Joseph, Mo. 1904
Chemist of the St. Joseph Plant of the Hammond Packing
Company, St. Joseph, Mo. In 1905 Master Mechanic St. Joseph
Plant of the Hammond Packing Company, St. Joseph. From
1905 to 1908 Master Mechanic G. H. Hammond Packing Com-
pany, Chicago, which position he holds to date. Married.

297. Hills, Charles Herbert. 1902.

Bom August 20. 1880, Bernardston, Mass. Entered the Insti-
tute in 1898; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1902. From graduation until 1904 Chief Draftsman with the
Federal Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis, Ind. From 1904

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to 1908 in the Engineering Department of the Deane Steam
Pump Company, Holyoke, Mass. From 1908 to the present time
Special Representative International Steam Pump Company,
Holyoke, Mass. Was married October 15, 1905, at Bernards-
ton, Mass.

298. HoMMEL, Victor August. 1902.

Entered the Institute from Sandusky, Ohio, in 1898, at the age
of 18, and graduated in the Architectural Course in 1902. From
August, 1902, to 1903 with Brown Hoisting and Conveying
Company, Cleveland, Ohio. In 1903 with Robert W. Hunt &
Co., Chicago. In 1904 Vice-President M. Hommel Wine Com-
pany, Sandusky, Ohio. Died October 18, 1907, at Sandusky,
Ohio.

299. HousuM, Chenoweth. 1902.

Born November 25. 1879, Decatur, 111. Entered the Institute in
1898; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1902.
From time of graduation until March, 1903, Draftsman Youngs-
town Engineering Company, Youngstown, Ohio. From March,
1903, to the fall of 1905 Draftsman with the William Tod Com-
pany, Youngstown, Ohio. From 1905 to the present time in
charge of the Gas Engine Department of the William Tod
Company, Youngstown, Ohio. Was granted degree of M.S. in
1906 from Rose. Is an associate member of the A. S. M. E.
Mr. Housum's work has been mainly in engine and governor
design. He published a work on Shaft and Fly Ball Governors,
associated with Mr. Trinkham.

300. Jones, Edward Lindley. 1902.

Born June 11, 1880, Sanford, Fla. Entered the Institute from
Decatur, 111., in 1898, and graduated in the Civil Engineering
Course in 1902. From June, 1902, to June, 1904, with the Roe-
bling Construction Company, Chicago, 111. From 1904 to the
present with Hoefifer & Co., Chicago, 111., as Engineer and De-
signer, especially of reinforced concrete. Is a junior member of
the Western Society of Engineers, and was married October 3,
1906, in Roanoke, Va.

301. Jumper, Charles Henry. 1902.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute, Ind., in 1898, at the age
of 18, and graduated in Chemistry in 1902. From 1902 to 1904

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was Assistant Chemist with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Al-
toona. Pa. In 1905 with the Procter & Gamble Soap Company,
Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1906 in the Testing Department of the
Harriman System, Omaha, Neb. From 1906 to the present time
with A. D. Little, Chemical Expert and Engineer, Boston, Mass.
Was married in 1907.

302. Marshall, Ira. 1902.

Entered the Institute from Alma, 111., in 1899, at the age of 24,
and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1902. From
1902 to 1903 with the Big Four Railway at Mattoon, 111. From

1904 to 1907 Constructing Engineer with the Equitable Powder
Manufacturing Company, East Alton, 111. Since 1907 no report
has been received at the Institute from him.

303. Nicholson, John Alexander. 1902.

Born January 28, 1879, Detroit, Mich. Entered the Institute
from Terre Haute, Ind., in 1898; graduated in the Mechanical
Engineering Course in 1902. From time of graduation to the
present time with the Union Pacific Railway, and is now Fore-
man of the Motive Power and Machinery Department at Sid-
ney, Neb. Was married February 6, 1907, at Washington, Kan.

304. Osborne, Don Findley. 1902.

Entered the Institute from Cassopolis, Mich., in 1887, at the age
of 20, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1902. In 1902 with the Western Electric Company, Chicago, 111.

1905 with the Frick Coke Company, Scottdale, Pa. 1906 with
the Western Electric Company, Chicago. At present Superin-
tendent of Dredging at San Pedro Harbor, Terminal, Cal.

305. Paige, Arthur James. 1902.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1888, at the age of
16, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1902. From 1902 to 1908 Instructor in Drawing Rose Poly-
technic Institute. From September, 1908, to date Superintend-
ent and General Manager Fort Pitt Motor Manufacturing Com-
pany, New Kensington, Pa. Granted degree of M.S. in 1906
from Rose. Between 1902 and 1908 gave special attention to
the study of gas engines. Designed and built a motor car, and
has also been granted patents upon a rotary gas engine.

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306. I'arks, Coleman Clyde. 1902.

Born August 15, 1878, Sullivan, Ind. Entered the Institute
from Terre Haute in 1898; graduated in the Electrical Engi-
neering Course in 1902. From 1902 to 1903 with the General
Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. 1903 with the Carnegie
Steel Company, Munhall, Pa., where he remained until August,
1904, and then went with G. A. Taft, Consulting Engineer,
Colorado Springs, Col. From 1905 to 1906 Electrical Engineer
with G. A. Taft, Colorado Springs. In 1907-08 with the Stone
& Webster Engineering Company, Terre Haute. Was married
April 22, 1908, at Terre Haute.

307. Powell, Edgar Byer. 1902.

Entered the Institute from Newcastle, Ind., in 1898, at the age
of 22, and graduated in the Architectural Course in 1902. From
time of graduation to 1904 with Purdy & Henderson, Civil
Engineers, New York City, N. Y. From May, 1904, to 1906 in
Estimating Department of the American Bridge Company, New
York City. In 1906 with D. H. Burnham & Co., Architects,
Chicago. In 1907 Chief Engineer Insiey Iron Works, Indi-
anapolis, and in September, 1907, went with E. C. & R. M.
Shankland, Chicago, 111. Since that time no record has been
received at the Institute.

308. Uhl, Henry William. 1902.

Entered the Institute from Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1898, at the

age of 20, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1902. From 1902 to 1904 was in the shops of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company at Cheyenne, Wyo. From 1904 to
December, 1906, in shops of the Union Pacific Railroad Com-
pany at Omaha, Neb., as Mechanical Engineer, Head Inspector
of Locomotives, and Engineer of Tests. In 1907 and 1908 Gen-
eral Foreman Union Pacific Shops, Kansas City, Kan. At pres-
ent is Inspecting Engineer for Dr. Charles F. McKenna, New
York City, N. Y. Was married October 5, 1907.

309. Warren, Robert Chauncey. 1902.

Born August 12, 1881, Terre Haute, Ind. Entered the Institute
in 1898; graduated in Chemistry in 1902. From June, 1902, to
August, 1903, Assistant Chemist Armour Packing Company,
Kansas City, Mo. 1903 to April, 1904, Assistant City Chemist
Kansas City, Mo. 1904 to 1906 Chemist American Cotton Oil

Alumni Biographical Dictionary. 221

Company, at Memphis, Tenn., Chicago, and Atlanta, Ga. From
IQ06 Chemist Arkansas Cotton Oil Company. 1907 Chemist
Arkansas Cotton Oil Company and State Chemist, Little Rock,
Ark. Was married in Little Rock, Ark., June 3, 1908.

310. Aguilera, Francis Vicente. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Manzanillo, Cuba, in 1901, age 20;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1903. From
1903 to 1905 with the General Electric Company, Schenectady,
N. Y. 1906-08 Superintendent Electrical Plant, Manzanillo,
Cuba. 1909 Manager Cuervo & Co., Engineers and Contractors,
Havana, Cuba.

311. Arnold, Robert Bacon. 1903.

Born February 17, 1881, Terre Haute. Entered the Institute in
1899; graduated in Chemistry in 1903. From June, 1903, to
March, 1904, of the firm of Burk & Arnold, Chemists, Louis-
ville, Ky. 1904 Assistant Chemist for the Kentucky Tobacco
Product Company, Louisville, Ky. From 1905 to September,

1907, Chemist Richmond Branch Kentucky Tobacco Product
Company, Richmond, Va. From September, 1907, to June,

1908, graduate student Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
From June, 1908, to the present time "Chemist in charge, Ken-
tucky Tobacco Product Company, Richmond, Va. Is a member
of the A. C. S. Mr. Arnold perfected a process for the extrac-
tion of nicotine from tobacco stems, protected by patent in the
name of Lindenberger & Arnold.

312. Austin, Alfred Noel. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1899, age 19, and
graduated in the Architectural Course in 1903. In 1904 Drafts-
man Ornamental Iron Works, Denver Iron and Wire Works,
Denver, Col. In 1905 Draftsman for Reisick Structural Iron
Works. Allegheny, Pa. In 1906 Chief Draftsman Bollinger
Bros. Structural Iron Works, Pittsburg. In 1907 Architect,
and 1908 with the Federal Engineering Company, Pittsburg, Pa.
At present with Foltz & Parker, Architects, Indianapolis, Ind.

313. Blair, Marion Worthington. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1899, age 21 ; grad-
uated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1903. From
graduation to April, 1905, Assistant Superintendent of the Terre

222 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

Haute Brick and Pipe Company, Terre Haute. From April,
1905, to October, 1905, First Assistant Mechanical Engineer
Illinois Brick Company, Chicago. In 1906 with the Atlas Car
and Manufacturing Company, Chicago. 1907 with the G. E.
Luce Engineering Company, Chicago. Since January, 1908,
Secretary of the United States Engineering Company, St. Louis,
Mo. During the past year has erected plants for the Wabash
Brick Company at Terre Haute, and the Twin City Brick Com-
pany, St. Paul, Minn. Was married December 26, 1908.

314. Bowie, Wallace Douglas. 1903.

Born April 26, 1880, Sutersville, Pa. Entered the Institute from
Gallup, New Mexico, in 1899; graduated in the Mechanical
Engineering Course in 1903. From time of graduation to Sep-
tember, 1903, in the Union Pacific Railroad Shops, Omaha, Neb.
From September, 1903, to January, 1904, Draftsman Steubenville
Steel Works, Steubenville, Ohio. From March, 1904, to July,
1904, with the Southern Pacific Surveying Corps, Gallup, N. M.
From 1904 to 1906 Transitman on Southern Pacific Railroad.
From 1906 to the present time Superintendent Juanita Coal and
Coke Company, Bowie, Delta County, Col.

315. Braman, Harry Scott. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1899, age 19; grad-
uated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1903. From
1903 'to 1905 with the Carnegie Steel Company in Furnace De-
partment, Youngstown, Ohio. 1906 and 1907 Foreman in charge
of Furnaces Carnegie Steel Company, Youngstown, Ohio. In
1907 Manager Alice Furnaces Youngstown Sheet and Tube
Company. Sharpsville, Pa., and from 1908 General Superintend-
ent of Blast Furnaces of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Com-
pany, Youngstown, Ohio.

316. Brosius, James Simms. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1899. age 16; grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1903. From time
of graduation to 1905 with the Westinghouse Electric and Man-
ufacturing Company, Pittsburg. 1905 with the American Win-
dow Glass Company, Pittsburg. In 1906 with the Western
Electric Company, Chicago, 111. From 1907 to 1909 Draftsman
for the Electric Controller and Manufacturing Company, Cleve-
land, Ohio, and is at present Draftsman for the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Company. Pittsburg, Pa.

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317. Burt, Eugene. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Leavenworth, Kan., in 1899, age 18;
graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1903. From
the time of graduation to the present time with the Great West-
ern Stove Company, Leavenworth, Kan.

318. Chamberlain, Charles Lea. 1903.

Entered the Institute from St. Louis, Mo., in 1900, age 22 ;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1903. From

1903 to 1905 Draftsman with the St. Louis Transit Company, St.
Louis, Mo. From 1905 to the present time with the Rescue
Copper Company, Gila Bend, Arizona.

319. Cox, Irving John. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1899. age 19; grad-
uated in the Chemical Course in 1903. From 1903 to 1905 As-
sistant Chemist with the Armour Packing Company, Kansas
City, Mo., and in 1906 Assistant Chemist Armour Packing Com-
pany, Chicago. In 1906 with the Eastern Dynamite Company,
Gibbstown, N. J. From 1907 to the present time Chernist for
the E- I. DuPont de Nemours Powder Company," Gibbstown,
N. J. Was married January i, 1907.

320. Cox, Nathan Hadley. 1903.

Born May 21, 1881, Coloma, Ind. Entered the Institute from
Terre Haute in 1899, age 18; graduated in the Mechanical En-
gineering Course in 1903. From July, 1903, to 1904 with the
Wilmington Malleable Iron Company, Wilmington, Del. In
1905 with the General Electric Company in the Testing Depart-
ment, Schenectady, N. Y. From 1906 to 1909 Assistant Super-
intendent Naugatuck Malleable Iron Company. Naugatuck,
Conn. 1909 to date Superintendent of the Metal Finishing Com-
pany, Union City, Conn.

321. Cushman, John Arthur. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Springfield, Mass., in 1900, age 18;
graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1903. In

1904 with the Allis-Chalmers Company arranging exhibits at
the World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo. In 1905 Special Apprentice
Allis-Chalmers Company, Milwaukee. 1906 with the Illinois
Brick Company, Chicago. 1907 Engineer for Charles N. Hays,
Power Appliances, Chicago. From 1907 to the present time
with the Eagle Iron Works, Terre Haute, Ind.

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322. Davies, Graham. 1903.

Born March 8, 1878, Springfield, Tenn. Entered the Institute
from Louisville, Ky., in 1899; graduated in the Electrical Engi-
neering Course in 1903. From time of graduation to the present
time with the Western Electric Company in Chicago and Pitts-
burg in Purchase and Supply Department. Now in charge of
"service" of company. Was married at' South Whitley, Ind., in
December, 1904.

323. Fischer, Carl Dittman, ]r. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Wapakoneta, Ohio, in 1899, age 18;
graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1903. From
1903 to 1905 with the Atlas Engine Works, Indianapolis, Ind.
From 1905 to the present time with the Wapakoneta Machine
Company, Wapakoneta, Ohio, as Manager.

324. Fitzpatrick, James Edward. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1899, age 16; grad-
uated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1903. In 1903
with the Union Pacific Railroad Shops, Cheyenne, Wyo., and
from 1904 to date with the Union Pacific Railroad Shops at
Omaha, Neb.

325. Gilbert, Henry Curtis. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1899, age 18; grad-
uated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1903. From
1903 to 1906 in Mechanical and Electrical Departments of the
World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo. In 1906 with the Union Electric
Light and Power Company Underground Department, St.
Louis, INIo. From 1907-08 with the Department of Electricity
Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Va. From 1908 to date Super-
intendent Cable Department Sanitary District, Chicago, 111.

326. HuNLEY, John Boudinot, Jr. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1889, age 18; grad-
uated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1903. From 1903 to
1905 Acting Assistant Engineer C. C. C. & St. L. Railroad, Mat-
toon, 111. In 1905 in Construction Department C. C. C. & St. L.
Railroad, Cincinnati, O. From 1907 to date Assistant Engineer
C. C. C. & St. L. Railroad, Cincinnati, Ohio. Has designed and
supervised the construction of a number of large reinforced
concrete structures on the road.

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327. I JAMS, Jesse Wajiren. 1903.

Born June 19, 1882, Terre Haute. Entered the Institute in 1899,
and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1903.
In 1903 and 1904 graduate student in Civil Engineering Rose
Polytechnic Institute. In 1905 and 1906 with the Indiana Har-
bor Railroad Company as Transitman and Resident Engineer,
Hammond, Ind. From 1907 to date Assistant Engineer New
York Central & Hudson River Railroad, New York City, N. Y.

328. Ingi.e, William Davidson. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Oakland City, Ind., in 1898, age 17;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1903. In
1903 and 1904 Draftsman for the St. Louis Transit Company. St.
Louis, Mo. From May, 1904, to the present time Superintendent
of Ingle Coal Company, Evansville, Ind.

329. Jacob, Brent Cooke. 1903.

Born February 23, 1879, Oldham County, Ky. Entered the Insti-
tute from Louisville, Ky., in 1899; graduated in the Electrical
Engineering Course in 1903. In 1903 and 1904 with the Western
Electric Company, Chicago. In 1905 Draftsman for the Electric
Controller and Manufacturing Company, Cleveland, Ohio. In
1906 in drafting room with the Western Electric Company,
Chicago. From March, 1906, in drafting room with the West-
inghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Pittsburg, Pa.
Was married February 2;^, 1905, at Valparaiso, Tnd.

330. Kellogg, Henry Simmons. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Bowling Green, Ky.. in 1899, age 28;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1903. In 1903
and 1904 with the St. Louis Terminal Railway Association, St.
Louis, Mo. From 1904 to 1909 with the Wagner Electric Man-
ufacturing Company, St. Louis, Mo. At present with the Cen-
tury Electric Company, St. Louis, Mo.

331. KiEFER, Carl Jackson. 1903.

Born October 14, 1882, Cincinnati, Ohio. Entered the Institute
in 1889; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1903.
From June, 1903, to June, 1904, in the Testing Department of
the General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. From June,
ic»4, to May, 1905. Electrical Engineer Toledo Urban & Inter-

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urban Railway Company. May, 1905, to September, 1906, Chief
Engineer Cincinnati, Mil ford & Loveland Traction Company,
Milford, Ohio. From 1906 to date partner in the Reliance Engi-
neering Company, .Consulting Engineers, Cincinnati, Ohio. Is
a member of the A. I. E. E. Was granted degree of M.S. in
1905 and degree of E.E. in 1908 from Rose. This firm owns
and operates five electric light, water works, and heating plants,
in addition to doing consulting work.

332. KiRBY, Edward Cassady. 1903.

Born June 4, 1881, Muncie, Ind. Entered the Institute in 1899,
age 18; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1903. In 1903 and 1904 with the General Electric Company,
Schenectady, N. Y. In 1905 with the Pike's Peak Hydro-Elec-
tric Company, Colorado Springs, Col. In 1905-06 with the Gen-
eral Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. From July, 1906,
to date Engineer of Light, Heat, and Power Plant with the
E. I. Dupont de Nemours Powder Company, Sedalia, Col. Was
married October 10, 1908, at Olney, Col.

333. Kreiger, Albert August, 1903.

Entered the Institute from Louisville, Ky., in 1899, age 17;
graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1903. In 1903 and
1904 with the C. C. C & St. L. Railroad. Greencastle, Ind.
From 1905 to date Assistant Engineer with the Louisville Water
Company, Louisville, Ky.

334. LiNDENBERGER, GeORGE BayLESS. I903.

Entered the Institute from Louisville, Ky., in 1899, age 21 ;
graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1903. In
1904 in Manufacturing Department, Richmond Branch, of the
Kentucky Tobacco Product Company, Richmond, Va. In 1905
and 1906 Manager Richmond Branch of the Kentucky Tobacco
Product Company, Richmond, Va. From 1908 to date Superin-
tendent Machinery and Manufacture Kentucky Tobacco Prod-
uct Company, Louisville, Ky.

335. Metzger, Earl Cope. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Akron, Ohio, in 1899, age 19; grad-
uated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1903. From
1903 to 1904 Instructor Mechanical Engineering Christian

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Brothers' College, St. Louis, Mo. 1904 to 1905 Electrical In-
spector Western Electric Company. 1905 to 1906 Assistant
Superintendent Morris & Co., Chicago. In 1906 Mechanical and
Electrical Inspector P. R. R., Altoona, Pa. From 1907 to date
Chief Mining Machinery Inspector Goodman Manufacturing
Company, Chicago.

336. MicHEiv, Arthur Eugene. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Marion, Ind., in 1899, age 19; grad-
uated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1903. From
1903 to 1905 Draftsman and Designer Diamond Chain and Man-
ufacturing Company, Indianapolis, Ind. In 1905 Assistant Man-
ager of Publicity International Steam Pump Company, Har-
rison, N. J. From 1906 to 1908 Manager of The Geo. H. Gibson
Company, Advertising Engineers, New York City, N. Y. At
present in business as an Advertising Engineer, New York City,
N. Y. Was granted degree of M.S. in 1906 from Rose. Is a
member of the A. S. M. E. Mr. Michel has been the efficient
Secretary of the Rose Alumni Club of New York, and has made
the meetings most successful.

337. Palmer, Harry W. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Brockport, N. Y., in 1899, age 23;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1903. After
graduating was with the Western Electric Company, Chicago,
111. In December, 1903, transferred to the Western Electric
Company in New York City. From September, 1904, to 1907
Instructor in Mechanical Drawing, Mathematics, and Physics
in the Louisville Male High School, Louisville, Ky. From 1907
to the present time with the Louisville Cement Company, Sel-
lersburg, Ind., as Mechanical Engineer and Assistant Superin-
tendent. Was married June, 1906, in Terre Haute, Ind.

338. Peddle, William Adrian. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Washington, D. C, in 1899, age 23;
graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1903. From
July, 1903, to November. 1903, Assistant Engineer Signal De-
partment Interborough Rapid Transit Company, New York
City. From November, 1903, to November, 1904, Assistant
Foreman Union Switch and Signal Company, New York City.
From January, 1905, to April, 1906, Engineer in charge of Con-
struction Interborough Rapid Transit Company Signal Depart-

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ment. From April, 1906, to December, 1907, Assistant Engineer
N. Y. C. & H. R. Railroad Signal Department Electric Zone.
From December, 1907, to the present time Assistant Signal
Engineer Exterior Zone N. Y. C. & H. R. Railroad, New York
City.

339. Pettit, Harvey Blair. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Owensboro, Ky., in 1899, age 20, and
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1903. From
1903 to July, 1907, with the Western Electric Company, Chicago,
111. From July, 1907, to March, 1908, with the Western Electric
Company, San Francisco, Cal. From April, 1908, to the present
time in the Auditor's office of the Chicago Telephone Company,
Chicago, 111. Was married August 25, 1908, in Chicago.

340. Pine, Benjamin Halbert. 1903.

Born September 6, 1879, Cincinnati, Ohio. Entered the Institute
in 1899; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1903. In
1903 to June, 1904, with the Roebling Construction Company,
Chicago, 111. From June, 1904, to the present time with the
Citizens' Mutual Heating Company, Terre Haute. Was mar-
ried in Terre Haute October 14, 1903.

341. Post, Chester Leroy. 1903.

Born August 2, 1880. Entered the Institute from Gordon, Ohio,
in 1899; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1903.
From May, 1903, to May, 1904, Masonry Inspector on the C. I.
& L. Short Line, Hillsboro, 111. From May, 1904, to September,
1904, Resident Engineer on Railroad Construction in and near
Indianapolis for the St. Louis Division Big Four. September,
1904, to June, 1905, Assistant in Civil Engineering and graduate
student Rose Polytechnic Institute. June, 1905, to October,
1906, Superintendent with A. J. Yawger, Contracting Engineer,
Indianapolis, Ind. From October, 1906, to April, T907, Superin-
tendent of Construction Marquette Cement Company, La Salle,
111. April, 1907, to June, 1908, with Condron & Sinks Company,
Chicago. From June, 1908, to October, 1908, with E. C. &
R. M. Shankland, Engineers, Chicago, and from October, 1908,
to date as Principal Assistant Engineer with Condron & Sinks,
Chicago, 111. Was granted degree of M.S. in 1905 from Rose.
Is an associate member of the A. S. C. E. Was married May
6, 1908.

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342. RuMBLEY, Frederick Newton. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1899, age 17; grad-
uated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1903. In 1903
and 1904 Draftsman in the Vandalia Shops, Terre Haute, and
from 1905 to 1909 Chief Draftsman. In March, 1909, went with
the Mexican Central Railway Company, Aguas Calientes, Aguas,
Mexico. Was married in Terre Haute, 1907.

343. SCHEFFERLY, RoBERT JOSEPH. I903.

Was born at Mt. Clemens, Mich., March 19, 1879, and entered
the Institute in 1899 from Detroit; graduated in the Mechanical
Engineering Course in 1903. From 1903 to 1904 Draftsman with
the Standard Wheel Company, Automobile Department, Terre
Haute. From June, 1904, to July, 1905, in Experimental Depart-
ment Olds Motor Works, Detroit, Mich. From August, 1905,
to March, 1906, with the Muncie Wheel and Jobbing Company,
Muncie, Ind., in charge of the Automobile Parts Departmeilt.
From May, 1906, to date with the Everett, Metzger & Flanders
Company, and is at present Assistant Designer in charge of the
experimental work. Was married August 5, 1908, in Terre
Hdute.

344. Smith, Claiborne Ellis. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Evansville, Ind., in 1899, age 19;
graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1903. From July
to September, 1903, with the L. & N. Railroad in Assistant
Engineer's office, Evansville. 1903 to 1906 with the E. & T. H.
Railroad as Instrument Man and Assistant Engineer. 1906 and
1907 Assistant Engineer with the Raleigh & Pamlico Sound
Railroad, Raleigh, N. C. In 1907, owing to ill health, spent
several months in California. From 1907 to date Assistant
Engineer and Chief Draftsman City Engineer's office, San
Diego, Cal. Has designed sewer systems, concrete structures,
and worked on all the various problems presented in a City
Engineer's office.

345. Wiedemann, Hugo Edmund. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1898, age 16; grad-
uated in Chemistry in 1903. Frdm August, 1903, to June, 1905,
Chemist for Nelson, Morris & Co., East St. Louis, 111. From
June. 1905. to the present time member of the firm Kessler &

230 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

Wiedemann, Consulting Chemists and Chemical Engineers, St.
Louis, Mo. Also Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology in the
Homoeopathic Medical College of Missouri, St. Louis, Mo. Was
given degree of M.S. in 1907 from Rose. Is President of the
St. Louis Chemical Society.

346. Williams, John Peter Alexander. 1903.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1898, age 18; grad-
uated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1903. From
1903 to 1906 Engineer Vigo Ice and Cold Storage Company,
Terre Haute. 1906 to 1908 with the i\llis-Chalmers Company,
Milwaukee, Wis. In 1908 Engineer Ice Utilities and Manufac-
turing Company, Carbon Hill, Ala. From 1909 with the City
Ice Company, of Augusta, Ga., as Engineer. Was married June,
1904.

347. Barbazette, John Harry. 1904.

Born at Beardstown, 111., April 8, 1882. Entered the Institute
in 1900, graduating in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1904. From July, 1904, to November, 1904, with the La Belle
Iron Works, Steubenville, Ohio. From November, 1904, to
November, 1905, with the Louisville Cement Company, Sellers-
burg. Ind. From November, 1905, to April, 1906, with the lola
Portland Cement Company, lola, Kan. From April, 1906, with
the Chicago Portland Cement Company, Oglesby, 111., and 1906
to 1909 Draftsman American Bridge Company, Chicago. Since
February, 1909, to the present time with the Universal Portland
Cement Company, Buffington, Ind. Married in Terre Haute,
Ind., June, 1906. Mr. Barbazette's work has been mainly in
cement plant construction.

348. BowsHER, William Howard. 1904.

Entered the Institute from Topeka, Ind., in 1900, age 18, and
graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1904. In
July, 1904, with the General Electric Company, Schenectady,
N. Y. Since August, 1904, with the United States Marine
Corps.

349. Brannon, Clifton. 1904.

Entered from Owensboro, Ky., in 1900, age 18, and graduated
in the Civil Engineering Course in 1904. In July, 1904, with
the Southern Indiana Railway, Terre Haute. 1905 in Mainte-

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nance of Way Department Vandalia Railway, Terre Haute.
From October, 1906, to date Assistant Engineer E. & T. H.
Railroad, Evansville, Ind. Was married at Terre Haute in 1908.

350. Bryon, Ernest. 1904.

Entered from Boise, Idaho, in 1900, age 18 ; graduated in the
Mechanical Engineering Course in 1904. From July, 1904, to

1906 with the General Electric Company, Lynn, Mass. 1906
with the Stirling Construction Boiler Company, Mansfield, Ohio.

1907 was obliged to retire on account of poor health. Died May
6, 1908, at La Mesa, Cal.

351. CoHN, Clarence Alexander. 1904.

Entered from Salt Lake City in 1899, age 18; graduated in the
Electrical Engineering Course in 1904. In 1904 with the Tellu-
ride Light and Power Company, ProA'o, Utah. 1905 to date
with the Utah Light and Railway Company, Salt Lake City,
Utah, as Operator, Draftsman, General Operator in Power Sta-
tion Department, Assistant to Superintendent Power Stations,
and as Superintendent of Power Stations Department. The
Power Station Department operates seven plants and five sub-
stations, 125 miles of high-tension transmission.

352. Cory, Mark Dee. 1904.

Born at DeGraff, Ohio, November 17, 1880. Entered the Insti-
tute in 1902; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1904.
From July, 1904, to 1906 Draftsman Mt. Vernon Bridge and
Iron Works, Mt. Vernon, Ohio. From 1906 to 1908 with the
Indiana Bridge Company, Muncie, Ind. From 1908 to date
Director Engineering School of Winona, Winona Lake, Ind.
During summers of 1902 and 1903 worked as Division Engineer
M. P. Railroad and at the World's Fair, St. Louis.

353. Grain, George Henry. 1904.

Born August 9, 1880, Des Moines, Iowa. Entered from Grand
Rapids, Mich., in 1900; graduated in the Electrical Engineering
Course in 1904. From 1904 to 1906 with the Westinghouse
Electric Company. Pittsburg, Pa. In 1906 with the Otis Ele-
vator Company, Yonkers, N. Y. In 1907 Assistant Estimator
Marine Engine and Machine Company, New York City. From

1908 to date with Morgan & Wright, Detroit Rubber Works,
Detroit, Mich.

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354. DoRx, Leo Francis. 1904.

Born December 24, 1879, at Louisville, Ky. Entered the Insti-
tute in 1899. Withdrew in Alarch, 1901, on account of his
father's death; reentered September, 1901, and graduated in
the Electrical Engineering Course in 1904. In 1905 with the
Louisville Southern Electric Company, Electric Contractors,
Louisville. From 1906 to March, 1908, art student in the Whip-
ple School of Art, Art Students' League, and National School
of Art. From March, 1908, to the present time Manager Na-
tional School of Art, New York City.

355. French, Carson Geyer. 1904.

Entered from Buchanan, Mich., in 1900, age of 21 ; graduated in
the Civil Engineering Course in 1904. In 1904 to 1905 Drafts-
man Southern Indiana Railway, Terre Haute. From 1905 to
1907 Assistant Engineer Construction Department Big Four
Railway, Cincinnati, Ohio. From 1907 to date with Mainte-
nance of Way Department Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway,
Chicago. Married in Terre Haute. During the last three years
Mr. French has been mainly engaged in bridge work.

356. Garrettson, Robert Franklin. 1904.

Was born in Terre Haute January 3, 1880. Entered the Insti-
tute in 1900, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1004. In 1904 associated himself with Mr. Boyd as Consult-
ing Engineer under style of Boyd & Garrettson, and has re-
mained identified with this firm to date. In addition was Secre-
tary and Local Manager of the Citizens' Gas and Electric Com-
pany, Paris, 111., in 1904 and 1905. Secretary and Associate
Manager Michigan City Light and Power Company, 1906 and
1907, and has been active in the organization of a local National
Bank at Michigan City. Is a member of the A. I. E. E. Was
married June 17, 1908. Mr. Garrettson's work as Mechanical
Engineer has been mainly along lines of reconstruction and re-
designing existing electric light and gas plants and organizing
them upon profitable basis.

357. Hahn, Ferdinand William. 1904.

Entered from Louisville, Ky., in 1901, age 19; graduated in the
Mechanical Engineering Course in 1904. From 1904 to April,
1906, with the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Louisville.
From April, 1906, to date with the Rodger feallast Car Com-
pany and the National Dump Car Company, Chicago.

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358. Hazard, William Horace. 1904.

Entered the Institute in 1900 from Terre Haute, age 19; grad-
uated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1904. With the
Fairbanks- Morse Company, Beloit, Wis., from 1904 to date as
Draftsman, Experimental Engineer, Sales Engineer, and Special
Engineer in the Gas Producer and Gas Engine Department.
Designer and Estimator. Was married in 1908 in Bradford,
Wis.

359. Hihh, Roy Wilson, 1904.

Born January 12, 1881, at Frankfort, Mich. Entered from Chi-
cago, 111., from Lewis Institute, in the Junior Class in 1902;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1904. From
graduation to date of the firm of Hill & Hill, Lawyers, Specialty,
Patent, Trademark, and Corporation Law. Was granted degree
of Bachelor of Laws in 1907 from the Northwestern University
Law School. Is a member of the Franklin Institute and an
associate member of the A. I. E. E.

360. Katzenbach, Brown. 1904.

Entered from Terre Haute in 1899, age 16; graduated in Chem-
istry in 1904. In 1904 Assistant Superintendent Fairview Fluor
Spar Company, Golconda, 111. In 1905 Chief Chemist Allegheny
Steel Company and Interstate Steel Company, Brackenridge, Pa.
From 1906 to 1908 Superintendent Open Hearth Furnaces
American Rolling Mills, Middletown, Ohio. At present is in
Indianapolis, Ind.

361. Landrum, Robert Dallas. 1904.

Born in Terre Haute, Ind., February 8, 1882. Entered the Insti-
tute in igoo ; graduated in Chemistry in 1904. From August,
15P04, to October, 1907, Chemist for the Columbian Enameling
atid Stamping Works, Terre Haute. From October, 1907, to
date Assistant Professor of Chemistry in charge of Quanti-
tative Analysis, Metallurgy and Assaying, University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kan. Was married September i, 1908, at Linton, Ind.

362. McCoRMicK, Charles Chesnut. 1904.

Entered from Terre Haute in 1900, age 18 ; graduated in the
Civil Engineering Course ih 1904. From September, 1904, to
April, 1905, Assistant to Roadmaster, Omaha Division, Illinois

234 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

Central Railroad, Fort Dodge, la. From April, 1905, to 1907,
Vice-President and Superintendent Wabash Sand and Gravel
Company, Terre Haute. In 1907 Drainage Engineer, Charles-
ton, 111. In 1909 Assistant Engineer Chicago Junction Railway,
Chicago. Married in 1905 at Terre Haute.

363. McFari^and, Edward HiIvI.. 1904.

Entered from Crawfordsville, Ind., in 1900, age 18; graduated
in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1904. From 1904 to
1907 in the Steam Turbine Department of the General Elec-
tric Company, as Research Assistant, Assistant in Charge, and
Steam Turbine Engineer, Schenectady, N. Y. From 1907 to
date District Steam Turbine Engineer for the Cincinnati office
of the General Electric Company, in charge of engineering and
construction of turbine installations. Was granted degree of
M.S. in 1906 from Rose.

364. McNabb, Walter Scott. 1904.

Entered from Terre Haute in 1900, age 17; graduated in the
Mechanical Engineering Course in 1904. From July, 1904, to

1905 Special Apprentice Union Pacific Railway Shops, Omaha,
Neb. From 1905 to 1906 Draftsman for the Aultman & Taylor
Company, the McKenna Manufacturing Company, the Jacobs
Steel Excavator Company, the Case Manufacturing Company,
and the Illinois Steel Company. In 1907 Superintendent Brown
Process Company, Chicago. From September, 1907, to date
Blast Furnace Superintendent Illinois Steel Company, Chicago.
Was married September 18, 1907.

365. Miller, Merwine Buckingham. 1904.

Entered from Afton, la., in 1899, age 19; graduated in the
Mechanical Engineering Course in 1904. From July, 1904, to

1906 in Turbine Department General Electric Company, Lynn,
Mass. From 1906 to date with the AUis-Chalmers Company,
Milwaukee, Wis.

366. MuLLETT, Howard Agustine. 1904.

Born December 11, 1880, in Louisville, Ky. Entered from Kan-
sas City in 1900; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1904. From July, 1904, to 1906 Engineering Apprentice with
the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, Pitts-
burg. From July, 1906, to date Electrical Engineer of the Roll-

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ing Stock Department of the Electric Railway and Lighting
Company, Milwaukee, Wis. Is a member of the Associated
Societies of Engineering. Married — see Technic of February,
1909, for information.

367. NoEIvKE, WiLUAM CarL. I904.

Born November 21, 1875, in Indianapolis. Entered in 1901, in
the Sophomore Class, at the age of 25, and graduated in Archi-
tecture in 1904. From July, 1904, to date with the Noelke-
Richards Iron Works, Indianapolis, Ind., as Estimator and
Engineer. Mr. Noelke has made desi-gns for steel frame struc-
tures for large buildings. They supply the distant South and
West mainly.

368. Randall, William Harrison. 1904.

Entered from Williamsville, N. Y., in 1892, age 19. Course was
interrupted, and reentered in 1900; graduated in the Electrical
Engineering Course in 1904. From time of graduation to date
with the General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

369. Regan, John Francis. 1904.

Born July 29, 1882, in Terre Haute. Entered in 1900, age 18;
graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1904. From
July, 1904, to 190S with Ohio Works, Carnegie Company,
Youngstown, O. From 1905 to 1907 Special Apprentice and in
Sales Department Atlas Engine Works, Indianapolis. From
1908 to date Chief Clerk of Blast Furnaces, Youngstown Sheet
and Tube Company, Youngstown, O.

370. Ross, James Newton. 1904.

Entered from Anaconda, Mont, in 1900, age 22; graduated in
the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1904. From July, 1904,
to 1906 with the Buffalo Forge Company, Buffalo. From 1906
to 1908 with the Westinghouse Machine Company, New York
City. In 1909 Mechanical Engineer, New York City, N. Y.

371. Sharp, James Stuart. 1904.

Born August 18, 1879, in Summit, Miss. Entered from Clinton,
Miss., to Junior Class in 1902 ; graduated in the Civil Engineer-
ing Course in 1904. From September, 1904, to June, 1905, Pro-
fessor of Mathematics, Ouachita College, Arkadelphia, Ark. In

236 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

1905 Instrument-man Great Northern Railroad. In 1906 Assist-
ant City Engineer, Jackson, Miss. In 1906 to 1907 Assistant
Engineer A. V. R. R. Co. From 1907 to date Assistant Engi-
neer Queen & Crescent Route, New Orleans. Was married
October i, 1907. Mr. Sharp has charge of much of the concrete
and other designs.

2,72. Smith, Harry. 1904.

Born February 6, 1882, in Terre Haute. Entered the Institute
in 1899; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1904. From June, 1904, to August, 1904, in the Union Pacific
Railway Shops, Omaha. From November, 1904, to June, 1906,
on Surveying Corps Vandalia Railroad, Terre Haute. From
June, 1906, to November, 1906, with the New York Central
Railroad. From November, 1906, to date Assistant Engineer
Standard Steel Car Company, Hammond, Ind. Married in
September, 1906, at Danville, 111.

373. Staff, John Theodore, Jr. 1904.

Born in Terre Haute December 26, 1880. Entered the Institute
in 1900; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1904. From 1904 to 1906 associated with his father, John T.
Staff, in canning vegetables, etc., Terre Haute. In 1906 in the
pineapple business in Hawaii. In 1907, with others, formed a
Consolidated Pineapple Company, Honolulu, Hawaii, and at
present is the Manager and Head of the Packing Department.
Mr. Staff's work is especially in installing and operating canning
machinery.

374. Tipton, Clyde Ephraim. 1904.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1900, age 21 ; grad-
uated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1904. From
July, 1904, to 1906 in the shops of the Union Pacific Railway at
Omaha. Neb. From 1906 to date in the shops of the Union
Pacific Railway at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Married.

375. Toner, Irwin De Witt. 1904.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1900, age 18, and
graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1904. From
July, 1904, to 1906 in shops of Union Pacific Railway, Omaha.
From 1906 to date Inspector of New Equipment, Union Pacific
Railway Company, Omdha, Neb.

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376. TouzALiN, LES1.IE Anthony. 1904.

Born in Chicago September 8, 1881. Entered the Institute, in
the Sophomore Class, in 1901 ; graduated in Chemistry in 1904.
From 1904 to 1905 Chemist in Laboratory of H. M. Deavitt,
Chicago. From 1905 to 1906 Chemist, and from 1906 to the
present time Assistant Chief Chemist for the Illinois Steel Com-
pany, Southern Works, Chicago. Is a member of the A. C. S.
Married in Chicago November 28, 1905. Mr. Touzalin has
studied the problem of oxygen and nitrogen in steel, also in
connection with determination of moisture and dust in blast
furnace gases. He invented the Brady Gas Filter.

377. Whitten, Roscoe. 1904.

Entered the Institute from Sloan, la., in 1900, age 17; graduated
in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1904. From July, 1904,
to 1905 with the General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.
From 1905 to date with the Atlas Engine Works, Indianapolis,
Ind. Married in 1906.

378. Atherton, Donald Hope. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Gill, Mass., in 1901, age 20; grad-
uated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1905. From
graduation to the present time with the General Electric Com-
pany, Schenectady, N. Y.

379. Benson, George, Jr. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Brockport, N. Y., in 1901, age 24;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1905. From
time of graduation to the present time with the General Electric
Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

380. Blanchard, Ralph Carpenter. 1905.

Born in Newport, Ind., December 4, 1882. Entered the Insti-
tute in 1901, and graduated in Chemistry in 1905. In 1905-06
graduate student Columbia University, New York City. 1907
graduate student University of Munich, Germany. 1908 in Lon-
don and Paris. In 1908-09 graduate work Columbia University,
New York City.

381. Bland, John Osborne. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Louisville in 1901, age 18; graduated
in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1905. From 1905 to

238 Rose Polytechnic Institute.

1907 Apprentice L. & N. Ry., Louisville, Ky. In 1907 in Con-
verting Department Carnegie Steel Company, Youngstown, O.
From 1908 to the present time with the American Fuel Com-
pany, Gibson, N. M.

382. Burr, Walter Harmon. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Morrison, III., in 1901, age 21 ; grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1905. From
graduation to the present time with the Westinghouse Electric
and Manufacturing Company. In Pittsburg till December, 1907,
and since in Erection Department at Philadelphia.

383. Cook, Cleo Brenton. 1905.

Entered from Frankfort, Ind., in 1901, age 18; graduated in the
Electrical Engineering Course in 1905. 1905 to 1908 with the
Bullock Electric Manufacturing Company, Cincinnati, in shops,
Engineering and Sales Departments. From 1908 to date Sales
Engineer Allis-Chalmers-Bullock Company, Toledo, Ohio.

384. Daily, John Edward. 1905.

Entered from Terre Haute in 1901, age 17; graduated in the
Mechanical Engineering Course in 1905. 1905 with the Vandalia
Railway Company, in Terre Haute and East St. Louis. 1906 in
Engineering Corps C. & E. I. Railroad, Chicago. From 1907 to
date in Open Hearth Department Ohio Works Carnegie Steel
Company, Youngstown, Ohio.

385. Davies, Carl Godfrey. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Marshall, Ind., in 1901, age 20; grad-
uated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1905. 1905 and 1906
with the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad, Texas. 1907 with
the Great Northern & St. Paul Railway and Spokane Company.

1908 with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, St.
Maries. Idaho. At present Draftsman with Spokane & Inland
Empire Railway, Spokane, Wash.

386. Everson, Ralph Cuthbert. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Kearney, Neb., in 1901, at the age of
20, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1905.
From June to September, 1905, with Engineering Corps, Van-
dalia Railway. Then with the Southern Indiana Coal Company,
Terre Haute, to September. 1908. and from that time associated
with J. F. Cassell in Civil Engineering, Terre Haute.

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387. Goodman, Leon. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1901, age 17; grad-
uated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1905. In 1905 with
the C. & E. I. Railroad Company, Chicago. In 1906 Assistant
Engineer C. B. & Q. Railroad, Burlington. Also with the C.
Junction Railway, Chicago, in 1906. 1907 with the Roberts &
Schaefer Company, Consulting Engineers and Contractors, Chi-
cago; also with Wallace Coats Engineering Company, Port-
land, Oregon. 1908 Spokane, Seattle & Portland Railway. 1908
to date with Northwestern Expanded Metal Company, Chicago,
as Sales Engineer.

388. Gray, Ralph C. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Youngstown, Ohio, in 1901, age 20;
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1905. From
graduation to the present time with the General Electric Com-
pany, Schenectady, N. Y.

389. Greenleaf, Guy William. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1901, age 19: grad-
uated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1905. After
graduation was with the Atlas Engine Works, Indianapolis, one
year, then Draftsman in County Assessor's office, Terre Haute,
one year. Was with the Pettyjohn Concrete Block Machinery
Company a short time, and is now a member of the Greenleaf
Construction Company, Terre Haute. Was married August 12,
1908, at Terre Haute.

390. Haller, Frederick William August. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Cincinnati in 1901, age 23, and grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1905. From 1905
to 1907 remained at home regaining health. From 1907 to the
present time Assistant Examiner United States Patent Office,
Washington, D. C.

391. Hanley, William Scott. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1895 at the age of
19. Withdrew and reentered in 1902; graduated in the Civil
Engineering Course in 1905. From graduation to date with the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company. Chicago ; Chief
Draftsman.

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392. Heick, William Read. 1905.

Born March n, 1884, Galveston, Texas. Entered from Louis-
ville in 1902 in the Sophomore Class ; graduated in the Mechan-
ical Engineering Course in 1905. After graduating was Drafts-
man with the Automatic Heating Company, New York ; Drafts-
man with the Westinghouse-Church-Kerr Company, New York;
with the Jos. McWilliams Company, Engineers and Contractors,
Louisville, for two years, and is at present Engineer for T. J.
Mooney & Co., Engineers and Contractors, Nashville, Tenn.
Was married in Terre Haute January 35, 1908.

393. Jenckes, Ray Greene. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Indianapolis in 1901, at the age of
20, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1905.
From July, 1905, to 1907 in the Testing Department General
Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. In 1907 engaged in
special investigation under Drs. Steinmetz and Creighton on
aluminum lighting arresters. In 1907 transferred to Stanley
General Electric Works at Pittsfield, Mass., as Superintendent
of manufacture of lighting arresters.

394. Johnson, Walter Elihu. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Emporia, Kan., in 1901, at the age
of 24, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1905. From graduation to the present time with the General
Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. Is a member of the
Schenectady Branch of the A. I. E. E. Mainly engaged in
turbine work.

395. Kadel, Harry Rutherford. 1905.

Born in Terre Haute May 3, 1880. Entered the Institute in
1901, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in

1905. From July, 1905, to November, 1906, Superintendent
Great Bend Water Works, Great Bend, Kan. From November,

1906, to the present time with the Terre Haute Water Works,
Terre Haute, Ind., as Superintendent of Filtration and Assist-
ant Engineer.

396. Kiefer, Herbert G. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Louisville in 1902 in the Sophomore
Class, age 19; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course

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in 1905. 1905 and 1906 with Fairbanks-Morse Manufacturing
Company, Beloit, Wis., and in Louisville Branch. In 1907
Draftsman Henry Vogt Machine Company, Louisville. 1907
with the Kentucky Electric Company, and from 1908 to date
Engineer with the Fuel Engineering Company, Chicago. Was
granted degree of M.S. in 1907 from Rose.

397. Klenk, Lorenz William. 1905.

Born July 7, 1882, at Blue Island, 111. Entered the Institute in
1901, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1905. From graduation to date with the Western Electric Com-
pany, Chicago, as Engineer, and now Sales Engineer in the
Railway Train Dispatching Department. Married June 19, 1907,
at Blue Island, 111.

398. Larkins, Edgar Ernest. 1905.

Entered from Terre Haute in 1901, at the age of 18, and grad-
uated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1905. From July,
1905, to January i, 1906, with the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Railroad, Chicago ; Draftsman, Field Work, and Masonry In-
spector. From January, 1906, to December, 1907, Assistant
Engineer Union Pacific Railroad Company, Omaha. From
May, 1908, to date Assistant City Engineer Omaha, Neb. Mar-
ried November 26, 1907. Granted degree of M.S. in 1908 from
Rose.

399. Lewis, Frederick Bradley. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Anaheim, Cal.. in 1901, at the age of
23, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1905.
From graduation has been with the Edison Electric Company,
Los Angeles, in 1905 and 1906 in the Testing Department, and
from 1907 to date as Engineer Underground Distribution. Is
a member of the A. I. E. E., and was married November 14, 1906.

400. McBride, John Scott. 1905.

Entered the Institute in the Sophomore Class from Louisville
in 1902, age 22 ; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in
1905. Since graduation has been with the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois Railroad Company, Chicago, in the Construction and
Maintenance of Way Departments. From April. 1908, to date
Assistant Division Engineer, Salem, III.

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401. Newnam, Frank Hastings. 1905.

Born in Terre Haute October 17, 1882. Entered the Institute in
1901, graduating in the Civil Engineering Course in 1905. From
June, 1905, to June, 1906, in the Maintenance of Way Depart-
ment C. C. C. & St. L. Railroad, Mattoon, 111. From June,
1906, to October, 1906, Draftsman for W. Waldo, Civil Engi-
neer, Houston, Texas. From October, 1906, to April, 1908,
Transitman, Draftsman, and Resident Engineer on Construction
Texas Traction Company. From September, 1908, to December,
1908, with the Great Northern Railroad, and from December,
1908, to date in the Engineering Department of the Gulf, Col-
orado & Santa Fe Railroad. Was married May 25, 1908.

402. Parr, Hubert. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Fontanet, Ind., in 1901, age 21 ; grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1905. In 1906
with the Signal Department, Union Pacific Railway, Omaha.
1907 in Colorado and Birmingham, Ala., on account of poor
health. Died July 11, 1907, in Birmingham, Ala.

403. Peddle, Charles Rugan. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Washington, D. C, in 1901, age 17;
graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1905. Since grad-
uation in the Signal Department of the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company, New York City, as Draftsman and Office
Engineer.

404. Pfeif, George Henry. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1901, age 17; grad-
uated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1905. From grad-
uation to the present time with the General Electric Company,
Schenectady, N. Y. In the Testing Department until the spring
of 1907, then in office of the Superintendent of Testing Depart-
ment, and in 1908 made Assistant to the General Superintendent.

405. Reed, Merle Roland. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1901, age 18; grad-
uated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1905. From
September, 1905, to September, 1906, in shops of the Union
Pacific Railway, Omaha. From 1906 to date in shops of the
Vandalia Railroad, Terre Haute, and is now Chief Draftsman
in the Mechanical Engineer's office.

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406. Reynolds, Oscar Frank. 1905.

Born in Terre Haute June i, 1883. Entered the Institute in
1901, and graduated in Chemistry in 1905. From 1905 to 1906
Chemist Vandalia Railway, Terre Haute. From June, 1906, to
June, 1908, Chemist C. & E. I. Railroad, Danville, 111. From
June, IQ08, to August, 1908, Secretary Terre Haute Engineering
Company. From August, 1908, to date Foreman on Construc-
tion of Automatic Block Signals C. R. I. & P. Railroad.

407. Robertson, Claude Everett. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Greenup, 111., in 1901, at the age of
17, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1905.
In 1905 and 1906 with the General Electric Company, Schenec-
tady, N. Y., and in the Erecting Department Cincinnati District.
From 1907 to date Power Engineer with the Toledo Light and
Railway Company, Toledo, Ohio. Was given degree of M.S.
in 1908 from Rose. Is an associate member of the A. I. E. E.
Was married September 22, 1908.

408. Shryer, Herbert Eveleigh. 1905.

Entered from Terre Haute in 1901, at the age of 19, and grad-
uated in Chemistry in 1905. In 1905 with the Procter & Gamble
Company, Cincinnati. In 1906 with Armour Soap Works, Chi-
cago. From 1907 to the present time Chemist with the Amer-
ican Tin Plate Company, Elwood, Ind.

409. Snider, Lewis Albert. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1901, at the age of
17, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1905. From graduation to May, 1906, with the Fairbanks-Morse
Manufacturing Company, Beloit, Wis. From May, 1906, to
October, 1907, District Erecting Engineer Fairbanks-Morse
Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis, Ind. From December,
1907, Mechanical Engineer Grain Elevator Design, Construc-
tion, and Equipment for Bartlett, Kuhn & Co., Terre Haute.
Was granted degree of M.S. in 1906 from Rose.

410. Spalding, Edward Hamilton. 1905.

Born Concordia, Kan., December 4, 1879. Entered the Institute
in 1901 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1905. From June, 1905, to December. 1907, Assistant Construe-

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tion Engineer Chicago Telephone Company, Chicago, 111. From
December, 1907, to June, 1908, Manager Concordia Electric
Light Company. From January i, 1909, with the Kansas City
Electric Light Company, Kansas City, Mo., Power Service and
Contract Department.

411. Speaker, Clifford Beecher. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Manson, Iowa, in 1901, at the age
of 19, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1905.
In 1905 with the Big Four Railway, Mattoon, 111., as Instrument-
man. 1906 and 1907 with the Union Pacific Railway, Rock
River, Wyo., as Instrumentman and Sub-Assistant Engineer.
From March, 1998, to date Civil Engineer and Contractor,
Rawlins, Wyo.; also Land Inspector for State of Wyoming,
Cheyenne, Wyo.

412. Sproull, John Coppess. 1905.

Born April 13, 1878, Dawn, Ohio. Entered the Institute from
Ansonia, Ohio, in 1901 ; graduated in the Mechanical Engineer-
ing Course in 1905. From June, 1905. to September, 1906, Ex-
perimental Engineer with J. I. Case Threshing Machine Com-
pany, Racine, Wis. From September, 1906, to date Instructor
in Strength of Materials and Mechanical Engineering Carnegie
Technical Schools, Pittsburg, Pa. Is an honorary member of
the N. A. S. E., Pittsburg. Married October 3, 1905, at Green-
ville, Ohio. Does consulting work in addition to work in C. I.

413. Stoddard, Eugene Kingsley. 1905.

Born December 3. 1883, Madison, S. D. Entered the Institute
in 1901 : graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1905.
From July, 1905, to September, 1906, with the Fairbanks-Morse
Manufacturing Company, Beloit, Wis. From September, 1906,
to January, 1907, with the same company in Chicago, and is
now Agent for the Company in Des Moines, la. Was married
October 21, 1908, at Madison, S. D.

414. Trowbridge, Charles Bartlett. 1905.

Born January 16, 1884, Decatur, Mich. Entered the Institute
in 1901 ; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1905.
In 1905 and 1906 Draftsman with the Kalamazoo Foundry and
Machine Company, and the American Bridge Company, Chi-
cago. From 1906 to 1908 with T. A. Parker Company, Terre

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Haute, Checker. From 1908 to 1909 Engineer Eagle Iron
Works, Terre Haute. From February, 1909, to date Checker
Fort Pitt Bridge Works, Canonsburg, Pa. Married in Terre
Haute June 5, 1906.

415. Watson, Herbert Lockridge. 1905.

Born August 19, 1883, in Terre Haute, and entered the Institute
in 1901, graduating in the Mechanical Engineering Course in

1905. From June to August, 1905, Engineer with the Kalama-
zoo Foundry and Machine Company, Kalamazoo. From Au-
gust, 1905, to date Sales Engineer with the Allis-Chalmers Com-
pany, Cleveland, Ohio. Is a member of the A. S. M. E.

416. Wilson, Robert Maxwell. 1905.

Born October 4. 1882, Paris, 111. Entered the Institute in 1901 ;
graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1905. From grad-
uation to the present time a planter, Greenville, Miss.

417. Wood, Owen Llewell. 1905.

Entered the Institute from Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1901, at
the age of 18, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering
Course in 1905. After graduation was with the Baldwin Loco-
motive Works, Philadelphia. In 1906 to May, 1907, with the
Mexican Central Railroad, Aguascalientes, Mex. From May,
1907, to date Draftsman in office of the United States Surveyor-
General in Santa Fe, New Mex., Reno, Nev., and Phoenix, Ariz.

418. Wright, Daniel Dudley. 1905.

Born in Sulphur Springs, Ky., June 8, 1883, and entered the
Institute in 1901, graduating in the Electrical Engineering
Course in 1905. From graduation with the Westinghouse Elec-
tric and Manufacturing Company, Pittsburg, Pa. As Engineer-
ing Apprentice until 1907, and from that time to date as Sales
Engineer in the Pittsburg office.

419. Benbridge, Richard Wetherill. 1906.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1902, at the age of
17, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in

1906. Was with the Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon shops and design-
ing room for one year at Cincinnati, Ohio. Then seven months
in Kansas City in Sales Department, and in St. Louis to date
as Sales Engineer for the International Steam Pump Company.

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420. Butler, Earle Summers. 1906.

Born January 26, 1881, Terre Haute, Ind. Entered the Institute
in 1902 ; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1906.
From June, 1906, to June. 1907, Instrumentman and Drafts-
man in Chief Engineer's office of the Vandalia Railroad Corn-
pan}', Indianapolis. From June, 1907, to date Resident Engineer
in Chief Engineer's office at Indianapolis and St. Louis. Mar-
ried in Terre Haute October 12, 1908.

421. Cadden, Charles Alphonse). 1906.

Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in 1902, at the age of
18, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1906. After graduation in the Union Pacific Railway Shops,
Omaha, for a short time. Then with the Stone & Webster
Company at Terre Haute, San Francisco, and Seattle, and at
present with the United States Reclamation Service, Seattle,
Wash.

422. Canfield, Harrie Russell. 1906.

Entered the Institute from Aurora, Ind., in 1902, at the age of
ig, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1906.
In 1906 with the North Shore Electric Company, Chicago. In
1907 with Adams & Westlake Company, Chicago. 1908 Drafts-
man with J. I. Schureman Company, Chicago, and at present
Electrical Engineer and Technical Expert with Edgar Tate &
Co., Patent Attorneys, New York City.

423. Cannon, John William. 1906.

Born August 4, 1884, at Midway, Ky. Entered the Institute in
1902, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1906. From graduation to date with the Allis-Chalmers Com-
pany, Milwaukee.

424. Curry, John Roscoe. 1906.

Born December 10, 1884, in Terre Haute. Entered the Institute
in 1902, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1906. From graduation to date Draftsman with the Murphy
Iron Works, Detroit, Mich.

425. d'Amorim, Ambrosio. 1906.

Born September 22, 1879. Entered the Institute from Manaos,
S. A., in 1903, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering
Course in 1906. In 1906 and 1907 with the Terre Haute Elec-

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trie Company, Terre Haute. In 1908 went to Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, S. A., to engage in Electrical Engineering. No report
has since been received from him.

426. Delle, Frank Alvin, Jr. 1906.

Born April 24, 1879. Entered the Institute from Cashton, Wis.,
in 1903; graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1906. From graduation to the present time Erecting Engineer
with the York Manufacturing Company, York, Pa.

427. Eastwood, Harry Wilder. 1906.

Born September 28, 1885, Louisville, Ky. Entered the Institute
in 1902; graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1906.
In 1906 in the Electrical Department of the Ohio Works Car-
negie Steel Company, Youngstown, Ohio. From 1907 to 1909
Foreman, Erecting Engineer, and Salesman with the Electric
Controller and Manufacturing Company, Cleveland, and since
the first of 1909 Salesman for the same company in Chicago.
Married, 1908.

428. Evans, Robert Baldwin. 1906.

Born June 15, 1885. Entered from Oxford, Ind., in 1902, and
graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1906. From
time of graduation to date with the General Electric Company,
Schenectady, N. Y.

429. Freudenreich, Arnold Edwin. 1906.

Born October 24, 1884. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1902, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1906. After graduation in 1906 with the Northern Electric
Company, Madison, Wis. Since 1908 no report has been re-
ceived at the Institute from Mr. Freudenreich.

430. Hatch, Frederick Nathaniel. 1906.

Born June 12, 1885. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in
1903, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1906.
In 1906 on Engineering Corps San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt
Lake Railway, Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1907 with the Nevada
Consolidated Copper Company on construction of the reduction
works, Ely, Nev., and with the Maintenance of Way Depart-
ment Frisco Lines, Monett, Mo. At present with the Mainte-
nance of Way Department Vandalia Railroad at Logansport,
Ind.

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431. Hensgen, Walter Otto. 1906.

Born August 18, 1884. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1902, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1906. In 1907 with the Seattle Electric Company, Seattle, Wash.
At present with the Seattle Telephone Company, Seattle, Wash.

432. Jackson, James Samuel. 1906.

Born March i6, 1885, at Terre Haute, and entered the Institute
in 1902, graduating in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1906. From graduation to the present time with the AUis-
Chalmers Company, Milwaukee, Wis. Is a member of the
Allis-Chalmers Engineering Society.

433. Johnson, John McMahon. 1906.

Born June 6, 1883, at Dale, Ind. Entered the Institute in 1902,
and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1906.
From July, 1906, to September, 1907, in shops of the Fairbanks-
Morse Electric Manufacturing Company, Indianapolis. From
September, 1907, to September, 1908, traveling, testing, and in-
stalling machinery for the same company. From September,
1908, to date in the Sales Department of the Fairbanks-Morse
Electric Manufacturing Company, Chicago.

434. Kahlert, Ernest Douglas. 1906.

Born November 10, 1878, and entered the Institute from Louis-
ville, Ky., in 1903 ; graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in
1906. In 1906 Chief Draftsman for the Insley Iron Works,
Indianapolis. 1907 with the Illinois Steel Company, Chicago.
From August, 1907, Chief Draftsman Insley Iron Works, Indi-
anapolis. From 1908 to date in the Engineering Department of
the Brown-Ketcham Iron Works, Indianapolis, Ind.

435. Kelsall, George Avery. 1906.

Born October i8, 1880. Entered the Institute from Louisville
in 1902, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1906. From time of graduation to 1908 with the General Elec-
tric Company, Schenectady, N. Y. Since 1908 with the Indiana
Steel Company, Gary, Ind.

436. Lawton, Clarence William. 1906.

Born April 4, 1882. at Clarkson, N. Y. Entered the Institute in
1902, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in

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1906. From graduation with the General Electric Company,
Schenectady, N. Y., and since January, 1909, Foreman in the
Steam Turbine Department.

437. Lee, Addison Wolcott. 1906.

Born July 31, 1885. Entered the Institute from Louisville in
1902, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1906. From 1907 to 1909 with the Louisville Lighting Company,
Louisville, Ky. Since January, 1909, Inspector and Engineer
Tenth Street Plant of the Louisville Lighting Company, Louis-
ville.

438. Lee, Eari.e Portmess. 1906.

Born March 25, 1881. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1902, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1906. In 1906 with the Wagner Electric Manufacturing Com-
pany, St. Louis, Mo. In 1907 and 1908 with the Fairbanks-
Morse Electric Company, Indianapolis, Ind. 1909 to date
Draftsman with Hall Signal Company, Garwood, N. J.

439. McCoMB, Harold, 1906.

Was born in Terre Haute March 29, 1884. Entered the Institute
in 1902, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1906. From graduation to 1909 with the General Electric Com-
pany, Schenectady, N. Y. Is at present Sales Engineer with the
General Electric Company, Columbus, Ohio.

440. MoDESiTT, Charles Cleveland. 1906.

Born May 14, 1884. Entered the Institute from Edwards, Ind.,
in 1902, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1906.
From 1906 to 1908 with the Vandalia Railroad Company at
Indianapolis, and the Engineering Corps Chicago & Eastern
Illinois Railway, Danville, 111. His present address is Edwards,
Ind.

441. Nicholson, George Francis. 1906.

Bom October 10, 1884. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1901, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1906. From graduation to 1908 Topographer and Draftsman
Mexican Central Railroad Company, Pautepec Edo. de Pueblo,
Mex. In 1908 with the Terre Haute Engineering Company,
Terre Haute. 1909 Civil Engineer for Strehlow, Freese &

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Peterson, Contractors at A.-Y.-P. Exposition Grounds, Seattle,
Wash.

442. Peck, Wai^ter Richard. 1906.

Born October 3, 1882. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1900, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1906.
After graduation went into the firm of Fox & Peck, Civil and
Mining Engineers, Big Stone Gap, Va., where he remains to
date.

443. PoTE, Frank Walter. 1906.

Born February 18, 1883. Entered the Institute from Terre
Haute, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1906. From graduation until 1907 with the Western Electric
Company, Chicago, in the Switchboard and Telephone Depart-
ment. In 1907 with the Bell Telephone Company of Missouri,
located in St. Louis, as General Foreman and Inspector. In
1908 to date Instructor in the Physical and Electrical Labora-
tories Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute.

444. Rogers, Harvey Ernest. 1906.

Born April i, 1883. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in
1902, and graduated in Architecture in 1906. From graduation
until the present time has been in Indianapolis, Ind., as Shop
Inspector Insley Iron Works, with the Noelke-Richards Iron
Works, and is now Draftsman for the Brown-Ketcham Iron
Works.

445. RoTz, John Martin. 1906.

Born July 12, 1884. Entered the Institute from Prairieton, Ind.,
in 1902, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1906.
From graduation to 1908 with the Engineering Corps of the
Vandalia Railroad Company, Terre Haute. From 1908 to date
Bridge Superintendent of Vigo County, Terre Haute, Ind.

446. Ryan, Edward Cecil. 1906.

Born May 26, 1884. Entered the Institute from Louisville in
1902, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1906. From 1906 to 1907 with the General Electric Company,
Schenectady, N. Y. In 1907 with the Kentucky Electric Com-
pany, Louisville. From 1908 to date with the Indiana Steel
Company, Gary, Ind.

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447. SCHAUWECKER, EdGAR JaCOB. I906.

Born February 22, 1884. Entered the Institute from Clay City,
Ind., in 1902, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in

1906. From June, 1906, to November, 1906, Masonry Inspector
Big Four Railway. From November, 1906, to June, 1907, As-
sistant Engineer Florida East Coast Railway. From June 19,

1907, to August, 1908, Superintendent of Bridge Construction
and Railroad Grade Work same company. From August, 1908,
to date of Norton & Schauwecker, Railroad Contractors, Cin-
cinnati, Ohio.

448. Thurman, Roy. 1906.

Born August 6, 1884. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1902, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1906. From graduation to the present time with the General
Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

449. White, Knowles D. 1906.

Born July 16, 1884. Entered the Institute from Shelbyville, 111.,
in 1902, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1906. From graduation to the present time in the Testing De-
partment of the Commonwealth Edison Company, Chicago.
Married in April, 1907.

450. WiLKiNS, Hallie Emerson. 1906.

Born December 7, 1884. Entered the Institute from Greenup,
111., in 1904, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1906. From graduation to the present time with the General
Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

451. WiLLiEN, Leon John, Jr. 1906.

Born September 22, 1885. Entered the Institute from Terre
Haute in 1902, and graduated in Chemistry in 1906. From
graduation to June, 1907, with A. D. Little, Chemical Expert
and Engineer, Boston. From 1907 to the present time Chemist
for the Springfield Gas Light Company, Springfield, Mass. Re-
ceived M.S. degree from Rose in 1908.

452. Wilms, Henry John. 1906.

Born July 13, 1882. Entered the Institute from Louisville, Ky.,
in 1902, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1906. From 1906 to 1908 with the General Electric Company,

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Schenectady, N. Y. Died of typhoid fever September 17, 1908,
at Schenectady.

453. WiSCHMEYER, CaRL. I906.

Born August 8, 1884. Entered the Institute from Louisville, Ky.,
in 1902, and graduated in ^e Electrical Engineering Course in

1906. In 1906 in the Electrical Department Carnegie Steel
Company, Youngstown, Ohio. In 1907 in the Electrical Depart-
ment of the Bethlehem Steel Company, South Bethlehem, Pa.
In 1908 with the Louisville Water Company, Louisville. In
1909 Instructor in Department of Drawing and Descriptive
Geometry Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute.

454. WiSCHMEYER, HeNRY WiNTER. I906.

Born October 10, 1879. Entered from Louisville, Ky., in 1903,
and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1906.
From graduation to date with the Louisville Railway Company,
Louisville, Ky., and at present is Assistant Electrician Motive
Power Department.

455- WORTHINGTON, ARTHUR WhITTEMORE- 1906.

Born April 26, 1885. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in
1901 ; withdrew in 1902 to gain practical experience in railway
construction; reentered in 1903, and graduated in the Civil
Engineering Course in 1906. From 1906 to December, 1908,
with the Pittsburg Division of the Pennsylvania Lines, and from '
December, igo8, to the present time with Engineering Corps of
the Eastern Division of the Pennsylvania Lines West of Pitts-
burg, with headquarters at Pittsburg, Pa.

456, Albin, Earl Garfield. 1907.

Born August i, 1881. Entered the Institute from Osage City,
Kan., in 1903, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course
in 1907. From graduation to 1908 with the Bridge Engineering
Department Illinois Central Railway, Chicago. In 1909 with
R. J. Starr, General Contractor, Electric, Montana.

457. Andrick, Wallace Peau. 1907.

Born July 17, 1887. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in
1903, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in

1907. From graduation to the present time with the General
Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

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458. Austin, Harold Samuel,. 1907.

Born in Terre Haute October 24, 1884, and entered the Institute
in 1903, graduating in Chemistry in 1907. From graduation to
the present time with the Laclede Gas Light Company, St.
Louis, Mo.

459. Baylor, Harry Dietrich, 1907.

Born March 2, 1882. Entered the Institute from Tremont, 111.,
in 1902, and graduated in Chemistry in 1907. From June, 1907,
to January, 1908, Chemist for the Minneapolis Gas Company,
Minneapolis, Minn. From January, 1908, to the present time
Chief Chemist for the Louisville Cement Company, Sellersburg,
Ind. Was married October 28, 1908, at Pekin, 111.

460. Bogran, Luis. 1907.

Born February 24, 1886. Entered the Institute from Santa
Barbara, Honduras, in 1903, and graduated in the Civil Engi-
neering Course in 1907. From graduation to the present time
with the Mexican Central Railway, Necaxa, Puebla, Mexico.

461. Bond, Rufus Lloyd. 1907.

Bom July 16, 1884. Entered the Institute from Abingdon, 111.,
in 1904, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1907. In 1907 with the General Electric Company, Schenectady,
N. Y. Since February i, 1909, with the Indiana Steel Company,
Gray, Ind. Married August 24, 1908.

462. Byrn, Dexter Hickman. 1907.

Born August 26, 1881. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1903, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1907. From graduation to the present time in the Motor Car
Department Union Pacific Railroad Shops, Omaha, Neb.

463. Cash, Frederick Harrison. 1907.

Born July 31, 1884. Entered the Institute from Hume, II!., in
1903, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1907
From June. 1907, to January, 1908, with the Engineering Corps
of the Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad Company, Evansville,
Ind. Since 1908 with Frank Kattman, Civil and Mining Engi-
neer, Brazil, Ind.

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464. Davis, Ren Montague. 1907.

Born June 23, 1878. Entered the Institute from Newport, Ind.,
in 1903, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1907. From graduation to the present time in shops of the
Union Pacific Railway, Omaha, Neb.

465. Goodman, Milton. 1907.

Born June 18, 1885, and entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1903, and graduated in Chemistry in 1907. From graduation
to the present time Assistant City Chemist Louisville, Ky.

466. Hall, Schuler Plato. 1907.

Born October 19, 1885, and entered the Institute from Terre
Haute in 1903, graduating in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1907. From graduation to the present time with the General
Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

467. Kelly, Warren Winfield. 1907.

Born November 30, 1885. Entered the Institute from Topeka,
Kan., in 1903, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in
1907. From June to September, 1907, Instrumentman C. M. &
St. P. Railway, Milwaukee. From September, 1907, to date
Transitman with the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Company, Chillicothe, 111.

468. Kranichfeld, Delbert. 1907.

Born October 26, 1886. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1903, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1907. From graduation to the present time with the Fairbanks-
Morse Company, Beloit, Wis.

469. McDaniel, Donald. 1907.

Born August 18, 1885, Fort Recovery. Ohio. Entered the Insti-
tute from Mount Carmel, 111., in 1903, and graduated in the
Mechanical Engineering Course in 1907. From graduation to
the present time with the National Malleable Castings Company,
Indianapolis, Ind. Was married April 18. 1908, at Winchester,
Ind.

470. McKenna, Raymond Joseph. 1907.

Born September 18, 1883. Entered the Institute from Omaha,
Neb., in 1903, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering

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Course in 1907. From September, 1907, to April, 1908, in Test-
ing Department of the General Electric Company, Schenectady,
N. Y. From April, 1909, to date in the Electrical Department
of the Armour Packing Company, South Omaha, Neb.

471. Meyers, Morris. 1907.

Born April 27, 1886, in Russia. Entered the Institute from
Louisville, Ky., in 1903, and graduated in the Civil Engineering
Course in 1907. From graduation to the present time Drafts-
man and Computer with the Lorain Steel Company, Johns-
town, Pa.

472. Miner, Erwin JoHisr. 1907,

Born June 30, 1885, Le Mars, Iowa. Entered the Institute from
Louisville in 1903, and graduated in the Civil Engineering
Course in 1907. From graduation to November, 1907, was
Assistant on Engineering Corps of Stone & Webster Company,
Terre Haute & Western Railway. 1907 in M. of W. Corps
Evansville & Terre Haute Railroad Company. 1908 City Engi-
neering Department, Terre Haute. June, 1908, Draftsman for
Commissioners of Sewerage, Louisville, Ky. Member Engi-
neers' and Architects' Club, Louisville.

473. Nantz, Frank Alexander. 1907.

Born October 17, 1882. Entered the Institute from Glenn, Ind.,
in 1903, and graduated in Chemistry in 1907. From graduation
to the present time Assistant Chemist with the Arkansas Cotton
Oil Company, Little Rock, Ark.

474. Nichols, James Herbert. 1907.

Born January 24, 1885. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1902, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1907. In 1907 and 1908 with the Vandalia Railroad Shops,
Terre Haute. In 1909 with the Union Pacific Railroad Shops,
Omaha, Neb.

475. O'LouGHLiN, Walter Martin. 1907.

Born May 15, 1885. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in
1903, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1907. From graduation to the present time with the Signal

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Department Pennsylvania Railroad at Newcomerstown, Ohio,
and now at Pittsburg, Pa.

476. Orr, Harry Hardin. 1907.

Born September 16, 1885. Entered the Institute from Louis-
ville, Ky., in 1903, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering
Course in 1907. From time of graduation to the present time
in the Signal Department of the C. & E. I. Railroad, Chicago,
as Signal Inspector.

477. Plew, William Reece. 1907.

Entered the Institute from Palestine, 111., in 1903, at the age of
24, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1907.
From graduation to date Instructor in Civil Engineering and
Mathematics Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, Ind.

478. Post, Clifford Wilson. 1907.

Born April i, 1884, and entered the Institute from Gordon, Ohio,
in 1903, graduating in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1907.
Since graduation with the Commonwealth Edison Company,
Chicago, and at present Treasurer and General Manager Del-
phos Electric Light and Power Company, Delphos, Ohio.

479. ROUTLEDGE, ThOMAS ElMER. I907.

Born December 14, 1879, and entered the Institute from New-
man, 111., in 1903, graduating in the Electrical Engineering
Course in 1907. Since graduation in the Signal Department
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Mansfield, Ohio, and at pres-
ent teaching school in Oakland, 111.

480. Sage, Russell Sankey. 1907.

Born May 25, 1885, and entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1903, graduating in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1907. From graduation to the present time in the Testing De-
partment General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

481. Scharpenberg, Charles. 1907.

Born November 19. 1884, and entered the Institute from Girard,
111., in 1903, graduating in the Civil Engineering Course in 1907.
From graduation to the present time Civil Engineer with the
Ohio Oil Company, Bridgeport, 111.

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482. SCHOFIELD, AlONZO DiEE, Jr. I907..

Born December 3, 1886, and entered the Institute in 1903, grad-
uating in the Mechanical Engineering Course in 1907. From
graduation to date Engineer with J. S. Schofield's Sons, Macon,
Georgia.

483. SCHUCHARDT, RuDOLPH JOHN. I907.

Bom January 25, 1883, in Terre Haute, and entered the Institute
in 1901, graduating in Architecture in 1907. From graduation
to the present time with the Dering Coal Company, Danville, 111.

484. Shickel, Harry Meredith. 1907.

Born May 15, 1878. Entered the Institute from Sand ford, Ind.,
in 1903, and graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1907. From graduation to the .present time Teacher of
Mathematics in High School, Terre Haute, Ind.

485. Schickel, James Boyd. 1907.

Born April 30, 1883. Entered the Institute from Sandford, Ind.,
in 1903, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1907. From graduation to the present time in the Te&ting De-
partment General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

486. Stalker, James Robinson. 1907.

Born March 4, 1887, and entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1903, graduating in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1907.
From graduation to date graduate student in Civil Engineering
at the University of Illinois, Champaign, 111.

487. Strecker, Robert. 1907.

Born March ii, 1885. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1903, and graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1907.
After graduation was with the Engineering Corps of the Evans-
ville & Terre Haute Railway, Evansville, Ind.. and at present
with Commissioner of Sewerage, Louisville, Ky.

488. Taylor, Howard C. 1907.

Born January 6, 1886, and entered the Institute from Chapman,
Kan., in 1905, graduating in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1907. From graduation to the present time with the Wapa-
koneta Machine Company, Wapakoneta, Ohio.

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489. Trueblood, Cecil Nelson. 1907.

Born October 27, 1879, and entered the Institute from Terre
Haute in 1903, graduating in the Mechanical Engineering
Course in 1907. From graduation to the present time with the
Signal Department Union Pacific Railway, Sidney, Neb.

490. Whitecotton, Otto George. 1907.

Born May 13, 1885, and entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1903, graduating in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1907.
From graduation to the present time in the Testing Department
General Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

491. WicKLiFFE, Paul Reynolds. 1907.

Born December 6, 1885. Entered the Institute from Greenville,
Ky., in 1903, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1907. From graduation to the present time with the General
Electric Company, Schenectady, N. Y.

492. Andrews, Carl Bowers. 1908.

Born April 17, 1879. Entered the Institute from Honolulu,
Hawaii Territory, in 1904, Graduated in the Civil Engineering
Course in 1908. With Baldwin & Alexander, Civil Engineers,
Honolulu, Hawaii Territory.

493. Bernhardt, John Edward. 1908.

Born May 11, 1887. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in
1904. Graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1908. In
1908 with Libby & Nelson, General Contractors. Minneapolis,
Minn. In 1909 in Chief Engineer's office Vandalia Railway, St.
Louis, Mo.

494. BoGRAN, Daniel Rapalo. 1908.

Born January 2, 1881. Entered the Institute from Santa Bar-
bara, Republic of Honduras. Graduated in the Mechanical En-
gineering Course in 1908. Engineer for Barahona & Canales
Company, San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

495. BoYD, Herbert Henry. 1908.

Born September 22, 1884. Entered the Institute from Paris,
111., in 1904. Graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in
1908. With J. D. White & Co., General Contractors, Richfield.
Idaho.

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496. Cannon, Hiram Berry. 1908.

Born November 13, 1886. Entered the Institute from Midway,
Ky., in 1904. Graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1908. With Bullock Electric Company, East Norwood, Ohio.

497. Corson, Floyd Watson. 1908.

Born September 21, 1883. Entered the Institute from Genoa,
111., in 1904. Graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course
in 1908. With the Olds Gas Engine Works, Lansing, Mich.

498. Fischer, Emil John. 1908.

Born December 16, 1885. Entered the Institute from Wapa-
koneta, Ohio, in 1904. Graduated in the Mechanical Engineer-
ing Course in 1908. Assistant Manager Wapakoneta Wheel
Company, Wapakoneta, Ohio.

499. Freers, George Herman. 1908.

Born January 21, 1886. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1904. Graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1908. With the Interstate Automobile Company, Muncie, Ind.

500. Hamilton, Paul Bitner. 1908.

Born in Terre Haute March 14, 1886, and entered the Institute
in 1903. Graduated in Chemistry in 1908. His address at pres-
ent is Berlin, Germany.

501. Hathaway, Arthur Stafford. 1908.

Born June 26, 1886, and entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1904. Graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1908.
With the Southern Power Company, Charlotte, N. C.

502. Heidenger, Henry William. 1908.

Born January 9, 1887. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1904. Graduated in the Mechanical Engineering Course in
1908. At present Mechanical Engineer with the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern Railway, Washington, Ind.

503. HuNLEY, Elias Bradford. 1908.

Born July 23, 1886, and entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1904. Graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1908.
In the Maintenance of Way Department Big Four Railway,
Indianapolis, Ind.

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504. Jackson, Roy Hamii^ton. 1908.

Born June 11, 1^6, and entered the Institute from near the city
of Terre Haute in 1904. Graduated in the Civil Engineering
Course in 1908. With the Forbes-Foulkes Construction Com-
pany on concrete work in Chicago.

505. Johnston, Jay Horace. 1908.

Bom April 11, 1886, and entered the Institute from Bartlesville,
Ind. Ter., in 1904. Graduated in the Mechanical Engineering
Course in 1908. Is Assistant Superintendent of the Battle Creek
Gas Company, Battle Creek, Mich.

506. Kelso, Bryon Lynn. 1908.

Born June 23, 1888. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in
1904, Graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1908. In
Engineer Corps Panama Canal Construction, Culebra, Canal
Zone.

507. Kerrick, Leo Capel. 1908.

Born July 13, 1885. Entered the Institute from Valley Station,
Ky., in 1905. Graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1908. With the Louisville Water Works Company, Louis-
ville, Ky.

508. Knopf, William Cleveland. 1908.

Born September 13, 1885. Entered the Institute from Louis-
ville, Ky., in 1904. Graduated in the Electrical Engineering
Course in 1908. With the Louisville Lighting Company, Louis-
ville, Ky.

509. Lammers, Charles Neukom. 1908.

Born October 5, 1884. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1903, and graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in
1908. At present in Terre Haute, Ind.

510. Lindeman, Paul Gustave. 1908.

Born in Terre Haute April 14, 1884. Entered the Institute in
1904. Graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1908.
From graduation with Foulkes & Forbes, Contractors, Terre
Haute, Ind.

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511. L1NDS1.EY, Berrien McWiluams. 1908.

Bom December 28, 1884. Entered the Institute from Dallas,
Texas, in 1904. Graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1908. With Munger Automobile Company, Dallas, Texas.

512. McCoRMicK, George Torrence. 1908.

Born December 28, 1884. Entered the Institute from Terre
Haute in 1902. Graduated in Chemistry in 1908. With the
National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio, until March,
1909. Then Chemist with the Kay & Ess Paint and Oil Com-
pany, Dayton, Ohio.

513. Mitchell, Samuel Eugene. 1908.

Born April 30, 1885. Entered the Institute from Butler, Pa., in
1904. Graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1908.
From graduation has been Overseer of Stock Farm, Butler, Pa.

514. Orth, Herbert Denny. 1908.

Born September 15, 1885. Entered the Institute from Terre
Haute in 1904. Graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course
in 1908. Is Instructor in Mechanical Drawing University of
Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.

515. Reiss, Frederick Herman. 1908.

Bom June 16, 1886. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in
1904. Graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1908.
With the Interstate Automobile Company, Muncie, Ind.

516. RoBBiNS, John Freehand. 1908.

Born August 24. 1884. Entered the Institute from Freelands-
ville, Ind., in 1904. Graduated in the Electrical Engineering
Course in 1908. With the Signal Department Vandalia Railway
Company, Terre Haute.

517. Schmidt, Henry Earl. 1908,

Born February 15, 1887. Entered the Institute from Terre
Haute in 1904. Graduated in Chemistry in 1908. Assistant
Chemist Oliver Mining Company, Hibbing, Minn.

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518. SiEVERS, Charles Henry. 1908.

Born November 21, 1880. Entered the Institute from Omaha,
Neb., in 1903. Graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in
1908. On Construction Work Union Pacific Railway, Greeley,
Col.

519. Stock, Orion Louis. 1908.

Born February 22, 1884. Entered the Institute from Lewis,
Ind., in 1904. Graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in
1908. Of Paige & Stock, Civil Engineers and Surveyors, Terre
Haute. Married November 18, 1908, at Terre Haute.

520. Stubbs, Ross Malcolm. 1908.

Born February i, 1886. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1904. Graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in 1908.
His present address is Terre Haute, Ind.

521. TouLSON, Wood. 1908.

Bom June 30, 1883. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in
1904. Graduated in the Electrical Engineering Course in 1908.
His address is Terre Haute, Ind.

522. Uhl, Walter Lawrence. 1908.

Born November 6, 1884. Entered the Institute from Ports-
mouth, Ohio, in 1904. Graduated in the Civil Engineering
Course in 1908. With the Chicago, Quincy & Burlington Rail-
way, Lincoln, Neb.

523. WiCKERSHAM, EnoCH PaUL. I908.

Born September 5, 1886. Entered the Institute from Terre
Haute in 1903. Graduated in the Mechanical Engineering
Course in 1908. With the Grand Rapids Gas Light Company,
Grand Rapids, Mich., and the Weston Mott Company, Flint,
Mich.

524. WiLLisoN, Walter William. 1908.

Born April 30, 1886. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute
in 1904. Graduated in Chemistry in 1908. With The Larkins
Company, Buffalo, N. Y.

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525. Wood, Ottiwell. 1908.

Born April 18, 1887. Entered the Institute from Terre Haute in
1903. Graduated in Chemistry in 1908. In the Engineering De-
partment Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y.

526. Zambrano, Agustin. 1908.

Born May 7, 1886. Entered the Institute from Monterey, N. L.
Mex., in 1904. Graduated in the Civil Engineering Course in
1908. Civil Engineer, Hacienda San Carlos, Coahuila, Mexico.

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JNDEX.

Name. No.

Aguilera, Francisco V., '03. .310

Aiknian, John B., '87 20

Albert, Clifford E., '93 104

Albert, Walter H., '93 105

Albin, Earl G., '07 456

* Allen. Burgess F., '93 106

Anderson, L. Clifford, '95... 145
Anderson, Warwick M., '94. . 124

Andrews, Carl B., '08 492

Andrews, Morton C, '94 125

Andrick, Wallace P., '07 457

Appleton, William C, '00.. ..261

Arn, William G., '97 191

Arnold, Robert B., '03 311

Atherton, Donald H., '05 378

Austermiller, John A., '90... 48

Austin, Alfred N., '03 312

Austin, Harold S., '07 458

Austin, Ned M., '98 217

Balsley, Abe. '91 62

Barbazette, J. Harry, '04 347

Baur, Oscar, '87 21

Baylor, Harry D., '07 459

Becker, Maurice E., '93 I07

Beebe, Robert W., '96 164

Benbridge, Richard W., '06. .419

Benson, George, Jr., '05 379

Bernhardt, John E., '08 493

Bigelow, Henry W., '95 146

Bixby, Allan S., '92 79

Blair, Marion W., '03 313

Blanchard, Ralph C, '05 380

Bland, John O., '05 381

Blinks, Walter M., '94 126

Boehm, William H., '91 63

Bogran, Luis, '07 460

Bogran, Daniel R., '08 494

Name. No.

Bond, Rufus L., '07 461

Bowie, Wallace D., '03 314

Bowsher, William H., '04. ..348

Boyd, Herbert H., '08 495

*Boyles, Thomas D., '92 80

Brachmann, Fred C, '98 218

Braman, Harry S., '03 315

Brannon, Clifton, '04 349

Brewer, Jesse Irving, '00.... 262

*Brokaw, Charles C, '86 4

Brosius, J. Simms, '03 316

*Brown, Elmer, '94 127

Brown, Samuel G., '95 147

Rrownell, Harry G., '86 5

*Bryon, Ernest, '04 350

Buckley, Frederick J., '91 . . . 64

Burk, William E- '96 165

Burr, Walter H., '05 382

Burt. Eugene, '03 317

Burt, Nathaniel P., '99 240

Burtis, Edwin R., '95 148

Butler, Earle S., '06 420

Butler, Noble C, Jr., '99 241

Byrn, Dexter, '07 462

Cadden, Charles A., '06 421

Canfield, Harry R., '06 422

Cannon, John W., '06 423

Cannon, Hiram B., '08 496

Camp, Theodore L., '97 192

Carothers, George R., '91 . . . 65

Carr, Uhel U., '96 166

Cash, Frederick H., Jr., '07. .463
Chamberlain, Charles L-, '03...318
Chandler, Benjamin F., '97- -193

Chapman, George H., '88 28

Chappie, John T., '86 6

Clay, G. Harry, '01 276

* Deceased.

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Name. No.

Cohn, Clarence A., '04 351

Collett, Samuel D., 'ga 49

Condron, Theodore L-, '90. , 50

Cook, Cleo B., '05 383

Corson, Floyd W., '08 497

Cory, Mark D., '04 352

Cox, Claude E., '02 293

Cox, Frank P., '87 22

Cox, J. Irving, '03 319

Cox, John S., '91 66

Cox, N. Hadley, '03 320

Crain, George H., '04 353

Craver, Harrison W., '95 149

Crawford, Gilbert, '01 277

Crebs, Walter D., '99 242

Crockwell, Charles R., '95... 150

Crowe, Walter W., '95 151

Curry, John R., '06 424

Cushman, John A., '03 321

Daily, J. Edward, '05 384

Dale, James, '93 108

d'Amorim, Ambrosio, '06. . . .425

Darst, Edward A., '95 152

Davies, Carl G., '05 385

Davies, Graham, '03 322

Davis, George M., '88 29

Davis, Ren M., '07 464

Davis, William G., '99 243

Davis, William J., Jr., '92... 81

Decker, Walter L., '96 167

Delle, Frank A., Jr., '06 426

Denehie, John F., '94 128

Dickerson, John T., '02 294

Dietrich, Arthur M., '92 82

Dom, Leo F, '04 354

Early, Samuel S., '85 i

Eastwood, Arthur C, '98 219

Eastwood, Harry W., '06 427

Edwards, Edmund P., '99. . . 244

Ehrsam, William J., '92 83

Elder, Edward C, '86 7

Elder, William D., '90 51

Name. No.

Evans, Robert B., '06 428

Everson, Ralph C, '05 386

Failey, Bruce F., '96 168

Farrington, James, '96 169

Fishback, Fred. R., '02 295

Fischer, Carl D., Jr., '03 ^23

Fischer, Emil J., '08 498

Fitch, Max B., '90 52

Fitzpatrick, James E., '03... 324

Fletcher, Thomas, '98 220

Flory, Edgar L., '02 296

Fogarty, William J., '92 84

Folsom, Edson F., '92 85

Foltz, Herbert, '86 8

Ford, W. Ellis, '98 221

*Frank, Edmund, '97 194

Frank, Sigmund S., '92 86

Freers, George H., '08 499

French, Carson G., '04 355

Freudenreich, Wm. F., '98... 222
Freudenreich, Arnold E., '06..429
Froehlich, Frederick H., '99...24S
Frohman, Edward D., '94. ..129

Fry, Charles H., Jr., '97 195

Galloway, John D., '89 39

Galloway, Mason, 'go 53

Garrettson, Robert F., '04. ..356

Gibbons, Walter R., '01 278

Gilbert, Elmer E., '89 40

Gilbert, Henry C, Jr., '03... 325

Gillett, Vernor J., '91 67

Goetz, Herman F., '87 23

Goodman, Leon, '05 387

Goodman, Milton, '07 465

Gordon, Arthur F, '97 196

Gray, Ralph C, '05 388

Green, Frank T., '96 170

Greenleaf, Guy W., '05 389

Hadley, William, '01 279

Hahn, Ferdinand W., '04 357

Hall, Jay H., '97 197

Hall, Schuler P., '07 466

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Name. No.

Haller, Frederick W. A., '05...390

Hamilton, Paul B., '08 500

Hammel, Max J., '01 280

Hammond, Alonzo J., '89. . . 41

Haney, J. Briggs, '97 198

Hanley, William S., '05 391

Haring, Harry D., '88 30

Harper, Joseph D., '91 68

^Harris, Ellsworth B., '96. ..171

Harris, William H., '91 69

Hart, H. Stillson, '93 109

Hatch, Frederick N., '06 430

Hathaway, A. Stafford, '08. .501

Hazard, William H., '04 358

Hedden, Oran R., '94 130

Hedges, Arthur W., '86 9

Heichert, Herman S., '97 199

Heick, William R., '05 392

Heidenger, Henry W., '08... 502

Helmer, L. Leslie, '01 281

Hellweg, John H., Jr., '97... 200
Hendricks, Victor K., '89. . . 42
*Henrikson, Sigurd L., '94. .131

Hensgen, Walter O., '06 431

Hess, Otto G., '90 54

Hibbits, Frank N., '87 24

Hildreth, Frederick F., '94- -132

Hill, Roy W., '04 359

Hills, C. Herbert, '02 297

Holderman, C. H., '97 201

Holding, Herbert H., '89.... 43
Holding, J. C. Carlisle, '94- -133

Holliger, Jesse E., '99 246

*Hommel, Victor A., '02 298

Hood, Arthur M., '93 no

Hood, Ozni P., '85 2

*Hord, Francis T., '88 31

Housum, Chenoweth, 02 299

Howell, Cecil A., '99 247

Hubbell, John E., '98 223

Hunley, J. Boudinot, Jr., '03...326
Hunley, E. Bradford, '08.... 503

Name. No.

Hunt, Frederick G., '96 172

Hupe, Alexander L., '91 70

Hurlbert, Francis W., '91... 71

Hussey, Warren, '92 87

Huthsteiner, Robert E., '93.. in

Ijams, J. Warren, '03 327

Ingle, J. David, '97 202

Ingle, William D., '03 328

Insley, William H., '00. .... .263

Jackson, James S., '06 432

Jackson. Roy H., '08 504

Jacob, Brent C, '03 329

Jenckes, Ray G., Jr., '05 393

Johannesen, Svend E., '93... 112

Johnson, John M., '06 433

Johnson, Walter E., '05 394

Johnston, J. Horace, '08 505

Johonnott, Edwin S., Jr., '93..113

Jones, Edw. Lindley, '02 300

Jones, Horace B., '89 72

Jones, Theodore D., '89 44

Jumper, Charles H., '02 301

Jumper, Frank J., '99 248

Kadel, Harry R., '05 395

Kahlert, Ernest D., '06 434

Katzenbach, Brown, '04 360

Kellogg, Henry S., '03 330

Kelly, Warren W., '07 467

Kelsall, George A., '06 435

Kelso, Byron L., '08 506

Kerrick, Leo C, '08 507

Kessler, John J., Jr., '97 203

Keyes, Clift B., '99 249

Kidder, Arthur D., '99 250

Kidder, Clinton B., '88 32

Kidder, Ned S., '98 224

Kidder, Sidney J., '00 264

Kiefer, Carl J., '03 331

Kiefer, Herbert G., '05 396

Kilbourne, Hubert G., '94. ..134

King, Everett E., '01 282

Kirby, Edward C, '03 332

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Name. No.

Kittredge, Harvey G., '99... 251

Klenk, Lorenz W., '05 397

Klinger, P. Wert, '96 173

Klinger, Watson J., '96 174

Kloer, Charles, '98 225

Kloer, Gustave F., '98 226

Klotz, August H., '93 114

Knopf, William C, '08 508

Kranichfeld, Delbert, '07.... 468

Krieger, Albert A., '03 333

Lammers, Charles N., '08... 509

Landrum, Robert D., '04 361

Lansden, John M., Jr., '98. . .227

Larkins, E. Ernest, '05 398

Larson, Charles J., '00 265

Laux, Ernst C, '92 88

Lawton, Clarence W., '06. . .436

Layman, W. Arnold, '92 89

Lee, Addison W., '06 437

Lee, Earle P., '06 438

Lefler, Harvey J., '90 55

Lendi, J. Henry, '97 204

Leser, Henry, '00 266

Lew^is, Frederick B., '05 399

Liggett, Harry T., '96 17S

Likert, George H., '99 252

Lindenberger, George B., '03..334

Lindeman, Paul, '08 510

Lindsley, Berrien M., '08 511

Loofbourow, Jesse H., '00. ..267

Lufkin, John E., '97 205

Lyon, Albert C, '01 283

McBride, John S., '05 400

McCabe, Eugene F., '91 73

McComb, Harold, '06 439

McCormick, Charles C, '04...362
McCormick, George T., '08. .512
McCormick, Robert L., '91 . . 74

*McCulloch, David, '94 13S

McDaniel, Donald, '07 469

McDargh, Harry J., '96 176

JNIcDermott, Harry E., '93... 115

Name. No.

McFarland, Ed. H., '04 363

MacGregor, James C, '93... 116

McKeen, Benjamin, '85 3

]\IcKeen, William R., Jr., '89.. 45
McKenna, Raymond J., '07. .470

McLellan, James J., '99 253

[NIcMeans, Orange E., '96. ..177

McNabb, Walter S., '04 364

McTaggart, James R., '95- • -153

Mack, John G. D., '87 25

Madison, Herbert F., '00 268

Maier, Gustave A., '00 269

Marshall, Ira, '02 302

Martin, Walter H., '97 206

Masterson, Wesley C, '86. . . 10
Meadows, Harvey H., '96... 178

Mees, Curtis A., '00 270

Menden, William S., '91 75

Mendenhall, Charles E., '94. .136

Mering, Barclay G., '87 26

Meriwether, David, Jr., '00. .271

Meriwether, Richard, '96 179

Metzger, Earl C, '03 335

Mewhinney" Omar C, '91 . . . 76

Meyer, August H., '97 207

Meyers, Morris, '07 471

Michel, A. Eugene, '03 336

Miller, Francis H., '95 154

Miller, Merwin B., '04 365

Miller, Robert N., '01 284

Miner, Erwin J., '07 472

*Mischler, Paul, '94 137

Mitchell, S. Eugene, '08 513

Modesitt, Charles C, '06 440

Montgomery, John T., '98. ..228

Moore, Allen H., '88 33

Moore, Odus B., '97 208

Mory, Austin V. H., '94 138

Moth, Robert H., '93 .117

Mnllett, Howard A., '04 366

*Mundy, W. Offutt, '95 155

Nantz, Frank A., '07 473

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Name. No.

Newbold, Roger M., '97 209

Newnam, Frank H., '05 401

Nichols, J. Herbert, '07 474

Nicholson, George F., '06... 441

Nicholson, John A., '02 303

Noelke, William C, '04 367

O'Brien, Barrington, '96 180

Oglesby, Milton L., '92 90

O'Loughlin, Walter M., '07. .475

Orr, Harry H., '07 476

Orth, Herbert D., '08 514

Osborne, Don F., '02 304

Ott, Claude, '92 91

Paige, Arthur J., '02 305

Paige, W. Robert, '91 77

Palmer, Harry W., '03 337

Palmer, William H., '87 27

Parkhurst, John A., '86 11

Parks, Clyde C, '02 306

*Parr, Hubert, '05 402

Peck, Walter R., '06 442

Peddle, Charles R., '05 403

Peddle, John B., '88 34

Peddle, William A., '03 338

Perkins, Hugh E., '01 285

Pettit, H. Blair, '03 339

Pfleging, Frank W., '01 286

Pfeif, George H., '04 404

Philip, Robert A., '97 210

Phillips, Edward F., '00 272

Phillips, George W., '95 156

Pierson, Temple G., '97 211

Pine, Benjamin H., '03 340

Piper, Harry D., '01 287

Pirtle, Claiborne, '98 229

Platts, J. Milton, '99 254

Plew, William R., '07 477

Post, Chester L., '03 341

Post, Clifford W., '07 478

Pote, Frank W., '06 443

Powell, Edgar B., '02 307

Putnam, Benjamin R., '92... 92

Name. No.

Putnam, George R., '90 56

Putnam, H. St. Clair, '86... 12
Randall, William H., '04. ...368
*Rauchfuss, Oscar R., '88... 35
Raymond, Stephen S., '90. . . 57

Reed, :\Ierle R., '05 405

Regan, John F., Jr., '04 369

Reiss, Frederick H., '08 515

Reynolds, O. Frank, '05 406

Rice, Arthur, '93 118

*Rice, Oscar G., '96 181

Richardson, Harry S., '00... 273

Ridgely, Clarence M., '96 182

Riedel, Edward, '94 139

Riggs. J. Robert, '01 288

Robbins, John F., '08 516

Roberts, Donn M., '89 46

Roberts, Shelby S., '98 230

Robertson, Claude E., '05... 407
Robinson, Arthur L., Jr., '95.. 157
Robinson, Edward F., '94. ..140
Rochester, Robert K., '01... 289

Rock, Samuel M., '92 93

Rogers, Harvey E., '06 444

Rose, Charles C, '93 ii9

Rose. Luther S., '92 94

Ross, J. Newton, '04 370

Ross, Taylor W., '93 120

Rotz, John M., '06 445

Routledge, Thomas E., '07. .479

Royse, James S., '94 141

Rumbley, Frederick N., '03. .342

Ryan, Edward C, '06 446

*Ryder, Waldo B., '98 231

Rypinski. Maurice C, '97 212

Sage, Russell S., '07 480

Sames, Charles M., '86 13

Sanborn, Wallis R., '96 183

Sanderson, David P., '86 14

Sanford, Linus, '96 184

Scharpenberg, Charles, '07. . .481
Schauwecker, Edgar J., '06. .447

Alumni Biographical Dictionary.

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Name. No.

SchefFerly. Robert J., '03 343

Schmidt, H. Earl, '06 517

Schneider, Fred W., '98 232

Schofield, Alonzo D., Jr., '07..482

Scholl, Jalian, '88 36

Schwable, Henry €., '99 2S5

Schwartz, Harry A., '01 290

Schwed, John F., '99 256

Schuchardt, Rudolph J., '07. .483

Scott, Charles E., '86 15

Seath. James R., '86 16

Shaneberger, Edgar L., '95.. 158

Sharp, J. Stuart, '04 371

Shaver, Archie G., '97 213

Shickel, Harry M., '07 484

Shickel, J. Boyd, '07 485

Shover. Barton R., '90 58

*Shrader, William H., '86. . . 17

Shryer, Herbert E., '05 408

Sievers, Charles H., '08 518

Sinks, Frank F., '96 185

Smith, Claiborne E.. '03 344

Smith, F. Elbert, '96 186

Smith, Harry, '04 372

Smyth, Cubitt B., '99 257

Snider, Lewis A., '05 409

Spalding. Edward H., '05... 410

Speaker, Clifford B., '05 411

Speed, Buckner, '94 142

Speed, William S., '95 159

Sperry. Herbert B., '92 95

Sproull, John C, '05 412

Staff, John T., Jr., '04 373

Stalker, James R., '07 486

Stanton. Howard M., '94 143

Stewart, Morton B., '98 233

Stilz, Harry B., '98 234

Stock. Orion L., '08 519

Stoddard, Eugene K., '05 413

Stone, Arthur P., '99 258

Strecker, Robert E.. '07 487

Stubbs, Ross M., '08 520

Name. No.

Sullivan, Lucien N., '86 18

Taylor, Howard C, '07 488

Theobald, Charles E., '98. . . .235
Thompson, Arthur C, '99. ..259

Thompson, Ralph F., '90 59

Thurman, Roy, '06 448

Thurston, Edwin C, '90 60

Tinsley, Samuel B., '92 96

Tippy, Bruce O., '92 97

Tipton, Clyde E., '04 374

Toner, Irwin D., '-04 375

Toulson, Wood, '08 521

Touzalin, Leslie A., '04 376

Troll, Martin N., '01 291

Trowbridge, Charles B., '05. .414
Troxler, Laurence E., '95... 160

Trueblood, Cecil N., '07 489

Trumbo, Charles F., '99 260

Tsuji, Taro, '90 61

*Tucker, Clarence H., '97 214

Tuller, Arthur V., '95 161

Uhl, Henry W., '02 308

Uhl, Walter L., '08 522

Valentine, Robert D., '93 121

Van Auken, James M., '96.. 187
Voorhes, Kimbrough E., '98.. .236

Wade, Archie, '95 162

Waite, William H., '93 122

Wales, Samuel S., '91 78

Walser, Edward, '96 188

Wamsley, Cale, '98 237

Warfel, Rob Roy, '01 292

Warren, Robert C, '02 309

Waters, Edward G., '88 37

Watson, Herbert L., '05 415

Weller, Edward A., '88 38

Wells, George E., '96 189

Wenzel. Charles G., '93 123

Werk, Louis, '96 190

Westfall, Herbert C, '97 215

Wetherbee, Harry L., '92 98

White, Knowles D., '06 449

270

Rose Polytechnic Institute.

Name. No.

Whitecotton, Otto G., '07 490

Whitten, Frank A., '98 238

Whitten, Roscoe, '04 ^yy

Wickersham, E. Paul, '08. ..523
Wickham, Walter M., '92,.. 99

Wickliffe, Paul R., '07 491

Wicks, Albert W., '92 100

Wiedemann, H. E., '03 345

Wiggins, William D., '95 163

Wiley, Brent, '98 239

Wiley, Walter B., '89 47

Wilkin, John T., '86 19

Wilkins, Hal E., '06 450

Williams, John P. A., '03... 346

Willien, Leon J., Jr., '06 451

Willison, Walter W., '08 524

Name. No.

Willius, Gustav, Jr., '97 216

*Wilms, H. John, '06 452

Wilson, Robert L., '92 loi

Wilson, Robert M., '05 416

Winters, George H., '94 144

Wischmeyer, Carl, '06 453

Wischmeyer, Henry W., '06.. .454
Witherspoon, Thos. D., '00. .274

Wood, George R., '92 102

Wood, Ottiwell, '08 525

Wood, Owen L., '05 417

Worthington, A. W., '06 455

Wright, Dudley D., '05 418

Young, J. Charles, '92 103

York, Robert, '00 275

Zambrano, Agustin, '08 526

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