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Crandall, Charles L., was born in Bridgewater, Oneida county, July 20, 1850; was educated in the distriet sehool, West Winfield Academy, Whitestown Seminary, and Cornell University, reeieving from the latter the degree of B.C.E. in 1872 (since changed to C.E.), and C.E. in 1876 (sinee changed to M.C.E.). Professor Crandall has taught at the latter institution sinee the spring of 1874, and he now fills the posi- tion of associate professor of eivil engineering in charge of railroad engineering and geodesy. He has issued the following work's: Tables for the Computation of Rail- way and other Earthwork, 1886; second edition, revised and enlarged, 1893; Notes on Deseriptive Geometry (assisted by others), pamphlet, 1888; Notes on Shades, Shadows, and Perspective (revised by W. L. Webb), 1889; the Transition Curve, 1893; Naviga- tion Works executed in France from 1876 to 1891; translated from the French of F. Guillain for the International Engineering Congress, 1793. He married Myra G. Robbins, August 20, 1878. Professor Crandall is a son of Peter B. and Euniee Car- ter (Priest) Crandall.
Crane, Thomas Frederick, was born at New York, July 12, 1844, and received his early education at the old Laneasterian School in Ithaea, under the superintendenee
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of M. R. Barnard, and later at the public school and academy of the same place (the last named institution being then in charge of Mr. Carr) In 1858 Mr. Crane removed to Elizabeth, N. J., and continued his education at the private school of Mr. Pierson, until his entrance to the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in August, 1860. Mr. Crane was one of the editors of the Nassau Literary Magazine, and ivy orator of his class. He graduated in 1864, and entered at once the Law School of Columbia College. The following year (1865) Mr. Crane returned to Ithaca, where he has since resided, and pursued his legal studies with the firm of Boardman & Finch. He was admitted to the bar at Binghamton in June, 1866, and occupied for a time the office of Mr. F. M. Finch. Later he practiced law by himself and assisted Mr. Wesley Hooker in collecting the internal revenue of the district. During all this time Mr. Crane continued his literary studies and took up the study of German, French, and Spanish. He was also much interested in the foundation of the Cornell University and acted as secretary to Mr. Cornell and Mr. Finch during the summer preceding the opening of the university. When that event occurred in October, 1868, Mr. A. D. White, the first president of Cornell, asked Mr. Crane to take the chair of German until the return of Professor Willard Fiske. Mr. Crane occupied this position until the close of the first term, and then decided to devote his life to uni- versity work, and went abroad for two years, dividing his time between Germany, Italy, Spain, and France. In 1870 he returned to Ithaca to accept the position of assistant-professor of the Romance languages. In 1891 he accompanied President White to Santo Domingo. He was made professor of Spanish and Italian in 1872, and professor of the Romance languages in 1881, which position he now fills. He received the degree of A. M. from Princeton in 1867, and Ph.D. in 1874. Professor Crane is a member of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, and of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Palermo, Italy. Professor Crane has con- tributed a large number of articles to the North American Review, International Review, Harper's Magazine, Lippincott's Magazine, and the Nation on Folk-Lore, and the literary history and philology of the Romance languages, especially during the period of the middle ages. Since his article on Italian Popular Tales in the North American Review for July, 1876, he has devoted much attention to the subject of the origin and diffusion of popular tales, and was one of the founders of the American Folk-Lore Society (1888). Professor Crane is the author of a series of French classics, among which are: Le Romantisme Français, and La Société Française au XVIIe Siècle (New York 1887-89), Italian Popular Tales (Boston 1885), Chansons Populaires de la France (New York 1891), and an edition (1890) for the English Folk- Lore Society of the Exempla, or illustrative stories contained in the sermons of Jacques de Vitry, Bishop of Acre (died 1240), containing the Latin text, English analysis, elaborate notes on the origin and diffusion of the individual stories and an introduction on the life of the author and the use of illustrative stories in mediaeval sermons, etc. In 1874 Professor Crane married Sarah Fay Tourtellot, by whom he has one daughter, Frederika Waldron, born in 1885. Professor Crane's family (of English and Dutch descent) settled in Ithaca in 1818, where his grandmother married as her second husband Jeremiah Tourtellot of Huguenot ancestry.
Durand, William Frederick, was born at Beacon Falls, Conn., March 5, 1859, educated at the Derby High School, U. S. Naval Academy, and Lafayette College, Easton, Pa. He was graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in June, 1880, and
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received the degree of Ph. D. in course in June, 1888, from Lafayette College. Ile has taught at Lafayette College (1883-85), Worcester Polytechnic Institute (March to June 1887), Michigan Agricultural and Mechanical College (1887-91), Cornell Univer- sity (1891). His literary work has been limited thus far to numerous articles in engineering and professional periodicals, and to various papers read before "Learned Societies." He is understood to be engaged in the preparation of a text book of naval architecture. Professor Durand came to Cornell in September, 1891, as principal of the graduate school of naval architecture and marine engineering, which position he now fills. He married, October 23, 1883, Charlotte Kneen, and they have one son, William Leavenworth Durand. The ancestry of the family is English and Huguenot French.
Emerson, Alfred, associate professor of classical archaeology, Cornell University, was born in Greencastle, Franklin county, Pa., and educated in Paris, France, and London, England, in elementary schools in Dresden, Saxony, and Neuwied-on- the-Rhine, Prussia (Moravian Brethren's School) for his high school course, also attending, later, the School of Technology, Munich, Bavaria, and the School of Arts, Athens, Greece. He studied philology, archæology, history, philosophy, etc., at the Royal University of Munich, Bavaria, at Princeton College, Princeton, N. J., and at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. He received the degrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Munich in June, 1881 ; was fellow in Greek at Johns Hopkins, 1882-84, and instructor in classical archaeology in the same university during 1884-85. Was professor of Latin at Miami University, Oxford, O., 1887-88, professor of Greek at Lake Forest University, Ill., 1888-91. Some of Professor Emerson's literary work is comprised in the following: Doctorate dissertation De Hercule Homerico, Munich, 1881; Recent Progress in Classical Archæology, Boston, 1890; contributor to The Nation, to the American Journal of Philology, to the American Journal of Archaeology, and to Johnson's Universal Encyclopædia. He came to Cornell in 1891, and has organized the university col- lection of plaster casts, of which he is curator. July 28, 1887, he married Alice Louisa, daughter of Henry S. Edwards, of Hinsdale, Ill., and they have two children : Edith, born July 27, 1888, and Gertrude, born May 6, 1890. The ancestry of the Emerson family is Anglo-Irish, the grandfathers being James Emerson, born in Cuba in 1800; and Samuel D. Ingham, born in Pennsylvania in 1784, who was Presi- dent Jackson's first secretary of the treasury.
Fuertes, Estevan Antonio, was born at St. John's, Porto Rico, W. I,, and received his education at Porto Rico, Spain, and the United States, He graduated from the Conciliar Seminary, St. Yldefonso, St. Juan Seminary, Salamanca Jurisdiction, and Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, receiving the degrees of bachelor of philosophy, doctor of philosophy, doctor of medicine, civil engineer, and having many diplomas, prizes and decorations. Professor Fuertes has been the author of many municipal and governmental reports, with monographs and other contributions to scientific societies and periodicals. He came to Cornell in 1873 as dean of the department of civil engineering, of which college he is now director and professor of the same. To him is due the introduction of laboratory work in connection with technical courses in civil engineering. December 21, 1860, he married Mary Stone Perry, daughter of Amos S. Perry, of Vermont, and Sarah Hillhouse of New York, and their children
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arc: Estevan J., James Hillhouse, civil engineer, George (deceased), Sarah Demetria, Louis Agassiz, and Mary Katharine. The ancestry of our subject is from the families of Fuertes, Charbonnier, Córdova, Padilla, O'Neil, Catalá, Bobouslauski and Ahern.
Hart, James Morgan, was born November 2, 1839, at Princeton, N. J., was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, Pa., finishing at the Central High School in 1857. He graduated in 1860 from Princeton College, with the degree of A. B .; in 1863, with the degree of A. M., and from Göttingen, Germany. in 1864, with the degree of Juris Utriusque Doctor. Also studied again in 1872-73 in Leipzig, Marburg, and Berlin, and in 1886 at Tübingen. He taught at Cornell, 1868-72, as assistant-professor of modern languages; Cincinnati, 1º76-90, as professor of modern languages and English literature; 1890 to date, as professor of rhetoric and English philology in Cornell. In June, 1883, he married Clara Doherty, of Cincinnati. His parents were John Seely Hart and Amelia C. Morford; his father was principal of the Central High School at Philadelphia, of the New Jersey State Normal and Model Schools of Trenton, and professor of English at Princeton. The literary work done by Professor Hart is comprised in the following: Books: The Amazon, translated from the German of Franz Dingelstedt, New York, Putnam, 1868; Cavé on Color, translated from the French, New York, Putnam, 1869; The Family and the Church, edited by L. W. Bacon, translated, The Church, six sermons by Father Hyacinth, pages 165-262; Pastoral Letter of Bishop Dupanloup, pages 293-343, New York, Putnam, 1870; Laugel, England Political and Social, translated from the French, New York, Put- nam, 1874; German Universities, etc., New York, Putnam, 1874; German Classics (with introduction and notes), a) Herman u. Dorothea, 1875; b) Piccolomini, 1875; c) Goethe's Prose (Selections), 1876; d) Faust, first part, 1878, New York, Putnam ; Syllabus of Anglo Saxon Literaturc, Robert Clark & Co., Cincinnati, 1881. Magazine articles-University Life in Germany, Putnam's Magazine, 1868; Ascent of Monte Rosa, Putnam's Magazine, 1869; Shakespeare in German of To-Day, Putnam's Magazine, 1870; The Higher Education in America, Galaxy, 1871; Review of Taylor's Faust (I), Galaxy, 1871; Review of Taylor's Faust (II), Galaxy, 1871; Modern Lan- guages in the American College, 1872, Galaxy; Cornell University, The Century, 1873; Vienna, and the Centennial, International Review, 1875; Professor and Teacher, Lippincott's, 1876; The College Student, Lippincott's, 1876; Berlin and Vienna, Lippincott's, 1876; Higher Education, Lippincott's, 1876; Celtic and Ger- manic, American Journal of Philology, vol. I. Also some shorter papers and book reviews, in American Journal of Philology, and others in Modern Language Notes. To the New York Nation, many hundred pages of articles and book reviews; to the School Review, several papers, notably the one on Regents' English, in the first number, which has induced the regents to introduce a thorough reform in this department. He is engaged at present in preparing a manual of English compo- sition for High Schools, in hopes of introducing better methods. He is also accumu- lating material for a full (perhaps complete) dictionary of Anglo-Saxon.
Hitchcock, Edward, jr., was born in Stratford, Conn., September 1, 1854, was edu- cated at Bridgeport, Conn., at Easthampton, Mass., Amherst College, the medical course at Dartmouth College, and the Bellevue Medical College at New York city. He graduated in 1878 from Amherst with the degree of A.B., and in 1881 of A.M.,
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in 1881 from Dartmouth with the degree of M. D., and taught at Amherst College in 1881-84, at the Massachusetts State Agricultural College in 1882-84. His literary work is comprised in various magazines, articles on subjects belonging to physical culture, anthropometry, etc. He came to Cornell, February 23, 1884, as acting pro- fessor of physical education, his present position being professor of physical culture and hygiene, and director of the gymnasium. Professor Hitchcock married Ida I. Bering, daughter of J. E. Bering, of Decatur, Ill. She died in October, 1884, and he married second, in 1888 (June 20), Sarah Demetria Fuertes. His children are: Ed- ward Bering Hitchcock, by his first wife, and Mary Katharine Hitchcock, by his pres- ent wife. His grandfather, Edward Hitchcock, was president of Amherst College, in which his father, Edward Hitchcock, was also professor. His mother was Mary Lewis Judson.
Huffcut, Ernest Wilson, professor of law in the Cornell University Law School, was born in Kent, Litchfield county, Conn., November 21, 1860. In 1865 his parents removed to New York, in which State they have since resided. He was fitted for col- lege in the public schools, at Afton, N. Y., and entered Cornell in 1880, graduating in 1884 with the degree of B.S. During the next year he acted as private secretary to President White, upon whose resignation, in 1885, he became instructor in Eng- lish. This position he held three years, meantime studying law and graduating with the first class from the Law School in 1888. In the fall of that year Mr. Huff- cut removed to Minneapolis, where he practiced law for two years, serving most of the time as judge advocate-general of the State. In 1890 he accepted the position of professor of law in Indiana University, and in 1892 in Northwestern University, Chi- cago. In 1893 he was called as professor of law at Cornell, which position he still holds. Mr. Huffcut has been a frequent contributor to legal periodicals and period- icals devoted to political science. He is deeply interested in public questions, is an enthusiastic Republican, and has taken part in almost every national or State cam- paign since he attained his majority. On the appointment of ex-President White as minister to Russia, Mr. Huffcut was strongly urged for the position of secretary of legation, but owing to his engagement with Northwestern University Law School was obliged to withdraw his name from consideration.
Jenks, Jeremiah W., was born September 2, 1856, at St. Clair, Mich. He was edu- cated in the district school, the High School, University of Michigan, and in Germany. He graduated from the University of Michigan with the degree of A. B. in 1878, A. M. in 1879, received the degree Ph. D. in 1885, from the University of Halle, Germany. He has taught at Mt. Morris College, Ill. ; Peoria High School, Ill. ; Knox College, Gales- burg, Ill. ; Indiana State University, Bloomington, Ind. ; and at Cornell University. Professor Jenks has written the following works: Henry C. Carey als National- ökonom, Jena, 1885; Road Legislation for the American State, American Economic Association, 1889; The Michigan Salt Association, Political Science Quarterly, March, 1888; Development of the Whiskey Trust, ibid, June, 1889; School Book Legislation, ibid, March, 1891; A Critique of Educational Values, Educational Review, January, 1892; Die " Trusts" in den Vereinigten Staaten Nord Amerikas, Jahrbücher für National-Okonomie und Statistik, January, 1891; translated and republished with additions in Economic Journal, London, March, 1892; Money in Elections, Century Magazine, October, 1892; Suppression of Bribery in England, ibid, March, 1889; A
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Greek Prime Minister, Charilaos Tricoupis, Atlantic Monthly, March, 1894; Articles on Ballot Reform, Lobby Methods of Law Making, Monopolies, Primary Elections, Political Science, Representation, in Johnson's New Cyclopedia, several articles in Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy, besides many lesser articles, book re- views, etc. He came to Cornell in 1891, in the capacity of professor of political, municipal and social institutions; in 1892 was appointed professor of political econ- omy and civil and social institutions. August 28, 1884, he married Georgia Bixler, and their children are: Margaret Bixler, Benjamin Lane, and Ernest Ellsworth. The ancestry of the family was originally Welsh, and came to Massachusetts in 1642, settling in Rhode Island. Later the branch of the family to which Mr. Jenks be- longs moved to New Hampshire. His father went from there to New York, and thence to Michigan.
Jones, George W., was born in Corinth, Me., in 1837, and was educated at Yale College, from which he graduated in 1859, with the degrees of A. B. and A.M. in 1862. From 1859 to 1862 he taught in General Russell's Military School at New Haven, Conn., from 1862 to 1868 in the Delaware Literary Institute at Franklin, N. Y. ; from 1868 to 1873 in the Iowa State Agricultural College at Ames, Iowa. The literary work done by him comprises Oliver, Wait & Jones Treatise on Algebra and on Trig- onometry, with others; Jones's Logarithmic Tables; and Jones's Drill-book in Al- gebra. He came to Cornell University in 1877 as assistant professor of mathematics, his present position being associate professor of mathematics. In 1862 he married Caroline T. Barber, the daughter of the historian, John W. Barber. His ancestors were of pure American stock.
Morris, John Lewis, was born in Utica, N. Y., educated in Whitestown Seminary, Ovid Academy, and Union College, graduated from the Union College of Schenectady. N. Y., with the degrees of A. B., C.E., July, 1856, and the degree of A.M. in 1860. He came to Cornell in September, 1868, as professor of mechanic arts, a position he still fills. He married, September 1, 1856, Louise A. Sutton, of Romulus, Seneca county. The ancestry of this family is Welch.
Thurston, Robert H., was born in Providence, R. I., October 25, 1839, educated in the public schools of the city and at Brown University, graduating from the latter institution with the degrees of Ph. B. and C.E. in 1859; later (1869) M.A. and (1889) LL.D. from the same institution. He practiced engineering until the outbreak of the war, 1861; then entered the Navy Engineer Corps, and at the close of the war was ordered to duty at the United States Naval Academy, serving there six years as assistant professor of natural and experimental philosophy, and for some time as head of that department; then resigning, taught at the Stevens Institute of Tech- nology fourteen years, then at Cornell since 1885. He came to Cornell, July 1, 1885, as director of Sibley College and professor of mechanical engineering, which posi- tion he still fills. His literary work has been as follows: (See biographical sketch in Men and Women of the Time), Contributions Johnson's Cyclopedia, Appleton's Cyclopedia, Dictionary of Biography, translations of various learned societies, some fifteen volumes of technical work, etc., etc. He married, October 5, 1865, Susan T. Gladding, of Providence, R. I., who died March 31, 1878, and second Leonora Bough- ton, of New York, August 4, 1880. He has three children: Harriet Taylor, Olive Gladding, Leonora Thurston. The ancestry of the family is old North-English and
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Northman stock, presumably descended from Thorstein, connected with the stock of Thurston of York, etc. ; the first in this country being the Edward Thurston family of Newport, R. I., coming to America in 1637 or 1638. (See Thurston Genealogies in the C. U. Library).
Titchener, Edward Bradford, was born in Chichester, England, January 11, 1867, and was educated at private schools, the Prebendal school at Chichester. and at Great Malvern College. He was graduated from the Oxford University in 1889 with the degree of B .. A., and M.A. in 1894; University of Leipzig with the degree of Ph. D. in 1892, F. Z. S., member of the Neurological Society of London, member of the American Psychological Association, and coeditor of Mind. Professor Titchener taught in the summer school at Oxford in 1892 (Biology); Cornell University (Psychol- ogy); summer school, Cornell, 1893-(Cerebral Physiology, Psychology and Physical Culture). He has contributed various articles and reviews to Mind, Brain, Nature, the Philosophische Studien, the New York Medical Record, the Philosophical Review, the American Journal of Psychology, etc. He came to Cornell in the autumn of 1892 as assistant professor of psychology, and director of the psychological laboratory, which position he now fills. He is of English ancestry.
Tuttle, Herbert, was born in Bennington, Vt., November 29, 1846, educated at Bennington, Hoosic Falls, Rensselaer county, N. Y., Burlington, Vt., graduating from the University of Vermont in 1869 with the degree of A.B .; A.M. in 1880 and honorary L.H.D. in 1889; also studied irregularly at the University of Paris and of Berlin. He taught at the University of Michigan in 1880, and Cornell University in 1881. His literary works have been: German Political Leaders, 1 vol., New York and London, 1876, and three volumes on the history of Prussia, from the earliest times to the outbreak of the Seven Years' War. The author is now at work on the continuation of the " Prussia" to the death of Frederic the Great in 1786. He came to Cornell in 1881 as lecturer on international law, etc., and at present is professor of modern European history. He married in 1876 Mary McArthur Thompson, of Hills- borough, O. He comes from the Tuttle and Boynton stock, the former originally English, the latter probably Dutch. So far as their American origin can be traced, the Tuttles came from Connecticut, the Boyntons from the Dutch settlement in . Rens- selaer county, or from Massachusetts.
Tyler, Charles Mellen, was born in Limington, Me., in 1831, and thence removed to Boston, Mass. ; was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and entered Yale University in 1851, from which he graduated in 1855 with the degree of A. B. He received afterward the degree of A.M., and in 1892 the degree of D.D., from Yale. Professor Tyler was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1861. He entered the armny and served in the battle of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, and around Petersburg. He first settled in Natick, near Boston, as pastor for nine years, then became pastor of a church in Chicago for six years. After the fire he left that city and settled in Ithaca in 1872, as pastor of the First Congregational Church until 1891. He was for several years a trustee of Cornell University. He was appointed professor of the history and philosophy of religion and Christian ethics in 1891 in Cornell University. He is a member of the Loyal Legion of the United States, a military order formed by Generals Grant, Sherman and others. Professor Tyler's literary work is comprised in the following: Various publications in reviews, maga-
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zines, etc., and a contribution to Professor Pfleiderer's " Philosophy of Religion," published in Berlin. In 1857 he married Miss Ellen A. Davis, of New Haven, Conn. His second marriage was with Miss Kate E. Stark, formerly professor of music in Syracuse University, in 1892. He has two children by his first wife: Mrs. James Fraser Gluck, of Buffalo, and Beatrice D. Tyler, of Ithaca. He comes from Scotch and English ancestors. His great-grandfather served in the French and Indian war, and was wounded at Ticonderoga, and his grandfather was an officer under Wash- ington in the Revolution.
Wait, Lucien Augustus, was born February 8, 1846, at Highgale, Vt., educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University, graduating from the latter in 1870 with the degree of A. B. He came to Cornell in 1870 as assistant professor of mathe- matics. He was made associate professor of mathematics in 1877, and full professor in 1891. He married August 12, 1873, Anna J. Dolloff, and their children are: Olga Athena, Alice Dolloff, and Zeta (deceased). Professor Wait's father was Norval Douglas Wait, and his mother, Marion Sarah Wilson. Mr. Wait was United States consul at Athens and Peiraeus, Greece, in 1873-74.
White, Horatio Stevens, was born in Syracuse, N. Y., April 23, 1852, educated in the public schools, graduate of the High School in 1868, studied with Rev. S. R. Calthrop in 1868-69, graduated from Harvard College in 1873 with the degree of A. B., and studied and traveled in Europe in 1872-73, 1873-75, 1881, 1883, 1886-87, 1894. He taught private pupils at various times between 1872 and 1876, when he began teaching in Cornell University. His literary work has been as follows: Selections from Lessing's Prose, 1888; Otis's Elementary German, sixth edition, 1889; Selections from Heine's Poems, 1890; German Prose Composition, 1891; Deutsche Volkslieder, 1892. Contributor to various American, English and German periodicals. He came to Cornell University in September, 1876, as assistant professor of Greek and Latin. He is at present professor of the German language and literature, and dean of the general faculty. He married June 14, 1883, Fanny Clary Gott, of Syracuse, and their children are: Joseph Lyman and Dorothy. The ancestry of the family is of New England and English descent.
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