Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . oston ten years later;Edmund and Stephen Greenleaf (father and son)who located at Newbury, Massachusetts in 1635,and Samuel Franklin, who took as an apprenticehis first cousin, the aftt-rwards fomous BenjaminFranklin, and for whom the stibject of this sketchwas named. Through his mother he is a descend-ant of Thomas Beale Wales, of Boston, whoseancestor settled at Dorchester in 1635, and of Cap- tain Benjamin Beale
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . oston ten years later;Edmund and Stephen Greenleaf (father and son)who located at Newbury, Massachusetts in 1635,and Samuel Franklin, who took as an apprenticehis first cousin, the aftt-rwards fomous BenjaminFranklin, and for whom the stibject of this sketchwas named. Through his mother he is a descend-ant of Thomas Beale Wales, of Boston, whoseancestor settled at Dorchester in 1635, and of Cap- tain Benjamin Beale, who resided at Squantum inthe neighboring town of Quincy. His preparatorystudies, which covered a period of five years, 1852to 1857, were pursued at a school located in Boyl-ston Place, Boston, presided over by Mr. Epes Dix-well, an able local educator of that day, and he tookhis Bachelors degree at Harvard with the Class of1861, receiving that of Master of Arts in College he took a lively interest in athletics, be-ing a member of his class football and cricket teams,was stroke-oarsman in several boat crews and wouldhave been selected for the Varsity Crew of i86t. S. F. EMMONS had not the breaking out of the Civil War divertedto another channel the usual enthusiasm for theannual College sports. The day following his grad-uation exercises found him en route for Europe forthe purpose of pursuing a protracted course ingeology and mining in the great scientific schools ofthe old world. .\t the Ecole Imperiale des Mines,Paris, he was first in rank among the Eleves Externes(1864) and the succeeding two years were spent atthe Bergakademie, Freiberg, Saxony, and in traxelfor scientific observation in other centres of learn-ing. In May 1S67 he volunteered to accompany asa geologist the exploring expedition sent out by theUnited States Oovcrnment under Clarence King forthe purpose of determining the mineral resources 86 UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR SONS of a broad expanse of countr
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