History of the Michigan agricultural college and biographical sketches of trustees and professors . ARTHUR CRANSON BIRD 384 HISTORY OF MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Children: Kenyon L., Bertha May, Raymond H., Clinton D., MaryAhce (Nichols), the second and third not : Amherst, Massachusetts. *Arthur Cranson Bird, January, 1899-June, 1902, was born May 22,1864 at Highland, Michigan. He married Josephine S. (St. John) of AnnArbor, Michigan in August 1889. He attended common school until theage of fifteen when he entered the Agricultural College and graduated in1883 with the degree
History of the Michigan agricultural college and biographical sketches of trustees and professors . ARTHUR CRANSON BIRD 384 HISTORY OF MICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Children: Kenyon L., Bertha May, Raymond H., Clinton D., MaryAhce (Nichols), the second and third not : Amherst, Massachusetts. *Arthur Cranson Bird, January, 1899-June, 1902, was born May 22,1864 at Highland, Michigan. He married Josephine S. (St. John) of AnnArbor, Michigan in August 1889. He attended common school until theage of fifteen when he entered the Agricultural College and graduated in1883 with the degree of B. S., paying most of his expenses in college by hisown exertions. He soon bought a farm and lived on it, succeeding so wellthat the State Board of Agriculture conferred on him the degree of Masterof Agriculture. In 1897 Governor Pingree appointed him a member of theState Board of Agriculture which position he resigned January 25th, ADDISON MAKEPEACE BROWN. He was a prominent worker in farmers clubs, both local and state, havingserved as secretary and president in the State Association; editor of thedepartment of Farmers clubs of the Michigan Farmer. On January 25, 1899 he became secretary of the State Board of Agriculturewhich he resigned in 1901 and engaged in several kinds of business in Lansingand vicinity. For about six j-ears he was president of the Dairy and Food 1905 he was selected by Governor Warner to take the state census. Hewas a prominent figure in state politics and a close friend of GovernorsPingree and Warner. He died rather suddenly May 25, 1910. Children: Harold, Clare. Address: East Lansing, Michigan. Addison Makepeace Brown, son of Ebenezer Lakin Brown and MaryAnn (Miles) Browai, both born in Vermont. A. M. Brown was born Feb-ruary 15, 1859, at Schoolcraft, Michigan. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF TRUSTEES AND FACULTY. 385 He married Mollie Eliza Earl of Schoolcraft, Michigan. They bo
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