Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . he failure of healtii forced iiis retirement. In 1S75 he entered the Sophomore class at Dickinson CoUege, was made a Doctor of Divinity by Nebraska College. Carhsle, Pennsylvania, in March 1S48, but in the Dr. was a Delegate to the (General Conven- foUowing autumn was admitted to Yale as a Junior tion of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1880 and was graduated there in 1S50. After teaciiiiig and again in 1
Universities and their sons; history, influence and characteristics of American universities, with biographical sketches and portraits of alumni and recipients of honorary degrees . he failure of healtii forced iiis retirement. In 1S75 he entered the Sophomore class at Dickinson CoUege, was made a Doctor of Divinity by Nebraska College. Carhsle, Pennsylvania, in March 1S48, but in the Dr. was a Delegate to the (General Conven- foUowing autumn was admitted to Yale as a Junior tion of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1880 and was graduated there in 1S50. After teaciiiiig and again in 1898. .At Vale he was a member of Latin and tlreek in Alexandria, Virginia, for a year. Scroll and Key and of the Berzelian Society. In he returned to Yale, where he studied chemistry in Masonry he has taken the ISlue Lodge and Chapter the Scientific Department during the College year degrees and is also a member of the Ancient Order 1S51-1S52. The succeeding three years were spent of Lnited Workmen. October 29, 1857, he mar- at various German LTniversities. In 1855 he re- ried Harriet Frances Coley, and the children of that ceived the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Heidel. JOHN D. EASTER berg, his special studies being chemistry, geologyand mineralogy. Shortly after his return fromEurope he was given charge of the Laboratory of theSmithsonian Institution, at Washington, where heremained one year. From 1857 to i860 he heldthe Chair of Chemistry and Physics in the Llniver-sity of Georgia, resigning to enter the ministry of theProtestant Episcopal Church. His ordination to theProtestant Episcopal ministry took place in Novem-ber 1859, and from the commencement to theclose of the Civil War he served as a Chaplain inthe Confederate Army. For the past forty years hehas labored diligently and successfully in the inter-est of religion and the general welHire of mankind,and was, until March 1899, actively engaged in union were: Henry, Frederick William, CharlesHamilton and I^llcn Col
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