. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ndred andeighty-four acres,and the original costof land and build-ings was §43, object of thecollege is to give apractical and liberaleducation in eachdepartment, and in-struction, both theo-retical and practical,is given in agriculture,horticulture, and alsoin military tactics, be-sides the regularclass-room of the col-lege receive the de-gree of bachelor ofscience. Henry HillGoodell, president ofthe college and thedirector of its one
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . ndred andeighty-four acres,and the original costof land and build-ings was §43, object of thecollege is to give apractical and liberaleducation in eachdepartment, and in-struction, both theo-retical and practical,is given in agriculture,horticulture, and alsoin military tactics, be-sides the regularclass-room of the col-lege receive the de-gree of bachelor ofscience. Henry HillGoodell, president ofthe college and thedirector of its onehundred and eightystudents, was born at Constantinople, Turkey, May 20, 1839, his parents beingRev. William and Abigail Perkins (Davis) Goodell. Heprepared for college at Williston Seminary, graduatingin 1858. Four years later he graduated from alma mater conferred upon him the degree of masterof arts in 1865, and doctor of laws in 1890. Immediatelyafter his graduation he enlisted in the Union army, and wascommissioned a second lieutenant of the Twenty-FifthConnecticut Volunteers, Aug. 16, 1862, and in April of the ^m \. HENRY H. GOODELL following year he was promoted to a first lieutenancyat the battle of Irish Bend. He was subsequently ap-pointed an aide on the staff of Col. G. P. Bissell ofthe Third Brigade, fourth division of the NineteenthArmy Corps. During his term of service he was engagedin the battles of Irish Bend, Vermilion, the first expe-dition to Port Hudson, siege of Port Hudson, Techecampaign and Donaldsonville, and was one of the volun-teers in the forlorn hope called for by General Banks. Returning from thewar, he was from1864 to 1867 an in-structor at WillistonSeminary, resigningto take the chair ofmodern languagesand English litera-ture at the Massa-chusetts AgriculturalCollege, which posi-tion he held until1886, when he wasunanimously chosento the presidency ofthe Goodellhas shown himself tobe peculiarly wellfitted for the
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