History of the Michigan agricultural college and biographical sketches of trustees and professors . s made toa course pursued. Children: William Merrylees, Oscar Charles, LucyMerrylees, Katherine Spencer, Edward Hale, Marion Morrill. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF TRUSTEES AND FACULTY. 395 Lewis Griffin Gorton, M. S., was president of Michigan AgriculturalCollege from August, 1893 to December 1895, and director of the ExperimentStation for most of the same period. He was born 1860 at Waterloo, Jackson County, Michigan and grewup six feet three inches high, with a proportionate weight of two hundreda
History of the Michigan agricultural college and biographical sketches of trustees and professors . s made toa course pursued. Children: William Merrylees, Oscar Charles, LucyMerrylees, Katherine Spencer, Edward Hale, Marion Morrill. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF TRUSTEES AND FACULTY. 395 Lewis Griffin Gorton, M. S., was president of Michigan AgriculturalCollege from August, 1893 to December 1895, and director of the ExperimentStation for most of the same period. He was born 1860 at Waterloo, Jackson County, Michigan and grewup six feet three inches high, with a proportionate weight of two hundredand fifty pounds. He was educated in the common school, graduated fromthe Chelsea high school, and the State Normal at Ypsilanti, at the age ofnineteen. He soon began and continued to teach for three years, chemistry,astronomy, physics and physiology in the Detroit high school, when heaccepted a similar situation in the Military Academy at Orchard after for two years he served as principal of the Duffield school, De-troit; then he became principal of the Bishop school where he remained. LEWIS GRIFFIN GORTON. seven years. From this school he next became president of the MichiganAgricultural College. He was married and had one son. Jonathan LeMoyne Snyder w^as born on a farm near the village ofShppery Rock, Butler county, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1859. His nameindicates that he is of Pennsylvania Dutch descent but in reality a Scotchor Irish name would more truly represent his ancestry. His early life was not different from that of other country lads who be-longed to large families of the old school, except perhaps that there was inthis family an inordinate ambition for education. They taught school andassisted one another until ten of the eleven children received college subject of this sketch prepared for college at Grove City Academy andtook his college course^ at Westminster College, graduating with the class of IIIMr(»ltV Ol IVIKIIKiAN A(;ill(ll
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