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# Beaver Mills Lumber Company

The Beaver Mills Lumber Company was a sawmill established in 1895 on the Rainy River in Northwestern Ontario, near the international border with Baudette, Minnesota. In 1910, as the Rat Portage Lumber Company, it was destroyed in the Baudette Fire.

## Early years

In 1895 a party of Bemidji lumberman moved a small sawmill overland to the headwaters of Rapid River, downstream from Rainy River, then down the Rainy River by raft until a point where the Ontario and Rainy River Railway had plans to build a railway bridge. The mill started its operation with one circular saw and later grew to be one of the largest mills in the world. In 1898, The Beaver Mills Lumber Company, owned by J.H. Hughes and Long, bought the mill. The mill hands and their families built shacks around the mill and the shack town became known as Beaver Mills.
By 1900, McKenzie, Mann & Co. had construction work on the steel railway bridge well underway. Much of the material for the bridge was brought during the winter and piled on the ice, after the spring breakup, barges were used, one of the barges, carrying railway ties, sunk at the intersection of the river and Miller's Creek, it still lies at the bottom of the river.
The bridge was completed in 1901 and in the same year the Rat Portage Lumber Company bought the Beaver Mills Lumber Company mill and timber interests. The new owner installed bigger and better machinery, including a single cutting band saw, one gang saw, a pair of twin circulars and a planer.
The mill's capacity soon grew to 200,000 board feet a day, with 200 men being employed in the saw mill during the summer and another thirty or so in the planing mill year round.
The Beaver Mills Port Office was located just east of the mill.

## Destruction

On the evening of Friday, October 7, 1910, a roaring cyclone of flame tore into the Minnesota lumbering towns of Baudette and Spooner that consumed everything in its path. By 7 p.m. people were beginning to gather at the train depot and a message was wired to Rainy River to have relief trains ready if necessary. Half an hour later, watchers perched on top of a building opposite the depot cried, "It's coming. Quick, give the fire alarm."
The whistle sounded and the people came. The sick in night clothing, children carried dolls or pets and adults, a cherished possession or two. There was some panic when only one coach arrived. Oil tanks lay not far from the depot. Then again, the track was on fire and burning embers had reached the Canadian side.
Soon another train of boxcars arrived from Rainy River and took many to safety. Others elected to stay in Baudette and sought shelter in boats on the storm lashed waves of the river.
At the last possible minute the town of Rainy River was saved by a change in the wind. The Rat Portage Lumber Company was destroyed and all that remains of the pine reserves in the area is the local park called "The Pines".
# Gerrit Lekkerkerker

Cornelis Gerrit Lekkerkerker (Harmelen, 7 February 1922 – 24 July 1999) was a Dutch mathematician.

## Education and career

Lekkerkerker studied mathematics at Utrecht University during the periods 1940-1943 and 1945-1949 under Jurjen Koksma and Jan Popken. After completing his studies in 1949, he started work at the Amsterdam Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science), where he worked under Koksma in the pure mathematics division. In the academic year 1953-1954, he studied in Rome. In 1955 he received his doctorate under the guidance of Popken with the thesis On the Zeros of a Class of Dirichlet-Series; in Dutch: Over de nulpunten in een klasse van Dirichletreeksen.
Beginning in 1961, he was a professor at the University of Amsterdam, succeeding Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn. He was the director of the Mathematical Institute during the student protests of 1969-1973. In 1984, although he had not yet reached retirement age, he resigned his professorship over differences in the teaching of mathematical analysis, feeling that his academic freedom was under threat.
He was a co-editor of Mededelingen van het Wiskundig Genootschap (correspondence of the Mathematical Society).

## Research

Lekkerkerker worked on analytic and geometric number theory. He wrote the standard work Geometry of Numbers, first published in 1969. Later he worked on topics in functional analysis. In the 1970s, he turned his attention towards the mathematical treatment of topics in nuclear physics (e.g. neutron transport) and astrophysics (e.g. radiation transport within stars). Afterwards he worked with Rutger Hangelbroek, who did his doctorate under Lekkerkerker in 1973 at the University of Groningen, and Hans Kaper of the Argonne National Laboratory. He also contributed to topics in graph theory and topology.
After retiring, he remained active in mathematics: for example, he brought out a second edition of Geometry of Numbers along with Peter Grüber. This field now found new applications in coding theory.
While Zeckendorf's theorem on the representation of integers by sums of non-consecutive Fibonacci numbers is named after a paper by Edouard Zeckendorf in 1972, the same result had been published 20 years earlier by Lekkerkerker.

## Works

* With Peter Gruber, Geometry of Numbers, Noord-Holland, 1969, 2nd edition, 1987 (first edition by Lekkerkerker alone; also translated to Russian, Nauka, Moscow, 2008)
* with Hans Kaper, J. Hejmantek, Spectral methods in linear transport theory, Birkhäuser 1982
# Rod Colbin

Rod Colbin (born Irving Herbert Lichtenstein: December 23, 1923 – February 4, 2007) was an American character actor whose career spanned four decades. He was also a fencing instructor who, at one time, served as Katharine Hepburn's personal masseur. He was born to Jewish parents in New Haven, CT, the son of Samuel (made gravestones) and Bess (Silverdollar) Lichtenstein.

## Marriages and family

Rod married Annemarie Polonyi on September 16, 1965; they divorced in 1978. They had three daughters: Johanna, who died at age 4, Shana Rebecca, and Kaila Johanna.

## Death

Colbin died in February 2007 in Denver, Colorado after a series of strokes. He was 83. Colbin was survived by two daughters, two grandchildren and two sisters.

## Filmography

* 1954 – Man Against Crime (TV series) ... as Baxter
* 1955 – Mr. Citizen (TV series)
* 1966 – The Edge of Night... as Doorman
* 1975 – Sanford and Son (TV series) ... as Coach Bradley in original "Grady" TV series pilot
* 1975 – Maude ... as Boozer
* 1975–1976 – Marcus Welby, M.D. (2 episodes) ... as Dr. Tom Leonard
* 1976 – Insight (TV series)
* 1976 – Harry O ... as Administrator
* 1976 – The Gumball Rally
* 1976 – Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (4 episodes) ... as Commissioner Rittenhouse
* 1977 – Alice (1 episode) as Edger Patton in the episode "The Bus"
* 1977 – John Hus ... as John Hus
* 1977 – The Jeffersons (TV series) (1 episode) as Mr. Billings in episode "The Grand Opening: Part 2"
* 1977 – Lou Grant (TV series) as Warren Woods in episode "The Scoop"
* 1977 – Charlie's Angels (TV series) as Dr. Eggars in episode titled "Little Angels of the Night"
* 1977 – 1982 Barney Miller (TV series)...Various roles (7 episodes)
* 1978 – To Kill a Cop (TV Movie) ... as Chief Emerson
* 1979 – Anatomy of a Seduction (TV movie)
* 1979 – 1980 The Ropers (TV series) ... Hubert Armbrewster (4 episodes)
* 1979 – 1980 Quincy, M.E. (TV series) Dr.Lang/George Myers (4 episodes)
* 1980 – Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case (TV movie)
* 1980 – A Change of Seasons ... Sam Bingham
* 1981 – Harper Valley PTA (TV series)...Chief Palmer (2 episodes)
* 1981 – Sanford (TV series)...Judge
* 1980 – 1981 Flo (TV series)...2 episodes
* 1981 – 1982 Three's Company (TV series)...as Mr. Frankin/Mr. Hadley in 2 episodes
* 1981 – 1982 The Greatest American Hero (TV series) as General Enright / Theodore Svenson (2 episodes)
* 1982 – Yes, Giorgio ...Ted Mullane
* 1982 – Frances ...Sentencing Judge
* 1983 – Ghost Dancing ...Arch
* 1983 – Remington Steele ...Carlos Mondragon (1 episode)
* 1983 – The Optimist ...Doctor (1 episode)
* 1983 – Hardcastle and McCormick (TV series)
* 1984 – The A-Team ...Jes Hicks
* 1984 – Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie ...Grocer Schnitt
* 1984 – Gimme a Break! ...Dr. Kessler
* 1984 – Little House: The Last Farewell ...Mr. Davis
* 1985 – Torchlight ...Dr. Urban
* 1986 – The Twilight Zone (TV series) ...Minister (segment "Red Snow")
# Polyscias cissodendron

Polyscias cissodendron, commonly known as the island pine, is a species of tree in the family Araliaceae. It is native to New Caledonia and Vanuatu in Melanesia, as well as to Australia’s subtropical Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. The specific epithet is derived from the Greek kissos (“ivy”) and dendron (“tree”). On Lord Howe it occurs in sheltered lowland forest.

## Description

The tree grows to 12 m, sometimes more, in height. Its imparipinnate leaves are 10–35 cm long. It flowers from mid September to late November; producing paniculate, terminal inflorescences of small yellow flowers. The purple-maroon fruits are bluntly ribbed, laterally compressed and spheroidal, 3.5–4.5 mm long.
# 1957 Meistaradeildin

Statistics of Meistaradeildin in the 1957 season.

## Overview

It was contested by 5 teams, and KÍ Klaksvík won the championship.

## League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | KÍ Klaksvík | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 10 | +10 | 13 |
| 2 | VB Vágur | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 19 | −5 | 8 |
| 3 | TB Tvøroyri | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 10 | +5 | 7 |
| 4 | B36 Tórshavn | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 18 | −6 | 7 |
| 5 | Havnar Bóltfelag | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 18 | −4 | 5 |

## Results

| Home \ Away | B36 | HB | KÍ | TB | VBV |
| B36 Tórshavn | | 3–3 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 2–3 |
| HB | 1–2 | | 0–1 | 2–1 | 6–2 |
| KÍ | 6–0 | 2–0 | | 1–0 | 5–2 |
| TB | 0–2 | 4–1 | 6–1 | | 3–0 |
| VB Vágur | 1–1 | 3–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | |
# Quantian

Quantian OS was a remastering of Knoppix/Debian for computational sciences. The environment was self-configuring and directly bootable CD/DVD that turns any PC or laptop (provided it can boot from cdrom/DVD) into a Linux workstation. Quantian also incorporated clusterKnoppix and added support for openMosix, including remote booting of light clients in an openMosix terminal server context permitting rapid setup of a SMP cluster computer.

## Applications

Numerous software packages for usual or scientific aims come with Quantian. After the installation, total package volume is about 2.7 GB (For the detailed package list see: List of all the available packages).
The packages for "home users" include:
* KDE, the default desktop environment and their components
* XMMS, Kaffeine, xine media players
* Internet access software, including the KPPP dialer, ISDN utilities and WLAN
* The Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox and Konqueror web browsers
* K3b, for CD (and DVD) management
* The GIMP, an image-manipulation program
* Tools for data rescue and system repair
* Network analysis and administration tools
* OpenOffice.org
* Kile, Lyx
Additionally, some of the scientific applications/programs in Quantian are such like:
* R, statistical computing software
* Octave, a Matlab clone
* Scilab, another Matlab clone
* GSL, GNU Scientific Library
* Maxima computer algebra system
* Python programming language with Scipy
* Fityk curve fitter
* Ghemical for computational chemistry
* Texmacs for wysiwyg scientific editing
* Grass geographic information system
* OpenDX and MayaVi data visualisation systems
* Gnuplot, a command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility
* LabPlot, an application for plotting of data sets and functions
# Henri Garbarino

Henri Garbarino is a former all-star Canadian football player.
Describe as a "chunky little outside wing", Garbarino was a 4 time all-star with the Montreal AAA Winged Wheelers. He played one final season, in 1934, with the Ottawa Rough Riders before his job transferred him to North Bay, where he took up coaching.
# Firming agent

Firming agents are food additives added in order to precipitate residual pectin, thus strengthening the structure of the food and preventing its collapse during processing.
These are salts, typically lactates or phosphates, calcium salts or aluminum sulfates.
They are mainly used for (fresh) fruit and vegetables. For example, in the case of fruit sold cut into wedges, the pulp can be sprayed with a solution of the respective salt. They are salts that react with an ingredient in the product, such as the pectin in the fruit.
Typical firming agents are:
* Calcium carbonate (E170)
* Calcium hydrogen sulfite (E227)
* Calcium citrates (E333)
* Calcium phosphates (E341)
* Calcium sulfate (E516)
* Calcium chloride (E509)
* Magnesium chloride (E511)
* Magnesium sulfate (E518)
* Calcium gluconate (E578)
* Magnesium gluconate (E580)
# 1994 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships

The 1994 NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships were contested at the 13th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I women's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.
This year's events were hosted at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Stanford again topped the team standings, finishing 91 points ahead of Texas; it was the Cardinal's third consecutive and fifth overall women's team title. This marked the seventh time that Stanford and Texas finished in the top two.

## Team standings

* Note: Top 10 only
* $^{(DC)}$ = Defending champions
* Full results
| Rank | Team | Points |
| | Stanford $^{(DC)}$ | 512 |
| | Texas | 421 |
| | Florida | 3871⁄2 |
| 4 | SMU | 272 |
| 5 | Auburn | 242 |
| 6 | USC | 240 |
| 7 | UCLA | 191 |
| 8 | Michigan | 173 |
| 9 | Alabama | 153 |
| 10 | Arizona | 151 |
# Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 277

Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 277 (P. Oxy. 277 or P. Oxy. II 277) is a fragment of a Lease of Land, in Greek. It was discovered in Oxyrhynchus. The manuscript was written on papyrus in the form of a sheet. It is dated to 6 September 19 BC. Currently it is housed in the British Library (Department of Manuscripts, 1188) in London.

## Description

The document was written by Dionysius and Artemidorus. Lease of 36 3/4 arourae of land near the village of Pamis by Dionysius to Artemidorus for one year. The land was to be sown with corn, and the produce to be shared equally between landlord and tenant, the division being apparently made at the village granary at the end of the year. The cost of transport and the instruments for mowing were to be provided by the tenant, those for harvesting jointly by both parties. An allowance was made to the tenant for land-taxes.
The measurements of the fragment are 290 by 166 mm.
It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. The text was published by Grenfell and Hunt in 1899.
# 1957 Mestaruussarja

The 1957 season was the 27th completed season of Finnish Football League Championship, known as the Mestaruussarja.

## Overview

The Mestaruussarja was administered by the Finnish Football Association and the competition's 1957 season was contested by 10 teams. HPS Helsinki won the championship and qualified for the 1958–59 European Cup first round, while the two lowest placed teams of the competition, KIF Helsinki and KoRe Kotka, were relegated to the Suomensarja.

## League standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | HPS Helsinki (C) | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 49 | 27 | +22 | 26 |
| 2 | Haka Valkeakoski | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 46 | 20 | +26 | 25 |
| 3 | TPS Turku | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 45 | 37 | +8 | 21 |
| 4 | KuPS Kuopio | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 28 | 34 | −6 | 19 |
| 5 | IKissat Tampere | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 50 | 34 | +16 | 18 |
| 6 | HJK Helsinki | 18 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 18 |
| 7 | VPS Vaasa | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 30 | −9 | 16 |
| 8 | KTP Kotka | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 28 | 31 | −3 | 15 |
| 9 | KIF Helsinki (R) | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 28 | 36 | −8 | 14 |
| 10 | KoRe Kotka (R) | 18 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 21 | 67 | −46 | 8 |

## Results

| Home \ Away | HAK | HJK | HPS | IK | KIF | KR | KTP | KPS | TPS | VPS |
| FC Haka | | 5–2 | 2–3 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 0–0 | 5–2 | 0–1 |
| HJK | 0–0 | | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 4–2 | 2–2 | 1–2 |
| HPS | 2–2 | 4–2 | | 3–2 | 0–3 | 8–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 5–3 |
| IKissat | 2–5 | 1–1 | 1–3 | | 0–2 | 2–2 | 4–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 5–1 |
| KIF | 0–2 | 1–3 | 0–4 | 2–4 | | 7–0 | 0–4 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 3–1 |
| KoRe | 1–7 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–10 | 1–2 | | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–7 | 2–0 |
| KTP | 0–1 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 3–2 | 3–2 | | 1–2 | 2–2 | 2–1 |
| KuPS | 2–1 | 0–2 | 0–7 | 1–6 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 3–1 | | 2–0 | 1–2 |
| TPS | 0–5 | 4–1 | 5–3 | 3–1 | 7–2 | 4–4 | 3–2 | 0–2 | | 1–0 |
| VPS | 1–3 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 1–1 | |

## Footnotes

* 1 2 "Finland - List of League First Level Tables - rsssf.org". Heikki Pietarinen - RSSSF. Retrieved 2012-01-10.
# Beacon High

Beacon High is a coeducational secondary school for 11-16-year-olds in the Tufnell Park area, located in the London Borough of Islington, England. Beacon High is a member of the Islington Futures Federation of Community Schools and the Islington Sixth Form Partnership. In the school's most recent Ofsted report, it described the school's leadership and management as Good

## History

The school was first established in September 1907 as a boys' school named Camden Secondary School for Boys, it later changed its name to Holloway County Grammar School and then to Holloway Comprehensive School.
In September 2018, the Governing Body was dissolved and the governance of the school was taken over by the expanded federation of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Copenhagen Schools.
In June 2019, Holloway School was rebranded as Beacon High.

## Present

Beacon High offers GCSEs as programmes of study for pupils. Although the school does not operate its own sixth form, graduating pupils are guaranteed a place at City and Islington College through the City and Islington Sixth Form Consortium.

## Islington Futures Federation of Community Schools

Islington Futures is a federation of four community schools: EGA, Beacon High School, Copenhagen Primary School and Vittoria Primary School and was established in September 2018.
Jo Dibb is the Executive Headteacher of the Islington Futures Federation.
The Federation was disbanded in December of 2023.
# I Don't Wanna Cry No More

"I Don't Wanna Cry No More" is a song and single by German power metal band Helloween from the album Chameleon. This song was dedicated to Roland Grapow's brother Rainer.
This single included a long blues instrumental jam called "Red Socks and the Smell of Trees".

## Personnel

* Michael Kiske - vocals
* Roland Grapow - lead and rhythm guitars
* Michael Weikath - lead and rhythm guitars
* Markus Grosskopf - bass guitar
* Ingo Schwichtenberg - drums
# Marcos Román

Marcos Antonio Román Solís (born 4 October 1988) is a Nicaraguan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Diriangén.

## Club career

He has played his entire career for Diriangén, except for one season at Managua whom he left after a major clear-out in summer 2013.

## International career

Román made his debut for Nicaragua in a May 2011 friendly match against Cuba and has, as of December 2013, earned a total of 3 caps, scoring no goals.
# Flat Iron, Indiana

Flat Iron is a small, unincorporated community in Highland Township, Vermillion County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

## Geography

Flat Iron is an Unincorporated community located at 40°3′11″N 87°29′21″W﻿ / ﻿40.05306°N 87.48917°W﻿ / 40.05306; -87.48917 (40.052930, -87.489130). State Road 32, County Road 100W ("Flat Iron Road") and County Road 1150N come together at this point to enclose a triangular, iron-shaped area of flat ground, giving the site its name. A house and a pole barn occupy the site, along with a sign reading, "Flat Iron, population 1." In the past the site had an additional residence and a general store, and a population of six. Highland Airport, which closed in the late 1980s, was located just across the field to the north and east of Flat Iron. The closest incorporated town is Perrysville, approximately three miles east. The unincorporated town of Gessie is about two miles north.
# 13 Above the Night

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13 Above the Night is the fourth studio album by industrial disco band My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult. It was originally released in 1993 on Interscope Records.

## Recording

13 Above the Night was the band's first album for Interscope and also their first album recorded with their touring band members Levi Levi (bass), Otto Matrix (drums), Trash Kavity (guitar) and "Chicago House Diva" singer Shawn Christopher. Lydia Lunch also co-wrote and contributed vocals to the song "Dirty Little Secrets". It was recorded at Ground Control Studios and Mixed at Starlust Studios, both in Los Angeles.

## Samples

On the track "Disko Fleshpot", the spoken words "Who do you think you're dealing with, some old slut on 42nd Street?" and "In case you didn't happen notice this, I'm one hell of a gorgeous chick!" are samples from the 1969 movie Midnight Cowboy

## Release

13 Above the Night was released on cassette and digipack CD on September 7, 1993. It was later reissued with two bonus remixes on Rykodisc in 1999.

## Touring

The band toured the U.S. in support of the album from October to December 1993. The support act on the 13 Above the Night Tour was Machines of Loving Grace.

## Credits

* Artwork by – Kaptain Dave
* Co-producer – Fred
* Engineer – Eric Stitt Greedy, Jay Lean
* Executive Producer – Groovie Mann, Jacky Blacque
* Guitar – Bruce Manning, Luc van Acker
* Performer – The Bomb Gang Girlz, Buzz McCoy, Groovie Mann, Jacky Blacque, Kitty Killdare, Levi Levi, Otto, Trash K.
* Producer, Written-By – Buzz McCoy
* Sampler – Gro, Miss Stress Aviv Avon*
* Vocals – Lydia Lunch, Shawn Christopher
* Written by – Groovie Mann (tracks: 1 to 3, 5 to 13)
# Henry Drysdale Dakin

Henry Drysdale Dakin FRS (12 March 1880 – 10 February 1952) was an English chemist.
He was born in London as the youngest of 8 children to a family of steel merchants from Leeds. As a school boy, he conducted water analysis with the Leeds City Analyst. He was taught chemistry by Julius B. Cohen at the University of Leeds, and then he worked with Albrecht Kossel on arginase at the University of Heidelberg. He joined Columbia University in 1905, working in the lab of Christian Herter. During his work on amino acids he obtained his PhD from Leeds. In 1905, he was one of the first scientists to successfully synthesise adrenaline in the laboratory (see: History of catecholamine research).
In 1914 he went back to England to offer his service with the war effort. Due to a request for a chemist by Alexis Carrel to the Rockefeller Institute, Dakin joined Carrel in 1916 at a temporary hospital in Compiègne. There they developed the Carrel–Dakin method of wound treatments. This consisted of intermittently irrigating the wound with Dakin's solution, a dilute solution of sodium hypochlorite (the active ingredient in common liquid bleach products) and boric acid. In the process, he analyzed more than 200 candidate substances, and developed quantitative methods to evaluate their effectiveness for disinfection and wound healing. The solution is still widely used for that purpose, as of 2013. The World War I era Rockefeller War Demonstration Hospital (United States Army Auxiliary Hospital No. 1) was created, in part, to promote the Carrel–Dakin method:
   "The war demonstration hospital of the Rockefeller Institute was planned as a school in which to teach military surgeons the principles of and art of applying the Carrel-Dakin treatment."
After he married the widow of Christian Herter in 1916, he worked in his private laboratory in Scarsdale, New York and had several close collaborations with other scientists. His main working fields were amino acids and enzymes. The extraction of amino acids from hydrolyzed peptides by butanol was invented by him. He also was interested in organic chemistry and synthesis, and devised the Dakin reaction and the Dakin–West reaction.
He died shortly after the death of his wife in early 1952.