Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19

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ledge of physiology he had gained at
Beloit, returned to college, and is now
one of the leading missionaries in
Japan. The writer saw at Prof. Emer-
sons, collection of japanese Looks of
which Davis was the author. in their
queer binding as well as typography,
making quite a little library in all.
Rev. Henry t. Rose was one of the
leading clergymen of Milwaukee, now
of Lowell, Mass. Rev. Henry Sim
mons is Home Missionary superintend-
EN- for North Dakota, and Rev. Chas.
| w. Merrill, for Nebraska Rev. n S.
Wright, is a pastor in Detroit. Rev.
John z. Hale is a pastor at Fond du
Lac, and Rev. Edward ID. Eaton is
| pastor at Oak Park. an important sub
urb of Chicago Out of 81 graduates
10Y are clergymen or theological stud
ents, II of whom are missionaries
A very large number have adopted
/ teaching as profession. Ofthese Rev.
DR.. Strong, president OF Carleton col
lege, at Mortified, Mimi, stands pre-
eminent. He has made that college
in the last few years about the equal of
Beloit. Rev. DIR. McVicker is president
]
Alexander Kerr is professor of Greek
in the State University. w. A. Willis
is principal and city superintendent Of
schools at Baraboo H. p Merriman
is a professor in the leading medical
college in Chicago. T. G. Chamberlain
was state geoogist and professor ut Be
lott college He is now connected with
the United States Geological survey,
with fair prospects of rising to the head
of it. He has made reputation by his
theory of glacial action, now generally
accepted. Peter Hendricksonis professor
| in Beloit College w. NJ Cochrane is
| professor in the Wisconsin Deaf and
| Dumb institute. Henry G. Hammond
| is principal of the Deaf and Dumb in
| stitute of Iowa. John McWhorter was
also principal of Deaf and Dumb insti-
tute in Pennsylvania at the time of his
death. Joseph II. Chamberlain is pro-
fcssor in Marietta college, Ohio. Clark
| l.. Goddard is dean of the dental de-
partment of the university of Californ-
ia. l.. A. Hooper is a pricipal in Mil
yankee, as IS ID. w. Mickey, also.
Geo. B. Adams is professor in Drnry
college at Springfield. Mo, and G. ID.
Sweeney is professor in Doane college
at Crete, Nebraska. A. Il. Sprague is
principal of the High School at Racine,
and Charles ". Merriam is principal at
Evansville.
OF editors, Beloit has furnished some
distinguished examples, among which
are Horace White, formerly editor Of
the Chicago Tribune, now of the New
York Evening Post. j. Nj. Bundy, who
has made a success of the New York
Express and Mail. Harlan NJ. Page,
long on the State Journal. o. A. Will
lard. who died while editing Chicago
paper, and whose widow and sister are
| SO prominent in the temperance work
Horace r. Hobert, editor of the Rail
way Age, j. +. Heg, of Geneva, and
Rev. Stephen ID. Peet, who is editing
the American Antiquarian in connec-
ton with pastorate.
! Beloit graduates have not run to poll
ties very much. But Charles w. Buck
! ley was congressman from Alabama
when the state was Republican, and is
now probate Judge at Montgomery.
Samuel d. Hastings has lately been
lected circuit judge in this state. and
Geo. F. Jacobs in Illinois A. O.
| Wright is secretary of the state board
of charities and reform, the author of
popular text books on the constitutions
of the United States and of Wisconsin,
Alfred Taggart is mayor of Rockford,
Ill. Thomas O, Thompson has been
Carter Harrison's private secretary,
ever since he was mayor of Chicago.
Il. NJ. Malone was mayor of Beloit last
year, and quite a number have held
! county and municipal offices.
! Very few graduates of BelOit are
supposed to be wealthy, though many
have accumulated comfortable proper
ties. Horace White is supposed to be
millionaire. unless he has lost heavily
in the recent fall of Northern Pacific
stocks. j. X. Martin, lumber dealer
of Chicago, formerly teacher IN Mil
waukee, is supposed to be worth a quar-
ter of a million. There are some others
who are working up that way. w. B.
Keep, who married his cousin a daugh-
ter of President Keep, of the G. Il n. W.
railway, is said to be on the road to
wealth. So is VIM. S. Glib 1T, man
ufacturer of Cohoes, n. Y. Rev. James
Il. Danforth is said to have inherited
fortune from his father, who was of
the well known tirmof bank-note en-
grayers, Danforth, Wright &Co.
This is II good record for a young
college whose first graduates are not yet
old men. In thirty-five years more. Be
lott will have well up to Il thousand
graduates ON her roll very many of
whom will have attained to positions Of
usefulness and honor. As ii is, Beloit
may well be proud of her sons.
A very large number of students have
pursued a partial course ut Beloit, stop
ping short of graduation, whose names,
ii we could give them, wonld show Il
still wider influence OF the college, and
include many names now we'll known in
this and other neighboring states. -
NitlCoutoe Telegraph.