The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-02
Father Of Mrs. Alice r. Craig and
Miss Ada Read of this City,
Was Pioneer Educator OF
Country.
GRADUATED FROM OHIO
He Was President Of Missouri Uni
versity When War Ciosed-He
and His Brothers Con-
quered Obstacles.

.. QucFco OOStdCleSs
James B. Diver of this city has re-
ceived from his cousin, Mrs. James
SWEET of Athens, O., copy of the
Athens Daily Messenger of Deem
Der 20, telling Of the finding of an
old Ohio university program ninety
two years old. On this program Is
the name Of Daniel Read, salutatorian,
who afterward became president of
the university and who rounded out
a half century as an educator. He
was the father of Mrs. Alice r. Craig
and Miss Ada Read, both Of this city.
and the grandfather of theodore A..
Craig, Miss Bertha Craig. both Of
Keokuk, Hugh H. Craig Of Riverside.
Calf, and Read Craig of Aurora.
The history of the education of the
seven Read boys shows just what can
be accomplished in the way of edu-
cation when one has his heart set
on gaining schooling. The father
of the boys needed them to help him
on the farm. but they made the best
Of their opportunity. and every one
of them has made his mark. Daniel
Read was president Of Ohio univer-
\
of Indiana at Bloomington, and then
went to Madison rs head of the Uni.
versity of Wisconsin, and at the close
of the war he was president of the
University Of Missouri, rounding
exactly fifty years of his life as an
| educator.
| An Effort to Go to School.
+! or the Read boys efforts to get an
education. the archives of the Ohio
university tell this:
THE Read boys came from
farm near Urbana. a distance OF
$50 miles There were in the
family, seven boys, and the
father desiring to give them the
/ best education advantages within
reach, selected the Ohio univer-
sity. But their help was needed
| In both the spring and the fall
on the farm. SO they had to jour-
ney back and forth at these sea-
| sons. LIE journey was made IN
two horse carriage, and 1t took
three days to make the trip each
way. The father took his boys
back and forth 120 times. In all,
he travelled $4,000 miles, or a dis
| lance Of three-quarters of the way
around the globe. OF course 1t
paid. Daniel, the eldest, who
graduates in 1924, was for years
a member Of the faculty of his
| Alma Mater Then he became
college president. Three became
| successful lawyers, one of them
| Judge of the supreme court OF
| Ohio. Two became physicians and
! the seventh was shot while COM
handing vessel running the
blockade in the Mississippi dur
| ing the civil war"
The Old Program.
OF the program which was pre-
scented to the college, the Messenger
isays:
Miss Augusta Walker turned
/. over to the alumni secretary
Martzloff, today for the unlver-
sity museum. well preserved
COPY of an o. u. program for the
annual commencement held Aug
ust II, 1924. Rev. Robert G. VIII
son was president and gave the
opening prayer. The salutatory
Grafton in Latin was made by
Daniel Read, one of the seven
brothers from Campaign county,
who graduates from O. q. He
| was later a professor in several
! well known institutions and last
on the o. u faculty in 1889.
Daniel McLane gave an ora
ton on The Tendency OF Flctl-
tious Writeups.'
Daniel Lindley, son, OF the
first president of the university.
gave an Grafton on The Amerl-
can Republic.
John r. Brasee who became
one Of the most famous criminal
lawyers of the state, living at
Lancaster, had an Grafton on the
utility of Historical knowledge
Samuel W. Rose Grated on
The Voluntary Student Samuel
/ d. King discussed the Probable
Effects of the Contemplated
Canals on Ohio.
Ohio university graduates in keo-
kuk doubtless will recall some Of the
traditions which are attached to the
names of these men who figured over
a half century ago, and especially
that connected with the Read boys.
The Leap Year Opportunity.