Show OUR FACULTY JOSEPH M. M A. A In A.-In In Weber County Utah on the fourth of November November Novem Novem- ber 1853 about six years subsequent to the settlement of this Territory Joseph T. T Kingsbury the Acting President of this institution was born In those early days when the people were in a state of almost abject poverty when money and schools were scarce and the settlers occupied in fighting Natures Nature's opposing elements little if any time could be given to the education of the youth Prof Kingsbury's early days day t J i Ji X ere were spent upon his fathers father's farm ploughing planting irrigating and reaping bringing the land into subjection and making it subservient to the wants of man The hardships which he then endured had no doubt a salutary influence in and solidifying his character The opportunities in this city for efficient instruction as the lad grew up I though very meagre were not wholly wanting and Mr Kingsbury's first schooling was obtained in Morgans Morgan's Commercial College Afterwards he entered the school of Prof Karl G. G I Meser Moser ser in in inthe the Twentieth Ward Vard where he obtained assistance in Latin algebra and geometry from Prof J. J B. B Toronto who had previously received instruction in these branches in the University of Deseret Upon the return of Dr John R. R Park from Europe where he had made a lengthy sojourn in the interests of the institution under his care Mr Kingsbury entered the University of Deseret After he had been placed between two tv and three years under the tutorage of Dr Park he departed in 1875 for Cornell University with a fortune which consisted of a strong physique and good habits of industry He studied two years at Cornell taking the course in chemistry and nd physics and returned home in 1877 Upon his return he was at once engaged as asa asa asa a teacher in the Twelfth District School where he remained one year Subsequently he was called to the University of which he is ib now the head Prof Kingsbury has devoted devoted devoted de de- voted the greater part of his time to the teaching of his favorite studies chemistry and physics but his instruction in addition to these has comprehended a wide ide range of studies Some of his work in water analyses analyse has been published in the Government reports of analyses of water Prof Kingsbury has done work in the Wesleyan University University University Uni Uni- of Bloomington Ill nl from which institution he has received the degrees of Ph B B. and M. M A. A He lie has always been an industrious student possessed of great capacity for work and has ah always ays maintained a spotless reputation From boyhood he has been fond of books has constantly grown in knowledge and mental discipline He is a man manof manof manof of character quiet and undemonstrative in manner but with extraordinary qualities of firmness and endurance WILLIAM VILLIAM M. M V STE STEWART ART M. M DID Professor Professor William M. M Stewart now Principal Principal Principal Prin Prin- cipal of the Normal Department of the University was born in the village of Draper Salt Lake county Utah in the year 1859 The greater part of his youth was spent at home working on his hit fathers father's farm in the summer and attending the district school in inthe inthe inthe the winter During those y years ears he formed a strong attachment for the old farm farm farm-an an attachment that remains wi with ith h him to this day and manifests itself elf in all his talks of his boy boyhood hood There under the influence of his father AV who ho took a great interest in education education education tion he made up his mind to become a teacher At the age of twenty he entered the University and graduated in several of its courses Later he received the degree of Master of Didactics from the same institution Af er graduating from the University he was engaged to teach in the district school in his native town and has remained a teacher ever since In 1885 he was elected Superintendent of Schools in Salt Lake county and was twice re He was appointed and served as regent of the University three times In 1887 he attended the convention of the National Educational Educational Educational Association in Chicago and was elected director of the association for Utah The next 3 year ear he took charge of a large number of Utah teachers and attended with them the convention of the same association held in San Francisco Professor Stewart Stewart Stewart Stew Stew- art became a member of the faculty of the University in 1888 taking charge as Principal Principal Prin Prin- cipal of the Normal Department t HENRY Y MONTGOMERY IER Y M. M A B. B Sc Prof Henry Montgomery Curator of t i Museum and Professor of Mineralogy and Geology graduated as Bachelor of Arts in 1876 and Master of Arts from the University of Toronto in 1877 Prof Montgomery's college ollege career was an exceptionally bright and successful one having won twelve first- first class certificates of honor seven first prizes a first scholarship and a medal and since his graduation he has filled many important positions having been successively Science z 7 r Master in the Toronto Collegiate Institute Examiner in Biology in Toronto jj s R y f I J t sity sitar Professor in Zoology y and Botany in the Medical department of that University r Professor of Natural Sciences Curator of Museum and Vice-President Vice in the State s University of North Da Dakota ota Professor of Science and Curator of Museum in the State Normal School at Cortland New York In August 1890 he came to Utah to take the position he now holds Prof is Montgomery a member of several prominent scientific societies an indefatigable worker and has contributed largely to scientific literature re He studied for some time in the laboratories of J Johns Hopkins University and his i is favorably mentioned in British name ame scientific works We are exceedingly fortunate J in m having him as our curator Our museum is IS an example of what nhat neatness taste and patience directed by intelligence can do I i. i WM M. M ABER A. A B. B B. Prof Wm A Aber ber of the Arts department was born among f the mountains of northern New Jersey in I 1848 Like so many men who have attained 7 to distinction he was as brought up on a farm and received in his youth a district school education At the age of seventeen he was as clerk employed as a in a store in Oswego N. N Y which occupation he followed for four 3 years ears After this he completed a three 3 years years' ears ears' classical course in the State Normal school at Oswego The excellence of the course of instruction in the School Oswego Owego undoubtedly ent went a great way ay toward the assuring of Prof Abers Aber's future success At any rate so good a foundation was as laid that Tie he has de devoted all the remainder of his life up to the present time to th the cause of education After two years of teaching in the Oswego school Prof Aber went Avent to Yale to complete his classical education While there in addition to his clas classical ical studies he lie did elective work ork in geology physics and biology and graduated in 1878 with a standing that placed him in the highest group of his clas class Since that time he has taught Latin and Greek in Lake Forest Academy Illinois j the physical sciences in Atlanta University Georgia j has taken graduate courses in chemistry and physics in Johns Hopkins and in Latin and Greek Grek at it Cornell j then after a year of teaching in the State Normal school at Oneonta N. N Y he came to his present position c in the University of Utah I jl f V WALTER ALTER KING WRIGHT First Lieutenant U. U S. S Infantry Prof of Military Military Mil Mil- f. f Science and Tactics and Assistant Professor of Mathematics was as born in Warsaw Warsaw War War- saw Wyoming county New Kew York of a family of school teachers his father and mother both being engaged in that pr profession His lis education was commenced at Batavia Batavia Batavia Bata- Bata via N. N Y and continued at Binghamton N. N Y and at the State Normal School at Cortland N. N Y where his father was Professor of Latin and Greek Wright commenced teaching at the age of 16 years near Cortland N. N Y and continued th s occupation and at the same time studied law for a number of years In the spring of 1879 seeing an advertisement in a Syracuse paper that there would be a competitive examination in two tv weeks for an appointment to West Vest Point he determined to try for it Twenty-three Twenty competitors met at the High School in Syracuse about May loth and after an day all-day examination W. W K Wright was declared winner He lIe reported at West Vest WestPoint WestPoint Point June 1879 with others Of this number were admitted after a three three- days' days examination On June 1883 1853 52 graduated and were assigned to regiments all over the United States States Wright being ordered to join the Infantry stationed stationed stationed sta sta- at Fort Foit Concho Texas 90 miles south of the Texas Pacific railroad Here he lie remained for five years during which time he was selected to go to Galveston Texas a as judge in an art State inter-State drill j acted as Post t and was wa sent out several times on detached service In 1888 the regiment was ordered to Utah and all came rame to Fort Douglas but after a five days stay four companies one companies one being Wrights Wright's were Wrights were ordered to proceed to Fort Duchesne which post was reached after a twelve-days' twelve march On October 1st 1888 Wright was promoted to first lieutenant and ordered to join his new company compan y at Fort Douglas whicH A he did in November the same year On New Y Years Year's fars far's day ay 1890 telegraphic orders came for four companies of the Infantry to toof proceed at once to South Dakota to assist in quelling the outbreak of the Sioux Indians i i it t I Wright accompanied the expedition and remained until the end of the difficulty In March 1891 he was appointed Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the University University Uni Uni- of Utah which position he occupies at the present time He als also fills the theoffice office aj 41 t of Assistant of-Assistant Professor of Mathematics WILLIAM VILLIA r J. J KERR B. B S. S S. William William J. J Kerr Professor of Mathematics in the University of Utah is a native of this Territory He was born in 1863 in Richmond Cache county He received a common school education up to 1882 when he entered the University where he studied two years From that time to the present he has been engaged in educational work having been first instructor in Physiology Geology and Physics and then professor profesor of Mathematics in the Brigham Young College of Logan Utah During the time Professor Kerr has been engaged in teaching he has pursued a systematic course of private study supplemented with special instruction from competent com com- teachers To this has been added a year at Cornell University and several summer summer summer sum sum- mer courses mathematics being always made a specialty During the spring of 1891 and the summer of 1892 Professor Kerr visited the leading educational institutions of the United States and Canada studying systems and methods of class instruction In the fall of the same year he was elected a member of the New York Mathematical Society He lIe has worked unceasingly to fit himself for his chosen profession That his work has not been in vain those who have taken courses under him can testify GEORGE MONTANYE MARSHALL George George Montanye Marshall Prof of English Language and Literature was born horn in Northeastern Pennsylvania Ivania on July 2 1862 He began teaching at the age of fifteen and worked himself through the High School by teaching and otherwise working at intervals After completing the High School course he became assistant principal of a High School at Towanda Pa and remained in that position for fog two years At the expiration of that period he entered Cornell University and working his own way graduated a Ph B. B in 1887 During his college course he won many literary and scholastic honors lie He was Avas a contestant in several declamation and oratorical contests and was graduated with honors for general excellence He was one of five out of a class of loo selected by the faculty to appear on the commencement platform After leaving college he became instructor in Eng- Eng lUh lih at the military school of Shattuck at Faribault Minn From there he was elected to the professorship in the University of Utah in 1892 taking charge of the department of English Language and Literature GEO R. R MATHEWS A. A M. M In M.-In In December 1861 in Painesville Ohio on the Western Vestern Reserve immediately at the outbreak of the Civil War Var Geo R. R Mathews was born His parents being in comfortable circumstances were able ble to give their son sn a a. a thorough collegiate and scholastic training and with this end in view he was fitted for college in Painesville at the Woodward High School Cincinnati and at Ohio After four years of diligent study he graduated in the spring of 1884 at Adelbert College of the Western Vestern Reserve University with the degree of A. A B. B In September of the same year he departed for New Haven Conn to study in the Yale Divinity School where he graduated three years later with the degree of Bachelor of Divinity From boyhood Prof Mathews had longed to A visit isit Europe and with his reading of history this desire desir grew into a passion His purpose was different from that of an ordinary tourist v who ho seeks pleasure and recreation and relief from the ennui of an idle life He desired to see ee society in all its forms to study languages and institutions institutions institutions to acquaint himself with the political status the customs manners courts and parliaments of the principal nations of the European continent He set sail for Europe in July 1887 and upon his arrival he at once repaired to Germany where he studied philosophy at Leipsic Zurich and Berlin After tr traveling l through various countries he returned home in the spring of 1889 and four months lat later r entered as a graduate 1 the Divinity School of Harvard University At the completion of the year he received the the degree of Master of Arts for work vork in theology and philosophy He lie again returned to Harvard the following year but his health failing r him hint he was forced to leave and shortly after was called to the University of Utah in f which institution he occupies the chair of Modern Languages Prof Mathews is a man of strong parts part of and energy principle earnest ardent and true His training and culture are far beyond that ordinarily implied by the possession of a college diploma His mind has been enriched by the study of books and disciplined by years of patient and persevering toil JAMES E. E TALMAGE A A. A C. C D D. D VS S. S D. D P Ph PhD p. p F F. FR R. R I. M. M S. Talmage was born in England in September 1862 He came to America when hen 14 years of age and having located in Utah enter ed the B. B Y Academy at Provo to continue his common school studies After finishing the course there he was engaged as an instructor and taught in the institution for some time Later on he went east and spent a number of years at Lehigh University and Johns Hopkins pursuing special studies in science On his return to Utah he again taught in the B. B Y Academy and later on became Principal of the Latter-Day Latter Saints College at Salt Lake City After holding this latter position for nearly four years he gave it up to become Professor of Science in the Latter-Day Latter Saints University By special arrangement he also takes the chair of Metallurgy and Biology in the University of Utah Althou Although h but a young man Dr Talmage's Dr-Talmage's Talmage's almage's industry industry industry indus indus- try energy and ability have already |