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    ADDISON ERWIN SHELDON, author, was born at Sheldon, Minn., April 15, 1861, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Fuller Sheldon. He attended Doane College (Nebr.), 1881-2, received his A.B. degree in 1902, and his A.M. degree in 1904 from the University of Nebraska, and his Ph.D. degree from Columbia in 1919. Mr. Sheldon was married to Jennie A. Denton of Denton, Nebr., October 18, 1884. She died July 20, 1897. He was married to Margaret E. Thompson of Beaver Crossing, Nebr., September 19, 1907. Mr. Sheldon was editor and publisher of the Burnett (Nebr.) BLADE, 1884-6; the Chadron ADVOCATE and Chadron SIGNAL, 1888-97. He was a member of the Nebraska House of Representatives, 1897; was director of the Nebraska Legislative Reference Bureau, May 1, 1906 to 1921, and has been superintendent-secretary of the Nebraska State Historical Society since January 17, 1917. Mr. Sheldon was lecturer oil Nebraska History and Institutions at the University of Nebraska, 1907-21, was a member of the Nebraska Conservation and Public Welfare Commission, and secretary of the Nebraska Workmen's Compensation Commission, 1912-13. He is a Congregationalist. Mr. Sheldon is a member of the American History Association, the American Political Science Association, the American Economic Association, the American Sociological Association, the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, the Nebraska Ethnology and Folklore Society, of which he is secretary, and registrar of the Nebraska Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. His clubs are: Chamber of Commerce, University, Kiwanis, Laymen's. Mr. Sheldon is the author of Semi-Centennial History of Nebraska, 1904; Nebraska Constitutional Conventions (two volumes), 1905-7; Poems and Sketches of Nebraska, 1907; History and Stories of Nebraska, 1913; Report on Nebraska Archives, 1910; Land Systems and Land Policies of Nebraska, 1919: Nebraska Civil Government, 1924. He was the originator of the act of the Nebraska Legislature of 1897 forbidding the sale of school lands of the state. His home is at 1319 South Twenty-third Street, Lincoln, and office in University Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr.

   GEORGE H. SIMMONS, editor, was born at Moreton, England, January 2, 1852, the son of George and Sarah Louise Simmons. He came to the United States in 1870. In 1871 and 1872 he was a student at Tabor College, Iowa. He then spent the next four years at the University of Nebraska. In 1882 he received his M.D. degree from the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. Ile received his M.D. also from the Rush Medical College in 1892. He took his L.M. degree at Rotunda Hospital at Dublin, 1884. In 1883 and 1884 he took post-graduate work in Europe. In 1899 he received the honorary A.M. from Tabor College, and the honorary LL.D. from Northwestern University in 1907. He practiced medicine and surgery at Lincoln, Nebr., from 1884 to 1899. From 1899 to 1911 he was general secretary of the American Medical Association. From 1899 to 1924 he was editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Since then he has been editor and general manager emeritus. In 1896 he established the Western Medical REVIEW. He was commissioned first lieutenant of the Medical Reserve Corps, U.S.A., and commissioned a major in 1917. From 1895 to 1899 be was secretary of the Nebraska State Medical Society, and from 1896 to 1899 of the Western Surgical and Gynecology Society. In 1921 he was president of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago. He belongs to the Comos Club of Washington, and the University, City, and Edgewater Golf Clubs of Chicago. His home is at 712 Gordon Terrace, Chicago, Ill.

   WILLIAM JAMES TAYLOR was born at Dublin, Ind., August 8, 1867, the son of Aurelius Pryor and Mary Vore Taylor. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1891, and his M.A. degree from the same institution in 1897. He was a university fellow in philosophy at Yale University from 1898 to 1901, when he received his Ph.D. degree at Yale. He married Blanche Glasgow of Omaha. Nebr., July 15, 1896. He was principal of the high school of South Omaha, Nebr., from 1891 to 1898. He was head of the department of classical languages at Pittsburg, (Pa.) Academy in 1901-02. He was a teacher of modern

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languages in the New Haven, (Conn.) high school from 1902 to 1905. During the same period he was a lecturer on history and prilosophy of education at Yale. At Yale he was an instructor in the history of education, logic, and psychology from 1905 to 1910. Since 1910 he has been head of the department of psychology and principles of education at the Brooklyn Training School for Teachers. In 1912 he was a lecturer on psychology at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of Nebraska Alpha chapter of Phi Delta Theta. He is a Republican and an Episcopalian. He has been the author of: An Elementary Logic (1909), A Syllabus of the History of Education (1909). He wrote the article on "Consciousness and Education" in the Encyclopedia Americana. He is a contributor to pedagogical journals. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association. His home is at 1509 Union St., Brooklyn, N. Y.

   JOEL STEBBINS, astronomer, was born at Omaha, Nebr., July 30, 1878, the son of Charles Sumner and Sara Ann Stebbins. In 1899 he received his B.S. from the University of Nebraska. He then attended the University of Wisconsin until 1901, when he went to the Lick Observatory of the University of California, where he received his Ph.D. in 1903. He went to the University of Munich in 1912-13. He married May Louise Prentiss of Lincoln, Nebr., June 27, 1905. At the University of Illinois he was instructor in astronomy and director of observatory from 1913 to 1922. He is a member of the National Academy of Science, National Research Council, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vice-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, secretary of the American Astronomical Society, member of the American Philosophical Society, and foreign associate of the Royal Astronomical Society. He is a member of Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Xi. In 1913 he was awarded the Rumford premium of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1915 he received the Draper medal of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a contributor to astronomical journals, principally on stellar photometry. His address is the Washburn Observatory, Madison, Wis.

   LUCIOUS SEYMOUR STORRS, railway official, was born at Buffalo, N. Y., January 4, 1869, the son of Origon Seymour and Janet Rankin Seymour. From the University of Nebraska he received his B.Sc. degree in 1890 and his M.A. degree in 1904. He married Mary I. Cooper of Denver, Colo., June 24, 1894. He then held technical positions with the Northern Pacific Railroad, the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, and the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. He was president of the New England Investment and Security Company, holding the electric systems acquired by the N. Y., N. H., and H. Street Railway, from 1907 to 1911. He was vice-president of the N. Y., N. H., and H. R. R. from 1912-1914. Since then he has been president of the Connecticut Company of New Haven, and director of the Union Trust Company of Springfield, Mass. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and Sigma Xi. He was president of the American Electric Railway Association in 1917, and was chairman of the committee on national defense of American Electric Railway Association in charge of transportation cooperation of electric railways through National Council of Defense. His home is at 315 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Conn.

   CHARLOTTE TEMPLETON was born at Brinkley. Ark., December 24, 1877, the daughter of Robert and Jane Coleman Templeton. She received her A. B. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1902, and was graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors. She studied at the Pratt Institute Library School in 1905. From 1902 to 1904 she was reference librarian of the Omaha, Nebr., public library. In 1905 and 1906 she was librarian of the Oshkosh, Wis., public library. From 1906 to 1919 she was secretary of the Nebraska Public Library Commission. She was secretary of the Georgia State Library Commission from 1919 to 1922. Since 1922 she has been librarian of the Greenville, S. C. public library. She is a member of the American Library Association. Her address is Greenville S. C.

   CORNELIUS LOTT SHEAR, plant pathologist, was born at Coeymans Hollow, N. Y., March 26, 1865, the son of Henry Lansing and Mary Shear. He was graduated from the New York State Normal School at Albany in 1888. From the University of Nebraska he received his B.S. in 1897, and his A.M. in 1901. He received the Ph.D. degree from George Washington University in 1906. He studied plant pathology and mycology at Munich, Berlin, Leiden, and London in 1905 and 1912. He married Avis Morrison Sherwood at Osborne, Kans., on December 25, 1890. Going into the U. S. Department of Agriculture, he was special field agent of the Division of Agrostol-

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ogy the summers of 1895-97; assistant agrotologist, 1898-1901; assistant pathologist, 1901-02; and since 1902 he has been pathologist. He was editor of the ASA GRAY BULLETIN from 1898 to 1900, and associate editor of PLANT WORLD, 1900-05. He was one of the editors of phytopathology from 1911 to 1915, and associate editor of MYCOLOGIA since 1909. He edited the revision of plant pathological and mycological terms in the Century Dictionary. He is a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Botanical Society of America, the Association Internationale des Botanistes, secretary-treasurer of the American Phytopathologists Society, the Botanical Society of Washington, the Washington Academy of Sciences, and Sigma Xi. He was the United States official delegate to the Pasteur Centennial Celebration at Paris in 1923. His home is at Radnor Heights, Roslyn, Va.

   RAY PALMER TEELE was born in Fillmore County, Minn., on October 22, 1868, the son of Edwin and Sarah Dearborn TeeIe. He was granted his A.B. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1897, and his A. M. in 1899. He married Mary D. Hazard of Council Bluffs, Ia., in 1897. From 1899 to 1919 he was an economist in the United States Department of Agriculture, and since 1921 he has been a special agent in charge of irrigation. He was with the U. S. Bureau of Census from 1910 to 1912 and from 1919 to 1921. He is the author of Irrigation in the United States Reclamation Policies (1915), and government reports on irrigation and drainage. He is a contributor to various journals on water rights and irrigation. He is a member of Delta Tau Delta. He also belongs to the Cosmos club. His home is at Silver Springs, Md. His office is at the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

   JOHN TORRENCE TATE, physicist, was born at Lennox, Adams County, Iowa, on July 28, 1889, the son of Samuel Aaron and Minnie Maria Tate. He was graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1910 with the B.Sc. degree, and again in 1912 with the M.A. degree. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Berlin in 1914. He married Lois Beatrice Fossler of Lincoln, Nebr., December 28, 1917. He was an instructor in physics at the University of Nebraska in 1914-15, and assistant professor, 1915-16. He then went to the University of Minnesota, where he was instructor in physics in 1916-17, assistant professor 1917-18, associate professor in 1919, and since then professor of physics. He was commissioned second lieutenant of the Signal Reserve Corps on March 4, 1918, and first lieutenant of the Air Service in September, 1918. He was honorably discharged in December, 1918. He is a fellow in the American Physics Society, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Optical Society, Sigma Xi, and Phi Beta Kappa. He is a Protestant. He determined the ionization and resonance potentials of mercury, cadmium, zinc, sodium, and potassium vapors. His home is at 1011 Fourteenth Avenue, S. E., Minneapolis, Minn.

   ROBERT GLENMORE SIMMONS, congressman, was born in Scottsbluff county, Nebraska, December 25, 1891, the son of Charles H. and Alice May Simmons. From 1909 to 1911 he attended Hastings College. In 1915 he received his LL.B. from the University of Nebraska. He married Gladyce Weil of Lincoln, Nebr., on June 23, 1917. He began practicing law at Gering in 1915. In 1916-17 he was county attorney of Scottsbluff county. He was a member of the Sixty-eighth Congress, 1923-1925, from the Sixth Nebraska District. He enlisted in the Air Service, U.S.A., October 15, 1917. He was made a qualified spherical balloon pilot, rated balloon observer, and commissioned a second lieutenant, March 12, 1918. He taught courts martial and was judge advocate of General Courts the summer of 1918. He was Commanding Officer of the Sixty-third and Seventy-fourth Balloon Companies. He was honorably discharged January 14, 1919. He is a member of the American and Nebraska State Bar Associations, and was Commander of the Department of Nebraska of the American Legion, 1920-21. He was president of the University of Nebraska Alumni Association in 1921. He belongs to the Order of the Coif, and is a Presbyterian. He is a Mason, K.C.C.H., Shriner, and Knight of Pythias. His home is at Scottsbluff, Nebr.

   CLARENCE AURELIUS SKINNER, physician, was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, January 6, 1871, the son of John Thomas and Susanne Skinner. He received his B.Sc. degree from the University of Nebraska in 1893. He was a graduate student and fellow in physics there from 1893 to 1896. He went to the University of Berlin in 1896, where he received his Ph.D. in 1899. In 1916 he married Christabel Ditchburn. At the University of Nebraska be was Demonstrator in Physics, 1899-1901; adjunct professor in 1903; assistant professor from 1903 to 1906, and head of the department of physics from 1906 to 1919. Since 1919 he has been chief of the optical division of the United States Bureau of Standards. He is a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Physics Society. He is a Baptist. His home is at Kensington, Md.