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professor Matban CUfforfc liicfter, »• £•, M. Arch., Professor of Architecture, and Dean of the College- of Engineering, was born in Acton, York county, Maine, in 1843. Prepared for college chiefly by private study without assistance. Entered the University of Illinois, January 2, 1870, pursuing an architectural course as far as practicable at that time, making up the deficiencies by studies in Civil Engineering and private reading. He was employed as foreman of the Architectural Shops during 1871, and placed in temporary charge of the Architectural department during his last two terms as student. The first six months of 1872, soon after the great Chicago fire, were spent in a Chicago architect's I! office. In March 1873, he graduated from the University of \ Illinois, and went immediately to Europe, spending a semester in study at the Baw Akademie in Berlin. During the remainder of the summer he visited the Vienna Exposition, Dresden, Paris, London, and numerous other cities, studying the historical buildings and representative cities. In September, 1873, he returned to fill the position of Instructor in Architecture; in 1876 he became professor of Architecture, and in 1878 he was made Dean of the College of Engineering. He has written a volume on Trussed Roofs; a translation, from the French, of Planat's Heating and Ventilation; translation, from the German, of Redtenbacher's Architektonik; also two volumes on T h e History of Architecture, and two volumes on Architectural Construc- tion. published. books i Roofs used in n
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