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Lxji History University of Illinois for college, and although he had graduated before I entered school, I had heard much of him and saw him frequently. He won for himself very early in his career a distinguished place in the list of scientific investigators. Professor Atherton became subsequently president of the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in Pennsylvania. He was a man of power and perhaps of more influence in the passage of the Hatch Act, establishing the agricultural experiments stations than any other man. Professor Powell was curator of the museum of natural history and geology in the Normal University and professor of Geology in the Illinois Wesleyan University. He became subsequently one of the most distinguished geologists of his generation, and may be said as director to have built up the United States Geological Survey. Edward Eggleston was the well-known author of the "Hoosier Schoolmaster/' a man of influence and power in his generation throughout the country. Joseph A. Sewall, a former teacher of mine in the State Normal University at Normal was elected professor but subsequently declined the position. He became later President of the University of Colorado. He gave the first commencement address at the university before the literary societies at the close of the first term, Friday, June 12, 1868. I knew personally many of the men who were interested in the struggle to locate the land grant college, particularly those in McLean County, Jesse W. Fell, A. Gridley, William J. Rutledge, L. A. Hovey. Of the men who were active in the very beginning of the agitation for industrial universities, I knew intimately William Penneil, Daniel Wilkins, L. A. Hovey, and Charles E. Hovey, B. G. Root and N. A. Brown. In addition, of the prominent men who were present at the opening of the university or who wrote letters expressing their regret at not being able to be present, I knew General John A. Logan, S. W. Moulton and Senator Shelby M. Cullom. Illinois! acternum floreat! May | 1918. Urbana-Champaign
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