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840 History University of Illinois and understood, through being one of them, the educational needs of the sons of the soil. Mason Brayman (1813-1895) served as trustee from 18671873. Brayman, a scholar among lawyers, had long held a high position in his profession. At one time, some years before this date, having been appointed to revise the statutes of the state, his work was eminently satisfactory to courts and lawyers, and filled an important place in the judicial affairs of the state. As a soldier he had served the Union cause in a manner that won the good opinion of all. The scholarly attainments of General Brayman marked him as one well chosen to further the new educational movement. General Brayman served on the committee on faculty and course of study and military department. Horatio C. Burchard, (1825-1908) who served as trustee from 1867 to 1870, was an eminent lawyer of Freeport. He had much experience in state affairs as a member of the general assembly and a large acquaintance with the leading men who were then directing public opinion in the state. Mr. Burchard was a man of scholarly attainments, and for several terms represented the Freeport district in the lower house of congress, following which service he filled the position of director of the United States mint at Philadelphia. John Curtiss Burroughs, (1818-1875) who was a trustee from 1867-1870, was president of the old Chicago University then on account of its poverty in a dying condition, and had had long experience in the education of the old type of college. That was, however, in a manner, to be discarded in the new movement which was to introduce a system of education more practical in character. Not a few members of the board, especially those leaders in the agricultural and horticultural societies who had a place there, looked upon his presence on the board as portending no good to their views. Dr. Burroughs was also a strenuous churchman as were Messrs. Edwards, Galusha, Goltra, Mahan, Quick, Van Osdel, and Lawrence, Thomas Quick was at the head of a denominational school in one of the southern counties. As these gentlemen all belonged to one particular church— Baptist—it took some time and experience to allay suspicions which naturally arose among those who wanted an entire absence
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