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The First Faculty 849 remain a grand monument to your memory." The board of trustees on the same occasion, said in their resolutions: "The Illinois Industrial University is and ever will be a monument to the name, fame and genius of Dr. Gregory." But his educational labors by no means constitute the whole of his public work. Six times he crossed the Atlantic for extended tours of observation or for important public services. As a United States commissioner, he visited the International Exhibition at Vienna in 1873, and that of Paris in 1878. In 1876 he served as one of the international judges in one of the most important departments of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. He delivered lectures in most of the great cities of this country, and in Paris and London in the Old World, attracting large audiences. He was also a contributor to the press in essays, pamphlets, reports and other publications. He died in Washington, D. C , October 20,1898, and was buried on the campus of the university of Illinois in the ground just west of the main university building. %$m GEORGE WASHINGTON ATHERTON George W. Atherton (1837-1906) was elected a member of the first faculty in 1867 and was on the ground with Dr. Gregory for some weeks preceding the opening of the university in 1868. He was a native of Massachusetts and held both the Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Yale University. He resigned his position at the Illinois industrial university on January 1, 1869, to accept the professorship of political economy and constitutional law at Rutgers, N. J. From there he went in 1882 to be president of the Pennsylvania State College. He died in 1906 at State College, Pa. His career was a notable one but belongs rather to eastern states and institutions than to Illinois where he spent only a few months. His work nevertheless was of vital importance for he was aiding in laying the foundations. THOMAS JONATHAN BURRILL Thomas J. Burrill (1839-1916) came to the university of Illinois as instructor in algebra in April of 1868. He had gradu- ^1 1
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