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The First Faculty EDWARD SNYDER 353 Edward Snyder, whose loan fund for students helps to keep fresh our remembrance of him, came in the opening year of the University to teach bookkeeping and German. In 1870 he was made professor of German and of military science, and was in charge of the battalion for ten years. In the busy time between 1880 and 1896 he was professor of German, recording secretary of the board of trustees, business agent, and dean of the College of Literature. He was born in 1835 in Austrian Poland, and was educated in Lemburg, Vienna, and in military schools. He came to the United States in 1862, and after serving in the civil war taught in St. Louis and in Carlinville, before coming to Urbana. He served the university for almost thirty years, and during that time his value to the institution steadily increased. His resignation in 1894 was not accepted, and he was granted a year's leave of absence on half pay. He served for a time after his return but resigned in 1896 and went to California. He died at Pacific Beach seven years later. WlLLARD FliAGG BLISS "Willard Flagg Bliss was professor of agriculture, instructor in French, recording secretary of the board of trustees, and clerk of the executive board during the year 1868 to 1870. He graduated from Harvard University with the degree of bachelor of arts sixty-three years ago. He was then twenty-six years of age. Born in Essex, Vt., he came west to St. Louis to begin his preparatory education in Edward Wyman's School, but returned to Phillips Exeter to finish. Following his graduation from Harvard he was assistant professor of Latin in Washington University for four years, and was engaged in farming for eight years prior to his coming to the university. He was a member of Zeta Psi, and of the state natural history society. After leaving the university he returned to his farm near Sterling, Va. He died October 8, 1915, at Leesburg, Va. A. P. S. STUART Professor Stuart came to the University from Harvard where he had done research work. He was full of a kind of
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