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The First Faculty 355 ico, N. Y, He was born September 15,1846, at Fernwood, N, Y. After leaving the university in 1873 he continued teaching, but later entered the Baptist ministry. He has had charge of congregations in New York and Vermont; and has done some writing in the field of modern lahguages. His address is, (or was), Bernardston, Mass., where he served as a Baptist minister. J O H N A. WARDER Dr. John A. Warder, of Cincinnati was non-resident lecturer on vegetable physiology and forestry from the opening of the university to 1873. He was well known as a scientist, and had named and recorded a new species of eatawba. Several of his books are still read, among them being his work on pomology, and also his "Hedges and Evergreens.'\ He died several years ago at Cincinnati, Ohio. SANBORN TENNEY Professor Sanborn Tenney (1827-1877), was non-resident lecturer on zoology from 1870 to 1874. His home was in Massachusetts, where he assisted Horace Mann of the state board of education. He was professor of natural history at Vassar and later at Williams College. Besides lecturing and teaching he wrote several textbooks on natural history and on geology. ROBERT WARDER Robert Warder, son of Dr. John A, Warder, was laboratory assistant in chemistry, 1869 to 1871. He was a graduate of Earlham College and of Harvard university. He later became professor of chemistry in Howard university, Washington, D. C. He died there in 1905. JAMES BELANGEE James Belangee was instructor in architectural and mechanical drawing during the period under discussion. He came in 1869 and remained four years. He was professor of mathematics at Nebraska state normal then a retired architect at Fairhope, Alabama.
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