History of Wayne County Ohio United States of America

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Charles Edwin Bessey, botanist, was born at Milton, Wayne county, Ohio, May 21, 1845. After taking an academic course in his native town he entered the Michigan agricultural college, where he was graduated in 1869, and later took a special course at Harvard. He then became professor of botany in Iowa agricultural college, serving from 1870 to 1884, when he accepted a position as professor of botany and horticulture in the University of Nebraska. In addition to his duties as professor he served as acting chancellor of the university from 1889 to 1891. He acted as editor of the botanical department of the American Naturalist from 1880; was president of Iowa academy of sciences from 1875 to 1884; president of the society for the promotion of agricultural science, 1883 to 1885, and was made a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science. He was the associate editor of the botanical department of the second edition of Johnson's Cyclopedia in 1893. His principal publications are: "Report on Insects" (1873-'74); "Geography of Iowa" (1876); "The Erysiphei of North America" (1877); "Botany for High Schools and Colleges" (1880); "Essentials of Botany" (1884); "Reports of the State Botanist of Nebraska." (1887 to 1892); "Preliminary Reports on the Native Trees and Shrubs of Nebraska" (1891). He received the degree of Ph.D. from the Iowa university in 1879.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

Samuel Hay Kauffmann, journalist, was born in Wayne county, Ohio, April 30, 1829; son of Rudolph and Jane (Hay) Kauffman. He spent his early days on a farm; received a common-school education, and later learned the printing trade. He afterward obtained employment as a telegraph operator, and at the end of three years returned to the printing business, as editor and publisher in Zanesville, Ohio. He was married, Oct. 12, 1852, to Sarah Clark, daughter of John Tileston Fracker, of Zanesville. He held a position in the office of the U.S. treasury, under Secretary Chase, 1861-65; became one of the proprietors of the Washington Evening Star in 1867, was elected president of the incorporated company publishing that paper in 1868, and was still its president in 1901. He was elected a trustee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., in 1881, president of the institution in 1894; president of the American Newspaper Publishers' association in February, 1899, and a member of the Philosophical society, the Anthropological society, the Columbia Historical society, the Literary society, the National Geographic society, the Cosmos club and the Chevy Chase country club, of Washington; and the American Geographic society, the Shakespeare society, the National Arts club, the National Sculpture society and the Grolier club, of New York. He visited all the European countries, also Asia, Africa, China, Japan, and the Hawaiian Islands. His writings are mainly of an editorial character, and in the form of foreign correspondence, while travelling. He was engaged in 1901 in preparing an illustrated volume on the Equestrian Statuary of the World.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

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