State of Wisconsin Blue Book

RICHARD THEODORE ELY, Ph. D., LL. D., Director of the School of Economics, Political Science and History, and Professor of Political Economy, was born at Ripley, Chautauqua county, New York, April 13, 1854. Columbia College, A. B., 1876; A. M., Columbia College, 1879; Ph. D., Heidelberg University, 1879; LL. D., Hobart College, 1892; Fellow in Letters, Columbia College, 187679; student at the universities of Halle, Heidelberg and Geneva, and at the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin, 1877-80; holder of the chair of Political Economy, Johns Hopkins University, 1881-92; secretary of the American Economic Association, 1885-92; member of the Baltimore Tax Commission, 1885-86; member of the Maryland Tax Commission, 1886-88; Professor of Political Economy and Director of the School of Economics, Political Science and History in the University of Wisconsin, 1892. Publications-French and German Socialism in Modern Times, New York, 1883; The Past and the Present of Political Economy, Baltimore, 1884; Japanese translation, Japan, 1888; Taxation in American States and Cities, New York, 1888; Japanese translation, Tokyo, Japan, 1894; Problems of To-Day, New York, 1888; Social Aspects of Christianity, New York, 1889; also London, 1894; An Introduction to Political Economy, New York and London, 1891; Japanese translation, Tokyo, Japan, 1890; Dutch translation, Amsterdam, Holland, 1897; Outlines of Economics (College edition), New York, 1893, also in raised characters for the blind; Socialism and Social Reform, New York and London, 1894; the Social Law of Service, New York, 1896. Frequent contributions to the North American Review, the Forum, Harper's Magazine, the Century, Outlook, Harper's Weekly, the Independent, etc.

GEORGE CARY COMSTOCK, Director of Washburn Observatory, was born in 1855, at Madison, Wis. Was educated in common schools and University of Michigan, graduating from the latter in 1877. Recorder and Assistant United States Lake Survey, seasons of 1874-77. Assistant in Observatory of the University of Michigan, 1878. Assistant engineer, United States Improvement of the Mississippi River, 1879. Assistant in Washburn Observatory, University of Wisconsin, 1880-83. Graduated from Law School, University of Wisconsin, 1883. Computer, Nautical Almanac Office, Washington, 1883 84. Astronomer. Washburn Observatory, 1884 85. Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. Ohio State University, 1885-87. Professor of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin, and Associate Director Washburn Observatory, 1887. Director Washburn Observatory, 1889. Visited the principal European observatories, 1890 and 1894. Published five volumes of Publications of the Washburn Observatory. Method of Least Squares, 1889. Numerous scientific papers in the Astronomical Journal, Sidereal Messenger, Astronomy and Astro-Physics, Astronomische Nachrichten, Astrophysical Journal, etc.

EDWIN EUSTACE BRYANT, Dean of the College of Law, was born January 10, 1835, in Milton, Chittenden county, Vermont. He received an academic education in the New Hampshire Institute, spending two years in the classical department removed to Wisconsin in 1857, was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law at Monroe. Was engaged in the practice of law at Monroe until the rebellion broke out, when he enlisted as a private in Company C, Third Wisconsin Infantry. He was promoted to sergeant-major before leaving the state; served three years, first as lieutenant, and in 1862 became adjutant of his regiment under Colonel, now General Thomas H. Ruger. In July, 1864, he was appointed commissioner of enrollment for the third district of Wisconsin, and in February, 1865, was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of the Fiftieth Wisconsin Infantry, and served one year in Missouri. In 1868 he was appointed adjutant-general of the state and private secretary to Governor Fairchild. At the expiration of Governor Fairchild's administration, in 1872, he re-entered the practice of law, in partnership with W. F. Vilas. In 1876, he again became adjutant-general under Governor Ludington, was reappointed by Governor Smith, in 1878, and continued in office until 1882; was a member of the legislature in 1878, and served as chairman of the committee on revision of the state statutes; was appointed by W. F. Vilas to revise and annotate eighteen volumes of the supreme court reports, and reported the thirty-seventh volume. In 1884

was appointed assistant attorney general of the Post office Department, which position he held four years. In 1889, General Bryant was elected Dean of the College of Law of the University of Wisconsin, to which he has since given his entire time and attention. He has been a fertile writer on subjects relating to his profession. In 1869, associated with John C. Spooner, he published an edition of Town Laws, with forms and instructions for town officers. While connected with the postoffice department he edited the Postal Guide, and compiled a volume of postal laws and regulations and a manual of instructions to postoffice inspectors. He is the author of several works on legal subjects: The Wisconsin Justice, a manual for justices of the peace (1884), Code Pleading (1894), Elementary Law (1895), Code Forms for use in Wisconsin, besides various notes of lectures. His military experiences are recorded in the History of the Third Regiment Wisconsin Veteran Volunteers, written by him, published in 1891. In 1896, he wrote a history of the Supreme court of Wisconsin for the Green Bag, a law magazine published in Boston. In 1898, he brought out "Wisconsin Code Practice," an elaborate work on procedure in the courts of Wisconsin; and is completing at present the second volume of the same. He has been president of the Commissioners of Fisheries since 1893.

CHARLES NOBLE GREGORY, A. M., LL. B., Professor of Law and Associate Dean of the College of Law, University of Wisconsin, was born at Unadilla, Otsego county, N. Y., August 27, 1851. He removed to Madison, Wis., with his father (the late Hon. J. C. Gregory) in 1858. Graduated with honor at the University of Wisconsin in 1871, taking the Latin salutatory, and a year later graduated in the College of Law of the University of Wisconsin. Studied law with the firm of Gregory & Pinney, composed of his father and Mr. Justice Pinney, late of the supreme court of Wisconsin, and became junior partner of the firm. Later was a member of the firms of Gregory & Gregory, and of Gregory, Bird & Gregory. He for years held an annual retainer from C., M. & St. P. Ry. Served three years as alderman of the city of Madison (1882-3-4), one year as a member of the Board of Education, and one year as president of the Alumni Association of the University of Wisconsin. Edited The Tariff Reform Advocate in 1888, and has published articles in old Scribner's Magazine, Littell's Living Age, Overland Monthly, Harper's Weekly, Outing, Youth's Companion, New York Nation, New York Evening Post, New York Independent, Harvard Law Review. The London Law Times, The Legal Adviser, The Law Quarterly Review of London, The American Law Review, The American Lawyer, The Law Register and Review, and in the publications of the American Bar Association, and many western newspapers and publications. Has also published pamphlets on "The Corrupt Use of Money in Elections, and Laws for Its Prevention," and given addresses in New York, Chicago and elsewhere on the topic. He has long been a member of the General Committee of the National Civil Service Reform Association, and is president of the Wisconsin Civil Service Reform Association, and also a member of the American Bar Association. In 1897, he was made a member of the general council of the American Bar Association, and elected one of the three elective members of its executive committee, and he was re-elected in 1898. He is one of the curators of the State Historical Society and one of the directors of the Madison Free Library. He was elected to his present position in the faculty in June, 1894.