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studies another year in agriculture and chemistry, and was then elected 

 foreman of the College Farm. Two years later he was awarded the 

 degree of Master of Science, and a little later was elected to the profes- 

 sorship of agriculture, a position which he held until the latter part of 

 1879, when he accepted a similar chair in Purdue University, Lafay- 

 ette, Indiana. From this position he was called to the presidency of 

 the Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colorado, in August, 

 1882. Here he remained nine years, in the later years serving also as 

 director of the Experiment Station. On the 15th of May, 1891, he 

 transferred his work to Nebraska, becoming professor of agriculture 

 in the University of Nebraska, in which a month later he was made 

 dean of the Industrial College. In 1892 (October 10) he was elected 

 director of the Experiment Station. These offices he held until fail- 

 ing health compelled him to abandon all work in the spring of 1895. 

 He ceased to be director of the Experiment Station in April, and com- 

 pletely severed his connection with the university June 30, 1895. In 

 these years of service as a teacher Professor IngersoU took active part, 

 also, in public work, serving for three years as one of the officers of the 

 Fair Association of Lafayette, Indiana, and three years as treasurer 

 of the Board of Education of Fort Collins, Colorado. Earlier in 

 life he rendered a service to his country, which doubtless must be re- 

 garded as the greatest of all. In 1863 he enlisted as a private in the 

 Ninth Michigan cavalry regiment, and served to the end of the war. 

 When mustered out of the service in August, 1865, he had been pro- 

 moted to the office of orderly sergeant. 



Among the published papers which came from his hand were many 

 bulletins from the Colorado Experiment Station, notably those on 

 " Alfalfa," " Sugar Beets," and the " Grasses of Colorado." After 

 coming to Nebraska he published bulletins on the topics " Farm 

 Notes," "Detasseling Corn," "The Cost of Farm Crops," "The In- 

 fluence of Changes of Food and Temperature on the Quantity and 

 Quality of the Milk of Dairy Cows," "Wheat and Some of Its 

 Products," and " Alfalfa." He issued also the Sixth, Seventh, and 

 Eighth Annual Reports of the Experiment Station. 



It remains for us to say a few words of Professor IngersoU per- 

 sonally. Physically he was a tall, straight, soldierly man, and before 

 the attack of the dread disease {locomotor ataxia), which eventually 

 caused his death, no man walked more erect upon the university 



