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Kansas Academy of Science. 



PROF. EDWIN A. POPENOE 



WAS born at Centerville, near Dayton, Ohio, July 1, 1853, on 

 the ancestral farm. He was of French (Huguenot) ex- 

 traction for several generations back on his father's side, while his 

 maternal ancestors were English. 



In 1860 he removed, with his parents, to McLean county, Illi- 

 nois, where he acquired a common-school education. Upon mov- 

 ing to Topeka, Kan., in 1869, he entered Lincoln Academy. 



PROF. EDWIN A. POPENOE. 



Having completed the course at the latter institution, he in due 

 season entered Washburn college, where he graduated in his twenty- 

 third year, with the degree of B. A., from the classical literary 

 course. Even during his student days Professor Popenoe showed 

 that energy and ability which was to make his career a successful 

 one. In his freshman and junior years at Washburn he taught 

 classes in botany and zoology as a partial means of assisting him 

 to pay his college expenses. In 1880 his Alma Mater conferred 

 upon him the degree of M. A. 



