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according to approved methods. It would be interesting to know 
what were the influences during these years which moulded his 
future, what books or what companions directed his thoughts and 
aroused his enthusiasm in birds rather than in some other line of 
study. But apparently he has left no record on this point and his 
reticence regarding personal matters was such that he seldom men- 
tioned his early ornithological studies even to his most intimate 
friends. 
After completing the course in the preparatory schools he entered 
Ripon College and later studied at the University of Iowa in 1876, 
but having been taken ill in the following winter was compelled 
to return home. He again entered Ripon College and in due time 
graduated in the class of ’79 with the degree of A. B., and in 1882 
received the degree of A. M. On November 27, 1879, he married 
Miss Carrie Amy Raymond, daughter of Eusebe L. Raymond and 
Emily Lucina (Lucia) Raymond, a young lady who had been born 
and brought up in Ripon and whom he had known for some years. 
Immediately after graduation he secured an appointment as a 
teacher in the Indian schools and was assigned to duty in north- 
western Minnesota. The next six years were spent in teaching, 
partly in the Indian Service, chiefly among the Chippewas, Choc- 
taws, and Otoes, and partly in secondary schools, at half a dozen 
different places in four different States. His first school was on the 
White Earth Indian. Reservation, Minn., just west of Lake Itasca, 
where he was noting the arrival of birds in the spring of 1881.' Here 
he spent three years although probably not all at one time as he 
was in Iowa late in 1881. The ornithological results of his resi- 
dence on the Reservation were embodied in a paper on ‘Bird 
Nomenclature of the Chippewa Indians.’? In the early part of 1882 
he was back in Minnesota but the latter part of that year and the 
spring of 1883 were spent in Jefferson, Wis. Late in the summer he 
went to the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) and taught in the 
Indian school at Caddo in the Choctaw Nation. Here he remained 
from August 27, 1883, to April 8, 1884, and his observations on 
birds were summarized in a recent paper on the winter birds of 
Oklahoma.? From Caddo he went to Red Rock among the Otoes 
1 Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, VI, p. 186, 1881. 
2 Auk, I, pp. 242-250, 1884. 
3 Auk, XXXI, pp. 473-493, 1914. 
