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THE IRRIGATION AGfi. 



Chicago would vanish like mists "before the 

 sun. 



Dr. Clarke Gapen, while superintendent 

 of the Eastern Hrspital for the Insane at 

 Kankakee. 111., devoted much time and 

 energy in developing plans which were a 

 great benefit to the State and public at 

 large. In reply to an inquiry as to how it 

 happ ned that he is so much interested in 

 farming operations, the Doctor stated he 

 supposed that it originated from the fact 

 that during the war his people, being 

 Union sympathizers in the South, were 

 driven from their town home, and coming 

 north were unable to find any place to live 

 except on a farm on the outskirts of atov\n 

 where he attended school. He was then a 

 very, delicate boy of thirteen, and his 

 father concluded that outdoor exercises 

 would be the better thing for him, and 

 consequently kept him at work during 

 vacations "clearing up" the little farm. 

 Two summers spent in this worked a revo- 

 lution in his health. He has, therefore, 

 always been a believer in exercise, or 

 work, as a producer of health, as well as of 

 all the other good things we enjoy. The 

 Doctor prescribes outdoor exercise, and 

 encouraged and stimulated a large outdoor 

 activity among the 2200 patients under his 

 charge. He stated that he had found in- 

 activity the bane of thousands, and espe- 

 cially those confined in institutions for the 

 insane. The Doctor was born near Mor- 

 gantown. W. Va., in 18c-0; his early educa- 

 tion was obtained there at the old Monon- 

 gahela Academy, which, with two other 

 educational institution?, won for that place 

 the sobriquet of the ' Athens of the Monon- 

 gahela Valley." It is now the seat ot the 

 University of Virginia. 



The parents on his father's s-ide were 

 Quakers; his grandfather, notwithstand- 

 ing his^Quaker principles, fought through 

 the entire war, and then sattled in West- 

 ern Pennsylvania as a surveyor. The 

 Doctor left home when about nineteen 

 years of age, and for two or thren years 

 engaged in teaching in Harrison County, 

 W. Va. He then came to Chicago in 1872 

 to study medicine, graduating from the 

 Chicago Medical College in 1875, and en- 

 tered the Cook County Hospital the same 

 year, which position he resigned to accept 

 a position in the State ojispital for the 



Insane at Madison, Wis. At that place he 

 was assistant physician for three years, 

 meanwhile having been elected to a pro- 

 fessorship in the law department of the 

 State University. He resigned from the 

 hospital in 1878 and entered upon, a gen- 

 eral practice in medicine, continuing his 

 relations with the University. In 1887 he 

 severed his connections with the Univer- 

 sity to go to Omaha, which was then grow- 

 ing rapidly, and was the first comu issioner 

 of health of Omaha. He ( rganized and 

 established the sanitary department of 

 that city. Having contributed a portion 

 of his accumulations and, as he felt, ful- 

 filled his mission in that part of the world, 

 he returned to Chicago in 1892, and was 

 elected to the superin tendency of the Illi- 

 nois Eastern Hospital in 1893. 



Upon the election of Governor Tanner, 

 in 1896, Dr. Ga'pen resigned his position as 

 superintendent and removed to Madison, 

 Wis., where he is now engaged in the prac- 

 tice of medicine. By his experiments 

 while in charge of this institutiou, he 

 demonstrated conclusively the value of 

 irrigation even in humid regions, and has 

 done more for the furtherance of the cause 

 in this section than any other person. 

 From National Advocate, January, 1897. 



To J. A. Breckons, editor of 

 Senator F. E. th W yomin g Industrial Jour- 

 Warren. 



nal. we are indebted for the 



following skitch of Senator F. E. Warran, 

 of Wyoming:] 



United States Senator Francis E. War- 

 ren, of Wyoming, is the champion of irri- 

 gation interests in Congress. By a nota- 

 ble speech and herculean efforts to secure 

 government aid for western irrigation 

 works during the closing hours of the last 

 session of Congress, he brought the needs 

 of the West more forcibly and distinctly 

 b fore Congress and the country at large 

 than had ever been done before, and ad- 

 vanced the cause of irrigation many years 

 with that ponderous, slow-moving body, 

 the Congress of the Udited States. 



Senator Warren was born at Hinsdale, 

 Massachusetts, June 20, 1844. His ances- 

 try is traced in direct line to the Warrens 

 who land- d on the New England shores 

 when the Pilgrim Fathers were painfully 

 laying the foundations of the great repub- 



