202 FROM THOSE WHO KNEW HIM BEST 



America. It was largely, if not entirely, due to the 

 Professor's advice and frequently to the financial aid 

 obtained by him for many of the students at the agricul- 

 tural colleges that so many of the men took up these 

 courses. 



The first men who were graduated from agricultural f 

 colleges in the United States in 1898 were : Jacob G. 

 Lipman, Jacob Kotinsky and myself. Dr. Jacob G. Lip- 

 man, besides becoming a renowned soil bacteriologist and 

 author of several scientific books, is now Director of the 

 New Jersey State Agricultural Experiment Station and 

 Dean of the College of Agriculture of New Jersey State 

 University, the highest agricultural educative position 

 ever held by a Jew in America, or probably in the world. 

 Jacob Kotinsky was for a number of years a prominent 

 entomologist, occupying positions of responsibility in the 

 Hawaiian Islands and in the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



Among many others, the following may be mentioned : 

 David Fink, entomologist in the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture; Marcus Smulyan, also an entomologist; 

 Dr. Charles B. Lipman, Professor of Soil Chemistry at 

 the University of California ; George W. Simon, Western 

 Agent of the Jewish Agricultural Society; Dr. Arthur 

 Goldhaft, a successful practicing veterinarian at Vine- 

 land, N. J. ; Dr. I. V. Stone, a chemist. I could go on 

 and enumerate many, many more successful farmers, 

 doctors, veterinarians, social workers, lawyers, etc., who 

 owe their start in life in this their new country of adop- 

 tion to the advice, help and splendid example of service, 

 for the benefit of his people, of their dear friend and 

 teacher, Professor H. L. Sabsovich. 



The foregoing brief sketch of the Professor's devotion 

 and activity for the Jewish farmer is very inadequate, 



