THE F( )UNDERS OF THE ACADEMY,* 



By N. H. Winchell. 



The "Founders of the Academy" may be considered, prob- 

 ably with justice, to have been those whose names are appended 

 in the official record of our charter, in the office of the Secre- 

 tary of State, St. Paul. They are the following, in the order 

 given below : 



A. E. Ames 



A. E. Johnson 



C. E. Rogers 



Charles Simpson 



N. H. Winchell 



S. C. Gale 



W. H. Leonard 



M. D. Stoneman 



A. F. Elliott 



A. W. Williamson 



E. W. B. Harvey 



There were also two others, elected on or before February 

 4, 1873, who are recorded as officers of the Academy, whose 

 record goes so near to the commencement that they might fairly 

 be classed with the founders. They are Paris Gibson and O. V. 

 Tousley. They are named, in the record of the charter, as mem- 

 bers of the Board of Trustees for the first year, but are not in- 

 cluded in the list of charter members. 



The charter was filed in the office of the Secretary of State 

 the 14th day of September, 1875. Mr. Gibson is well known as 

 the president of the North Star Woolen Company, of Minneap- 

 olis, for many years as a regent of the University, and more re- 

 cently as United States Senator from Montana. Mr. Tousley was 

 equally well known as an educator, having been for many years 

 the efficient superintendent of the public schools of Minneapolis. 



*This paper on "The Founders of the Academy" was Professor Winchell's last 

 contribution, read March 9, 1913, at the 40 th Anniversary of the founding of the Min- 

 nesota Academy of Science. 



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