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next year a small salary, then increased to SI,00O. Here he continued to 

 lecture for 49 years. One summer he lectured at Kemper College near St. 

 Louis. He also gave a course of lectures at the Sacred Heart Convent. In 

 1849 he went to the State University at Columbia for a summer session, but 

 being tendered a position as chemist to Belchers' Sugar Refinery, he re- 

 turned to St. Louis. "When Washington University was formed Dr. Litton 

 accepted the Chair of Chemistry, without salary for the first year, then a 

 small salary for part of his time so that he could continue his other work 

 In the St. Louis Medical College. 



During the first summer vacation he went East for the purpose of exam- 

 ining eastern laboratories so as the better to direct the building and fitting 

 up of the University laboratories. To do this he borrowed the money, pay- 

 ing it back from his next year's salary. 



He continued at Washington University for 35 years, resigning in 1891. 

 During all this time he lectured both at Washington University and at the 

 Medical school. 



About 1850 he was for a while engaged in the Geological Survey of Wis- 

 consin and Minnesota conducted by David Dale Owen. 



In this connection, I would say that David Dale Owen had charge of the Sur- 

 vey and with him as principal assistant was Dr. Joseph G. Norwood. Other 

 heads of sub-corps were J. Evans, B. F. Shumard, B. C. Macy, C. Whittlesey, 

 A. Litton, and Richard Owen: other assistants were G. Warren, H. Pratten, 

 F. B. Meek and J. Beal. Dr. Abram Litton was the last one left of these 

 pioneer geologists. 



In 1854 Dr. Litton, in the employ of the Missouri State Geological Survey, 

 made an examination of the lead region of Southeast Missouri, which was 

 published in the Geological Survey Report for 1866, occupying 94 pages of 

 the volume. This was the first careful report made of that region, and was 

 a very complete and carefully made report. 



In his early life Dr. Litton's desire was to become a doctor and not a pro- 

 fessor. He studied medicine while teaching in Paris, Tenn., and afterwards 

 took a Doctor's degree. He practiced for six months in Potosi and then 

 concluded that it was not his vocation, and gave it up. 



In 1871 he went to Europe for instruments and self-improvement. 



Dr. Litton was always interested in microscopy and physics and his 

 amusement was to work with the spectroscope, the barometer, electric 

 battery, etc. He accumulated a large and fine chemical and scientific library 

 which, in 1899, he gave to the Missouri State University. This library in- 

 cluded from 1,000 to 2,000 volumes, some of the volumes being very rare and 

 expensive. They were in the English, French and German languages. 



He gave a fine collection of rocks to the St. Louis High School, an insti- 

 tution which he was very much interested in, and he served one year as 

 Superintendent cf St. Louis Public Schools. 



He bad two sons, one a prominent lawyer, Joseph Norwood Litton, the 

 other a good physician, Charles Manning Litton. Both died of consumption 

 at the age of 33, and within three years of each other. He left one daughter, 

 Alice M., his sole heir and executrix of his will and estate. 



Dr. Litton was twice married, his second wife being related to the first. 

 His second wife was cousin to the first, and James Manning, the first hus- 

 band of the second Mrs. Litton, was the brother of the first Mrs. Litton. 



