much of his 
was appointed in the Bureau from West Chester, Pa., Dec. 19, 18 
work appears in the publications of the Bureau. 
Miss Bearrice C. Opnerty, Librarian, was appointed Dec. 7, 1899, through 
special civil-service examination; previous to entering the government service 
nad been engaged in active newspaper work covering a period of four years 
Mrs. Mary N. Barnarp, Clerk, a native of Massachusetts, was appointed from 
Canton, Ill., Feb. 27, 1888, and is on detail for duty in the Department Library. 
Miss Lipa ANpERSON, Clerk, of Ohio, appointed March 31, 1900, by transfer 
from Seed Division. 
WitntiaAM P. StepMAN, Messenger, was born July 14, 1836, in Ontario Co., N. Y.; 
removed to Michigan in 1842; received common school education; commenced to 
carry U. S. mails at fourteen years of age; drove stage and traveled with show 
companies and trained horses until 1862; enlisted in Co. B, 4th Mich. Cav., Aug. 
12, 1862, and served in the Army of the Cumberland to the close of the war; 
was with Gen. Wilson on his great raid in the spring of 1865; captured Jefferson 
Davis, President of the Confederacy, May 10, 1865; took part in forty-one battles 
and skirmishes; after the war he settled in Michigan and was a farmer and lum- 
berman until 1893; was appointed in the Weather Bureau Sept. 5, 1895, and 
transferred to the Bureau of Animal Industry Aug. 1, 1894. 
INSPECTION DIVISION, 
Artur MANty Farrincron, Chief of Inspection Division, was born Sept. 22, 
1856, at Brewer, Penobscot Co., Maine; was educated in common schools of 
Brewer, Family School for Boys at Gorham, Maine, and high school of Orono, 
Maine; took four years’ course in agriculture at Maine State College (now Uni- 
versity of Maine) and one year’s post-graduate course in chemistry at same in- 
stitution, receiving degree of B. S.; took a course in agriculture and veterinary 
science at Cornell University, receiving degree of B. V. S.; engaged in agricul- 
ture and practice of veterinary science in Brewer and Orono, Maine, and Detroit, 
Mich.; was inspector on New York State veterinary staff, organized under the 
direction of Gen, M. R. Patrick for stamping out contagious pleuro-pneumonia 
among cattle; was professor of agriculture in Delaware Agricultural College; on 
Sept. 8, 1881, was appointed veterinary inspector for U. S. Treasury Cattle Com- 
mission; on June 1, 1888, was appointed veterinary inspector for the port of 
New York and superintendent of cattle quarantine grounds at Garfield, Bergen 
Co., N. J.; entered the service of the Bureau at Washington, D. C., on Oct. 8, 
1887, and performed the duties of first assistant to the Chief of the Bureau; on 
Aug. 17, 1893, was made Chief of Division of Field Investigations and Miscel- 
laneous Work, and on July 1, 1896, Chief of Miscellaneous Division; on Jan. 1, 
1899, was promoted to Chief of Inspection Division. 
Epwarp Barron Jones, Assistant Chief of Inspection Division, was born at 
Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 15, 1866; was appointed to a position in the Statistical 
Division of the Department of Agriculture July 9, 1883: on April 2, 1887, was 
transferred to a clerkship in the Bureau of Animal Industry; was promoted to 
his present position Aug. 16, 1895; has attended the Columbian University and 
the National University Law School, Washington, D. C., receiving from the lat- 
ter the degrees of LL. B. and LL. M. 
Herwan H. Gerpes, Clerk, was appointed paymaster’s clerk in the U. §. Navy 
Nov. 16, 1866, from New York City, and attached to duty with hydrographic 
party of US. Coast and Geodetic Survey sounding the several passes of the 
Mississippi River; resigned Nov. 20, 1867, on account of impaired health; again 
entered the service of the Coast and Geodetic Survey May 1, 1872, and joined 
hydrographic party taking soundings in the vicinity of New York Bay; was 
transferred to the computing division in the office of the Survey at Washington, 
March 1, 1873; resigned that position and entered the general service of the 
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