research and instruction for the benefit of agriculture;” during Civil War en- 
listed in 1862 as private in 7th squadron, R. I. Cay.; afterwards served in 2d 
Regt. Mass. Vol. Cav., advancing from second lieutenant to major; from close 
of war to 1872 served as captain of cavalry in U. S. Army; in 1872-73 acted as 
Special Indian Commissioner under Interior Department; for following eight 
years was instructor in scientific department of Williston Seminary at East- 
hampton, Mass.; from 1880 to 1885 was general manager of Houghton Farm, New 
York; afterwards became professor of agriculture in Massachusetts Agriculturai 
College and in New Hampshire College, and from 1887 to 1892 was president of 
Maryland Agricultural College and director of Experiment Station; was or- 
ganizer of cooperative creameries in New York and New England, 1879-83, and 
from 1885 to 1887 was in the service of the Bureau as agent for the New Eng- 
land and Middle States and with special reference to dairy cattle; has been con- 
nected with numerous agricultural organizations, as follows: Director, New York 
State Agricultural Society, 1881-85; president, National Cattle Growers’ Conven- 
tion, Chicago, 1884; director, American Jersey Cattle Club, 1884-1900; president 
Society for Promotion of Agricultural Science, 1885; chairman of executive 
committee, Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Sta- 
tions, 1887-1894; president of same, 1894-95; vice-president, International Agri- 
cultural Congress and International Congress on Rational Feeding of Live Stock; 
member of International Jury, and vice-president for Class 40, Universal Exposi- 
tion, Paris, 1900; member of International Agricultural Commission, 1900-1901; 
was appointed Chief of the Dairy Division on its establishment, July 1, 1895. 
and in 1900 was sent as representative of the Bureau in charge of exhibit at 
Paris Exposition. 
Raywonp ALLEN Pearson, Assistant Chief of Dairy Division, was born at 
Evansville, Ind., April 9, 1873; was educated in private and public schools and 
at Cornell University, where he took a course in agriculture with special atten 
tion to dairying and allied subiects; received from Cornell the degree of B.S 
in 1894 and that of M.S. in 1899; was instructor in Cornell University dairy 
school for one term; for two years was engaged in the production and sale of 
milk in Philadelphia, Pa., has had charge of creameries for short periods; is 2 
member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; received 
appointment to his present position in the Bureau on Sept. 1, 1895, through civil 
service examination. 
MePurrson Reyvnorns, Clerk, was born Mareh 16, 1870, in Carroll Co., Mo., 
where he lived till 1883; attended common school, and normal and commercia! 
colleges in Kansas; for two years was emploved as stenographer in superintend- 
ent’s office of A. T. & S. F. Railroad Co.; in 1893 removed to Chicago, and during 
several years’ stay there was employed with the Chicago Times, principally as 
stenographer and manager of subscription and correspondence department of 
weekly eflition, and as stenographer with D. M. Osborne & Co. and Morgan & 
Wright: was appointed in the Bureau as clerk and stenographer Feb. 17, 1897, 
after civil-service examination. 
Mrs. Marra H. Maton, Clerk, of Indiana, appointed July 1, 1895. 
Miss Mary E, FPacvy, Clerk, of Illinois, appointed Aug. 8, 1894. 
Miss Mary C. Monrcowery, Clerk, of California, appointed July 1 1898. 
Asa H. Kite, Messenger, was born in Champaign Co., Ohio, June 15, 1844: re- 
ceived common school education; served in the Civil War as corporal in Co. E, 
113th Ohio Vol. Inf., and was wounded in the battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 20, 
1865; graduated from school of telegraphy at Sidney, Ohio, and was employed for 
fifteen years in railroad office work including telegraphing; was appointed in 
the Bureau Jan. 1, 1894. 
MISCELLANEOUS DIVISTON, 
Riciarn W HtekM \N, Chief of Miscellaneous Division, was born at Cape May, 
N. J., Feb. 16, 1852; attended public schools and Pennington (N. J.) Seminary: 
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