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and wore shabby clothes in his student days at Michigan. 
These two fanner boys were the most courtly members of our 
faculty, men with the grand air, with distinguished manners, 
high-bred, bred on the farm. They used to say that a Hew 
England farmer’s daughter could march from the farm to a 
salon and no one would ever suspect she had been anywhere 
else. S’ome of our American farmer boys also stand as types 
of elegance, have the savoir ftaire, an innate and perfect adapt¬ 
ability which they got somewhere, from some strain in their 
composition. 
Perhaps in Professor Frankenburger it was the blood of that 
politest of nations, the French, or that other politest of nations, 
the Irish—for despite his good German name, he had French, 
Irish, Scotch and English in his make-up—a good mixture of 
strong and vigorous races. The first American Erankenburger 
came to this country as a youth in 1760, and was a soldier in 
the Revolutionary war. The name is plainly German and indi¬ 
cates that this first ancestor was of that ancient German stock, 
erroneously known as Pennsylvania Dutch. Dutch it is not. 
There is more French in it than Dutch, for a very considerable 
French element was incorporated in it from two diverse sour* 
ces, Protestant refugees from France itself and Catholic Aca- 
dians after that unfortunate people were dispersed through the 
colonies by the English. 
After the Revolution, the ancestor settled near the boundary 
of the three states of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, re¬ 
siding now in one state, now in another. In the natural min¬ 
gling of blood that makes the name of any family that has been 
here three generations no indication of the predominant strain, 
the original German blood was mingled with the blood of other 
nationalities. 
Professor Frankenburger’s immediate family came to Wis¬ 
consin in 1855, settling on a farm in Green county, which was 
largely settled by Pennsylvanians. For nine years the boy 
worked on the farm, attending the district school in winter. He 
prepared for college at Milton academy, and at the age of twen¬ 
ty-one entered the University of Wisconsin, graduating in 
