Memorial Address—Amos Arnold Knowlton. 
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1869. His graduation from the law school in 1871 was fol¬ 
lowed by seven years’ successful practice of his profession in 
Milwaukee. 
In 1879, he accepted the chair of rhetoric and oratory under 
the impression that in a professor’s chair he would find leisure 
for a literary career. While in college, and in the ten years suc¬ 
ceeding graduation, he had often courted the muses. In the 
decade between 1870 and 1880 he was often called upon to en¬ 
liven with verse the gatherings of the alumni. Among his best 
poems are “My Old Home,” “The Bells of Bethlehem,” “Our 
Welcome Home.” 
Wardon A. Cuktis. 
AMOS ARNOLD KNOWLTON. 
Among the members of the Academy who passed away dur¬ 
ing the last year was Amos Arnold Knowlton, who died at his 
home in Madison, April 14, 1906. t 
He had been very ill for the last half-dozen years. Obliged 
to give up his university teachings in 1900 on account of a se¬ 
vere attack of nervous prostration, he had been unable since 
that time to do any regular work, and in spite of every effort 
to regain his health, neither rest nor medical care nor change of 
climate had availed to improve his condition or even to alleviate 
his sufferings. He spent several seasons with his brother, John 
Boper, of Chico, California, but for nearly two years had been 
at his home in Madison, gradually succumbing to the influence 
of the disease and the sufferings which were slowly undermin¬ 
ing his health. During all these years, in spite of bodily suf¬ 
fering and depression of spirits—even to the last, during the 
few moments when it was still possible for him to receive the 
occasional visits of a friend—he retained unchanged the same 
lovable qualities of character that had endeared him to so many 
in earlier days. He still greeted all his friends with the same 
genial smile and kindly words and with the same cheery ring 
