Memorial Address—Herman Frederick Lueders. 917 
He was born in Boston in 1859. An orphan at the age of 
five years, he was adopted by the Knowlton family of Tam- 
worth, Hew Hampshire. Here he spent his boyhood on the 
farm. He graduated from Phillips Exeter academy in 1882, 
and from Bowdoin college in 1886, in which year he married. 
He taught in a preparatory school at Providence, Bhodie Island, 
until 1888, after which he studied two years at the University 
of Leipsic. He was connected as instructor and as assistant 
professor with the English department of the University of 
Wisconsin from 1890 till 1900. 
William F. Giese. 
HERMAN FREDERICK LUEDERS. 
Herman Frederick Lueders was bom in Sauk City, Wiscon¬ 
sin, September 24, 1861. His childhood was passed quietly 
at home helping his father in the gardening business. He did 
not go to school, but with a natural thirst for knowledge ap¬ 
plied himself diligently to his tasks at every opportunity. 
With the exception of a little assistance given him by his father 
and an elder brother, he received no instruction up to the time 
he entered the university. 
While he was still a child, he set his heart upon a university 
education, but circumstances conspired against him, and the 
possibility of realizing it seemed more remote as he grew into 
manhood. When the prospect was darkest, the encouraging in¬ 
fluence of a friend came to the rescue. By strictest economy 
and self-denial, and by saving all the money he earned on the 
neighboring farms during harvest and threshing time, he ac¬ 
cumulated sufficient means to enter the University of Wiscon¬ 
sin at Madison in the autumn of 1884. Here he found that 
the actual expenses far exceeded the figures given him, and not 
willing to contract a large debt, he determined by extra effort 
to shorten his course if possible. He succeeded—his health 
