Biography Aldo Leopold was nature’s scholar and in the natural order of our natural world, saw perpetual enrichment of our heritage. By this so humble yet so bold and novel approach, he pioneered a new science for the conservation of land and biological resources and in so doing, improved the birthright of all humanity. Much …
Biography John Mack was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and received both of his degrees in Mechanical Engineering. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree at Rose Polytechnic Institute and did his graduate work at Cornell. In 1888, Mack went to Cincinnati, Ohio to design machinery for the Peter Cartridge Company. He left five years …
Biography Robert A. McCabe was a specialist in the areas of wildlife ecology, farm game management and field techniques in wildlife. McCabe grew up on the south side of Milwaukee and after graduating from South Division High School, attended Carroll College for his undergraduate studies. After graduating in 1939 with a degree in biology, McCabe came …
Biography Maurice McCaffrey was known as a valued public servant, who served for the span of forty years (1906-1946), known as the Secretary for the Board of Regents. McCaffrey served for forty-one years as the University Trust Officer, a finance expert managing public funds for the growth of this institution and for the good of …
Biography George H. Noyes was born in McLean, New York, and received his B.A. (1873) and law degree (1874) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. While he was a student, he served as the assistant librarian for both the University of Wisconsin and the State. He practiced law in Milwaukee for 14 years after his graduation. …
Biography Albert Ochsner was born in Baraboo and received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Paying for his education by serving as a schoolteacher. He earned medical degrees at Rush Medical College in Chicago and Kings College in London. Ochsner distinguished himself as a surgeon in Chicago. He was surgeon-in-chief at …
Biography Julius Olson was known for his work as a professor of Scandinavian languages and author. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin (B.A., 1884). Olson became an instructor in German and Scandinavian languages at the University of Wisconsin in 1884. He was named assistant professor in 1887, and from 1892 until his retirement to …
Biography Helen Pearson, born in 1900 in Lancaster, Wisconsin, she earned her undergraduate education at the University of Madison–Wisconsin and her Master’s in Textiles and Clothing at Columbia University in New York. She taught Home Economics in two Wisconsin high schools and was a County Home Agent in South Dakota, Maryland and Wisconsin for a …
Biography Vel Phillips built a career full of “firsts” as both a woman and an African American in Wisconsin. Born in Milwaukee, she graduated from Howard University in Washington, D.C. in 1946 and went on to become the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison law school in 1951. Soon after, …
Biography Henry Lewis Richardson was born in Marion and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He earned a divinity degree from Yale before taking additional graduate work at the University of Chicago. Richardson served as a minister of Congregational churches in DePere, Ripon, Racine, and Whiting, Indiana. He died on …