American educator and author, born in Andover, MA, on the 13th of August 1847; graduated at West Point, 1869. Entered the United States Army as second lieutenant, but resigned the following year and became professor of civil engineering and applied mathematics in Iowa College, Grinnell, 1870; after studying one year in the École des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, he became professor in Chandler Scientific School of Dartmouth, and in 1878 professor of mathematics in the college proper. He is the author of Elements of Quaternions (1881); Imaginary Quantities (1881); New Methods in Topographical Surveying (1884); a poem entitled Francesca of Rimini, and the following novels: But Yet a Woman (1883); The Wind of Destiny (1886); and Passe Rose (1889). Appointed U.S. Minister to Persia in 1897, and to Greece in 1899. See also “Father Le Blanc Makes a Call; and Preaches a Sermon” and His Daughter First.
