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S. E. Meek
Seth E. Meek was born near Hicksville, Defiance county, Ohio, at 1 o'clock A. M., April 1, 1859. He is of Welsh Anglo-Saxon ancestry. Was brought up on a farm. After leaving the High School spent four terms in Valparaiso, Indiana, Normal. Then spent three years in Indiana State University, at Bloomington, from which he was graduated in 1884.
He held the Cornell Fellowship in Cornell University,
Ithica, N. Y., in 1885-6. Taught in Eureka College from January 1887 to January 1888, and in Coe College from January, 1888, till February, 1892, when he was called to his present position of Adjunct Professor and Curator of Museum in the department of Biology and Geology in Arkansas Industrial University at Fayetteville.
He has been temporary assistant to the United States Fish Commission ever since his graduation, and has conducted for it Scientific exploring parties in Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas and Indian Territory during summer vacations. Was also member of a party under Dr. D. S. Jordan in the Virginias and the Carolinas, and has published a number of scientific papers. |
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His degrees are from Indiana University—B. S. in 1884 ; M. S. in 1886 ; Ph. D. in 1891.
He became a Christian March 5, 1877, and was married to Miss Ella
Tourner, of Bloomington,
Indiana, December 25, 1886.
Source:
A History of Eureka College, St. Louis: Christian Publishing
Company, 1894.
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