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Devol, William Stowe

educator, scientist, was born March 24, 1860, near Marietta, Ohio. He is the director of the Arizona experiment station, professor of agriculture, horticulture and veterinary science in the university of Arizona. He graduated from the Ohio state university in 1886 with the degree of bachelor of agriculture, and upon graduation was placed in charge of the university farm, and in 1882 was chosen botanist. In 1889 he went to Reno, Nev., to accept the chair of agriculture in the university of Nevada. On account of failing health he went to southern California, and there remained for five years, engaged in newspaper work. In 1895 he accepted his present position at the university of Arizona. He is the president of the Arizona Agricultural association; and a member of various horticultural, pomological and scientific associations. In 1896 he became territorial veterinarian, stamping out an extensive outbreak of swine plague.

DE VRIES, MARION, lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 15, 1865, in Woodbridge, Cal. He acted as assistant district attorney for San Joaquin county from January, 1893, to February, 1897; and was elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a democrat and indorsed by the people's party. He is a member of several important committees; and always takes an active part in all debates tending to the industrial advancement of the United States.