John Wesley Young (November 17, 1879 -- February 17, 1932)Young received the degree of Ph.B. at Ohio State University in 1899. At Cornell from 1900 to 1903, Young concentrated on mathematics and mathematical physics. In 1901 he was awarded the degree of A.M. For the next two years (1901-1903) Young worked for his doctorate under The eight years from 1903 to 1911 found Young advancing from an instructorship at Northwestern to a full professorship at Kansas. In 1905 he went to Princeton, as preceptor, where he enjoyed fruitful association with Oswald Veblen. After two years as assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Young became the head of the department of mathematics at the University of Kansas, where he remained for one year. During the summer of 1911, he taught in the Summer Quarter of the University of Chicago. The remaining twenty-one years of his life, except for several leaves of absence, Young spent as Professor of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. He served as head of the Mathematics department from 1911 to 1919, when the chairmanship system was adopted, and was appointed as chairman for the period 1923-1925. He is the author of:
Frank Millett Morgan (1886 -- )Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Later, headmaster of the Clark School in Hanover, NH. He is the author of:
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