William Carleton, of Boston, Mass., was the head of a large establishment employing hundreds of men devoted to the manufacture of lamps and brass utensils. President Strong succeeded in interesting him in the newly founded college at Northfield. Mr. Carleton in April, 1871, gave fifty thousand dollars, which for those days was equal to a gift of many times that size today. It was said to be the largest sum which up to that time had ever been bestowed upon a western institution of learning. Citizens of Northfield could hardly believe the good tidings when they heard it. Indeed a handbill had to be issued and scattered broadside, calling citizens together by saying, "$50,000 for Northfield College! Come out tonight and hear the story!" Mr. Carleton's bookkeeper, who subsequently became his second wife, Miss Susan Willis, born in Shutesbury, Mass., a descendant from one of the earliest Massachusetts colonists, also became a generous benefactor of Carleton and her name is perpetuated in Willis Hall.

Mr. Carleton was not a man who gave grudgingly or at the point of the bayonet. Years afterward, looking back upon this initial gift and contemplating the satisfactory outcome, he said, "I cannot tell you what I have enjoyed. It is like being born into the kingdom a second time."

Constantly by Dr. Strong's side, his right-hand

man in every particular, has been Prof. Horace Goodhue. Indeed Dean Goodhue preceded Dr. Strong chronologically, inasmuch as he left Dartmouth College on his graduation day in 1867 to instruct the twenty-three young men and women who, on Sept. 25, presented themselves at Northfield for work in the preparatory department. This beardless but sturdy youth constituted the whole of that first faculty until midwinter, when an assistant was engaged. During President Strong's long and frequent absences Professor Goodhue, as presiding officer of the faculty, conducted with remarkable skill the external affairs of the college and later became dean. He is today the honored but still youthful patriarch of the institution, having linked his life uninterruptedly with it from his graduating day at Dartmouth to this very hour. With him should be mentioned Miss Margaret J. Evans, the gifted and brilliant woman who from 1874 onward was one of Carleton's most distinguished teachers and leaders. She married Prof. George Huntington, who was born in Brooklyn, Ct., whose long service and beautiful character are gratefully remembered at Carleton. Into this succession of scholarly and devoted men Dr. D. J. Cowling entered in 1909, and as President became at once a dynamic force in the later expansion of the institution.

As in other western states, so in Minnesota, the

names of many towns were derived from New England, even though the settlements were not made up exclusively of New England people. Stillwater, incorporated March 4, 1854, was called by the name of a village in Penobscot County, Me. Bethel, Orono, Cambridge, Oxford, Brunswick, Argyle, New Maine, Milo, Greenbush, Belgrade and New Avon also draw their names from Maine sources. New Hampshire is recalled in Franconia, Lebanon, Claremont, Concord, Dover and Cornish. From Vermont were transplanted the names of Burlington, Danville, Hartland, Rutland, Royalton, Bennington, Orwell, Woodstock, North Hero, Waterbury and Lamoille. Massachusetts was represented by Stoneham, Cohasset, Lexington, Taunton, Waltham, Brewster, Haverhill and Lowell. Providence, R. I., has its counterpart in Providence, Minn. Connecticut gave to Minnesota Hampton, Ellington, Winsted, New Haven, Meriden and New Hartford.

New Englanders have had a large and influential part in the politics and public affairs of Minnesota. Warren Upham, the state's archæologist, formerly secretary of the Minnesota Historical Society, is authority for the statement that four of the governors of Minnesota were born in New England and five others were of New England ancestry. Six lieutenantgovernors, three chief justices, four attorney-generals,

As

US President of the University of Minnesota for thirty-seven years he exerted a forceful influence upon the youth of the state and upon its higher life.