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retired from the newspaper field, he married Miss Clara Ward, of
Knightsville, and went to Minnesota, locating in practice of the law at
Litchfield, the county-seat of Meeker county. About the year 1889 he
went to Texas, locating in Potter county, in the “Pan Handle” district,
near Amarillo, where he owns a section of fine land, on which he lives
with a married son, his wife having died some years ago.

    Albert Howe Lybyer, native of Clay county, son of Salem H. and
Jennie (Layman) Lybyer, born at Brazil, July 29, 1876. The subject of
this sketch was a remarkably precocious child, having learned the alpha-
bet before he was two years old and was a fluent reader of the language
at five. He graduated from the Brazil high school in 1891, and from
Princeton College in 1896, at the age of twenty, taking second honors
in his class of two hundred and thirty-three members. From January
to June, 1897, he taught mathematics in the Michigan Military Academy,
at Orchard Lake, Michigan. In the year 1899 he received from Prince-
ton the degree of A. M. From 1897 to 1900 he studied at Princeton
Theological Seminary and in the latter named year was ordained an
evangelist in the Presbyterian church.
    In the summer of 1899 he was honored with the appointment of
professor of mathematics in Robert College, Constantinople, and entered
upon the work of the position in September, 1900. During the vacation
of the summer of 1901 he came home and on the 25th day of July mar-
ried Miss Clara Sidney Andrews, daughter of Charles S. Andrews, of
Brazil. The summer of 1903 they spent in America and that of 1904 in
France and Switzerland. During the college year 1905-’06 he was secre-
tary of the college faculty and continued to hold the chair of mathe-
matics until July, 1906. when he was granted a two years’ leave of
absence, and, a year later, in the summer of 1907, resigned the position
and entered Harvard College, where he is studying history and expects
to take the degree of doctor of philosophy within a year hence. During
the present year he is devoting half his time to teaching.
    Of Robert College Mr. Lybyer says: “The buildings occupy a very
beautiful location on the Bosphorus. It is not a missionary institution,
but a corporation under the laws of New York, like an American college.
It has a staff of about forty, of whom one-half are Americans. The
students of the institution number about four hundred, of whom, prac-
tically, one-half are Greeks, one-fourth Americans and the other hundred
Bulgarians, Jews, Turks, etc., including as many as fifteen nationalities.
The principal studies are conducted in English, though there is neces-
sarily a great deal of work in as many as eight or ten languages. Most
of the students are nominal Christians, and no effort is made to make
them Protestants, but to make of them good men, having the spirit of
Christianity. Graduates and former students of the college are scat-
tered all over the world. Many of them have held high positions,
especially so in Bulgaria.”

    La Motte Miles, native of Clay county, son of Samuel T. L. Miles
and Lucinda (Buell) Miles, born near Bowling Green, December 31,
1859, where he attended school, taking the high school course, then
taught in the Bowling Green, Center Point and several country schools
of the county, and one term in the state of Illinois. In the spring of
1883, at the age of twenty-four years, he went to Dakota Territory, where