East Baton Rouge County Louisiana Archives Biographies.....Dalrymple, William April 23, 1856 - 

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Author: Henry E Chambers

William Haddock Dalrymple, M. R. C. V. S., one of the honored and valued 
members of the faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and 
Mechanical College, at Baton Rouge, is a citizen whose loyalty to Louisiana is 
on a parity with his tine professional stewardship, and this statement means 
much when it is known that as a scientist along the line of his profession the 
Doctor is one of the foremost figures in the United States, with a reputation 
that far transcends mere local limitations.  As educator, author and man of 
achievement he has signally honored the state of his adoption, and it might 
well be wished that in this publication the limitations were not such as to 
make impossible a more detailed and comprehensive review of his career than is 
here presented.

Dr. Dalrymple was born at Stranraer, Wigtownshire, Scotland, April 23, 1856, 
and is a son of Thomas Dalrymple, who was born at Glenluce, Scotland, July 1, 
1801, and whose death occurred at Stranraer May 14, 1868.  Thomas Dalrymple 
studied medicine, but impaired health necessitated his abandonment of this 
work, the ultimate result being that he developed eventually a large and 
important industrial' business in the tanning and handling of leather at 
Stranraer.  He was a liberal in politics, served as bailee (alderman) a number 
of years, and was treasurer of one of the local Presbyterian churches, of which 
both he and his wife were zealous members.  Mrs. Dairymple, whose maiden name 
was Mary Eleanor Haddock, was born at Sunderland, County of Durham, England, 
May 25, 1815, and was nearly ninety-two years of age at the time of her death, 
January 9, 1907, in the city of Durham, England.  Of the children the elder was 
Thomas Rodie Hudson Dalrymple, who was born April 23, 1836, who succeeded his 
father in the tanning and leather business, and whose death occurred at 
Sunderland, England, in 1903; and Dr. William H., of this review, the only 
surviving member of the family.

After his graduation at Stranraer Academy Dr. Dalrymple held for two years a 
position in the Union Bank of London, in the city of London, and he next passed 
two and one-half years in South Africa, where he held a position with the 
Standard Bank at Kimberley, his experiences in the great diamond field district 
of Africa having been of interesting order and having involved his personal 
friendship with many men of later fame, including Cecil Rhodes, Dr. L. S. 
Jameson, the Barnato brothers and others. Finally returning to Scotland, Dr. 
Dalrymple, in the autumn of 1883, entered the Glasgow Veterinary College, and 
in this institution be was graduated as a member of the class of 1886, with the 
degree of member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, London.  After 
his graduation he served a short time as a member of the veterinary staff of 
the Irish Privy Council in Dublin, and thereafter he was engaged in the private 
practice of his profession in the north of England until May, 1889, when he 
came to the United States.  After remaining a very brief period in New York 
City he received appointment to the professorship of veterinary science at the 
Louisiana State University and also veterinarian of the Louisiana State 
Agricultural Experiment Stations.  His appreciation of and loyalty to Louisiana 
have never wavered, and he has done a splendid service that has been of benefit 
not only to State but also of enduring and broad scientific field.  He was for 
a time dean of the College of Agriculture of the Louisiana State University and 
director of was the Experiment Station, but after two compelled to resign from 
the dual position on account of a breakdown in his health.  His major service 
has been in the important official positions of which he is the present 
incumbent.  In 1893 he resigned his positions at the University, returned to 
England and intended to remain in Great Britain, but the attractions of his 
former home and work in Louisiana proved so dominant that he returned in 1896 
to the Louisiana State University, where he has since continued his splendid 
service.

Dr. Dalrymple has allied himself with the democratic party, and he and his wife 
are active members o the First Presbyterian Church of Baton Rouge.  He is an 
honorary vice president of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, has served as 
secretary of the Louisiana State Agricultural Society and as editor of the jive 
stock department of the New Orleans Picayune; was formerly secretary of the 
Louisiana Stock Breeder's Association; was for some time a member of the staff 
of collaborators of the American Veterinary Review; was president of the United 
States Experiment Station Veterinary Medical Association in 1901-02; was 
president of the American Veterinary Medical Association in 1907-08; was 
president of the United States Live Stock Sanitary Association in 1908-09; has 
been since 1902 a member of the executive committee of the National Live Stock 
Association; is vice president of the Louisiana State Sanitary Association; is 
a Fellow of the Glasgow (Scotland) Veterinary Medical Society; and is a member 
of the American Medical Association, the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science, the Royal Institute of Public Health (London), the 
American Genetic Association, the Louisiana Veterinary Medical Association, the 
Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, the Louisiana State Live 
Stock Sanitary Board, the East Baton Rouge Parish Medical Society, and the 
Authors Club of London, England.  The Doctor is an honorary member of the state 
veterinary associations of Illinois, Kentucky and Louisiana; in 1908 he was a 
delegate to the International Congress on Tuberculosis, in the city of 
Washington, D. C.; in 1912 he was there a delegate to the International 
Congress on Hygiene and Demography, and he was the United States official 
reporter on anthrax at the tenth International Veterinary Congress in London in 
1914.

Dr. Dalrymple has made many and valuable contributions to the standard and 
periodical literature of his profession, including numerous experiment station 
bulletins, and monographs on veterinary, sanitary and animal husbandry topics.  
He is the author of two authoritative works, entitled respectively "Veterinary 
Obstetrics" and "Live Stock Sanitation."  He has served as editor of the 
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, and in the World war 
period he was a member of Louisiana agricultural advisory committee of the 
United States Food Administration.

Dr. Dalrymple has been active in scientific research and experimentation along 
the line of his profession, and has incidentally achieved results that would 
have brought him large financial rewards had he consented to commercialize his 
name and service, rather than to make his professional stewardship one of the 
highest ethical order.  To his earnest and vigorous efforts may largely be 
ascribed the establishing and splendid service of the Louisiana State Live 
Stock Sanitary Board, the State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners, and the 
Louisiana Veterinary Medical Association, with which he gave a most progressive 
administration while serving as its president.  His work in the advancing of 
animal industry has been excelled by few, if any, other representatives of his 
profession, and has been of pronounced value in furthering the success of the 
live stock industry.

In August, 1891, was solemnized the marriage of Dr. Dalrymple and Miss Mary 
Isabel Umpleby, of Snaith, Yorkshire, England, daughter of William and Amelia 
(Rhodes) Umpleby, her father having been a prosperous landholder and farmer in 
that section of Yorkshire, and her widowed mother being still a resident of 
Snaith.  William Cohn Stuart Dalrymple, elder of the two children of Dr. and 
Mrs. Dalrymple, was born December 22, 1892, and now resides in the city of 
Dayton, Ohio.  In the World war period he was in the industrial airplane 
service, and his educational advantages have included those of the Louisiana 
State University.  He married Miss Verna Lenker, of Rossburg, Ohio.  Mary 
Eleanor, younger of the two children, is the wife of William Nelson Fauver, of 
Baton Rouge, and they have a fine little son, William Dalrymple Fauver.  Mr. 
Fauver is serving as a notary public and is giving his attention to the study 
of law (1924).  He is also superintende

Additional Comments:
NOTE:  A signed photograph/painting accompanies this narrative in the 
referenced source.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 105-106, by Henry E. Chambers.  Published 
by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925. 

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