1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THE SCROLL 469JAMES MCCALMONT MILLER, Washington and Jefferson, '97ALLAN SAMUEL NEILSON, NEBRASKA, '04Allan Samuel Neilson, for the past two years editor of the AgriculturalEpitomist, died at his home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November9, 1912.He was born July 20, 1879, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the farmwhere he lived until he entered the Wisconsin State University, fromwhich he graduated with honor in 1901. After his graduation he didwork in the agricultural department of Wisconsin University andlater in that of Nebraska, meanwhile contributing to agriculturaljournals throughout the country. He was the instructor in Englishof the University of Missouri and professor of English in WashingtonCollege, Maryland. He did post graduate work at the University ofChicago, and Yale, at Harvard and Columbia.Later he accepted the editorship of the Agricultural Epitomist inwhich position he acquitted himself with honor, and his loss is feltdeeply.In the spring of 1912 his health, impaired by his close attentionto work, began to decline and in July he was obliged, temporarilyas he thought, to relinquish his post. He returned to liis native stateand to the home of his parents, and there amidst the apple trees,looking out on the farms he loved so well, he fought his last fight,