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

THE SCROLL 473February 26, 1855, and later moved to Jasper county, Illinois. Hecame to Lexington in October, 1885, to take.the directorship of theAgricultural Experiment Station at State University, which was organizedin that year, and held that office continuously until his death.Besides his wife, Mrs. Nannie Davis Scovell, a native of Monticello.111., he is survived by one brother, Mr. Frank Scovell ofIllinois, and a sister, Mrs. Vanderhoof of St. Louis, but no children.Doctor Scovell was a graduate of the University of Illinois, wherehe was a class-mate with his'wife. He received the bachelor degreein science from the University of Illinois in 1875, the master degreein science from the same university, in 1877, and later the universityconferred upon him the degree of doctor of philosophy.In 1875-6 he was an instructor in chemistry at the University ofIllinois, assistant professor 1876-80 and professor of agriculturalchemistry 1880-4. For one year from that latter date he was aspecial agent of the United States Department of Agriculture.Doctor Scovell was a member ex-officio of the Kentucky StateBoard of Agriculture, and member of the Food Standard Committeeof the United States Department of Agriculture. He was a formerpresident of the American Association of Agricultural Colleges andExperiment Station and the Association of Official AgriculturalChemists, former member Kentucky State Fair Committee and chairmanof the Official Dairy Test at the World's Columbian Exposition,Chicago, in 1893, and was a member of the following other nationaland international organizations: American Association of AgriculturalScience, the Society of Chemical Industry, London; the Societyof Promotion of Agricultural Science, the American Chemical Society,the American Breeders' Association and the American Societyof Academic Political and Social Science.—Lexington, (Ky.), Leader,August 16, 1912.•HARRY PEYTON STEGER, TEXAS, '02Will you allow me a word in appreciation of the late Harry PeytonSteger, loyal alumnus of your Texas chapter, literary critic, adviser andclever writer, and rare and genial spirit who died suddenly of kidneytrouble in New York City, Sunday, January 5, 1913. For some yearspast, "Peyton Steger", as he was known in literary and publishingcircles, served the well known publishing house of Doubleday, Page& Company in a highly specialized and responsible field. His dutyit was to secure contracts for publishing books, to seek out and getin touch with promising writers and to maintain business and socialrelations with them.Mr. Steger was known especially as the friend, companion andqualified guardian of O. Henry and since the death of that mostgifted and picturesque short story writer, whose stories he publishedin book form, eleven in all, he has served as his literary executor.