New University Officers

For the benefit ol' our readers nterestetl in the affiiirs of the ITiiiversity we have laken the pains to collect the following fitett coiKeining the livcs of tlie two new ofHcers who t.hls week commeiice their work ou the campus. Mr. ílamson II. Soule, tlie Trcasurer, was boni in Orleans county, New York, and. :m infant in trin-, cauie to Michigan vvilh his parenta in 1837. His father, Milo Soule. settled ín Calhoun county, where the boy attended the dUlrict schools. His literary cducation was conipleled at Albion C llege, and his commercial education at tlie Commercial College in Detroit. For the four years following he was book-kecper in the manufacturing establishment of Jackson & VVlley, in Detroit, and during that time he married Miiry, the daughter of the late Charles T. Parker, of Albion. For a time he was in the Detroit office of the M. C. R. R., then ia business for himself at Port Iluron and Albion. Here, at the breaking out of the war, he engaged In raising a company, whlch was Co. I, öth Regiment of volunteers. Transferral to the Öth Michigan Heavy Artillery, he served in the depiirtment of the Gulf during the entlrc war, was in all the battles in which the regiment served, and was always at the front, except when in the hospital on account of wounds. At Baton Rouge he waa severely wounded, and now is on the pension rolls of the U. S. For his valor on the field he was several times promoted, and when the war was over he was mustercd out as Major commanding the reginifint. .Sbortly aftcrwarda hc enlerod the service of the M. C. R. R. at Jackson, where for the past fifteen years he has been the popular ticket ajreqt. His famlly consiets of his wite and two tlaughters ; the oldest married to S. 8. Clark, of Bay City, the youngest attendinjf the Normal School. So with this raricd and large experieuce Mr. Soule comes to Ann Arbor admirably qualitied to fill the position of Treusmer of the University of Michigan. Mr. J. U. Wade, the Steward, is also a New York man, having been born in Onondaga county, in 1835. When he was Bine years of age his parents moved to ilichijf-in aud located in the township of Litchfield, Hillsdiile county. After remaining ou the farm four years he moved to Jonesvillc, where he resided until 1É52, In that year he went to California by the orerland route, and after spenditig four years there he returned to engage in the mercantile busim sa. In 1872 he changed his business for a large farm, since which time, be8ides looking after his farm interests, he has been occupied as railroad agent, and also with buying grain, wool anil ol her farm products. As regards other matters, Mr. Wade has always taken an interest in, and been connected with, all public enterprises that have been of moment to Jonesville, having held at some time or other nearly all the local township offices. Twice was he elected President of the village and Supervisor of the township, and for sixteen years he has been a member of the school board. Tlius he brings to his new work a comprehensivo knowledge of aflairs, and a high reputation for integrity and efficiency. Atm Aibor s fortúnate in gainingthese two gentlemen, Mr. Soule and Mr. Wade, as its citizens.