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Appointed Laboratory Chief

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
February
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
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APPOINTED LABORATORY CHIEF

An Ypsilanti Graduate of the University

Is Appointed Chief of a Laboratory in the Agricultural Department

Lyman F. Kebler, a graduate of the Ypsilanti high school and of the university, has been appointed chief of the drug laboratory recently established by the bureau of chemistry in the department of agriculture at Washington.  Mr. Kebler completed the Ypsilanti high school course in three years, and then won the degrees of Ph. C and B.S. at the University of Michigan.  He was assistant in chemistry at the Iowa Agricultural college and later assistant in qualitative chemistry at the University of Michigan, which has granted him the degree of master of science in 1892.  He then accepted a position as analytical chemist with a wholesale drug house in Philadelphia, where he has since remained.

During the ten years he has also served as president of the chemical section of the Franklin institute in Philadelphia; as chairman of the scientific section of the American Pharmaceutical association; as member of the jury of awards of the National Export exposition at Philadelphia in 1898; as teacher of chemistry for two years in the Philadelphia high school and as teacher of toxicology for one year in the Temple School of medicine, Philadelphia.  He has written over two score of valuable papers on chemical subjects and is a member of the many American and foreign scientific societies.

The work of the drug laboratory at Washington will have much to do with the exposure and prevention of adulteration of drugs, a line of work in which Mr. Kebler has had much experience as a member of the American Pharmaceutical association.  He will begin his work at Washington March 1.  Mr. Kebler married Miss Ida E. Shaw of Ypsilanti.