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Death Of A U. Of M. Boy

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
January
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Geo. D. Sones, lit '92, died on Saturday iu Berkeley, Cal., where he was engaged as professor of Physies in the University of California. Mr. Sones was only twenty-eight years of age aiid had just begun a career that gave promise of exceptional brightness. Whjle in the University of Michigan he had done special work in biology and botany t.nat clearly indicated a scientiflc mind of more than ordinary acuteness. He left Ann Arbor to become principal of the Frenco, Cal., high school. Afterward he received the appointment that he held at the time of his death. Mr. Sones' parents live in Grand Rapids, where his father, F. W. Sones, is en;aged in the furnituro manufactnring Hisiness. The body was sent to the atU'rcity for interment.