Howe, Herbert A. (Herbert Alonzo), 1858-1926
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Biography
"Serving concurrently as director of Chamberlin Observatory, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and dean of the Graduate College throughout most of the 1890s, he added the duties of acting chancellor when Dr. [William Fraser] McDowell resigned in 1899." Herbert Howe served as acting chancellor from June 1899 to December 1899, when Henry Augustus Buchtel was appointed.
Citation:
Breck, From the Rockies to the World, 1997, pp. 80, 277.Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Herbert Alonzo Howe Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: M010
Abstract
Herbert A. Howe (1858-1926) was Professor of Astronomy and Applied Mathematics, Director of Chamberlin Observatory, Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Denver, Denver, Colorado. He was instrumental in building the University of Denver's Chamberlin Observatory (1890) named after Humphrey B. Chamberlin. Howe oversaw the installation of the Observatory's Saegmuller telescope with its 20-inch Clark refractor. Howe's notebooks contain...
Dates:
1856-2002
University of Denver Professor and Administrator Herbert A. Howe, between 1891-1926
Item
Identifier: M010.02.0002.0011.00001
Abstract
University of Denver (DU) administrator and Professor of Astronomy and Applied Mathematics Herbert Alonzo Howe poses for a formal portrait in Denver, Colorado.
Dates:
between 1891-1926
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