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Interview with William Durbrow, Irrigation Leader (1958) (233 pages)
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He was a very well-known professor of chemistry.
Matter of fact, it was at Professor Rising's house:
that I proposed to my wife.
Then you knew your teachers quite well?
Oh yes. We knew them well, and of course the Rising
girls--there were two girls in the Rising family-they were great friends of my wife. But there was a
spirit of friendliness and community feeling in the
University at that time. It wes a smaller college,
of course. Some of the clesses were fairly lerge
like Professor LeConte's in geology. Professor LeConte had a very large class. Itwas merely a lecture
class. It was e wonderful course.
Did you teke that?
Oh yes, I took thst because geology was one of my subjects. And then Professor Lawson, Andrew Lewson, was
also my teacher in geology. I thought a grest deal
of him. He was a very fine teecher. He became a very
noted geologist...all over the United States in fact.
But Professor Joseph LeConte's name probably goes down
es one of the greet geologists of thet time.
Very popular teacher too.
Very popular. Professor John LeConte was dead before
I went to college. Professor Joseph LeConte had e son,