DR. E.S. BREIDENBAUGH DIES AT HOME SUNDAY AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry of Gettysburg College Succumbs to Heart Ailments; Wrote Numerous Books and Treasties on Scientific Subjects: Taught For Fifty Years
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Dr. Edward Swoyer Breidenbaugh, 77, professor emeritus in chemistry at Gettysburg College, passed away in his home on Carlisle street, at 4 o'clock Sunday morning. The venerable teacher, who in 1924 rounded out fifty years as an Instructor in chemistry at the college, died following a brief illness.
The immediate cause of death was a heart ailment, but for twenty years he suffered an inoperative internal complaint, which hastened his death.
His last illness dated from last Tuesday. He seemed to be recovering, however, and Saturday morning dressed and ate breakfast with members of his family, he became dangerously ill, and about 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, sank steadily until the end came.
ANTICIPATED FALL TERM
Although he was elected professor emeritus in chemistry at Gettysburg College in 1924 and retired at full pay for the remainder of his life, Doctor Breidenbaugh could not separate himself from the laboratory at the college, and the succeeding two years found him teaching the subjects he knew so well to young men to whom he had always endeared himself as a teacher and a friend.
In fact, he was planning to resume his duties as a teacher in chemistry when college opened later this month, and he looked forward eagerly when "his boys" as he called chem, would return to learn from him the mysteries of chemical science.
Since Doctor Breidenbaugh passed on, it been revealed that he turned down several offers, more lucrative than the one he held at Gettysburg, to become head of the chemistry departments at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University and at University of Pennsylvania.
In refusing to leave Gettysburg, he frequently said he felt he could do more good by the personal contact method of teaching which he employed than by the group system of instruction, common to larger schools. It is a well known fact that students who completed the chemistry course here under him found no difficulty to continue post-graduate work or medical courses in other colleges and universities because they learned the rudiments so well under his tutelage.
Physicians, surgeons and chemists, scattered from one end of the county to the other, look back to the teachings of Doctor Breindenbaugh at the ground work for their present successors.
BORN AT NEWVILLE
Doctor Breidenbaugh was born at Newville, Cumberland county, January 13, 1849, a son of the Rev. Edward and Catherine Elizabeth (Swoyer) Breindenbaugh. He received his early education in the schools of Green Castle, where his father was preaching. The Breindenbaugh family lived at Greencastle-at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, and the day after close of hostilities here, Doctor Breindenbaugh's father brought him here to look over the scene of the fighting. Later, he was among those who heard Lincoln deliver his immortal Gettysburg address.
A year after the Battle of Gettysburg, 1864, his father accepted a call to become pastor of St. James Lutheran church, York street, and the Breindenbaugh family moved to Gettysburg. Doctor Breindenbaugh the attended Gettysburg college, graduating with the class of 1868, at the age of 19.
He took a post-graduate course in chemistry at the Yale Sheffield Scientific School from 1871 to 1879. Before going to Yale, he taught a year at Carthage College, Carthage, Illinois, and upon completing his post-graduate course, he became an instructor in Gettysburg Academy.
In 1874, he accepted the Ockhansen chair of chemistry, created for him, at Gettysburg College, and in 1921, upon the completion of fifty years service, he tendered a party, arranged for him and Dean P.M. Bikle, who also brought to a close fifty years service with the college. Purses of $500 in gold were presented to both, Doctor Breindenbaugh and Doctor Bikle at the affair.
Gettysburg College honored Doctor Breindenbaugh with the degree of Doctor of Science in 1883.
Doctor Breindenbaugh was married to Miss Ida Kitzmiller, of Philadelphia, a native of Pine Grove, on November 20, 1873, and on that date this year the venerable couple would have celebrated their fifty-third wedding anniversary.
WROTE NUMEROUS BOOKS
In addition to his duties at the college, Doctor Breindenbaugh found time to write considerably on the subject closest to his heart, and to his credit are books on chemistry which are extensively used in colleges and universities throughout the country. Some of his better known works were are "Lecture Notes on Inorganic Chemistry," "Mineralogy of the Farm," "Directory in Elementary Chemistry," "Course in Qualitative Analysis," "Syllabus of Lectures on geology." He also was a contributor to many magazines and papers on scientific subjects.
He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity and a member of the Phil Gamma Delta national.
Some years ago, he was a mineralogist for the state department of agriculture, and did work in chemistry for the Gettysburg Gas Company.
Doctor Breidenbaugh is survived by his widow, two daughters, mrs. Edna B. Zane, at home, and Mrs. David C. Burnite, of Sharpsburg, this state, and by one sister, Mrs. William Shipman, Johnstown. Four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock from the Breidenbaugh residence. The Rev. Dr. A.E. Wagner, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, will officiate, assisted by Dr. Henry W.A. Hanson, president of Gettysburg College, and Dr. Albert Billheimer, who will speak on behalf of the faculty. Internment will be private in Evergreen cemetery.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
September 6 1926
TRIBUTES PAID TO DR. BREIDENBAUGH
Work and Precepts Are Extolled by President Hanson and Dr. John B. Zinn
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Tributes to the life and work of Dr. Edward Swoyer Breindenbaugh, for more than fifty years head of the chemistry department at Gettysburg College, were paid today by Dr. Henry W.A. Hanson, president of the local institution of learning, and Dr. John B. Zinn. Doctor Breindenbaugh's active successor as head of the chemistry department.
College students and faculty mourn the passing of Doctor Breindenbaugh, Doctor hanson said in eulogizing the departed professor. Doctor Hanson's tribute follows:
"Doctor Edward S. Breindenbaugh became a member of the faculty of Gettysburg College in September 1874. He came possessed of a rare ability and great enthusiasm. All the promise of his youth was more than realized in the fifty years of his active service as the head of the departmen of chemistry of Gettysburg College.
"If I were asked to mention a particular talent which Doctor Breidenbaugh possessed to a rare degree, I would mention his ability to kindle in his students an enthusiastic devotion to his department.
"During his fifty years of his service, men have gone from the halls of Gettysburg College to occupy some of the most important positions in the field of chemistry.
"The college mourns the passing of a stalwart figure who has endeared himself to a long line of alumni. The students mourn the death of a beloved preceptor. The faculty mourns the passing of a highly esteemed comrade. In paying my tribute of affection and respect for Doctor Edward S. Breindenbaugh, I mourn the departure of a colleague and devoted friend."
Dr. John B. Zinn, of Gettysburg, who studied under Doctor Breindenbaugh, and who succeeded the veteran teacher as head of the chemistry department at Gettysburg College, paid the following tribute to the dead scientist.
"Gettysburg College and the Chemical profession lost one of their eminent teachers Sunday morning when Prof. E.S. Breidenbaugh died. he was a man in every sense of the word, well loved by all of his students and his influence on the large number of boys and girls who attended his clases is inestimable. His great success as a teacher was due in a large measure to his pleasing personality and his ability to understand young people.
"Coming to Gettysburg at a time when chemistry was a rather unimportant subject, he had the pleasant experience of seeing the department of which he was the head gradually extended until at the time of his retirement two years ago, it was one of the strongest departments in the college.
"The success of Dr. Breindenbaugh as a teacher is substantiated by the large number of men and women who have gone out from under his influence into positions of prominence in the nation."
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
September 6 1926
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry of Gettysburg College Succumbs to Heart Ailments; Wrote Numerous Books and Treasties on Scientific Subjects: Taught For Fifty Years
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Dr. Edward Swoyer Breidenbaugh, 77, professor emeritus in chemistry at Gettysburg College, passed away in his home on Carlisle street, at 4 o'clock Sunday morning. The venerable teacher, who in 1924 rounded out fifty years as an Instructor in chemistry at the college, died following a brief illness.
The immediate cause of death was a heart ailment, but for twenty years he suffered an inoperative internal complaint, which hastened his death.
His last illness dated from last Tuesday. He seemed to be recovering, however, and Saturday morning dressed and ate breakfast with members of his family, he became dangerously ill, and about 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, sank steadily until the end came.
ANTICIPATED FALL TERM
Although he was elected professor emeritus in chemistry at Gettysburg College in 1924 and retired at full pay for the remainder of his life, Doctor Breidenbaugh could not separate himself from the laboratory at the college, and the succeeding two years found him teaching the subjects he knew so well to young men to whom he had always endeared himself as a teacher and a friend.
In fact, he was planning to resume his duties as a teacher in chemistry when college opened later this month, and he looked forward eagerly when "his boys" as he called chem, would return to learn from him the mysteries of chemical science.
Since Doctor Breidenbaugh passed on, it been revealed that he turned down several offers, more lucrative than the one he held at Gettysburg, to become head of the chemistry departments at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University and at University of Pennsylvania.
In refusing to leave Gettysburg, he frequently said he felt he could do more good by the personal contact method of teaching which he employed than by the group system of instruction, common to larger schools. It is a well known fact that students who completed the chemistry course here under him found no difficulty to continue post-graduate work or medical courses in other colleges and universities because they learned the rudiments so well under his tutelage.
Physicians, surgeons and chemists, scattered from one end of the county to the other, look back to the teachings of Doctor Breindenbaugh at the ground work for their present successors.
BORN AT NEWVILLE
Doctor Breidenbaugh was born at Newville, Cumberland county, January 13, 1849, a son of the Rev. Edward and Catherine Elizabeth (Swoyer) Breindenbaugh. He received his early education in the schools of Green Castle, where his father was preaching. The Breindenbaugh family lived at Greencastle-at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, and the day after close of hostilities here, Doctor Breindenbaugh's father brought him here to look over the scene of the fighting. Later, he was among those who heard Lincoln deliver his immortal Gettysburg address.
A year after the Battle of Gettysburg, 1864, his father accepted a call to become pastor of St. James Lutheran church, York street, and the Breindenbaugh family moved to Gettysburg. Doctor Breindenbaugh the attended Gettysburg college, graduating with the class of 1868, at the age of 19.
He took a post-graduate course in chemistry at the Yale Sheffield Scientific School from 1871 to 1879. Before going to Yale, he taught a year at Carthage College, Carthage, Illinois, and upon completing his post-graduate course, he became an instructor in Gettysburg Academy.
In 1874, he accepted the Ockhansen chair of chemistry, created for him, at Gettysburg College, and in 1921, upon the completion of fifty years service, he tendered a party, arranged for him and Dean P.M. Bikle, who also brought to a close fifty years service with the college. Purses of $500 in gold were presented to both, Doctor Breindenbaugh and Doctor Bikle at the affair.
Gettysburg College honored Doctor Breindenbaugh with the degree of Doctor of Science in 1883.
Doctor Breindenbaugh was married to Miss Ida Kitzmiller, of Philadelphia, a native of Pine Grove, on November 20, 1873, and on that date this year the venerable couple would have celebrated their fifty-third wedding anniversary.
WROTE NUMEROUS BOOKS
In addition to his duties at the college, Doctor Breindenbaugh found time to write considerably on the subject closest to his heart, and to his credit are books on chemistry which are extensively used in colleges and universities throughout the country. Some of his better known works were are "Lecture Notes on Inorganic Chemistry," "Mineralogy of the Farm," "Directory in Elementary Chemistry," "Course in Qualitative Analysis," "Syllabus of Lectures on geology." He also was a contributor to many magazines and papers on scientific subjects.
He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity and a member of the Phil Gamma Delta national.
Some years ago, he was a mineralogist for the state department of agriculture, and did work in chemistry for the Gettysburg Gas Company.
Doctor Breidenbaugh is survived by his widow, two daughters, mrs. Edna B. Zane, at home, and Mrs. David C. Burnite, of Sharpsburg, this state, and by one sister, Mrs. William Shipman, Johnstown. Four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock from the Breidenbaugh residence. The Rev. Dr. A.E. Wagner, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, will officiate, assisted by Dr. Henry W.A. Hanson, president of Gettysburg College, and Dr. Albert Billheimer, who will speak on behalf of the faculty. Internment will be private in Evergreen cemetery.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
September 6 1926
TRIBUTES PAID TO DR. BREIDENBAUGH
Work and Precepts Are Extolled by President Hanson and Dr. John B. Zinn
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Tributes to the life and work of Dr. Edward Swoyer Breindenbaugh, for more than fifty years head of the chemistry department at Gettysburg College, were paid today by Dr. Henry W.A. Hanson, president of the local institution of learning, and Dr. John B. Zinn. Doctor Breindenbaugh's active successor as head of the chemistry department.
College students and faculty mourn the passing of Doctor Breindenbaugh, Doctor hanson said in eulogizing the departed professor. Doctor Hanson's tribute follows:
"Doctor Edward S. Breindenbaugh became a member of the faculty of Gettysburg College in September 1874. He came possessed of a rare ability and great enthusiasm. All the promise of his youth was more than realized in the fifty years of his active service as the head of the departmen of chemistry of Gettysburg College.
"If I were asked to mention a particular talent which Doctor Breidenbaugh possessed to a rare degree, I would mention his ability to kindle in his students an enthusiastic devotion to his department.
"During his fifty years of his service, men have gone from the halls of Gettysburg College to occupy some of the most important positions in the field of chemistry.
"The college mourns the passing of a stalwart figure who has endeared himself to a long line of alumni. The students mourn the death of a beloved preceptor. The faculty mourns the passing of a highly esteemed comrade. In paying my tribute of affection and respect for Doctor Edward S. Breindenbaugh, I mourn the departure of a colleague and devoted friend."
Dr. John B. Zinn, of Gettysburg, who studied under Doctor Breindenbaugh, and who succeeded the veteran teacher as head of the chemistry department at Gettysburg College, paid the following tribute to the dead scientist.
"Gettysburg College and the Chemical profession lost one of their eminent teachers Sunday morning when Prof. E.S. Breidenbaugh died. he was a man in every sense of the word, well loved by all of his students and his influence on the large number of boys and girls who attended his clases is inestimable. His great success as a teacher was due in a large measure to his pleasing personality and his ability to understand young people.
"Coming to Gettysburg at a time when chemistry was a rather unimportant subject, he had the pleasant experience of seeing the department of which he was the head gradually extended until at the time of his retirement two years ago, it was one of the strongest departments in the college.
"The success of Dr. Breindenbaugh as a teacher is substantiated by the large number of men and women who have gone out from under his influence into positions of prominence in the nation."
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
September 6 1926
DR. E.S. BREIDENBAUGH DIES AT HOME SUNDAY AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry of Gettysburg College Succumbs to Heart Ailments; Wrote Numerous Books and Treasties on Scientific Subjects: Taught For Fifty Years
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Dr. Edward Swoyer Breidenbaugh, 77, professor emeritus in chemistry at Gettysburg College, passed away in his home on Carlisle street, at 4 o'clock Sunday morning. The venerable teacher, who in 1924 rounded out fifty years as an Instructor in chemistry at the college, died following a brief illness.
The immediate cause of death was a heart ailment, but for twenty years he suffered an inoperative internal complaint, which hastened his death.
His last illness dated from last Tuesday. He seemed to be recovering, however, and Saturday morning dressed and ate breakfast with members of his family, he became dangerously ill, and about 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, sank steadily until the end came.
ANTICIPATED FALL TERM
Although he was elected professor emeritus in chemistry at Gettysburg College in 1924 and retired at full pay for the remainder of his life, Doctor Breidenbaugh could not separate himself from the laboratory at the college, and the succeeding two years found him teaching the subjects he knew so well to young men to whom he had always endeared himself as a teacher and a friend.
In fact, he was planning to resume his duties as a teacher in chemistry when college opened later this month, and he looked forward eagerly when "his boys" as he called chem, would return to learn from him the mysteries of chemical science.
Since Doctor Breidenbaugh passed on, it been revealed that he turned down several offers, more lucrative than the one he held at Gettysburg, to become head of the chemistry departments at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University and at University of Pennsylvania.
In refusing to leave Gettysburg, he frequently said he felt he could do more good by the personal contact method of teaching which he employed than by the group system of instruction, common to larger schools. It is a well known fact that students who completed the chemistry course here under him found no difficulty to continue post-graduate work or medical courses in other colleges and universities because they learned the rudiments so well under his tutelage.
Physicians, surgeons and chemists, scattered from one end of the county to the other, look back to the teachings of Doctor Breindenbaugh at the ground work for their present successors.
BORN AT NEWVILLE
Doctor Breidenbaugh was born at Newville, Cumberland county, January 13, 1849, a son of the Rev. Edward and Catherine Elizabeth (Swoyer) Breindenbaugh. He received his early education in the schools of Green Castle, where his father was preaching. The Breindenbaugh family lived at Greencastle-at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, and the day after close of hostilities here, Doctor Breindenbaugh's father brought him here to look over the scene of the fighting. Later, he was among those who heard Lincoln deliver his immortal Gettysburg address.
A year after the Battle of Gettysburg, 1864, his father accepted a call to become pastor of St. James Lutheran church, York street, and the Breindenbaugh family moved to Gettysburg. Doctor Breindenbaugh the attended Gettysburg college, graduating with the class of 1868, at the age of 19.
He took a post-graduate course in chemistry at the Yale Sheffield Scientific School from 1871 to 1879. Before going to Yale, he taught a year at Carthage College, Carthage, Illinois, and upon completing his post-graduate course, he became an instructor in Gettysburg Academy.
In 1874, he accepted the Ockhansen chair of chemistry, created for him, at Gettysburg College, and in 1921, upon the completion of fifty years service, he tendered a party, arranged for him and Dean P.M. Bikle, who also brought to a close fifty years service with the college. Purses of $500 in gold were presented to both, Doctor Breindenbaugh and Doctor Bikle at the affair.
Gettysburg College honored Doctor Breindenbaugh with the degree of Doctor of Science in 1883.
Doctor Breindenbaugh was married to Miss Ida Kitzmiller, of Philadelphia, a native of Pine Grove, on November 20, 1873, and on that date this year the venerable couple would have celebrated their fifty-third wedding anniversary.
WROTE NUMEROUS BOOKS
In addition to his duties at the college, Doctor Breindenbaugh found time to write considerably on the subject closest to his heart, and to his credit are books on chemistry which are extensively used in colleges and universities throughout the country. Some of his better known works were are "Lecture Notes on Inorganic Chemistry," "Mineralogy of the Farm," "Directory in Elementary Chemistry," "Course in Qualitative Analysis," "Syllabus of Lectures on geology." He also was a contributor to many magazines and papers on scientific subjects.
He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity and a member of the Phil Gamma Delta national.
Some years ago, he was a mineralogist for the state department of agriculture, and did work in chemistry for the Gettysburg Gas Company.
Doctor Breidenbaugh is survived by his widow, two daughters, mrs. Edna B. Zane, at home, and Mrs. David C. Burnite, of Sharpsburg, this state, and by one sister, Mrs. William Shipman, Johnstown. Four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock from the Breidenbaugh residence. The Rev. Dr. A.E. Wagner, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, will officiate, assisted by Dr. Henry W.A. Hanson, president of Gettysburg College, and Dr. Albert Billheimer, who will speak on behalf of the faculty. Internment will be private in Evergreen cemetery.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
September 6 1926
TRIBUTES PAID TO DR. BREIDENBAUGH
Work and Precepts Are Extolled by President Hanson and Dr. John B. Zinn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tributes to the life and work of Dr. Edward Swoyer Breindenbaugh, for more than fifty years head of the chemistry department at Gettysburg College, were paid today by Dr. Henry W.A. Hanson, president of the local institution of learning, and Dr. John B. Zinn. Doctor Breindenbaugh's active successor as head of the chemistry department.
College students and faculty mourn the passing of Doctor Breindenbaugh, Doctor hanson said in eulogizing the departed professor. Doctor Hanson's tribute follows:
"Doctor Edward S. Breindenbaugh became a member of the faculty of Gettysburg College in September 1874. He came possessed of a rare ability and great enthusiasm. All the promise of his youth was more than realized in the fifty years of his active service as the head of the departmen of chemistry of Gettysburg College.
"If I were asked to mention a particular talent which Doctor Breidenbaugh possessed to a rare degree, I would mention his ability to kindle in his students an enthusiastic devotion to his department.
"During his fifty years of his service, men have gone from the halls of Gettysburg College to occupy some of the most important positions in the field of chemistry.
"The college mourns the passing of a stalwart figure who has endeared himself to a long line of alumni. The students mourn the death of a beloved preceptor. The faculty mourns the passing of a highly esteemed comrade. In paying my tribute of affection and respect for Doctor Edward S. Breindenbaugh, I mourn the departure of a colleague and devoted friend."
Dr. John B. Zinn, of Gettysburg, who studied under Doctor Breindenbaugh, and who succeeded the veteran teacher as head of the chemistry department at Gettysburg College, paid the following tribute to the dead scientist.
"Gettysburg College and the Chemical profession lost one of their eminent teachers Sunday morning when Prof. E.S. Breidenbaugh died. he was a man in every sense of the word, well loved by all of his students and his influence on the large number of boys and girls who attended his clases is inestimable. His great success as a teacher was due in a large measure to his pleasing personality and his ability to understand young people.
"Coming to Gettysburg at a time when chemistry was a rather unimportant subject, he had the pleasant experience of seeing the department of which he was the head gradually extended until at the time of his retirement two years ago, it was one of the strongest departments in the college.
"The success of Dr. Breindenbaugh as a teacher is substantiated by the large number of men and women who have gone out from under his influence into positions of prominence in the nation."
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
September 6 1926
Professor Emeritus of Chemistry of Gettysburg College Succumbs to Heart Ailments; Wrote Numerous Books and Treasties on Scientific Subjects: Taught For Fifty Years
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Dr. Edward Swoyer Breidenbaugh, 77, professor emeritus in chemistry at Gettysburg College, passed away in his home on Carlisle street, at 4 o'clock Sunday morning. The venerable teacher, who in 1924 rounded out fifty years as an Instructor in chemistry at the college, died following a brief illness.
The immediate cause of death was a heart ailment, but for twenty years he suffered an inoperative internal complaint, which hastened his death.
His last illness dated from last Tuesday. He seemed to be recovering, however, and Saturday morning dressed and ate breakfast with members of his family, he became dangerously ill, and about 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon, sank steadily until the end came.
ANTICIPATED FALL TERM
Although he was elected professor emeritus in chemistry at Gettysburg College in 1924 and retired at full pay for the remainder of his life, Doctor Breidenbaugh could not separate himself from the laboratory at the college, and the succeeding two years found him teaching the subjects he knew so well to young men to whom he had always endeared himself as a teacher and a friend.
In fact, he was planning to resume his duties as a teacher in chemistry when college opened later this month, and he looked forward eagerly when "his boys" as he called chem, would return to learn from him the mysteries of chemical science.
Since Doctor Breidenbaugh passed on, it been revealed that he turned down several offers, more lucrative than the one he held at Gettysburg, to become head of the chemistry departments at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University and at University of Pennsylvania.
In refusing to leave Gettysburg, he frequently said he felt he could do more good by the personal contact method of teaching which he employed than by the group system of instruction, common to larger schools. It is a well known fact that students who completed the chemistry course here under him found no difficulty to continue post-graduate work or medical courses in other colleges and universities because they learned the rudiments so well under his tutelage.
Physicians, surgeons and chemists, scattered from one end of the county to the other, look back to the teachings of Doctor Breindenbaugh at the ground work for their present successors.
BORN AT NEWVILLE
Doctor Breidenbaugh was born at Newville, Cumberland county, January 13, 1849, a son of the Rev. Edward and Catherine Elizabeth (Swoyer) Breindenbaugh. He received his early education in the schools of Green Castle, where his father was preaching. The Breindenbaugh family lived at Greencastle-at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, and the day after close of hostilities here, Doctor Breindenbaugh's father brought him here to look over the scene of the fighting. Later, he was among those who heard Lincoln deliver his immortal Gettysburg address.
A year after the Battle of Gettysburg, 1864, his father accepted a call to become pastor of St. James Lutheran church, York street, and the Breindenbaugh family moved to Gettysburg. Doctor Breindenbaugh the attended Gettysburg college, graduating with the class of 1868, at the age of 19.
He took a post-graduate course in chemistry at the Yale Sheffield Scientific School from 1871 to 1879. Before going to Yale, he taught a year at Carthage College, Carthage, Illinois, and upon completing his post-graduate course, he became an instructor in Gettysburg Academy.
In 1874, he accepted the Ockhansen chair of chemistry, created for him, at Gettysburg College, and in 1921, upon the completion of fifty years service, he tendered a party, arranged for him and Dean P.M. Bikle, who also brought to a close fifty years service with the college. Purses of $500 in gold were presented to both, Doctor Breindenbaugh and Doctor Bikle at the affair.
Gettysburg College honored Doctor Breindenbaugh with the degree of Doctor of Science in 1883.
Doctor Breindenbaugh was married to Miss Ida Kitzmiller, of Philadelphia, a native of Pine Grove, on November 20, 1873, and on that date this year the venerable couple would have celebrated their fifty-third wedding anniversary.
WROTE NUMEROUS BOOKS
In addition to his duties at the college, Doctor Breindenbaugh found time to write considerably on the subject closest to his heart, and to his credit are books on chemistry which are extensively used in colleges and universities throughout the country. Some of his better known works were are "Lecture Notes on Inorganic Chemistry," "Mineralogy of the Farm," "Directory in Elementary Chemistry," "Course in Qualitative Analysis," "Syllabus of Lectures on geology." He also was a contributor to many magazines and papers on scientific subjects.
He was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity and a member of the Phil Gamma Delta national.
Some years ago, he was a mineralogist for the state department of agriculture, and did work in chemistry for the Gettysburg Gas Company.
Doctor Breidenbaugh is survived by his widow, two daughters, mrs. Edna B. Zane, at home, and Mrs. David C. Burnite, of Sharpsburg, this state, and by one sister, Mrs. William Shipman, Johnstown. Four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock from the Breidenbaugh residence. The Rev. Dr. A.E. Wagner, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, will officiate, assisted by Dr. Henry W.A. Hanson, president of Gettysburg College, and Dr. Albert Billheimer, who will speak on behalf of the faculty. Internment will be private in Evergreen cemetery.
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
September 6 1926
TRIBUTES PAID TO DR. BREIDENBAUGH
Work and Precepts Are Extolled by President Hanson and Dr. John B. Zinn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tributes to the life and work of Dr. Edward Swoyer Breindenbaugh, for more than fifty years head of the chemistry department at Gettysburg College, were paid today by Dr. Henry W.A. Hanson, president of the local institution of learning, and Dr. John B. Zinn. Doctor Breindenbaugh's active successor as head of the chemistry department.
College students and faculty mourn the passing of Doctor Breindenbaugh, Doctor hanson said in eulogizing the departed professor. Doctor Hanson's tribute follows:
"Doctor Edward S. Breindenbaugh became a member of the faculty of Gettysburg College in September 1874. He came possessed of a rare ability and great enthusiasm. All the promise of his youth was more than realized in the fifty years of his active service as the head of the departmen of chemistry of Gettysburg College.
"If I were asked to mention a particular talent which Doctor Breidenbaugh possessed to a rare degree, I would mention his ability to kindle in his students an enthusiastic devotion to his department.
"During his fifty years of his service, men have gone from the halls of Gettysburg College to occupy some of the most important positions in the field of chemistry.
"The college mourns the passing of a stalwart figure who has endeared himself to a long line of alumni. The students mourn the death of a beloved preceptor. The faculty mourns the passing of a highly esteemed comrade. In paying my tribute of affection and respect for Doctor Edward S. Breindenbaugh, I mourn the departure of a colleague and devoted friend."
Dr. John B. Zinn, of Gettysburg, who studied under Doctor Breindenbaugh, and who succeeded the veteran teacher as head of the chemistry department at Gettysburg College, paid the following tribute to the dead scientist.
"Gettysburg College and the Chemical profession lost one of their eminent teachers Sunday morning when Prof. E.S. Breidenbaugh died. he was a man in every sense of the word, well loved by all of his students and his influence on the large number of boys and girls who attended his clases is inestimable. His great success as a teacher was due in a large measure to his pleasing personality and his ability to understand young people.
"Coming to Gettysburg at a time when chemistry was a rather unimportant subject, he had the pleasant experience of seeing the department of which he was the head gradually extended until at the time of his retirement two years ago, it was one of the strongest departments in the college.
"The success of Dr. Breindenbaugh as a teacher is substantiated by the large number of men and women who have gone out from under his influence into positions of prominence in the nation."
The Gettysburg Times
{Gettysburg, Pennsylvania}
September 6 1926
