- LUDWIG KUMLIEN, M.S., Professor of Physics and Biology at
Milton College, Milton, Rock
- County, inherited his taste for science. He was born in
Jefferson County, Wis., March 15, 1854, one of the five children
of Thure Theodore Ludwig and Marguerita (WALLBERG) KUMLIEN, natives
of Sweden near Upsala. Of this family, three sons and two daughters,
only two now survive, Prof. KUMLEN and his brother Theodore,
the latter occupying the old homestead in Jefferson County.
The father, Thure Theodore Ludwig KUMLIEN, was a naturalist and
teacher in Sweden, his native land, and in 1842 emigrated to
America, settling on a farm in Jefferson County, Wis., near Sumner,
where he reared his family. He was for a number of years conservator
in the public museum in Milwaukee, making his home all the time
in Jefferson County, where he died in 1888, aged sixty-nine years.
His wife died in 1874. Both were Lutherans in religious faith.
- Ludwig KUMLIEN, the grandfather of our subject, was army
quartermaster in Sweden and died
- there at an advanced age. He was the owner of several large
estates, and was widely known. His family comprised sixteen
children. The maternal grandfather of our subject, Mr. WALLBERG,
was a trainer of government cavalry horses in Sweden, in that
capacity controlling a number of men. His family consisted of
eleven children. He lived to exceed the age of eighty years.
- The boyhood of our subject was spent on the farm in Jefferson
County. Entering Albion academy
- as a student, he graduated at the age of nineteen, in 1873.
He was then for three years a special student in the scientific
course at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, completing his
studies in 1877. Immediately after he left school, Mr. KUMLIEN
joined the polar expedition under Capt. Howgate, as naturalist,
and in the Northern seas rendered valuable service to the cause
of science. His career since then has been one of active devotion
to scientific pursuits. He was assistant to the United States
Fish Commission and Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,
making for the former investigations on artificial propagation
of food fishes, and for the latter extensive scientific collections
in the various Western and Northwestern localities of North America,
and also in the Northern seas, 1877-78. He has been a member
of the American Ornithological Union since 1875. He was instructor
at Albion Academy from 1889 to 1891, and in the latter year became
professor of physics, natural history and physiology at Milton
College, with the Faculty of which institute he has since been
prominently identified. He has made various contributions to
science. He was a contributor to "North American Birds,"
by Baird, Brewer and Ridgeway, in 1874, and to "Water Birds,"
by the same, in 1877-78; has been a contributor to ornithological
and zoological publications since 1876; is the author of "Contributions
to the Natural History of Arctic America.," Bulletin No.
15, United States National Museum, 1879; was special agent, Tenth
census, United States, on Fisheries of the Great Lakes, and of
Narragansett and Buzzard's Bays, 1879-81. He contributed "Life
History of North Atlantic Seals," to Prof. A. J. Allen's
"Monograph of North American Pinnipedia," in 1880;
and was associate author "North American Food Fishes,"
National Museum, 1881-83. He contributed many scientific papers
in reports of the United States Fish Commission and Smithsonian
Institution Bulletins of National Museum, 1876-83; also in the
publications entitled "The Auk," "The Nidologist,"
"The Osprey," and "Forest and Stream," since
1876. He is the author of Special Census Reports of Fisheries
of the Great Lakes, 1883, and was Determining Collector for the
Milwaukee Public Museum in 1886. He was a contributor to "Birds
of Michigan" in 1893, and has prepared scientific collections
for State Normal schools of Wisconsin and other institutions
since 1895.
- Prof. KUMLIEN married a Miss CARR, and they have three children,
Ludwig Baird Carr,
- Lawrence Lorraine and Alice Lenore.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, pp. 89-90.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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