Life and Times of Judge Thomas Cooper, Jurist, Scientist, Educator, Author, Publicist;
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Address at the Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Epsilon Chapter of the Phi Kappa SIGMA Fraternity: June 7, 1904 (Classic Reprint)
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Charles Francis Himes was an American educator and scientist. He served as a professor of mathematics and natural sciences at the Wyoming Conference Academy, professor of mathematics at Troy University, and professor of natural science at Dickinson College.
Background
Charles Francis Himes was born on June 2, 1838 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. His paternal ancestor, William Heim, came to America from the German Palatinate, arriving in Philadelphia, August 29, 1730. His maternal ancestor, Jacob Lanius, also from the Palatinate, came to Philadelphia, September 11, 1731. His father was William D. Himes, born in New Oxford, Adams County, Pennsylvania, in 1812; and his mother, Magdalen, a daughter of Christian and Ann Lanius of York County, Pennsylvania. When Charles Francis was still a small boy his parents moved to New Oxford.
Education
In Oxford Himes attended an academy conducted by Doctor M. D. G. Pfeiffer. He entered Dickinson College as a sophomore in the spring of 1853 and was graduated in June 1855 at the age of seventeen.
Career
After graduation Himes was instructor for a year in mathematics and natural sciences at the Wyoming Conference Academy, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, and the following year he taught in the public schools of Missouri. Following a short period of teaching at the Baltimore Female College, in 1860, when only twenty-two years old, he was appointed professor of mathematics at Troy University, Troy, New York. Here he remained until 1863 when he went to Germany, where he attended the University of Giessen.
Returning to America in 1865, he was elected to the chair of natural science at Dickinson College, and remained with the college for thirty-one years. In 1885 the natural-science department was divided and he was made professor of physics. After the resignation of President James A. Macauley in 1888 he served as acting president for one year. He was a teacher of exceptional force and originality: his lectures were clear and logical; and he kept well abreast of the science of his day. In 1865 he started elective laboratory courses at Dickinson, which was one of the first colleges to offer such courses. He made a special study of photography and became a leading authority on certain branches of that science.
In 1869 he was appointed on the United States government expedition to observe at Ottumwa, Iowa, the total eclipse of the sun. His official report appeared in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, October 1869; and in addition he published Some of the Methods and Results of Observation of the Total Eclipse of the Sun, August 7th, 1869 (1869). From 1872 to 1879 he was associated with Spencer Fullerton Baird of the Smithsonian Institution in the preparation of the Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-1878. In 1884 he organized at Mountain Lake Park, Maryland, the first summer school of photography.
He published many articles of scientific and pedagogical interest, among which are "On the Convergence of the Optic Axes in Binocular Vision" (American Journal of Photography, September 1862); "Discussion of the Phenomenon of the Horizontal Moon by Aid of the Stereoscope" (British Journal of Photography, September 30, 1864); "Actinism" (Journal of the Franklin Institute, May 1885); and other works. He also published Heinrich Will's Tables for Qualitative Chemical Analysis, translated and enlarged, in 1867; A Sketch of Dickinson College (1879); The True John Dickinson (1912); Colonel Robert Magaw, the Defender of Fort Washington (1915); and Life and Times of Judge Thomas Cooper (1918).
His death occurred in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
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Membership
Himes was a member of the Hamilton Library Association and the Cumberland County Historical Society in Carlisle, serving as president for a time. He was an honorary member of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, lecturing there on a regular basis, and was also a member of the American Philosophical Society and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At Dickinson College Himes was active in the affairs of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, of which he was one of the founders.
Connections
On January 2, 1868, Himes married Mary Elizabeth Murray, and two daughters were born to them.