Background
Roe, Edward Drake was born on January 4, 1859 in Elmira, New York, United States. Son of Edward Drake and Eleanor Jane (Frost) Roe.
Roe, Edward Drake was born on January 4, 1859 in Elmira, New York, United States. Son of Edward Drake and Eleanor Jane (Frost) Roe.
Bachelor of Arts, Syracuse University, 1880. Student Harvard Medical School, 1882. Bachelor of Arts, Harvard, 1885.
Harvard Graduate School, 1885-1886, 1888-1892, Master of Arts, 1886.
Scholarship in the Medical School, Thayer scholarship in the Graduate School. A founder and charter secretary Graduate Club of Harvard.
Studied University of Erlangen, 1897-1898, Doctor of Philosophy, magna cum laude, 1898.
Instructor mathematics, academic, Media, Pennsylvania, 1886-1888. Instructor same, pro tem., Harvard, 1890, Boston University, 1890-1892. Associate professor mathematics, Oberlin College, 1892-1899, Syracuse University, 1900-1901.
John Raymond French professor mathematics, Syracuse University, since 1901, and director of the observatory, since 1919, research professor, since 1925.
Traveled in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, 1897-1898, 1903, 04. Tour of German university and 3d International Congress of Mathematicians at Heidelberg, 1904.
Research associate Yerkes Observatory, summer of 1915. Erected private astronomical observatory, 1906, equipped with 6½ in. equatorial telescope, as part of residence in Syracuse.
Author of some 64 publications in mathematics and scientific journals, et cetera
Nephew of late Rear Admiral Francis Asbury Roe. Home: Syracuse, New New York
Married Harriet Adelaide Bridge (Gourley), March 15, 1890 (died 1898). Married second, Josephine Alberta Robinson, Master of Arts, February 1, 1911. Children: Eva Gourley (Mistress Edwin H. Gaggin), Edward Drake (deceased).