Frank Stewart Kedzie
Biography
Text Transcribed from 1900 "Wolverine," the MAC Yearbook, [MSU Library LD3245.M47 W6 1900].
Adjunct Professor of Chemistry, is the oldest faculty urchin on the campus. He takes pride in this fact; and well he might, for he is acquainted with more Michigan Agricultural College graduates than any other living person. He came here with his father, Dr. R. C. Kedzie, in 1863, and has lived here ever since. Professor Kedzie was born in Vermontville, Mich., May 12, 1857. He received his early education from the common school, a private school, and the Agricultural College, Michigan, graduating from the latter at the age of twenty. On graduating he secured a position as corresponding clerk to Dr. H. B. Baker, Secretary of the State Board of Health. This position he held for one year, when he relinquished it to pursue the study of medicine, which he also dropped after a year's study to accept a position as assistant chemist at the Michigan Agricultural College. This position he filled with success, received his degree of M. S. in two years, was appointed Assistant Professor in 1887, and Adjunct Professor in 1890. Since receiving his present position he has made two trips to Europe in the interests of his profession, one in 1890-1891, during which time he studied at the University of Berlin, under Prof. A. W. Von Hoffmann, and the other in 1898, when he took work in a Berlin Laboratory, and looked up the beet sugar industry in Germany.