John Houston Squires

(1882-1934)

Class of 1905

Master of Science 1906

A distinguished scientist, John H. Squires had a brilliant career as a chemist with E.I. DuPont de Nemours, GM Corporation, and American Cyanamid. He also taught at a college and was instrumental in reorganizing and ...

Jungle on a Seabed

A jungle grew here. Before that, a shallow sea covered the land. Both are gone now, but both left evidence of their passing.

The sea's signature is ammonites, baculites, and clams, pearly fossils entombed in a fossil mud called the Pierre ...

John McLaren McBryde

(1841-1923)

President 1891-1907

Known as the “Father of VPI,” John McLaren McBryde laid the foundation for modern Virginia Tech. He increased bachelor's degree offerings, added graduate programs, created an infirmary, and christened the motto Ut Prosim. The first president to encourage formation ...

The House of John H. Stevens

The US Post Office stands on the site of the first permanent dwelling in what is now Minneapolis. The land was part of the Fort Snelling Military Reservation in 1849, but the army allowed John H. Stevens to build a ...

Nation's First Watershed Project

This point is near the center of the 90,000 acre Coon Creek Watershed, the nation's first large-scale demonstration of soil and water conservation. The area was selected for this purpose by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service (then Soil Erosion Service) ...

St. John Lutheran Church

St. John Lutheran Church dates to 1917, when area Lutherans joined with the Rev. Arthur E. Hartmann, pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church (Taylor), to organize a new congregation. Members met in the public school and in homes until constructing ...

James S. Scott

James S. Scott, composer of about 30 Ragtime pieces, was born in Neosho February 12, 1886. He was one of the greatest Ragtime composers of all time. Among his best known compositions are “Frog Legs Rag,” “Kansas City Rag,” “The ...

Herman Jaeger

Herman Jaeger, a Swiss immigrant, settled six miles east of Neosho in 1865 and started a vineyard. He located superior wild grapes in the area. Some of these local disease resistant varieties he sent to France in the 1870’s. They ...

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

1759–1805

Classical German Poet of Enlightenment

Dramatist, Philosopher, and Historian

Rededicated July 4, 1991

The United German Singing Societies of Central Ohio

Columbus Maennerchor & Damenchor •

Columbus Sachsenchor

Newark Maennerchor & Damenchor •

Germania Maennerchor & Damenchor

Helvetia Maennerchor & Edelweiss Damenchor •

Harmony Glee Club

The ...

John G. Matthews

Tennessee native John Giles Matthews came to Texas with his parents in 1839 and settled in the new town of Austin. A Ranger for the Republic of Texas, Matthews served in the Mexican War and the Civil War before moving ...