Atwater
WILBER OLIN, an American chemist, born in Johnsburg, N. Y., May 3, 1844; was graduated at Wesleyan University in 1865; made a special study of chemistry in the Shef- AUBURN field Scientific School of Yale and the Universities of Leipsic and Berlin; became Professor of Chemistry in East Tennessee University in 1873; was director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in 1875-1877, and was appointed director of the Storrs (Conn.) Experiment Station in 1887. He was connected for several years with the United States Department of Agriculture. He died in 1907.