Frank Soule, USMA 1866

 

Soule resigned in 1870 and was appointed to a professorship of mathematics, and in 1872 to the chair of engineering, at the University of California (founded 1868).

He induced his classmate Hiero B. Herr to come to Berkeley.

 

Publications:

The Annals Of San Francisco by Frank Soule, John H. Gihon, M.D. & James Nisbet, D. Appleton & Co. San Francisco, 1855.

References:

Moore, Calvin C., Mathematics at Berkeley: a history, Wellesley, Mass. : AK Peters, c2007.

Streett, William B., "Military enterprise and engineering education: The American experience," 19 page manuscript (I have a copy).

 

http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/explore/deans.html
Picture of Soule
 
www.physics.lehigh.edu/resources/history.pdf