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OTTO FOLIN SERVICES WILL BE HELD MONDAY

Professor of Biological Chemistry in Medical School for Many Years; Known for Chemical Analysis

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Funeral services will be held in Appleton Chapel at 10 o'clock on Monday for Otto K. O. Folin, for years Hamilton Kahn Professor of Biological Chemistry, and a man well-known all over the world for his ingenious methods of chemical analysis.

Coming across from Scandinavia at 13 years of age, he went to work on his uncle's farm in Minnesota. He accumulated the equivalent of a high school education by himself, and then went ahead to master the English language in a short time. So thoroughly did he master it that he became editor of the college daily while at the University of Minnesota, from which he graduated in 1892. His four years at Minnesota were financed entirely by his own savings.

Later he continued his studies in both the United States and Europe, he received other degrees and a professorship at the University of West Virginia. In 1907 he came to the Harvard Medical School.

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