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Joseph Henry Wythe
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provide for his family necessities which were frequently not to be purchased, and to obtain mastery over nature, so the intellectual worker under pioneer conditions could not refuse the variegated demands made upon him.
In addition to the foreign honors already mentioned Wythe was invited by the Government Board of Health of Hawaii, in 1874, to inspect the leper colony at Molokai, H. I., in company with the king and queen. He also received several honorary degrees from American colleges, and was for several years a trustee of Mills College, California.
All honor to the men who began the work we are privileged to carry on, and to build into a noble edifice, worthy of the aspirations and faith of those whom we succeed.