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Dr. David Starr Jordan BARNEY MULLINS AND DAVID STARR JORDAN “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project David Starr Jordan HDT WHAT? INDEX DAVID STARR JORDAN BARNEY MULLINS 1851 January 19, Sunday: David Starr Jordan was born. NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT David Starr Jordan “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX BARNEY MULLINS DAVID STARR JORDAN 1872 June: Professor Asa Gray went to California, where among other things he would meet John Muir and tour Yosemite. David Starr Jordan graduated in the initial graduating class of Cornell University, his degree in Botany (Professor Agassiz would inspire him to change over to Ichthyology). LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project David Starr Jordan HDT WHAT? INDEX DAVID STARR JORDAN BARNEY MULLINS 1885 David Starr Jordan became the nation’s most youthful university president when, at the age of 34, he was appointed to head Indiana University (he would be the first president of this institution who was not a reverend). DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. David Starr Jordan “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX BARNEY MULLINS DAVID STARR JORDAN 1887 April 9, Saturday: From an essay “Thoreau and John Brown” by David Starr Jordan on pages 453-457 of The Current (Volume VII, No. 173) published by Edgar L. Wakeman: ...Two sorts of people read Thoreau, his admirers and his critics. To the one class he is the prophet of the fields and woods, the interpreter of nature, and his every word has to them the deepest significance.... They resent all criticism of his life or his words. They are impatient of all analysis of his methods or of his motives, and a word of praise of him is the surest passport to their good graces. The critics miss the inner harmony which Thoreau’s admirers see, and discern only queer paradoxes and extravagances of statement where the others hear the voice of Nature’s oracle. With most literary men, the power or disposition of those who HDT WHAT? INDEX DAVID STARR JORDAN BARNEY MULLINS know or understand their writings is in some degree a matter of literary culture. It is hardly so in the case of Thoreau. The most illiterate man I ever saw, who had ever heard of Thoreau, Mr. Barney Mullins, of Freedom Centre, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, was a most ardent admirer of Thoreau, while the most eminent critic in America, James Russell Lowell, I think, does him scant justice. To Lowell, the finest thoughts of Thoreau are but strawberries from Emerson’s garden, and other critics have followed back these same strawberries through Emerson to still older gardens, among them that of Sir Thomas Browne. But, setting the critics aside, let me tell you about Barney Mullins: Twelve years ago I lived for a year in the northern part of Wisconsin. The snow is very deep in the winter there, and once I accepted a chance to ride into town through the snowbanks on a sled drawn by two oxen and driven by Barney Mullins. Barney was a genuine bog-trotter from the banks of Killarney, and he could scarcely be said to speak the English language. He told me that before he came to Freedom Centre he had lived in a town called Concord, in Massachusetts. I asked him if he had happened to know a man there by the name of Henry Thoreau? He at once grew enthusiastic, and he said, among other things: “Mr. Thoreau was a land surveyor in Concord. I knew him well. He had a way of his own, and he didn’t care naught about money, but if there was ever a gentleman alive, he was one.” Barney seemed much saddened when I told him that Mr. Thoreau had been dead a dozen years, and, on parting, he asked me to come out some time to Freedom Centre, and to spend a night with him. He hadn’t much of a room to offer me, but there was always a place in his house for a friend of Mr. Thoreau. Such is the feeling of this guild of lovers of Thoreau, and some of you may sometime come to belong to it.... DAVID STARR JORDAN THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project David Starr Jordan HDT WHAT? INDEX BARNEY MULLINS DAVID STARR JORDAN 1891 March: Dr. David Starr Jordan was approached by railroad magnate Amasa Leland Stanford and his wife Jane Elizabeth Lathrop Stanford, while they were traveling through Indiana, and offered the presidency of a new university they were scheming to set up in Palo Alto, California, that they were intending to name in honor of their deceased child Leland Stanford, Junior. His name had been suggested by Andrew White, president of Cornell University. He accepted on the spot. THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project David Starr Jordan HDT WHAT? INDEX DAVID STARR JORDAN BARNEY MULLINS 1892 March: Dr. David S. Jordan delivered an address “The Last of the Puritans” before the California State Normal School at San Jose part of which was printed as “Thoreau and John Brown” on pages 235-242 of The Pacific Coast Teacher (Vol. 1, No. 6): ...Two sorts of people read Thoreau, his admirers and his critics. To the one class he is the prophet of the fields and woods, the interpreter of nature, and his every word has to them the deepest significance.... They resent all criticism of his life or his words. They are impatient of all analysis of his methods or of his motives, and a word of praise of him is the surest passport to their good graces. The critics miss the inner harmony which Thoreau’s admirers see, and discern only queer paradoxes and extravagances of statement where the others hear the voice of Nature’s oracle. With most literary men, the power or disposition of those who know or understand their writings is in some degree a matter of literary culture. It is hardly so in the case of Thoreau. The most illiterate man I ever saw, who had ever heard of Thoreau, Mr. Barney Mullins, of Freedom Centre, Outagamie HDT WHAT? INDEX BARNEY MULLINS DAVID STARR JORDAN County, Wisconsin, was a most ardent admirer of Thoreau, while the most eminent critic in America, James Russell Lowell, I think, does him scant justice. To Lowell, the finest thoughts of Thoreau are but strawberries from Emerson’s garden, and other critics have followed back these same strawberries through Emerson to still older gardens, among them that of Sir Thomas Browne. But, setting the critics aside, let me tell you about Barney Mullins: Twelve years ago I lived for a year in the northern part of Wisconsin. The snow is very deep in the winter there, and once I accepted a chance to ride into town through the snowbanks on a sled drawn by two oxen and driven by Barney Mullins. Barney was a genuine bog-trotter from the banks of Killarney, and he could scarcely be said to speak the English language. He told me that before he came to Freedom Centre he had lived in a town called Concord, in Massachusetts. I asked him if he had happened to know a man there by the name of Henry Thoreau? He at once grew enthusiastic, and he said, among other things: “Mr. Thoreau was a land surveyor in Concord. I knew him well. He had a way of his own, and he didn’t care naught about money, but if there was ever a gentleman alive, he was one.” Barney seemed much saddened when I told him that Mr. Thoreau had been dead a dozen years, and, on parting, he asked me to come out some time to Freedom Centre, and to spend a night with him. He hadn’t much of a room to offer me, but there was always a place in his house for a friend of Mr. Thoreau. Such is the feeling of this guild of lovers of Thoreau, and some of you may sometime come to belong to it.... DR. DAVID S. JORDAN CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT David Starr Jordan “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX DAVID STARR JORDAN BARNEY MULLINS 1897 August: Dr. David Starr Jordan, President of Leland Stanford Junior University: “Evolution: What it is and What it is Not,” in The Arena (Vol. XVIII, No. 93, pages 146-159). EVOLUTION, IS AND IS NOT HDT WHAT? INDEX BARNEY MULLINS DAVID STARR JORDAN 1899 Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s CONTEMPORARIES, consisting of thumbnail sketches of his fellow Transcendentalists, abolitionists, etc. He and another fellow co-founded an association to be known as the Anti-Imperialist League, as a protest against the manner in which the US military forces were suppressing the Philippine independence movement. In California, a granite marker was placed at the mountain gravesite of Owen Brown: Owen Brown, Son of John Brown, the Liberator, died Jan. 9, 1889 The 1st doctoral dissertation on Henry Thoreau. According to David Starr Jordan’s “The Last of the Puritans,” an address delivered during 1892 before the California State Normal School at San Jose and published in this year in IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY (NY: Appleton, page 280), Barney Mullins of Concord had informed him that: ...To Thoreau’s admirers, he is the prophet of the fields and woods, the interpreter of nature, and his every word has to them the deepest significance...
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