Charles R. Richards

(1871-1941) lived in Lincoln. Mechanical engineer, educator, administrator, as president of Lehigh University from 1922 to 1935, he instituted much reorganization and development in research and engineering, curriculum and administration, and caused a doubling of the growth of its endowment; previously he taught for 30 years, serving as dean of engineering, and while at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln he designed and organized in 1909 the first agricultural engineering laboratory in the nation; recipient of honorary degrees from five universities, and building on UNL campus named after him. Consult UNL The University Journal, January 1910, pp. 82-85 and New York Times obituary, April 18, 1941, p. 21 and Who Was Who in America, Vol 1 (1942) 1028 and National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol 32 (1945) 70-71.

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