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Fraser, a native of Scotland, had been educated at the University of Aberdeen, "being especially versed in mathematics, Latin and Greek. After teaching some years in Bermuda and in New York, he became professor of mathematics in Jefferson College (Pennsylvania).... He served three years (1862-65) in the Union army, retiring at the close of the war as a brevet brigadier-general." President Allen appointed him a professor of mathematics in July 1865, and "he promptly became an outstanding member of the faculty bent upon promoting a vigorous campaign of reform." (After he left Penn State, Fraser became chancellor of the University of Kansas, then superintendent of public instruction in that state. Then he became professor at the Western University of Pennsylvania, where he died in 1878.)