 Complete the following phrase:  Droppers was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to John and Gertrude Droppers on April 12, 1860. He first married Cora Rand, who died in 1896, and later married Jean Tewkesbury Rand in 1897. From 1898 to 1906, he served as President of the University of South Dakota. In 1912, he was a delegate to the 