Bruce Lineburg taught Biology at Lake Forest College from 1924-1954 and served as the Department Chair towards the end of his career.
Lineburg received his B.A. from Ohio University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He published several articles from 1923-1925 on the honey bee and co-authored "A Laboratory Manual for General Biology."
Prior to working at Lake Forest College, he was principal of Webster, Pennsylvania Public Schools and of West Lafayette Ohio High School, as well as superintendent of the Monroe County, Ohio Public Schools. He also served as assistant beekeeper for the Bureau of Entomology in Washington, D.C.
Lineburg was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the American Society of Zoologists, the American Society of Parasitologists, and Sigma Xi.
Lucy Rumsey Holt was born in Chicago, Illinois to Israel and Mary Rumsey. She was married in 1895 to William Arthur Holt. The couple had four children, Jeanette, Alfred, Mary Eleanor and Donald.