Carl E., Ladd 1888-1943.

Carl Ladd received a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1915; was Director of the New York State School at Delhi, specializing in agricultural education; Extension Professor at Cornell, 1920-24; Director of Extension, 1924-32; and was Dean of the New York State College of Agriculture, New York State College of Home Economics, and Director of Experiment Stations, 1932-43. He was a member of the New York State Planning Council; Secretary of the Governor's Agricultural Advisory Commission; and a member of the Executive Committee, Association of Land-Grant Colleges and State Universities.

Carl Edwin Ladd was born 25 Feb. 1888 in McLean, Tompkins County, New York, at the farm of his parents, Arnold D. and Mary E. (Mineah) Ladd; he was their second son and the youngest of three children. Both parents were natives of Tompkins County; his father was descended from Daniel Ladd, who came from England to Massachusetts in 1634. Carl attended local schools and at fifteen entered the nearby Cortland (N.Y.) Normal School, from which he graduated in 1907. After a year as school principal in South Otselic, N.Y., he enrolled in the College of Agriculture at Cornell University. He received a B.S. degree in 1912 but stayed on for graduate study in the department of farm management, specializing in cost accounting under the direction of Prof. George F. Warren, whose economic ides he was to share, during the agricultural crisis of the early 1930s. He received the Ph.D. in 1915.

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