Agricultural Economics Department Records 1912-1949

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Agricultural Economics Department Records 1912-1949

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The Agricultural Economics Department Records are an extensive set of files consisting of correspondence, administration files, faculty files, and Fairway Farms Corporation records. The records span the years 1912-1949.

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MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections

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Starch, Elmer A., 1898-1982

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Montana State College. Dept. of Agriculture Economics.

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The roots of the Agricultural Economics Department at Montana State University reach back to the Farm Management program in 1913. Classes in the beginning stages were instructed by E. L Currier, whose main priority was teaching basic accounting principles to working farmers after these practices were found to be deficient. With the passage of the Purnell Act in 1925, the college was granted much needed funds to begin a curriculum focusing on the agricultural economics field. Directo...

Currier, E. L. (Edwin Lovejoy), b. 1887

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Wilson, M. L. (Milburn Lincoln), 1885-1969

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Professor of Agriculture at Montana State College. From the description of Papers, 1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155525246 Milburn Lincoln Wilson was born in Atlantic, Iowa on 23 October 1885, the son of John Wesley and Mary E. (Magee) Wilson. He received a B.S.A. from Iowa State College, Ames, in 1907 and his M.S. in agricultural economics and rural sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1920. He began his career as a farmer in 1907. He served as Ass...

Fairway Farms Corporation

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Renne, Roland Roger, 1905-

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Roland Roger Renne was born on 12 Dec. 1905 in Grenwich, N.J., the third of five children. Renne grew up helping his father farm and attended country schools. He applied for admission to Rutgers University and graduated with top honors in 1927. Renne went on to earn a PhD. in agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin in 1930. Following his graduation he joined the faculty of Montana State College in Bozeman as an assistant professor. In 1943 Renne became president of the college, a p...

Eckert, Robert S.

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Tootell, Robert B. (Robert Ballard), 1904-1971

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