Dept. of Plant Breeding records, 1906-1970.

United States. Department of Agriculture

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The United States Department of Agriculture was established in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln and was elevated to a Cabinet level organization by President Grover Cleveland in 1889. The Department of Agriculture assists farmers and producers of food as well as creating policies and programs related to food distribution and nutrition information. The United States Department of Agriculture controls a number of regional offices through out the continential United States and its territories....

Wiggans, Roy G.

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New York State College of Agriculture.

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The first Farmers' Week at the New York State College of Agriculture was held in 1908. Originally held in the month of February, the program included lectures, demonstrations, competitions and contests, roundtable discussions, conferences, laboratory practice courses, entertainments, and conventions. With the creation of the New York State College of Home Economics, a Home Maker's Conference was added in 1926, and in 1928, the event was retitled Farm and Home Week. The event was part of the exte...

Lewis, Robert D.

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Myers, William Irving, 1891-1976

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Business executive. From the description of Reminiscences of William I. Myers : oral history, 1975. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86131761 Dean, New York State College of Agriculture. William I. Myers, Cornell University Class of 1914, Ph.D. 1918, was born December 18, 1891 in New York City. After receiving his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1918, he taught farm finance and farm management at Cornell. He headed ...

Bussell, Frank P.

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Emerson, R. A. (Rollins Adams), 1873-1947

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Professor of plant breeding, New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Cornell University Class of 1899. From the description of R. A. Emerson papers, 1907-1925. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64073480 ...

Atwood, Sanford S.

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Cornell University

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Ladd, C. E. (Carl Edwin), 1888-1943

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Love, Harry H. (Harry Houser), 1880-1966

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Harry H. Love was a professor of Plant Breeding at Cornell University; department chairman, 1944-1949; special consultant in plant breeding, University of Nanking, 1925, 1929; advisor in agriculture and crop improvement to the Chinese Ministry of Industries and special lecturer at the University of Nanking and the Central University, 1931-1934; advisor at the agricultural experiment station, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, 1939, 1940; member of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstructio...

New York State College of Agriculture.Dept. of Plant Breeding.

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New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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In 2004, CALS celebrated the 100th anniversary of the passage of the New York State legislation founding the college. From the description of New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, CALS Centennial Celebration Collection 2004-2005. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64057057 The "Dean's Hat" is a silk top hat handed down to new deans of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. From the description of Coll...

Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954.

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Liberty Hyde Bailey was instrumental in separating Horticulture from Botany and establishing it as a distinct scientific pursuit. Born on a farm in Michigan in 1858, Liberty Hyde Bailey graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College with a degree in botany. After working with the renowned botanist Asa Gray at Harvard, he returned to Michigan to teach horticulture and landscape gardening. In 1888, he came to Cornell to build a new curriculum in practical and experimental horticulture. In 1904, ...

Myers, Clyde Hadley, 1883-1944

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Mann, Albert Russell, 1880-1947

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Cornell University Class of 1904; assistant professor of dairy industry, secretary to the director, professor of agricultural editing, acting dean, and dean of the New York State College of Agriculture, 1917-1931. From the description of Albert R. Mann papers, 1916-1931. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63537802 ...

Murphy, Royse P. (Royse Peak), 1914-

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