Hugh H. Bennett Papers, . 1923-1956

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Hugh H. Bennett Papers, . 1923-1956

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Hugh H. (Hugh Hammond) Bennett (1881-1960), a native of Wadesboro, N.C., was a soil scientist and conservationist with the United States Department of Agriculture, 1903-1951. This collection contains professional correspondence and other materials of Bennett, concerning soil conservation surveys and projects in the western United States, Latin America, South Africa, and the West Indies; the Association of American Geographers, 1943-1945; and Bennett's writings. Also included are a diary, 1949, of a conservation survey trip to France, Italy, Tunisia, and Algeria; technical articles; biographical data; photographs; and clippings covering Bennett's life and work, 1935-1955, Included are four scrapbooks, of which Volume 3 concerns Bennett's trip to South Africa, and Volume 4 contains clippings concerning in Anson County, N.C. Hugh Bennett Day

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Bennett, Hugh H. (Hugh Hammond), 1881-1960

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Hugh Hammond Bennett (1881-1960) was born on April 15, 1881, near Wadesboro, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1903, with a degree in chemistry. He began his career as a soil surveyor for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). As he conducted soil surveys and investigated declining crop yields, he became convinced that soil erosion was a problem not just for farmers but also for rural economies. By 1909, he was supervising soil surveys in the southern Unit...