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Harry Patterson papers

1886-1945 (majority 1890-1971)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1272

Harry J. Patterson was associated with the University of Maryland for fifty years, from 1888 to 1937. He arrived as part of the staff of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station and made significant contributions to agriculture in the state of Maryland. Patterson was instrumental in raising awareness throughout the state of the value of research in agriculture for the improvement of the state's economy and tax base. And, through his work on the applications of chemistry to farming, new varieties of tobacco and strawberries were developed. Patterson's most enduring contributions to the state, however, were made between 1913 and 1917 when he served as president of the University of Maryland. In those four years Patterson undertook the rebuilding of the campus after a fire in 1912 and launched the University on a course of expansion, preparing the campus for a shift in status from a small college to a large, public, and modern university. Patterson's papers consist of correspondence; speeches; rosters; and lecture, experiment, and chemical notes.

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Patterson, H. J. (Harry Jacob)

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Patterson, Harry J.

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Harry Jacob Patterson was born on December 17, 1866 in Yellow Springs, Pennsylvania, the son of William Calvin and Adaline (Mattern) Patterson. When he was three years old, his family moved to State College, Pennsylvania. There his father began 40 years of work as the superintendent of farms and buildings for Pennsylvania State College. Patterson entered Pennsylvania State College at the age of sixteen. There he studied chemistry, especially its relation to agriculture, ...

Pollock, George Freeman, 1869-1949

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The Agricultural Experiment Station was established in College Park, Maryland in 1888 as a combined state agency, stockholder institution, and Maryland Agricultural College department. The 1887 Hatch Act provided $15,000 per year for an experiment station at all land grant institutions, and the college contributed the college farm and the Rossborough Inn. The purpose of experiment stations was to use the resources of science to improve the practice and profitability of a...

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Okie, John M.

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John M. Okie (retired from the real estate department of Girard Trust) became a member of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture in 1916, and served as the Assistant Secretary of the Society from 1922 to 1938. He was awarded the Society's medal in 1935, at the 150th anniversary of P.S.P.A. He was very active in the affairs of the society, and initiated projects to restore the gravestones of Elizabeth and John Beale Bordley, to donate a plaque commemorating University of Delaware Prof...

Reisner, John H. (John Henry), 1888-1965

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Byrd, Harry Clifton, 1889-1970

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Harry Byrd was president of the University of Maryland from 1935 to 1954. He also served the university as an instructor in history and English and as its football coach. Byrd also maintained an active interest in environmental affairs, chairing the Tidewater Fisheries Commission and aiding the revitalization of the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay. From the description of Papers of Harry Clifton Byrd, 1895-1970. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat r...

Patterson, H. J. (Harry Jacob), 1866-1948

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Agricultural chemist, director of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, and president of the University of Maryland. From the description of Papers of Harry J. Patterson, 1886-1945. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 20484495 ...

Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture

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On 11 February 1785 John Beale Bordley and twenty-two other Philadelphians formed the Society for "promoting a greater increase of the products of land within the United States," confining their attention to agriculture and rural affairs. From the description of Circular letter to establish experimental farm, 1818 November 28. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 32829655 Established in 1785 to encourage new developments on agricultural practice and...

Symons, Thomas B. (Thomas Baddeley), 1880-

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Thomas B. Symons was director of the Cooperative Extension Service from 1914 to 1950 and dean of the College of Agriculture at the University of Maryland from 1937 to 1950. Symons, a 1902 graduate of the university, served as acting president of the university in 1954, and as a member of the Board of Regents. He worked as director of public relations at the Suburban Trust Company and was active in the Grange, 4-H, the State Soil Conservation Committee, the Alumni Associa...

Pollock, George F.

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