Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture records, 1785-1982.

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Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture records, 1785-1982.

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Collection is divided into three major series: I. 18th and 19th century records, II. 20th century records, and III. John M. Okie papers. The first comprises correspondence, administrative records, and ephemera; the second, correspondence, committee records, financial records, proceedings, memorabilia, and collected agricultural material; the third consists of the papers of Okie, who served as assistant secretary of the Society from 1922 to 1928: he was responsible for the publication of Memoirs VI, a history of the P.S.P.A.

103 boxes.

University of Pennsylvania Library

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University of Pennsylvania Library

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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...

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...