Agricultural education papers, 1904.

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Agricultural education papers, 1904.

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The papers consist primarily of letters in answer to Ralph Kneeland Jones's request for information about the history of agricultural education. Included are a list of trustees and dates when they were appointed [institution unknown] and a copy of pages 211-212 of "An agricultural seminary at Derby" from Orcutt & Beardsley's History of the old town of Derby, Conn. published in Springfield, Mass. in 1880. Correspondents include G.S. Yold, Wm. H. Brewer, Thomas F. Hunt, L.H. Bailey, and A.C. True.

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Hunt, Thomas Forsyth, 1862-1927

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Thomas Forsyth Hunt was born in Ridott, Illinois in 1862. He received his B.A. (1884), M.A. (1892), and Ph.D. (1903) in Agriculture from the University of Illinois. He began his career in 1885 as an assistant to the state entomologist of Illinois. He then served as Assistant Professor of Agriculture at the University of Illinois (1886-1891); Professor of Agriculture at Pennsylvania State College; Professor of Agriculture and Dean of the College of Agriculture and Domestic Science at Ohio State U...

True, Alfred Charles, 1853-1929

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Holbrook, Josiah, 1788-1854

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Brewer, William Henry, 1828-1910

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Brewer went to Yale in 1848 to study soil analysis with J.P. Norton. He left to teach for two years, retuned and got his Ph. D. from the Sheffield Scientific School in 1852. After Yale he went to study in Heidelberg, Munich and Paris. In 1858 he was made professor of chemistry and geology at Washington College in Pennsylvania. From 1860-1864 Brewer was first assistant on the Geological Survey of California and undertook extensive botanical surveys of areas that were still largely unexplored. In ...

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, ...

Jones, Ralph Kneeland, 1866-1917.

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Ralph Kneeland Jones Jr. was born in Bangor, Maine, Aug. 8, 1866, the son of Dr. Ralph Kneeland and Octavia Norris Jones. He was educated in the public schools of Bangor, entered Maine State College in the fall of 1883, graduating in the class of 1886, with the degree of Bachelor of Science from the course in chemistry. He was student assistant in the library for two years, one of the editors of the year book for two years, a founder and an editor of the Campus. After graduation he was for four ...