William Henry Brewer papers, 1852-1909.

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William Henry Brewer papers, 1852-1909.

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Correspondence with prominent men in the field of agricultural education, concerning the beginnings of agricultural education in the United States, the life of Amos Brown, Brown's lobbying efforts on behalf of the Morrill land grant bill and his employment by Ezra Cornell to obtain a land grant for Cornell University; Brewer's notes, a text of an undelivered speech, and other manuscript items. Correspondents include George Washington Atherton, Wilbur Olin Atwater, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Amos Brown, Samuel Cheever, John White Chickering, Marsena Rudolph Patrick, and Diedrick Willers. Locations include Erie, Schuyler, Seneca and Tompkins Counties.

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Atwater, W. O. (Wilbur Olin), 1844-1907

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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, ...

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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 ...