School of Agriculture records, 1854-1961.

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School of Agriculture records, 1854-1961.

The School of Agriculture records consist of correspondence, scrapbooks, student lists, service records of school faculty members, statistics, committee materials, meeting minutes, club record books, materials relating to school activities including livestock judging, cultural programming and sporting events, records of student projects and yearbooks from the School of Agriculture at the University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus, also known as University Farm.

30 boxes (31.0 cubic feet)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8032148

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Pendergast, William Wirt, 1833-1903

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William Wirt Pendergast was born in New England in 1833. After attending Bowdoin College in Maine, he joined with the Hutchinson brothers to plat a town in Minnesota Territory by the same name. Pendergast returned to Massachusetts sometime before the end of the Civil War where he married Abigail Cogswell. The couple had a son, Edward, in 1864 and two years later returned to Hutchinson, Minnesota where William began a career in education. William eventually became the first principal of the Unive...

University of Minnesota. School of Agriculture

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The School of Agriculture opened on October 18, 1888, on the University Farm in St. Paul, with 17 students registered for the fall term. The School's administrative home was the College of Agriculture, and the School would remain a part of the College's administrative structure throughout its existence. Additional branches of the School of Agriculture were opened in Crookston (1906), Morris (1909), Grand Rapids (1921), and Waseca (1952). At their meeting on May 12, 1960, the Board of Regents, on...

University of Minnesota., Agricultural Experiment Station

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Brewster, Henry Webb.

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