Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State / / Roger L. Williams.
Frederick Watts came to prominence during the nineteenth century as a lawyer and a railroad company president, but his true interests lay in agricultural improvement and in raising the economic, social, and political standing of Pennsylvania’s farmers. After being elected founding president of The P...
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Williams, Roger L., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State / Roger L. Williams. University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (264 p.) : 26 illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue and Acknowledgments -- 1 Frederick Watts’s First Fifty Years -- 2 The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society -- 3 Chartering and Locating the New School -- 4 Building the School and Preparing to Open -- 5 The Presidency of Evan Pugh -- 6 Watts and the College After Pugh -- 7 Final Years with the College and the Aftermath -- 8 U.S. Commissioner of Agriculture -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Frederick Watts came to prominence during the nineteenth century as a lawyer and a railroad company president, but his true interests lay in agricultural improvement and in raising the economic, social, and political standing of Pennsylvania’s farmers. After being elected founding president of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society in 1851, he used his position to advocate vigorously for the establishment of an agricultural college that would employ science to improve farming practices. He went on to secure the charter for the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania, which would eventually become the Pennsylvania State University.This biography explores Watts’s role in founding and leading Penn State through its formative years. Watts adroitly directed the school as it was sited, built, and financed, opening for students in 1859. He hired the brilliant Evan Pugh as founding president, who, with Watts, quickly made it the first successful agricultural college in America. But for all his success in launching the institution, Watts nearly brought it to the brink of closure through a series of ruinous presidential appointments that led to an abandonment of the land-grant focus on agriculture and engineering.Watts’s influence in the agricultural modernization movement and his impact on land-grant education in the United States—both in his role with Penn State and later as US commissioner of agriculture—made him a leader in the history of agricultural and higher education. Roger L. Williams’s compelling biography of Watts reestablishes him in this legacy, providing a balanced analysis of his missteps and accomplishments. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Agricultural innovations Pennsylvania History 19th century. College trustees Pennsylvania Biography. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2021 English 9783110754087 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2021 9783110753851 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110745108 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271090498?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271090498 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271090498/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue and Acknowledgments -- 1 Frederick Watts’s First Fifty Years -- 2 The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society -- 3 Chartering and Locating the New School -- 4 Building the School and Preparing to Open -- 5 The Presidency of Evan Pugh -- 6 Watts and the College After Pugh -- 7 Final Years with the College and the Aftermath -- 8 U.S. Commissioner of Agriculture -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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