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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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 26 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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