Faculty Biographical Sketches 1891-1966 1891 APPOINTMENTS 1893 APPOINTMENTS 1902 ...

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Faculty Biographical Sketches 1891-1966
1891 APPOINTMENTS
1. Wilbur O. Hedrick
English
7/l/1891-6/30/1938 (47 years)
B. 1868, Elkhart, Indiana. B.S. 1891, M.A.C.*; M.S., 1896 and Ph.D., 1909, University of
Michigan. Instructor in English, 1891-93. Asst. Prof. in History and Political Science, 1393-
1906. Head, Dept. of History and Economics, 1906-1916. Head, Dept. of Economics, 1917-30.
Retired June 30, 1938. Died June 10, 1954.
Prof. Hedrick taught first course in agricultural economics-Econ. 2, "Agricultural Economics" 2
credits, to college degree students at M.A.C. in 1911. In 1913, he taught the first course in farmer
cooperatives, Econ. 3a, 3 credits, at M.A.C. and probably the second such course taught in the
United States. Dr. Hedrick also taught the first course in agricultural marketing, Econ. 12,
Marketing of Farm Products, in 1916. He was a humorous and effective teacher. The Hedrick
Cooperative House at Michigan State was named in his honor in 1933.
*Known as Michigan Agricultural College (M.A.C.) 1855 to May 13, 1925; Known as Michigan
State College (M.S.C.) May 13, 1925 to June 30, 1955; Known as Known as Michigan State
University (M.S.U.) July 1, 1955 to present.
1893 APPOINTMENTS
2. Clinton D. Smith
Director of Agricultural Experiment Station
7/10/1893-3/18/1909 (16 years)
B. 1854, Trumansburg, New York. B.S., 1873, Cornell University. Farmer, 1873-1880 on home
dairy farm, New York; practiced law, 1383-90; Assistant Agriculturalist, Cornell University
1890; Director of Experiment Station and Professor of Dairy Husbandry, Univ. of Minn., 1391-
93; Agriculturalist of the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station 1893-1900; and Director of
the Experiment Station 1900-08.
He wrote the first bulletin in the area of farm management at M.A.C. in Nov., 1898, Mich. Agr.
Exp. Sta. Spec. Bul. 9, "Suggestions on Farm Accounts." Taught course in "Farm Business
Methods" to short course students in agriculture, beginning in 1906. Resigned 3/18/09 to become
president of Brazil's first college of agriculture at Escola Agricola, Piraciaba, Sao Paulo where he
presided for four years.
1902 APPOINTMENT
3. Robert S. Shaw
Professor of Agriculture
1/l/02-6/30/41 (39 years)
B. on a farm near Woodburn, Ontario, Canada, July 24, 1871. B.S.A., 1393, Ontario Agricultural
College, Guelph. Farmer on home farm in Ontario, Canada, 1893-98.
Appointed Professor of Agriculture, 9/l/02; Dean of Agriculture, 9/6/03 and also Director of the
Agricultural Experiment Station 1909; Acting President of Michigan State, 1921; and again in
1923-24; President from 1928-41. Taught the first courses in farm management to degree
students in 1914 and continued to 1920; and then again in 1925 and 1926. Retired June 30, 1941.
1910 APPOINTMENT
4. R. J. Baldwin
Director of Cooperative Extension Service
9/l/10-6/30/49 (39 years)
B. on a farm near Brown City, Michigan (Sanilac County) Oct. 31, 1333. B.S., 1904, M.A.C.; 1
year graduate work, University of Michigan; I summer at Iowa State College.
First Director of the Cooperative Extension Service at Michigan State, a position he held from
July 1, 1914 to June 30, 1949, a period of 34 years. Asst. to Dean of Agriculture Jan. 1, 1911-
July 15, 1913. Superintendent, Agricultural Extension, July 16, 1913-June 30, 1914. Taught
"Business Arithmetic" and "Bookkeeping" to short course students in agriculture in 1910 and
1911. Currently, 1967, retired and living in East Lansing, Michigan.
1912 APPOINTMENTS
5. M. J. Thompson
Extension, Farm Management
4/l/12-3/15/13 (1 year)
B. Michigan. Field Agent, Farm Management field studies, northwestern Michigan. Major
activity, farm records and farm business analysis. Thompson was the first man to be appointed to
do farm management extension work in Michigan.
6. Harvey G. Smith
Extension, Farm Management
7/l/12-12/31/15 (3 ½ years)
B. Wisconsin. B.S., University of Wisconsin, about 1912. Field Agent, Farm management field
studies, northeastern Michigan. Major activity, farm records and farm business analysis.
Became in 1912, the first county agricultural agent in Michigan and assigned to Alpena,
Montmorency and Presque Isle counties in northeastern Michigan. Was Kent County Agr.
Agent, I/l/16-12/31/18. Currently, 1967, operating small farm in Wisconsin.
7. H. F. Williams
Extension, Farm Management
9/26/12-3/l/14 (1 ½ years)
B. Michigan. Field Agent, Farm Management Field studies, south central Michigan. Major
activity, farm records and farm business analysis. Williams was assistant to L. H. Goddard who
had charge of farm management extension work from the U.S.D.A. when federal-state
cooperation first started in that area. Later went with Equitable Life Assurance Co. in their field
appraisal work.
8. Eben Mumford
Extension, Farm Management
10/2/12-9/l/38 (26 years)
B. Miami County, Ohio. B.S., Bechtel (now Akron) College; Ph.D., in Sociology 1906,
University of Chicago. Also a year of graduate study at Clark University and later studied at the
New York School of Civics and Philanthropy.
Organizer and Leader of Farm Management Field Studies and Demonstrations, later known as
the County Agricultural Extension Service. State leader of County Agricultural Agents in
Michigan,, 1912-18. As state leader of County Agricultural Agents from 1912-21, he addressed
over 1,000 groups without the aid of the modern public address facilities, with a total attendance
of some 140,000. He was a powerful, effective speaker. He taught two subjects in agricultural
economics during 1922-23. Owned and operated a fruit farm in southwestern M:Lchigan for ten
years. Was active in the formation of the Michigan State Farm Bureau and was one of twelve
men who met in Ithaca, New York, in 1919 to form the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Organized the Dept. of Sociology at Michigan State in 1924 and was appointed Professor and
Head of Department. He also organized the Michigan Country Life Association, Ministers' Short
Courses and the Michigan Conference of Social Workers. Retired September 1, 1938. Died
October 17, 1942.
9. Charles P. Reed
Extension, Farm Management
11/l/12-5/15/17 (5 years)
B. Howell, Michigan. B.S., 1901, M.A.C. Supervisor, Farm Management Field Studies. Major
activity, farm records and farm business analysis. The first full-time extension leader in farm
management at Michigan State. Resigned 5/15/17 to become the first secretary-manager of the
newly organized Michigan Milk Producers' Association.
1913 APPOINTMENTS
10. Fred T. Zimmer
Extension, Farm Management
6/2/13-9/30/14 (1 ½ years)
B. Michigan. Field Agent, Farm Management Field Studies, northwestern Michigan. Major
activity, farm records and farm business analysis.
11. Fred T. Riddell
Dairy
9/l/13-6/30/31 (17 years)
B. Michigan. B.S., 1913, M.A.C. Appointed as a field investigator in the Dairy Department,
Sept. 1, 1913, to devote full time to cost of milk production studies. Transferred from Dairy
Department to Farm Management Department, March 1, 1921. Appointed extension specialist in
Farm Management 12/1/22. Asst. Prof. of Farm Management, teaching and research 7/l/23-
7/l/213. Research assistant in Farm Management, 7/l/28.Resigned as of 3/1/31.
1915 APPOINTMENTS
12. James N. McBride
State Market Director
11/l/15-2/23/19 (3 ½ years)
B. in Pennsylvania and at age 16 moved with his parents to a farm near Owosso which is still
(1967) in the same family. B.S., 1391, from University of Michigan. First man appointed to do
marketing work in Michigan.
Taught economics in and was head of the Department of History and Political Economy at
M.A.C. in 1892-93. Editor of the Owosso Argus Press with Tom, Dewey's father, 1893-98.
Formerly County Superintendent of Schools, Shiawassee County. Very active in farm
organizations, particularly the Michigan State Grange. He was an effective speaker to farm
audiences.
State Market Director, 11/l/15-2/29/19, with headquarters at the Michigan Agricultural College
and under the direction of the M.A.C. governing board. He was instrumental in organizing many
farmer cooperative marketing organizations.
1916 APPOINTMENTS
13. Ralph H. Elsworth
Extension, Marketing
5/l/16-12/31/17 (1 ½ years)
B. Ludington, Michigan. B.S., 1902, M.S., 1904, University of Michigan.
Assistant to Director of Markets, James 14. McBride, and assisted in organizing many farmer
cooperatives. He resigned 12/31/17 to accept a position with the USDA Bureau of Markets. Later
he went with the Cooperative Division of the USDA and became Chief of the Historical and
Statistical Division of the Farmer Cooperative Services, USDA. The Elsworth Cooperative
Rouse at Michigan State was named in his honor in 1939.
14. Arthur C. Lytle
Dairy
3/l/16-4/l/18 (2 years)
B. Paw Paw, Michigan, B.S., 1915, M.A.C. Field accountant, dairy cost studies. Resigned 4/l/18
to enter military service, World War I.
15. Stanley J. Brownell
Dairy
8/l/16-9/30/23 (7 years)
B* St. Charles, Michigan. B.S., 1916, M.S., 1922, M.A.C. Field accountant, Dairy Cost Studies,
In military service World War I, 8/l/17-1/31/19. Reappointed 2/l/19 to study milk marketing in
Detroit area.
Resigned to go with Animal Husbandry Department, Dairy section, Cornell University as a dairy
specialist. Later he became extension leader and Professor of Dairy Husbandry, 1934-65. He
received the Superior Service Award from USDA for his excellent work with the dairy industry.
1917 APPOINTMENTS
16. Ashley Berridge
Short Course
3/28/17-6/30/22 (5 years)
B. Greenville, Michigan. B.S., 1912, M.A.C. Farmed on home farm at Greenville many years.
Director of Short Courses, part-time basis, 1917-22. Author of Coop. Ext. Ser. Bul. 12,
"Suggestions to Boys Who Wish to Prepare for Work on a Farm" 1917, issue of 30,000 copies.
Taught farm management to short course students during 1917-20.
17. Karl H. McDonel
Extension, Farm Management
10/l/16-7/l/61 (45 years)
B. 1893 on a farm in Delta Township in Eaton County, Michigan. B.S., 1916; M.S., 1931,
M.A.C. Farm Management Extension Specialist, 10/1/166/31/17. Superintendent of Extension
Schools, 7/l/17-6/30/20. Assistant to Director of Coop. Ext. Services, 7/l/20-10/14/27. Assistant
Extension Director, 10/15/27-6/30/41.
Secretary of the Board of Trustees and of Michigan State University 7/l/41-6/30/61.Retired July
1, 1961.
18. Charles H. Graves
Extension, Farm Management
9/1/17-3/30/20 (2 ½ years)
B. New fork. Farm management extension specialist. Major interest -farm records, enterprise
cost studies and farm business analysis.
1918 APPOINTMENTS
19. Hale Tenant
Extension, Marketing
5/l/18-5/21/24 (6 years)
B. Berrien County, Michigan. B.A., probably from University of Michigan. Director of
Agricultural Marketing, 5/l/18-9/29/21. Assistant Director of the Coop. Ext. Service and in
charge of county agricultural agents and marketing.
Hale Tenant was very active and effective in farm organization leadership. He was a forceful,
dynamic speaker. He was in the nature of a "king maker" in many ways. His appointment and
power came more or less directly from influential members of the State Board of Agriculture, the
governing board of M.A.C. He was a controversial character and had a somewhat turbulent
career at M.A.C., especially during his last two or three years. He was often in conflict with the
Dean and Director of Agriculture and with other administrative personnel. The terminal date of
his dismissal was May 21, 1924.
20. W. B. Sutherland
Extension, Farm Management
10/21/18-6/30/19 ( year)
B. Oxford, Michigan. Studied two terms at M.A.C. Appointed as a farm management extension
specialist. Major activity -- farm records and farm business analysis.
1919 APPOINTMENTS
21. George C. Raviler
Extension, Marketing
2/l/19-6/30/20 (1 years)
Appointed as extension field agent in agricultural marketing to assist cooperatives.
22. William J. Kurtz
Dairy
7/l/19-9/30/21 (2 years)
B. near Flint, Michigan. B.S., 1919, M.A.C. Assistant in dairy cost research. Transferred 3/1/21
to the Farm Management Department as route man, dairy cost studies (26 farmers).
23. Willard C. Cribbs
Extension, Marketing
10/1/19-5/19/26 (6 ½ years)
B. Bainbridge, Michigan. Education: Bryant and Straton Business College. Chicago, Sept. 1894 -
June 1895; Benton Harbor College, Sept. 1895 - June 1897. Known to his friends and associates
as "Bull Clover" Cribbs.
Fruit farmer, Berrien County, 1903-18. County agricultural agent, Antrim and Ionia Counties.
Appointed as Extension Specialist in Marketing, 10/1/19. Organized Michigan Potato Growers
Exchange, Cadillac, 1919. Reassigned as District Extension Agent, 7/l/26-7/15/34.
1920 APPOINTMENTS
24. Arthur J. Howland
Dairy
1/l/20-9/30/21 and l/l/27-6/30/57 (31 years)
B. Breckenridge, Michigan. April 29, 1892. B.S., 1925, M.A.C. Research assistant, Dairy
Department, dairy cost studies, 7/l/20-6/30/21. Transferred to Farm Management Department,
7/l/21-9/30/21 as a dairy cost route man. Resigned 9/30/21 to enroll as a student at M.A.C.
Marketing extension specialist, Economics Department, 1/l/27-6/30/57. Major interest in the
latter position was in helping organize and reorganize farm cooperatives, assisting in legal
questions, setting up accounting systems and helping in business analysis of farmer cooperative
organizations. Retired June 30, 1957.
25. Wayne Newton
Economics
2/18/20-10/31/29 (9 years)
B. Terre Haute, Indiana (Vigo County). Appointed as a Research Asst. Major interest was in the
area of rural taxation with particular reference to school taxes. Resigned 10/31/29 with the rank
of Research Associate. Later an employee of the Michigan Farm Bureau. Later went with the
National Association of Cooperatives to counteract the activities of the National Tax Equality
League with reference to additional taxing of agricultural co-ops. Newton was the first man
appointed in the Economics Department to do research in agricultural economics at Michigan
State*
26. Eliot, Howard H.
Extension Farm Mgt.
6/24/20-6/30/23 (3 yrs.)
B. Texas. Education at Texas A & M and at Univ. of Wisconsin. Appointed as extension
specialist in Farm Management, June 24, 1920. On January 1, 1921 he was appointed Head of
the newly established Farm Management Department at M.A.C. He conducted numerous mail
cost-study surveys of farm products. He also set up five cost account routes; dairy, potatoes,
general farming, feeder cattle farms and fruit farms. Routes had about 26 farmers in each. Farms
were visited by the route man once each month.
After serving as Head of the Department for a little over two years, Professor Eliot and all but
one of his 10-member staff were fired in May of 1923 by President David Friday. Eliot's
dismissal was the result of a difference of opinion between Prof. Eliot and President Friday on
the contents of a news release of a story dealing with agricultural economics. Eliot refused to
change the content of the news release. Eliot was fired on Tuesday and all furniture and files
were removed from his office on the next day, Wednesday. In addition, the Farm Management
Department was abolished on the same day. A big day's work for President Friday. Very little of
the information obtained through the five routes was ever summarized or published because of
the abolition of the Department in the second year of their operation.
Professor Eliot then bought a farm in the Holt area where he lived until his death many years
later. He became a township supervisor and also county chairman for the Democratic Party.
27. Elton B. Hill
Assistant to Dean of Agriculture
9/1/20 - 7/31/64 (44 years)
B. on a farm in Genesee Township, Genesee County near Davison, Michigan in 1894. B.S.,
1915, M. Agr., 1923, M.A.C.; M.S., 1927, Cornell University* Asst. to the Dean and Director of
Agr. Exp, Sta. at Michigan State, Sept. 1. 1920 to June 30, 1928. On July 1, 1928 was appointed
Professor and Head of the newly established Department of Farm Management, a position which
he held for about 21 years until April 31, 1949 when the agricultural economics section of the
Economics Department in College of Arts and Science was merged with the Farm Management
Department in the College of Agriculture. The new merger combination was then named the
Agricultural Economics Department.
Fields: Farm credit, farm management and land tenure with special emphasis in later years in the
areas of father-son farming agreements, farm and field rentals, estate management and taxes
related thereto. Director, Farm Credit Administration Board, Seventh District (St. Paul) 1951 and
1952. On leave to be Head, Department of Agricultural Economics (Res.) Univ. of Puerto Rico
Agricultural Exp. Station., 1938-39. Agriculturist to Menominee River Sugar Company,
Menominee, Michigan, 1918-20. County Agricultural Agent,, Menominee County, Michigan
1916-18. Instructor in agriculture, Menominee County Agricultural School, 1915-16.
Member: Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta., Kappa Delta Pi honor fraternities. Listed in Who's Who in
the Midwest; Who's Who in American Education and in American Men of Science. Member:
International Conference of Agricultural Economists; American Farm Economics Association,
Vice-President in 1942; Michigan Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. Received., in
1967, from the Federal Land Bank System the Commemorative Medal for outstanding service to
American Agriculture. Language: Spanish, reading knowledge.
Co-author with John C. Doneth of Farm Management work Units, 1937 - 1) Teacher's Guide and
2) Students Guide. Mimeograph Dept, MSU and also co-author with John C. Doneth of Farm
Management Manual, 1941 - 1) Teachers Guide and 2) Students' Guide, pp. 160. Reprinted
1945, 1947 and 1953. Co-author with L, H, Brown of Principles of Farm Management 1947, pp.
201. Edwards Brother, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Professor of Agricultural Economics 5/l/49-
7/31/64. Retired as of August 1, 1964.
28. Gifford (Dan) Patch
Extension Marketing
9/l/20-6/30/41 (21 years)
B. 1890 on a farm near Clark Lake, Jackson County, Michigan. B.S., 1916 M.A.C.; Univ. of
Penn. summer 1924; Univ. of Minn. summer 1925. Appointed as extension specialist in
marketing and later made Ext. Specialist in Agricultural Economics with major efforts directed
toward organizing and in rendering legal counsel to farmer co-ops. Gave significant service in
developing the legal and organization structure of Michigan Farm Bureau and affiliated
cooperatives. Formerly, County Agricultural Agent, Montcalm County. Died May 1, 1947.
1921 APPOINTMENTS
29. Howard N. Chapel
Farm Management
2/l/21-6/30/22 (1 years)
B. in Genesee County, Michigan. B.S., 1921, M.A.C. Route man on Feeder Cattle Cost Route
(26 farms).
30. O. E. Dunkel
Farm Management
2/l/21-6/30/22 (1 years)
B. Williamston, Michigan. B.S., 1921, M.A.C. Route man on General Farm Cost Route (26
farms). Later was Superintendent of Schools, Farmington, Michigan. Later was Lt. in United
States Naval Reserve and Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1943-45.
31. G. E. Culver
Farm Management
2/l/21-6/30/22 (1 years)
B. Benzonia, Michigan. B.S., 1921,, M.A.C, Route man on Potato Farm Cost Route (26 farms).
32. Dale I. Musselman
Farm Management
2/l/21-6/30/22 (1 years)
B. Cecil, Ohio, B.S., 1921, M.A.C. Route man on Fruit Farm Cost Route (26 farms).
33. R. E. Post
Farm Management
2/l/21-4/30/22 (1 year)
B. Minnesota, 1896, but at an early age moved to St. Joseph County, Michigan. B.S., 1920,
M.A.C.; M.S., 1923, Wisconsin. Route man, Dairy Farm Cost Route (26 farms). Air Corps,
World War I from 11/21/17-12/15/19. Resigned April 30, 1922 to go to South Dakota first as
Asst. Prof. and later became Acting Head, Dept. of Agricultural Economics where he remained
until June 30, 1934. Head, Food and Grains Section, ERS, USDA -- retiring Dec. 31, 1962.
34. Hugh B. Killough
Farm Management
7/l/21-6/30/22 (1 year)
B. Texas B.S., 1916, Texas A and M; M.S., 1920, Wisconsin; Ph.D., 1925, Columbia. Farm
management extension specialist; interested in farm product prices. Later, professor of
economics and chairman of Department of Economics at Brown University. Director of Men of
Science., III; in Who's Who in America; Director of American Scholars. Author of four books on
marketing and in international trade as follows: Raw Materials of Industrialization, Harper, 1929;
Economics of Marketing, Harper, 1933; International Trade, McGraw-Hill, 1938; and
International Economics Von Nostrand, 1960.
35. John T. Horner
Economics
9/l/21-2/15/28 (6 ½ years)
Teaching and research. Major work was in research and writing regarding marketing of farm
products. Author of the book, "Marketing Farm Products." Resigned, 1928, to become Research
Director, Michigan Milk Producers Association.
1925 APPOINTMENTS
36. George A. Nahstall
Extension Business Management
2/7/25-10/20/27 (2 years)
Appointed as extension specialist in business practices and accounting with farm cooperatives,
and housed in the Economics Department offices.
37. Claude F. Clayton