Background
Kilgore, Benjamin Wesley was born on March 27, 1867 in Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. Son of Benjamin Moon and Susan (Bruce) Kilgore.
Kilgore, Benjamin Wesley was born on March 27, 1867 in Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. Son of Benjamin Moon and Susan (Bruce) Kilgore.
B South., Agricultural College of Mississippi, 1888, Master of Science, 1891. Special work in chemistry, Johns Hopkins. Doctor of Science, Davidson (North Carolina) College, 1918.
Assistant professor of chemistry, Agricultural College, Mississippi, 1888-1889. Assistant chemist North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 1889-1897. Professor of chemistry, Agricultural College of Mississippi, and state chemist, Mississippi, 1897-1899.
State chemist North Carolina, 1899-1919, and since 1937.
Director North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 1901-1907 and 1912-1925. Director North Carolina Extension Service, 1914-1925.
Dean of agriculture, North Carolina College of Agriculture and Engineering, 1923-1925. President North Carolina Cotton Growers’ Coöp.
Association, 1924-1934.
President American Cotton Exchange, 1924-1926. President Association Official Agricultural Chemists in the United States, 1899-1900. Editor Progressive Farmer, 1928-1930.
United States delegate to International Institute of Agriculture, Rome, Italy, 1924.
Secretary Association of Southern Agricultural Workers, 1899-1911. Received “award for distinguished service to Southern Agriculture” from Association of Southern Agricultural Workers, 1939.
“award for distinguished service to organized agriculture” from American Farm Bureau Federal, 1939. Home: 1507 Hillsboro Saint Office: North Carolina Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Married Elizabeth Carrington Dinwiddie, August 10, 1898. Children: Elizabeth Carrington, Benjamin Wesley, James Dinwiddie.