Background
Youngblood, Bonney was born on July 31, 1881 in Milam County, Texas, United States. Son of Thomas Bunyan and Mattie (Sivils) Youngblood.
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Bonney Youngblood
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Bachelor of Science, Texas Agricultural and Mechanics College, 1902, Master of Science, 1907. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Wisconsin, 1921.
Career
Private Company I, 1st Texas Volunteer Infantry, Spanish-American War, May 6-October 20, 1898. Manager Smith Ranch, Grayson County, Texas, 1903. Principal high school, Henderson, Texas, 1903-1905, Mineola, 1905-1906.
Superintendent schools, Paul Valley, Oklahoma, 1906-1907.
Agriculturist, Office of Farm Management, United States Department of Agriculture, 1907-1911. Director Texas Experiment Station, 1911-1928.
Recommended located and developed first State Ranch Experiment Station, Sutton County, Texas, 1915. On leave from Texas Station serving as senior agricultural economist United States Department of Agriculture, to organize its cotton marketing economics program, 1926-1928.
Principal agricultural economist, United States Department of Agriculture, from 1928.
Advisor to the United States Indian Service on economic and social problems of the Navajo Indians, 1934-1944. Made report on Navajo trading, 1935. Recommended, 1934, and later helped develop Southwestern Range and Sheep Breeding Laboratory, Fort Wingate, New Mexico.
Achievements
Membership
Member Farm Economics Association, Alpha Gamma Rho (Iota Chapter). Mason ( Knights Templar, Shriner).
Connections
Married Lotus Shamburger, May 16, 1907.
