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Edmund Monroe Pendleton was born on March 19, 1815 in Eatonton, Putnam County, Georgia, United States. He was the great-grandson of James Pendleton, the brother of Edmund Pendleton and the third son of Coleman and Martha (Gilbert) Pendleton, who moved to Eatonton, Georgia, from Culpeper, Viginia, in 1800.
Edmund Monroe Pendleton attended Eatonton private schools. Owing to financial stress he was, while quite young, forced to discontinue his education and from time to time was engaged in several business undertakings. At one time he became part owner of a jewelry business in Columbus, Georgia, and later was engaged in this business in Macon, Georgia. While Pendleton was working in Macon a copy of Brand's textbook of chemistry gave him his first enthusiasm for this science, and he employed his spare moments in the very careful study of this book, which really laid the foundation for much of his life work. Thus becoming interested in science, he soon decided upon the study of medicine, and obtained a position in a drug store in Macon, Georgia.
While working as an apprentice, Edmund Monroe Pendleton devoted much time to the reading of medicine under a local physician. He entered the Medical College of South Carolina at Charleston, from which institution he was graduated in 1837. While attending lectures here, he read medicine in the office of Samuel Dickson. He also gave much time to a further study of chemistry under the instruction of Charles Upham Shepard. While still a student he contributed bits of verse to the Charleston News and Courier.
Edmund Monroe Pendleton practised medicine in the city of Warrenton, Georgia. Soon after his marriage, Pendleton with his wife removed to Sparta, Georgia, where he practised medicine for thirty years. During this time he became a slave holder and successfully operated a large plantation. He applied his scientific knowledge to his plantation as well as to his practice. As a pioneer in this field he manufactured fertilizer not only for his own use but for the public market. In 1849 he published an interesting discussion of "The Climate and Diseases of Middle Georgia".
About 1867 Edmund Monroe Pendleton organized the firm of Pendleton & Dozier in Augusta, Georgia, for the purpose of manufacturing commercial fertilizer on a large scale. In 1872 he was called to teach agriculture at the University of Georgia, where he remained for four years until he resigned on account of the failure of his health. He did much to organize his department of the university. As a result of his carefully prepared lectures, he published a Text Book of Scientific Agriculture (1875) followed by a second edition the next year. He moved to Atlanta in 1877 and founded a corporation for the manufacture of commercial fertilizer, devising and improving formulae in this field.
Endmund Monroe Pendleton died on January 26, 1884,
Edmund Monroe Pendleton was a distinguished physician and chemist. He formulated the "Pendleton Formula" for the manufacture of fertilizers. Pendleton was one of the first to use cotton seed in the manufacture of fertilizers and to recognize the effect of grain and cotton culture on the phosphoric acid and nitrogen content of the soil.
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On November 27, 1838 Edmund Monroe Pendleton married Sarah Jane Thomas, the sister of James R. Thomas, president of Emory College. They had eleven children.
