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Edward James Wickson, the son of George Guest and Catherine (Ray) Wickson, was born on August 3, 1848 at Rochester, N. Y.
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Edward James Wickson, the son of George Guest and Catherine (Ray) Wickson, was born on August 3, 1848 at Rochester, N. Y.
He graduated from Hamilton College, New York, in 1868 or 1869 with distinction in classics and chemistry.
Graduating from college, he went to Utica as a staff-member of the Utica Morning Herald, and in 1875 became attached to the Pacific Rural Press in San Francisco. It was a period of early experiment on ranch, range, and orchard in California, and Wickson everywhere had a part in organizing new or revivifying old agricultural organizations. He was a founder of the first dairyman's association (1876), and a founder (1879) and long an officer of the California State Horticultural Society, which exerted a strong influence in farming matters and on state legislation. The objectives were always clear to him: to observe method and large-scale production on the great ranches or detailed results on the intensively-worked small place, and deduce therefrom tried knowledge for diffusion to the general public. Under his guidance the Pacific Rural Press won a wide reputation for sagacity, reliability, and integrity. From 1879 on, he was also associated with the University of California. At first a lecturer in agriculture, in 1897 he became a full professor in the College of Agriculture. He taught economic entomology, irrigation, dairying, range management, and general farming, as well as his own special subject of horticulture. In 1905 he was appointed dean of the College of Agriculture and professor of horticulture. A few years after he assumed office as director of the agricultural experiment station of the university (1907) there began to stir a movement for more active scientific research in agriculture, coincident with a program of publicity and of rapid expansion in all of the colleges of the university. Wickson distrusted isolated experiment and viewed agricultural research as a luxury that often brought little return for vast expenditure. In 1912 he refused to consider a plan designed to exploit California agriculture and to furnish frequent announcements to the press of insufficiently tried agricultural methods. As a consequence, his resignation as dean and director was demanded by President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, and he retired to the professorship of horticulture with a serenity fortified by the widespread prestige which he enjoyed with rural Californians. His book, The California Fruits and How to Grow Them, was the law and the gospel of the little fruitgrower as well as the large one, and went through ten editions from 1889 to 1926; The California Vegetables in Garden and Field (1897) reached a fifth edition (1923). Others of his farm books were much used. His Rural California (1923) represents his economic views. Wickson was in great demand as a speaker at conventions, as an officer in societies, as a member of commissions, as a trustee of schools. Wherever he spoke, this tall large-framed man with the prominent features, ruddy countenance, sandy beard, and beneficent manner captured every one within range of his voice. Even his scathing wit was taken in good part, and it seemed difficult for him to make an enemy. In May 1898 he had been advanced to chief of the Pacific Rural Press staff and since then had regularly written its editorial page. The issue for July 21, 1923, was still a week ahead when he prepared the editorials for it. At the end of the day, after his habit, he crossed the bay of San Francisco to the family home on the edge of the Berkeley campus, and there within two days he died.
He was a leader in agricultural education in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1969, the University of California, Berkeley, named an area of the campus around the north fork of Strawberry Creek as the Wickson Natural Area in his honor. This area contains the oldest stand of coast redwoods on the Berkeley campus. Wickson plum (developed by Luther Burbank, introduced as the Perfection in 1883 and renamed the Wickson in 1884).
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On April 27, 1875, he was married to Ednah Newell Harmon of Irvington, Cal. , by whom he had six children.
