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Foster Dwight Coburn was born on May 07, 1846 at Cold Springs, Wisconsin, United States. He was the son of Ephraim W. and Mary (Mulks) Coburn. His early life was spent on the farm.
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Foster Dwight Coburn was born on May 07, 1846 at Cold Springs, Wisconsin, United States. He was the son of Ephraim W. and Mary (Mulks) Coburn. His early life was spent on the farm.
Foster obtained his formal education at his home town supplied. In 1909 he received the honorary degrees of Master of Arts from Baker University and of Doctor of Laws from the Kansas Agricultural College.
At the age of eighteen Coburn served in the Civil War as corporal in an Illinois regiment and soon after, in 1867, moved to Kansas and became a farm laborer and farmer in Franklin County. But as his character and ability were soon widely recognized, his engagement in farming was largely superseded by other work as a writer, adviser, and administrator.
Thus from 1882 to 18S7 he was editor-in-chief of the Livestock Indicator, published at Kansas City, Missouri. Later he became an editorial writer on the Kansas City Gazette and one of the editors of Country Life in America. He was the author of Swine Husbandry (1877); Alfalfa (1901); The Book of Alfalfa ( 1906) and other works. His Swine in America was translated into Portuguese in 1913, by the ministry of agriculture of Brazil.
His official positions, too, were many. Thus from 1894 to 1914 he was secretary of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture; for a time he was a member of the Board of Regents of the State Agricultural College and president of the Board. He was also a member of various state commissions, agricultural societies, and philanthropic organizations. He was a director of various financial institutions, the Prudential Trust Company, Prudential State Bank, and the Bank of Topeka. Believing that he could be of greater service in his chosen field for which he was admirably equipped, he refused to be a candidate for the governorship in 1898 and declined the appointment of the governor as United States senator.
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Coburn was an honorary life member of the Kansas State Horticultural Society, and an honorary member of the Kansas State Editorial Association, and was a director of the Kansas State Historical Society.
Coburn was a man โof the people, โ devoted to the advancement of agriculture, with a natural ability and integrity. Quiet and unassuming, understanding his limitations, he was a man of high ideals and of deep religious feeling. He devoted himself solely to the interests of a business which he loved and understood, in a state of whose advancement he was proud.
On September 8, 1869 Coburn married Lou Jenkins of Franklin County, Kansas.