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Henry Elijah Alvord was born on March 11, 1844 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States. He was the eldest son of Daniel Wells Alvord, a prominent lawyer, and Caroline (Clapp) Alvord.
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Henry Elijah Alvord was born on March 11, 1844 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, United States. He was the eldest son of Daniel Wells Alvord, a prominent lawyer, and Caroline (Clapp) Alvord.
Alvord was prepared for college in the public schools of Greenfield and entered Norwich University in Vermont in 1860, but joined the Union Army in his junior year. He also studied agriculture under Stockbridge and Goessmann at the Massachusetts Agricultural College from 1869 to 1871.
Alvord became the military instructor and performed this service at the Massachusetts Agricultural College from 1869 to 1871. During the next eight years his time was divided between teaching in the scientific department at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachussets, and other educational and agricultural enterprises.
After the marriage he conducted a dairy farm and established a herd of registered Jersey dairy cattle, one of the first in Virginia. He wrote much for the agricultural press and delivered public addresses on agricultural subjects. He was the author of the American chapters published in Sheldon's Dairy Farming. He managed the Chautauqua "School of Farming" and prepared "what was probably the first correspondence course in agriculture. "
He helped to organize the Carlisle training school for Indians and served at times as special Indian commissioner in the Southwest. From about 1876 he was a pioneer and leader in the establishment of the cooperative creamery system, particularly in New England, and himself established the first creamery east of the Hudson River.
When in 1880 Lawson Valentine started the Houghton Farm near Mountainville, Orange County, New York, with an experiment department, he made Alvord general manager of the enterprise. Interesting practical and scientific experimental work was carried on there for five years.
In 1886 and 1887 Alvord was professor of agriculture at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. After this until 1893 he was president of the Maryland Agricultural College where he organized the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, and then for brief periods he was president of the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College and professor of agriculture at the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
His connection with these land-grant colleges gave him the opportunity of broad leadership in the nation-wide promotion of the interests of such institutions through his activities connected with the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations (now the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities). At the convention of representatives of these institutions at Washington in 1885 Alvord was chairman of the committee which supervised its proceedings and helped materially to pave the way for the permanent organization of the Association effected in 1887.
He was then made chairman of its executive committee, which dealt with the relations of the Association with the federal government and otherwise promoted its interests at and between its conventions. In this capacity he served seven years and among other things was active in helping to put into effect the Hatch Agricultural Experiment Station Act of 1887 and to secure the passage of the Morrill Land-Grant College Endowment Act of 1890.
In recognition of his important services he was elected president of the Association in 1894. When a Dairy Division was created in the Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture in 1895 Alvord was appointed its chief and held that position until his death. The division was at first organized to collect and disseminate information regarding the condition of the dairy industry, but in 1902 it established research laboratories.
Through his writings and public addresses he achieved a high reputation as an authority on animal husbandry and dairying. Among these may be mentioned "The Dairy Herd: Its Formation and Management" (United States Department of Agriculture Year Book, 1894); "Dairy Development in the United States"; and some other works.
Alvord was the first army officer detailed as military instructor at a land-grant college, performing this service at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. He prepared "what was probably the first correspondence course in agriculture. " As a husbandman Alvord contributed greatly to the development of the dairy industry. He was awarded the grand medal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England for his article on "American Beef for the British Markets. "
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Alvord was a fellow member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an honorary member of the Royal Agricultural Society of England.
Alvord had a strong and attractive personality, was exact and systematic in business and authoritative in manner and procedure. Among his friends he was cordial, generous, and unselfish.
Alvord married Martha Scott Swink on September 6, 1866, the daughter of William Swink of Virginia, and from about 1871 their home was on her family estate, known as "Spring Hill Farm".