Land teaching; a handbook of soils, plants, gardens and grounds, for teachers and cultivators
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Land Teaching: A Handbook of Soils, Plants, Gardens and Grounds, for Teachers and Cultivators 1910
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Rocks and Soils: Their Origin, Composition and Characteristics, Chemical, Geological and Agricultural 1888
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Horace Edward Stockbridge was an American agricultural chemist, the first president of North Dakota Agricultural College (now North Dakota State University), and agricultural editor.
Background
Horace was born on May 19, 1857 in Hadley, Massachussets, United States. He was the son of Levi and Joanna (Smith) Stockbridge, passed the first ten years of his life on his father's farm at Hadley one of the largest in the Connecticut Valley. His father, the first professor of agriculture in the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst and later its president, moved to Amherst in 1867.
Education
Horace prepared for college in the public schools and in 1874 entered the Massachusetts Agricultural College, graduating with the degree of B. S. in 1878. He then did graduate work at Boston University for two years, and, following in his father's footsteps, specialized in agricultural chemistry.
In 1882 he went to Germany to study at the University of Gottingen, where he received the degree of Ph. D. in 1884, being the first graduate of an American agricultural college to be awarded it.
Career
In the summer of 1880 he was employed for a short time in the United States Department of Agriculture under Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the division of chemistry.
In 1881 he was appointed instructor in the Massachusetts Agricultural College. After his graduation from the University of Gottingenthen, he returned to the Massachusetts Agricultural College as associate professor of chemistry but almost immediately thereafter was selected by the Japanese government as one of the Americans to undertake the higher education of the Japanese students in that country.
Accordingly, in the spring of 1885, having received an appointment as professor of chemistry and geology at the Imperial College of Agriculture and Engineering, he went to Sapporo, Japan. From 1887 to 1889 he was also chief chemist to the Japanese government. Along with other activities he began extensive agricultural experiments, some of which had important results.
After four years' service he was given a six-month leave of absence at full pay, with the privilege of resigning at the end of that time. Before going to Japan he had married, on March 30, 1885, Belle Lamar of Americus, Georgia. On account of their children they decided that it was best to take up their residence again in the United States. Soon after his return, Stockbridge accepted the appointment of director of the Indiana Agricultural Experiment Station at Lafayette. He organized the work but remained there only a few months, resigning in 1890 to accept the presidency of the North Dakota Agricultural College and directorship of the experiment station, both of which institutions were yet to be established.
He selected the location, named the entire faculty and staff, and planned the buildings. Resigning in 1894, he moved to Americus, Georgia, to give his personal attention to the old Sumter County plantation which he had purchased a few years earlier. He also became interested in a Florida orange grove, and in 1897 the trustees of the Florida Agricultural College and Experiment Station offered to create a department in that institution expressly for him. Thus persuaded to undertake work there, he remained as professor of agriculture and director of state farmers' institutes until 1902.
He also served as secretary of the Florida state agricultural society and Florida state fair. In the summer of 1906 he became agricultural editor of the Southern Ruralist, published in Atlanta, Georgia. This position he held for sixteen years, meanwhile continuing to operate his plantation in Sumter County.
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Religion
For many years, until his health compelled him to withdraw, he was successively warden and vestryman of St. Philip's Cathedral, Atlanta, and served in many benevolent and religious activities connected with the Episcopal diocese.
Politics
In politics he was a Republican.
Membership
He was a member of the Florida State Agricultural Society.
Connections
On March 30, 1885 he married Belle Lamar of Americus, Georgia. They had three sons, and a daughter.