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Thomas Affleck was born on July 13, 1812 in Dumfries, Scotland. He was the son of Thomas Affleck, a merchant, and Mary (Hannay) Affleck.
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In the first collection of published writings of Thomas Affleck (1812--1868), Lake Douglas re-establishes the reputation of a tireless agricultural reformer, entrepreneur, and horticulturist. Affleck's wide range of interests -- animal husbandry, agriculture, scientific farming, ornamental horticulture, insects, and hydrology, among others -- should afford him a celebrated status in several disciplines; yet until now his immense contributions remained largely unheralded. Steward of the Land remedies this oversight with a broad, annotated selection of Affleck's works, rightfully placing him alongside his better-known contemporaries Andrew Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted. After immigrating to the United States from Scotland in 1832, Affleck witnessed the burgeoning American expansion and its major advances in agriculture and technology. He worked as a journalist for the influential Western Farmer and Gardener, covering Ohio, Kentucky, and the Mississippi River Valley. Affleck moved to Mississippi in 1842 to manage his new wife's failing plantation; there, he created one of the first commercial nurseries of the South while writing prolifically on numerous agrarian topics for regional periodicals and newspapers. From 1845 to 1865 he edited Affleck's Southern Rural Almanac and Plantation and Garden Calendar, published in New Orleans. Following a postwar move to Brenham, Texas, he published letters and essays about rebuilding that state's livestock herds and rejuvenating its agricultural labor forces. Steward of the Land includes excerpts from dozens of Affleck's articles on subjects ranging from bee keeping to gardening to orchard tending. This valuable single-volume resource reveals Affleck's astonishing breadth of horticultural knowledge and entrepreneurial sagacity, and his role in educating mid-nineteenth-century readers about agricultural products and practices, plant usage, and environmental stewardship. Never before collected or contextualized, Affleck's writings provide a firsthand account of the advancement of agricultural techniques and practices that created a new environmental awareness in America.
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Thomas Affleck was born on July 13, 1812 in Dumfries, Scotland. He was the son of Thomas Affleck, a merchant, and Mary (Hannay) Affleck.
Affleck studied agriculture at the University of Edinburgh.
After finishing school he was employed in the National Bank of Scotland, in Dumfries, of which bank his uncle, Alexander Hannay, was the managing agent. In 1832 he gave up his position with this bank for the purpose of moving to the United States, where he felt there would be better opportunities for success in the agricultural vocation which he desired to follow and for which he had prepared himself by attending agricultural lectures under Prof. Low of Edinburgh.
He set sail from Liverpool and arrived in New York on May 4, 1832, and a few months later declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States. After some months in New York and Pennsylvania, he went to Indiana, engaging in business there for a few years. In 1840 he became junior editor of the Western Farmer and Gardener, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The next year he made an extensive tour through Mississippi and Louisiana, an account of which was given in his paper.
After his marriage in 1842, he took up his residence at Ingleside, near Washington, Mississippi. Here he established a commercial nursery (one of the earliest in the South) called the "Southern Nurseries" and also entered business life as a planter on an extensive scale. He imported many plants from Europe and carried on an extensive series of experiments. At this time he gave up the editorship of the Western Farmer and Gardener.
Realizing the political unrest in the country and that the lower Mississippi River, in case war should come, would be the hotbed of contention, he disposed of his interests in Mississippi and in 1857 moved to Texas, where he bought land in the county of Washington. He lost no time in improving the holding which he acquired. In addition to constructing a commodious dwelling and large plantation quarters, he erected a saw-mill, grist-mill (the only one in Texas for a number of years), cotton-gin, corn-mill, and a large sorghum-mill. His energies were also devoted to the cultivation of the usual field crops grown in that section. He established a nursery under the name of the "Central Nurseries, " most of the trees and plants for which were supplied from his former nurseries in Mississippi. He did much, too, for the development of the better grades of livestock.
One of his great undertakings, which failed, however, of materialization because of his death in 1868, was the establishment of a large beef-packing plant in Texas to be financed with European capital. European capitalists became interested in the project and it was planned that the proposed company should operate its own line of steamers between Texas and Europe. Affleck established an office in Galveston to look after this business in addition to his other interests. His death occurred just when these plans seemed on the eve of maturity.
He edited Norman's Southern Agricultural Almanac for 1848 (New Orleans, B. N. Norman) and later published for several years (beginning with 1851) an almanac entitled Affleck's Southern Rural Almanac and Plantation and Garden Calendar.
He was the author of Bee Breeding in the West (1841) and Hedging and Hedging Plants in the Southern States (1869), as well as author of two useful and popular account-books, The Cotton Plantation Record and Account Book, and The Sugar Plantation Record and Account Book.
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On April 19, 1842, he married Mrs. Anna (Dunbar) Smith of Washington, Mississippi, the daughter of Isaac Dunbar and Elizabeth (Wilkinson) Dunbar, and widow of Calvin Steven Smith. They had a son, Isaac.