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Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State (Hardcover)
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Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State (Hardcover)
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Frederick Watts came to prominence during the nineteenth century as
a lawyer and a railroad company president, but his true interests
lay in agricultural improvement and in raising the economic,
social, and political standing of Pennsylvania’s farmers. After
being elected founding president of The Pennsylvania State
Agricultural Society in 1851, he used his position to advocate
vigorously for the establishment of an agricultural college that
would employ science to improve farming practices. He went on to
secure the charter for the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania,
which would eventually become the Pennsylvania State University.
This biography explores Watts’s role in founding and leading Penn
State through its formative years. Watts adroitly directed the
school as it was sited, built, and financed, opening for students
in 1859. He hired the brilliant Evan Pugh as founding president,
who, with Watts, quickly made it the first successful agricultural
college in America. But for all his success in launching the
institution, Watts nearly brought it to the brink of closure
through a series of ruinous presidential appointments that led to
an abandonment of the land-grant focus on agriculture and
engineering. Watts’s influence in the agricultural modernization
movement and his impact on land-grant education in the United
States—both in his role with Penn State and later as US
commissioner of agriculture—made him a leader in the history of
agricultural and higher education. Roger L. Williams’s compelling
biography of Watts reestablishes him in this legacy, providing a
balanced analysis of his missteps and accomplishments.
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