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Edinboro State College Professor Thompson CDV

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Edinboro State College Professor Thompson CDV
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4" by 2 1/2". Edinboro is in Pennsylvania. Identified as Samuel Rankin Thompson. SAMUEL R. THOMPSON, FATHER OF THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE We gather this morning to honor an educational pioneer of fifty years ago - Samuel R. Thompson, first professor agriculture, first dean, and father of the Agricultural College of the University of Nebraska. To Professor Thompson was handed the task of creating an agricultural college, where no such college had ever before existed, and indeed when there was hardly a model on which to build. He was the founder of the Nebraska Weather Service, the early promoter of the sugar beet industry and the father of agricultural extension in Nebraska. Let us, for a moment, learn something of the man. He was born in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, April 17, 1833 - nearly a hundred years ago. He graduated from Westminster College at the age of thirty years. Before graduation he had been in public school work and following graduation, he was professor of natural sciences in the Edinboro State Normal School for two years. Later he was engaged in high school work at Pottsville, Pa., and then went to Marshall College, Cabell County, West Virginia, and reorganized it as a state normal school. His first official connection with the College of Agriculture of the University of Nebraska came on September 5, 1871, when we find in the regents’ reports this notation: "S.R. Thompson was elected to the Chair of Theory and Practice of Agriculture, but not to enter on his duties sooner that one year from the present." On June 25, 1872, the Agricultural College was formally established and ordered to be opened and Mr. Thompson appears to have begun his duties that fall. Professor Thompson resigned from his position at the Agricultural College in 1875. For a year he was principal of the Peru Normal and served as state superintendent of public instruction in Nebraska from 1877 to 1881. He also filled out the term of Professor W.W.W. Jones as superintendent of the Lincoln city schools when Mr. Jones succeeded him as state superintendent. Later he again assumed the professorship at the Agricultural College and from that he was called to the professorship of physics at Westminster College in June 1884. Professor Thompson passed away October 28, 1896.
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