Frederick Williams

Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State

• Author(s): Roger L. Williams

• Categories: Biography & Autobiography

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2021-04-26
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• Publisher: Penn State Press

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 ...

The London Gazette

• Author(s): Great Britain

• Categories: Gazettes

• Type: Book
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• Published: Unknown
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Calendar [or Rather Publication] of Historical Manuscripts Relating to the War of the Revolution, in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y. [With Maps.]

• Author(s): NEW YORK, State of. Office of the Secretary of State

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1868
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Annual Report

• Author(s): United States. Government Printing Office

• Categories: Government publications

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1919
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1950
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• Publisher: Unknown

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