Grand Old Man of Purdue University and Indiana Agriculture

A Biography of William Carol Latta

• Author(s): Frederick Whitford, Andrew G. Martin,
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Pages: 400
• ISBN_10: 1557539243
  ISBN_13: 9781557539243
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Study & Teaching , History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI) , Biography & Autobiography / Educators ,

Description:... William Carol Latta was the 13th member of the Purdue faculty. He became the driving force behind Purdue's world-famous School of Agriculture and initiated extension services that have lasted for more than a century. In 1890, he laid out the first permanent soil fertility field experiments, inaugurating a system of research considered one of the best in the country at that time. He administered Purdue's School of Agriculture until 1907.