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From the Vice Chancellor and Dean for Agriculture and Life Sciences

As I reflect on the decades since the Morrill Land-Grant College Act was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, I have a renewed respect for our nation’s land-grant university system.

When the land-grant colleges opened their doors, they revolutionized higher education in America, making it possible for average citizens to get a practical education that would improve lives and livelihoods — while creating a workforce to help build a great nation. What makes the land-grant system even greater is the collaboration with experiment station research (Hatch Act of 1887) and the connection to the people through cooperative extension (Smith-Lever Act of 1914), which brought education and research to local communities.

In Texas, we take the land-grant system one step further with the addition of our service missions: to protect our forests and animal and human health. When the Texas A&M Forest Service was created in 1915, the state’s vast forest resources came under the protection of the land-grant system. In 1969, with the opening of the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, e Texas A&M University System became a partner in the protection of animal health and the prevention and control of zoonotic diseases.

Texas A&M AgriLife has carried out the land-grant university mission of teaching, research, extension, and service for more than a century, moving seamlessly within the land-grant design as our nation’s history unfolded. We have grown with each decade, increasing our educational opportunities and student numbers, expanding our research to new horizons, broadening our outreach at home and around the world, and offering new levels of service to the many who depend on us.

Each day I am inspired to know that the revolutionary creation of the land-grant mission in 1862 is just as relevant now as it was 150 years ago. Today, all of us at Texas A&M AgriLife are protecting our environment, enriching our youth, feeding our world, growing our economy, and improving our health. e methods are more advanced, but the model is the same: education and enlightenment by and for the people.

In 2012, we joined other land-grant colleges and universities throughout the United States in celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862. e success, innovation, and prosperity chronicled in these pages are both a testament to the wisdom of the land-grant system and a challenge to continue our mission. is book is as much an acknowledgment of the Morrill Act sesquicentennial as it is a salute to the history of Texas A&M AgriLife — and a prelude to its future.

Mark A. Hussey

Vice Chancellor and Dean for Agriculture and Life Sciences T e xas A&M AgriLife e T e xas A&M University System

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  • e Board of Regents of e Texas A&M
  • Acknowledgments

is project began as part of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Centennial Celebration and quickly grew to encompass all parts of Texas’s great land-grant system and legacy. ank you to all of the administration of Texas A&M AgriLife (at leſt) for their support of the project, particularly Dr. Mark Hussey, Vice Chancellor and Dean for Agriculture and Life Sciences, and Dr. Edward Smith, Director Emeritus, Texas AgriLife Extension Service.

University System

Richard A. Box, Chairman Phil Adams, Vice Chairman Morris E. Foster Elaine Mendoza Judy Morgan Jim Schwertner Cliff omas John D. White James P. Wilson
To tell a story as big as the Lone Star State took numerous contributors, particularly Dr. Margaret Hale, Steve Schulze, and Cady Auckerman, who conceptualized and championed the project. Jon Mondrik and Ann Shurgin from Texas A&M AgriLife Communications spearheaded the effort and truly made the accomplishments of 150 years come to life. Many thanks also to Dr. Henry Dethloff for his foreword and original research.
Quinten Womack, Student Regent

e Texas A&M University System

John Sharp, Chancellor
Our thanks to the Heritage Subcommitee members who provided original

input for the book: Dr. Ernie Davis, Johnny Fazzino, Dr. Chester Fehlis, Dr. Ed Hiler, Patricia Gerling, Dr. Jennie Kitching, Ken Livingston, Dr. Jarvis Miller, Jon Mondrik, and Dr. Ellen Riter.

Texas A&M University

R. Bowen Loſtin, President

Texas A&M AgriLife Administration

Mark A. Hussey, Vice Chancellor and Dean for Agriculture and Life Sciences Larry Boleman, Associate Vice Chancellor William Dugas, Associate Vice Chancellor
Our sincerest thanks to the many others who provided resources, milestones, stories, interviews, photos, and reviews, including Dr. Larry Boleman, Kyle Smith, Dr. William Dugas, and Melissa Hussey; Dr. Dan Pfannstiel, Director Emeritus, Texas Agricultural Extension Service; Dr. Neville Clarke, Director Emeritus, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station; Dr. Toby Lepley, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service; Dr. Carl Anderson, Professor and Extension Specialist Emeritus; Bruce R. Miles, Director Emeritus, Texas Forest Service; Dr. Robert D. Baker, Professor Emeritus, Forestry, Texas A&M University; Dr. Konrad Eugster, Executive Director Emeritus, Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory; Dr. C. Allen Jones, Professor, Soil and Crop Sciences; Linda Moon and staff at the Texas A&M Forest Service; Stacy Morris of the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory; John Chivvis and Alan Kurk of Texas A&M AgriLife Communications; Phyllis Earles, University Archivist, John B. Coleman Library, Prairie View A&M University; and everyone in the Texas A&M University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences departments and at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Centers who provided resources.

Agency Directors

Tammy Beckham, Director, Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory Tom Boggus, Director, Texas A&M Forest Service Craig Nessler, Director, Texas A&M AgriLife Research Douglas Steele, Director, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Centennial Commitee Members

Cady Auckerman, Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean Monica Delisa, Texas A&M Foundation Macy Eaves, Student, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Patricia Gerling, Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean Margaret Hale, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service Danielle Harris, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Jimmy Keeton, Department of Nutrition and Food Science Ann Kenimer, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Max Malloy, Texas A&M AgriLife Communications Charlene Meyerdirk, Texas A&M AgriLife Nancye Penn, Texas A&M AgriLife Research Steve Schulze, Texas A&M AgriLife McKenzie Watkins, Student, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Contributing research and writing: Dr. Henry C. Dethloff, Professor Emeritus, Texas A&M University Research, compilation, writing, and editing: Ann Shurgin, Texas A&M AgriLife Communications Layout and design: Jon Mondrik, Texas A&M AgriLife Communications

Unless otherwise credited, all photos are courtesy of the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M AgriLife Communications; Texas A&M AgriLife Research; Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service; Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory; Texas A&M Forest Service; and the Texas A&M University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

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  • Justin Smith Morrill Letters Page 2

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    Justin Smith Morrill (1810-1898) Letters, 1851-1897 MSA 654-655, Size C Introduction This collection contains 84 letters written to U.S. Congressman and Senator Justin Smith Morrill of Strafford, Vermont, one letter written by him, and other printed materials from the period 1851-1897. The collection was donated by the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation to the Vermont Historical Society in 2014. It is housed in two archival flip top boxes and one oversized folder; it consumes .75 linear feet of shelf space. Biographical Note Justin Smith Morrill was born in Strafford, Vermont, April 14, 1810, the son of Nathaniel and Mary Hunt Morrill. He began his mercantile career as a clerk for Royal Hatch in Strafford Village. After working in stores in Strafford and Portland, Maine, Morrill returned to Strafford, working for Jedediah Harris, and in 1834 he became his partner in a store known as Harris and Morrill. Although still nominally involved in several partnerships, Morrill effectively resigned from business in 1848. At the time of his early retirement from business Morrill was preparing to build a house in Strafford in anticipation of his 1851 marriage to Ruth Barrell Swan (ca. 1820- 1898). He entered politics in 1854 and served in both the United States House of Representatives and Senate for nearly 44 years. While in the House, he served as chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means in the Thirty-ninth Congress. He also served on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, which drafted the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1867, as a senator, he gained recognition for his Land Grant College Acts of 1862 and 1890.