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FOUTS FAMILY OF INDIANA 1 FOUTS FAMILY OF INDIANA - SOYBEAN PIONEERS (1882-2012): EXTENSIVELY ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SOURCEBOOK Including Taylor Fouts (1880-1952), his brothers Noah Fouts (1864-1938) and Finis Fouts (1866-1943), their Soyland Farm (1918-1928), and their father Solomon Fouts (1826-1907) Compiled by William Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi 2012 Copyright © 2012 by Soyinfo Center FOUTS FAMILY OF INDIANA 2 Copyright (c) 2012 by William Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means - graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or information and retrieval systems - except for use in reviews, without written permission from the publisher. Published by: Soyinfo Center P.O. Box 234 Lafayette, CA 94549-0234 USA Phone: 925-283-2991 Fax: 925-283-9091 www.soyinfocenter.com [email protected] ISBN 9781928914488 (Fouts family without hyphens) ISBN 978-1-928914-48-8 (Fouts family with hyphens) Printed 12 Oct. 2012 Price: Available on the Web free of charge Search engine keywords: Biography of Taylor Fouts Biography of Noah Fouts Biography of Finis Fouts Biography of Solomon Fouts History of Soyland Bibliography of Taylor Fouts Bibliography of Noah Fouts Bibliography of Finis Fouts Bibliography of Solomon Fouts Fouts Family Genealogy Copyright © 2012 by Soyinfo Center FOUTS FAMILY OF INDIANA 3 Contents Page Dedication and Acknowledgments.................................................................................................................................. 4 Introduction and Brief Chronology, by William Shurtleff .......................................................................................... 5 About This Book ............................................................................................................................................................. 7 Abbreviations Used in This Book .................................................................................................................................. 8 How to Make the Best Use of This Digital Book - Search It! ...................................................................................... 9 Fouts Family of Indiana - Soybean Pioneers: 221 References in Chronological Order ......................................... 11 Contains 38 Photographs and Illustrations Subject/Geographical Index by Record Numbers ................................................................................................... 109 Last Page of Index ....................................................................................................................................................... 123 Fouts Family Genealogy (Introduction) .................................................................................................................... 124 Last Page of Book ........................................................................................................................................................ 127 Copyright © 2012 by Soyinfo Center FOUTS FAMILY OF INDIANA 4 DEDICATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Japanese translation and maps: Akiko Aoyagi Shurtleff. This book is dedicated to the Fouts Family of Indiana - Loma Linda University, Del E. Webb Memorial Library and especially to Taylor Fouts: Soybean pioneers (Seventh-day Adventist): Janice Little, Trish Chapman. We would also like to thank our co-workers and friends at Soyinfo Center who, since 1984, have played a major role in Part of the enjoyment of writing a book lies in meeting collecting the documents, building the library, and producing people from around the world who share a common interest, the SoyaScan database from which this book is printed: and in learning from them what is often the knowledge or skills acquired during a lifetime of devoted research or Irene Yen, Tony Jenkins, Sarah Chang, Laurie Wilmore, practice. We wish to give deepest thanks... Alice Whealey, Simon Beaven, Elinor McCoy, Patricia McKelvey, Claire Wickens, Ron Perry, Walter Lin, Dana Scott, Jeremy Longinotti, John Edelen, Alex Lerman, Lydia Of the many libraries and librarians who have been of great Lam, Gretchen Muller, Joyce Mao, Luna Oxenberg, Joelle help to our research over the years, several stand out: Bouchard, Justine Lam, Joey Shurtleff, Justin Hildebrandt, Michelle Chun, Olga Kochan, Loren Clive, Marina Li, University of California at Berkeley: John Creaser, Lois Rowyn McDonald, Casey Brodsky, Hannah Woodman, Farrell, Norma Kobzina, Ingrid Radkey. Elizabeth Hawkins, Molly Howland, Jacqueline Tao, Lynn Hsu, Brooke Vittimberga. Northern Regional Library Facility (NRLF), Richmond, California: Martha Lucero, Jutta Wiemhoff, Scott Miller, Special thanks to Tom and Linda Wolfe of Berwyn Park, Virginia Moon, Kay Loughman. Maryland. And to Lorenz K. Schaller of Ojai, California. Stanford University: Molly Molloy, who has been of special Without the superb, professional help of three people at the help on Slavic-language documents. Indiana State Library, Indiana Division, Newspaper Section, this book could never have been written: John Selch, David National Agricultural Library: Susan Chapman, Kay Derr, Lewis, and Martha Wright. Thank you so much. Carol Ditzler, John Forbes, Winnifred Gelenter, Henry Gilbert, Kim Hicks, Ellen Knollman, Patricia Krug, For outstanding help on this Fouts book we thank: Bill Sarah Lee, Veronica Lefebvre, Julie Mangin, Ellen Mann, and Doris Fouts, Bill Ragan M.D., Charlotte M. Grace, Mary Josephine McDowell, Wayne Olson, Mike Thompson, Margaret Fouts Bowman and Leo Bowman, Mara Bowman Tanner Wray. Hendress, David Fouts, Tom C. Fouts (“Captain Stubby”), Howard House M.D., Richard McCain, Tom Modisett, Mary Library of Congress: Ronald Jackson, Ronald Roache. “Ginny” Guard Richards, Margaret Fouts Rinehart, Tesh Wickard, and Jan Hendricks. Lane Medical Library at Stanford University. Finally our deepest thanks to Tony Cooper of San Ramon, Contra Costa County Central Library and Lafayette Library: California, who has kept our computers up and running since Carole Barksdale, Kristen Wick, Barbara Furgason, Sherry Sept. 1983. Without Tony, this series of books on the Web Cartmill, Linda Barbero. would not have been possible. Harvard University’s Five Botanical Libraries (especially This book, no doubt and alas, has its share of errors. These, Arnold Arboretum Library): Jill Gelmers Thomas. of course, are solely the responsibility of William Shurtleff. French translation: Martine Liguori of Lafayette, California, This bibliography and sourcebook was written with the for ongoing, generous, and outstanding help since the early hope that someone will write a detailed and well-documented 1980s. history of this subject. Copyright © 2012 by Soyinfo Center FOUTS FAMILY OF INDIANA 5 INTRODUCTION Chronology / Timeline of Fouts Family Work with 1907 Oct. 24 – Taylor is married to Lillie May Wagoner Soybeans and the Founding (Sept. 1920) of the American (born 4 Nov. 1883) at Flora, Carroll Co., Indiana. Lillie May Soybean Association on the Fouts Family Farm is obliged to postpone their wedding day until Taylor fi nished threshing his soybeans. “We fi nally set October 24 as being 1896 or 1898 – Solomon Fouts (father of Noah, Finis, and amply late, but I just fi nished threshing at noon that day. We Taylor Fouts) receives two varieties of soybean seeds, free were married at 3 p.m. and were off for the long-planned of charge from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He honeymoon.” Taylor now had 200 bushels of seed soybeans – plants these in rows across a cornfi eld on his farm near Deer a unique possession. Creek, Carroll County, Indiana. These were probably the fi rst soybeans grown in Carroll County. Solomon’s soybeans 1908 spring – Noah Fouts (born 25 Jan. 1864 in Indiana) and attract considerable attention as a legume that grows upright Finis Fouts (pronounced FAI-nus, born 21 Nov. 1866), join (erect) and produces abundant seeds. A lasting impression Taylor for the fi rst time in planting soybeans. “We ventured was made on Taylor Fouts (born 14 Dec. 1880), the drilling soybean with the corn so that our western lambs, youngest of Solomon’s eight living children. to be purchased in September, would have a more balanced ration. My two older brothers took readily to this plan and 1902 – Taylor Fouts graduates from Purdue University thereafter grew soybeans as a habit.” (which is Indiana’s state agricultural college) with a bachelor of science degree in agriculture; he was the only member of 1908 April 1 – Nellie M. Pottenger, Finis’ wife, dies in the Fouts family to graduate from college. During the early California at age 35. Finis had gone with her to California to 1900s, several faculty members in the Purdue College of help with her care, and he suffered a “nervous collapse” after Agriculture were very interested in soybeans; these included her death. He was in critical condition for a while, then was W.C. Latta, John H. Skinner, Alfred T. Wiancko, and C.O. left to raise their fi ve children, devastated by her death. Cromer. Taylor was now “convinced that the whole Cornbelt needed soybeans and would like them for keeps.” 1909 April 21 – Pauline Fouts, the fi rst child of Taylor and Lillie May Fouts is born at their home near Deer Creek. They 1904 spring – Taylor Fouts collects enough soybean seed would have two more children: Frederic Fouts (born 20 Sept. from the Indiana Experiment Station and “Soybean” Smith 1910) and Mary Margaret Fouts (born 26 Dec. 1919). – an Indiana