Author: Sylvester K. StevensPublisher:
ISBN: 9781887315043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Centre Furnace Story
Author: Sylvester K. StevensPublisher:
ISBN: 9781887315043
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
The Centre Furnace Story
Author: Sylvester Kirby StevensPublisher:
ISBN: 9781887315036
Category : Centre County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Centre Furnace
Author: Sylvester Kirby StevensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Iron industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The Landscape of Charcoal Iron
Author: Manish ChalanaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Centre County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
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Author: History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania
Author: John Blair LinnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Centre County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State
Author: Roger L. WilliamsPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271090499
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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 leading Penn State through its formative years. Watts adroitly directed the school as it was sited, built, and financed, opening for students in 1859. He hired the brilliant Evan Pugh as founding president, who, with Watts, quickly made it the first successful agricultural college in America. But for all his success in launching the institution, Watts nearly brought it to the brink of closure through a series of ruinous presidential appointments that led to an abandonment of the land-grant focus on agriculture and engineering. Watts’s influence in the agricultural modernization movement and his impact on land-grant education in the United States—both in his role with Penn State and later as US commissioner of agriculture—made him a leader in the history of agricultural and higher education. Roger L. Williams’s compelling biography of Watts reestablishes him in this legacy, providing a balanced analysis of his missteps and accomplishments.
History of Centre and Clinton Counties
Author: J.B. LinnPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 588357405X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 923
Book Description
An Illustrated History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Author: William Henry EglePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
This volume provides a comprehensive general history of the state of Pennsylvania beginning with Native American tribes through its involvement in the American Civil War. Histories of each county are also provided with a significant portion of the Adams County history devoted to the town and Battle of Gettysburg.
A History of Philadelphia
Author: Daniel BowenPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429022183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Also, The State Of Society, In Relation To Science, Religion, And Morals: With A Historical Account Of The Military Operations Of The Late War, Including The Names Of Over Two Thousand Patriotic Officers, And Citizen Soldiers, In 1812, 1813, And 1814.