History of the Kansas State Agricultural College

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It will soon be half a century since the Kansas State Agricultural College was founded and located. For a new State, and one that made history as fast as the trans-Missourian countries did, this is a long period. Many of the men to whose efforts the people of Kansas owe this magnificent institution of learning—the largest school of its kind in America—have left to conquer other territories, some have followed more remunerative callings than that of the educator, and many have died. The semi-centennial now close at hand will find but few of the pioneers in health and vigor. If a history including the valuable element of personal recollection was to be written, the work could not be deferred much longer.\nThis volume is really a fifth revised and enlarged edition of an historic monograph originally written by the author for the Riley County Map Book, published in 1881. The second sketch was written for the U. S. Bureau of Education in 1890. The third was published as a 76 page pamphl

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