People in Billy Morrow Jackson's "Ag Time" Painting
Cyril George Hopkins - Head of the Department of Agronomy 1900-1919. Researcher and advocate of
the science and practice of soil conservation
William R. Boggess - Head of the Department of Forestry 1968-73. Pioneer in measuring tree
growth
Edward Murray East - Known as the father of modern plant breeding. Shares the honor of being
co-inventor of hybrid corn
George Espy Morrow - Professor of Agriculture 1876-94.\n First dean of the College of
Agriculture 1878-94. Responsible for developing the first continuous U.S. experiment in crop
rotation
Big Al - the World's first transgenic pig. Work done by Professor Matt Wheeler
H.H. Mitchell - Animal scientist whose research led to the adoption of statistical treatment of
data in animal nutrition laboratories
E.W. Lehmann - First head of the Department of Agricultural Engineering in 1921. Early leader
in the fight for rural electrification
Jonathan Baldwin Turner - Noted farmer and lecturer who first formulated a comprehensive plan
for a national system of universities
Abraham Lincoln - Holding the Morrill Act which he signed in 1862, establishing the Land Grant
Colleges
Alma Mater - Holding a cardinal (the state bird) in her left hand, and a bunch of violets (the
state flower) in her right
Vermont Senator Justin Smith Morrill – (Holding Mumford House, built in 1870) Fought for many
years in Congress for passage of act that bears his name
Wilbur John Fraser - Head of the Department of Dairy Husbandry 1902-13. Responsible for much of
the planning, construction, and arrangement of the experimental round barn
Isabel Bevier - Head of the Department of Household Science 1900-21. Credited with developing
one of the outstanding home economics departments in the U.S.
Glenn W. Salisbury - Head of the Department of Dairy Science 1947-69. Groundbreaking work in
artificial insemination in dairy cattle
Clyde Melvin Woodworth - First soybean geneticist. Developed early improved soybean cultivars
including Chief, Illini, Viking and Lincoln
William Leonidas Burlison - Head of the Department of Agronomy 1920-51. Helped make Illinois
the largest soybean producer in the United States
Thomas Jonathan Burrill - Professor of botany and horticulture 1870-1903. Professor of botany
1902-12. Created science of bacterial plant pathology
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