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Autobiography of a Farm Boy

Author : Isaac Phillips Roberts
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801475498
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of a Farm Boy written by Isaac Phillips Roberts and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This autobiography of the first Dean of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University offers an unconventional account of farm life in New York and the Middle West during the nineteenth century, and of the difficulties attendant upon building up a vital and progressive agricultural college. Born in Seneca County, New York, in 1833, Isaac Phillips Roberts emigrated west--first to Indiana, where he worked as a carpenter until he was able to buy a farm, and taught school during the winters; then, in 1862, to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in a pioneer wagon with his wife, Margaret, and daughter. In 1869, he became the Superindent of the Farm and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Iowa Agricultural College at Ames, where he soon became Professor of Agriculture. In 1873, he returned to New York to take a similar position at Cornell University; shortly thereafer, he was made Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Director of the Experiment Station. During his thirty years of service in Ithaca, he wrote voluminously on agricultural subjects, and after his retirement, penned Autobiography of a Farm Boy, initially published in 1916, reissued by Cornell University Press in 1946, and now made available in paperback. He died in Palo Alto, California, in 1928.

Autobiography of a Farm Boy

Author : Isaac Phillips Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of a Farm Boy written by Isaac Phillips Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Autobiography of a Farm Boy

Author : Isaac Phillips Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of a Farm Boy written by Isaac Phillips Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Autobiography of a Farm Boy

Author : Isaac Phillips Roberts
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781440085161
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of a Farm Boy written by Isaac Phillips Roberts and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Autobiography of a Farm Boy For thirty years Professor Roberts led the work in agriculture at Cornell University. These were the eventful and triumphant years of 1873 to 1903. They began in doubt and with small things, but they were large with faith. He developed one of the best Institutions of Its kind. Only ten or eleven years had elapsed since the passage of the Land Grant Act, at which time instruction in agriculture was given a national sanction. A few colleges had made the effort to organize the subject into teaching form and to collect the equipment and develop the farms that were necessary to the new enterprise. Even Michigan, the oldest of the existing North American colleges of agriculture, had been under way only sixteen years. Cornell had given instruction five years. From the first, agriculture had had its appointed place in the institution; but the work was not really established until Professor Roberts came. He came from a farm and with the traditions of farming. He had had experience in the new Institution in Iowa. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Farm Boy To Fly Boy

Author : Col[Ret] G. Brennand
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1525504967
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Farm Boy To Fly Boy written by Col[Ret] G. Brennand and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his childhood growing up in Depression-era rural Manitoba to his rise through the ranks to become a colonel in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), Col Gordon Brennand’s memoir, Farm Boy to Flyboy, is as much a history of the RCAF in the twentieth century as it is an account of his own life. Born a bit too late to participate in WWII, Gordon was inspired by Canada’s involvement in the Korean War to pursue a life in the military. After a failed start in the Navy, he enlisted with the Air Force with faint hopes of perhaps becoming a fighter pilot. Not only did he succeed, he logged four thousand hours on various jet aircraft types including over 1100 hours on the F-86 Sabre, which was the state-of-the-art fighter jet throughout most his thirty-four-year career, not to mention hundreds of hours on various other types of aircraft. He experienced several close calls during that time, including one incident when he had to eject and another when he had to force land due to engine failure. He went on to command two bases and has spent time living in most Canadian provinces as well as Germany, where he served for three years during the Cold War. Fascinating and insightful, this book will appeal to those who are fascinated by the military and flying as well as those who are simply seeking a first-person account of what life was really like for the men and women who served in the RCAF throughout one of the most pivotal periods of twentieth-century history.

Autobiography of a Farm Boy (Classic Reprint)

Author : Isaac Phillips Roberts
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484517720
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of a Farm Boy (Classic Reprint) written by Isaac Phillips Roberts and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Autobiography of a Farm Boy It is this courage, this steadfastness in the de termination to hold the field for agriculture, that grows larger in my estimation as the years go by. I speak of his work in the past tense, for I too look backward; but I am glad that he is still keen to follow the result Of his labors. It was not then a day for erudition, or for high technical scholarship, but a time for clear faith, homely and direct relations with the people, wisdom in giving advice. From the first years that I knew him he was a philosopher and a forecaster, always prae tical, always driving home the point, always with his feet squarely on the ground. He loved the farm; from the rail fence to the back lot, the trees in the pasture, the woodside, the orchard, every animal in stall or field, the high land and the low land, all were his to walk over, to question, to inspect with care, and to improve. It was one of the delights of his teaching to take his boys to the farm. He was a master in the practice Of observing farm conditions, why the grass was thin here and heavy there, why the weeds came in, why the animals chose the spot on which to lie, how to run the drains, to build a fence, to put up a shed or barn, to paint a building, how to break a horse, how to breed a herd from. A common foundation, how to sell a crop, what the weather meant, how to bring an old field back into good condition. He did not teach some small department of farm knowledge as we do in these days, but the Whole farm and the farmer and the wife and the children and the hired man; and he taught it with a quiet and genial philosophy, Often quaint and always full of good humor. He was the real teacher of the small group, preferring the out-of-doors and the barns and the herds to the formal laboratories. I have never known anyone to make such good educational use of an entire farm and its equipment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Limping through Life

Author : Jerry Apps
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870205870
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Limping through Life written by Jerry Apps and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Limping through Life A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir Jerry Apps “Families throughout the United States lived in fear of polio throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, and now the disease had come to our farm. I can still remember that short winter day and the chilly night when I first showed symptoms. My life would never be the same.” —from the Introduction Polio was epidemic in the United States starting in 1916. By the 1930s, quarantines and school closings were becoming common, as isolation was one of the only ways to fight the disease. The Sauk vaccine was not available until 1955; in that year, Wisconsin’s Fox River valley had more polio cases per capita than anywhere in the United States. In his most personal book, Jerry Apps, who contracted polio at age twelve, reveals how the disease affected him physically and emotionally, profoundly influencing his education, military service, and family life and setting him on the path to becoming a professional writer. A hardworking farm kid who loved playing softball, young Jerry Apps would have to make many adjustments and meet many challenges after that winter night he was stricken with a debilitating, sometimes fatal illness. In Limping through Life he explores the ways his world changed after polio and pays tribute to those family members, teachers, and friends who helped him along the way.

AUTOBIOG OF A FARM BOY

Author : Isaac Phillips 1833-1928 Roberts
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781360479330
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book AUTOBIOG OF A FARM BOY written by Isaac Phillips 1833-1928 Roberts and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Farm Boy Comes to the City

Author : Herman Witt
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462872468
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Farm Boy Comes to the City written by Herman Witt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After having had the disire to a write a book on my life for years but felt I should wait for the right time. I had no writing experience or special ability in writing skills. English wasn't one of my strong points in school, and my computor skills were limited. One thing I did know and leaned on very strongly and that was, with God all things are possible. So in Dec. 2010 I felt the time had come where I should go ahead with the project which I did. Looking back now on how well it went I believe the Lord wanted me to write this book and give Him the Honor and Glory for having helped me to make this a success. I had a strong desire to thank Him for what He has done in my journey in life. So as you read or have read remember that I could not have succeeded without the Lord's help. So this can apply to your life as well. God Bless.

Autobiography of a Farm Boy

Author : Isaac P. Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780781283243
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Autobiography of a Farm Boy written by Isaac P. Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding

How a Farm Boy Built a Successful Corporation

Author : Howard Thomas Hallowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258180065
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book How a Farm Boy Built a Successful Corporation written by Howard Thomas Hallowell and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Flying Farm Boy

Author : Daniel Boerman
Publisher : TrustedBooks
ISBN 13 : 9781632691668
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Flying Farm Boy written by Daniel Boerman and published by TrustedBooks. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A captivating memoir about the events in a young Michigan farm boy's life that send him winging his way towards the life God has planned for him." -Rev. Stephen Steenstra The joys and challenges of life on a small farm are fast becoming a distant memory in our society, but for author Daniel Boerman, the memories are crystal clear. Through his memoir, The Flying Farm Boy, Boerman enables you, the reader, to appreciate life in a fresh, new way by sharing his simple boyhood lifestyle; one he believes represents a rich heritage full of meaning for today. Like all young people, Boerman had a dream. He wanted to soar in life, to be confident, respected, and successful. Focused on flying above his humble, obscure beginnings, he was determined to impact the world around him, no matter what obstacles were thrown his way. Maybe, as his frequently ill mother urged, he could become a minister, preaching powerful messages to his congregations. Whatever his future vocation, the author desired to find a way to live out the values he learned and achieve the success he desired. Boerman invites you along for an inspiring flight. Through reading The Flying Farm Boy, you too may discover the value of simple living and rise above obscurity.

Chesapeake Boyhood

Author : William H. Turner
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801855894
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Chesapeake Boyhood written by William H. Turner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chesapeake Boyhood is an account of growing up on the lower Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake during the years following the Great Depression. Turner's stories include rousing tales of 'coon hunting, crabbing, boat building, duck hunting, oyster tonging, and Saturday jaunts to town. Turner brings the characters, experiences, waterscape, and landscape of rural Virginia to life as no one has done before or is likely ever to do again. His own drawings illustrate the stories, and they, too, win us over with their honesty and charm. "Its chief virtue (besides its highly literate style), it seems to me, is its intimate, sensory knowledge of a vanishing Chesapeake landscape: its sounds and smells, the way things feel to the touch, the lore lodged in the names of the commonest creatures and activities... At one point Turner likens the local farmers and fishermen sitting around the table in the country store to fixed positions on a compass, with `all the cardinal points taken,' and I think of this [book] as a kind of compass too, that describes one man's orientation to the Eastern Shore."--Andrea Hammer, St. Mary's College "Modern outdoor writing has enough anemic adventures by faint-hearted writers reared in the suburbs. What it needs more of is the droll wit of an Ed Zern, the robust foolishness of a Patrick McManus, and the lean prose of an Ernest Hemingway. It gets all three in the tales of Bill Turner."--George Regier, author of Heron Hill Chronicle and Wanderer on My Native Shore "Storms, boat wrecks, childhood pranks and even old dogs are remembered with a sense of humor in Turner's book. He has captured the rhythms of country life in a time before fast cars, credit cards, and air pollution." -- Waterman's Gazette

Blue Skies and Thunder

Author : Virgil Westdale, Stephanie A. Gerdes
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440182582
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Blue Skies and Thunder written by Virgil Westdale, Stephanie A. Gerdes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942, Virgil Westdale was a successful young flight instructor when the government ousted him from the Air Corps and demoted him to army private. Having grown up as a Japanese American midwestern farm boy, Westdale had his first taste of Japanese culture when he was sent to train with the all Japanese American unit, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. He was ultimately transferred to the 522nd Artillery Battalion, where, as a member of the Fire Direction Center, he helped push the Germans out of Italy, rescue the “Lost Battalion” in France, and free prisoners from Dachau Concentration Camp in Germany. After the war, Westdale went on to pursue a career in research and development with large corporations. He received twenty-five U.S. patents and earned an international award for his work with photocopier components. In retirement, he has been working for the TSA, returning to the worlds of aviation and national security. Written for the lay reader as well as the history buff, Westdale’s stories of World War II challenge preconceived notions of what we think we know about a soldier’s life in Europe and offer images that go beyond the history books. ---"Spanning over ninety years, Virgil’s amazing and complex life story vividly reflects America’s history from the early 1900s to our current fight against terrorism. His book reads if he were sitting before me casually sharing his life. A highlight of my career––both as an Army officer and a Federal Civil Servant––has been the honor of working with and getting to know Virgil Westdale, a great American. This is a truly fascinating and memorable autobiography." John H. Mumma, Colonel, US Army Retired Federal Security Director, Transportation Security Administration ---"Virgil Westdale’s Blue Skies and Thunder tells a story that is both unique in American history and uniquely American. After growing up as a Midwestern farm boy whose Japanese father had largely assimilated into the local community, he found himself after Pearl Harbor viewed with suspicion by the very government he wanted to serve in the Second World War. Denied a chance to serve as a military pilot, or even as a pilot trainer, he eventually found his way into a newly created Japanese American artillery unit and served with distinction in Italy, France and Germany. Back in the United States, he completed college and made a career for himself as an engineer with multiple patents to his credit, and eventually served his country a second time, as an airport security officer. His account is highly readable and offers insights into a wide range of aspects of both his own life and the world around him." Dr. James Smither, Director Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project

Farm Boy 101

Author : Dennis Dobie
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Farm Boy 101 written by Dennis Dobie and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever experienced or wondered what it was like living on a family farm in the 1960's? This is what it's all about. The highs of purely fresh, plant oxygenated air, the wonderful aromas of morning coffee and thoroughly filling farm meals. Family members working together. Neighbors really helping neighbors. Building life-long friendships while working or playing in the sun. This was a perfect blend of working with animals, field crops, people, and machinery. Reimagine or relive it all in 1960's Minnesota Farm Boy 101 A Memoir of Fifty-Five Years of Being a Farm "Kid" in Southern Minnesota, 1953-2008. Memories flow from being a farm kid teenager with dreams of an everlasting land legacy, through adulthood where new realities unfold. Read along and enjoy the moments that make the person.

Memories of an Iowa Farm Boy

Author : Herbert Ellery Wilkinson
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories of an Iowa Farm Boy written by Herbert Ellery Wilkinson and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life of a Texas Farm Boy

Author : Jack Woods Coleman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781522967088
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Life of a Texas Farm Boy written by Jack Woods Coleman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of a Texas Farm Boy is the autobiography of our dad, Jack Woods Coleman. He was born in rural Texas near San Antonio during the Great Depression and turns 82 years young in January 2016. He has long desired to write about his life so that future generations of the Coleman family will know about this extraordinary man.