Autobiography of a Farm Boy (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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From the farm to the lecture hall, this memoir traces one man's work to build practical agricultural education across America.

Born in New York and raised on a farm, Isaac Phillips Roberts rises to become a leading figure in early American agricultural education. The book blends personal memory with the rise of land‑grant colleges, showing how hands‑on farming, classroom learning, and university leadership shaped a new kind of public instruction.

Set against the broad expansion of agricultural instruction after the land‑grant movement, the memoir follows Roberts’s time at Iowa and Cornell and his belief in teaching the whole farm—from fields and barns to people and communities.

• The author’s boyhood on a Seneca County farm and his path into farming, teaching, and leadership
• The development of practical farming instruction and state-supported colleges
• Real-world teaching, experiments, and the creation of enduring agricultural institutions
• Reflections on the role of educators, institutions, and community impact

Ideal for readers interested in memoirs about education, agriculture, and American innovation.

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