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THE 1910 INDEX VOLUME XXXX Kenyon Leech Butterfield T was on a farm near the outskirts of the village of Lapeer, Lapeer County, Michigan, that our President first saw the light of day, June 1 I th, 1 868. His early life was one of intense activity. He was always striving how to do the many duties incident to the lot of a boy on the farm by a shorter method or by increasing the effectiveness of such work. He was the same in his school work and easily kept the first place in his classes by this indomitable desire to push ahead. In 1 886 he entered the Michigan Agricultural College, and while obliged to drop out the next year on account of lack of funds, he returned the following year and grad- uated with the highest honors in 1 89 1 . While in college we see this same masterful desire to push on, to accomplish, to secure the highest return for his endeavor. During his Junior and Senior years he won first place in the intersociety oratorical contest. Upon his graduation he was offered an instructorship in the English Department of his Alma Mater, but declined on account of not desiring to make teaching his life work. He accepted, however, and held the position of Assistant Secretary for one year, resigning lo accept the editorship of the Michigan Grange Visitor, which he held until that paper was merged into the Michigan Farmer in 1895. It was in this year that the Michigan State Board of Agriculture, recognizing the value of educational work among the farmers, appointed him Superintendent of Farmers ' Institutes, and the next year. College Field Agent. At this time farmers ' institutes were not thoroughly understood, and had received no national recognition. To bring them out from the chaotic condition in which they were then to an established and recognized place in rural society required the ability of a man with strong powers of organization. In 1899 Supt. Butterfield gave up this position and in 1900 took up graduate work at the university of Michigan, taking his Masters degree in 1902. He was then appointed instructor in Rural Sociology, which position he held until his election to the Presidency of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in 1903. It was here that his work attracted the attention of the Hon. Carroll D. Wright, head of the depart- ment of Economics and Sociology in the Carnegie Institution at Washington, who ap- pointed him to prepare an economic history of agriculture in the United States; this work is still in preparation.
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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 19 Among his many published addresses we notice: Social Problems of the American Farmer, delivered at the Congress of Arts and Sciences, World ' s Fair, St. Louis; Social Phase of Agricultural Education, read before the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations at Des Moines, la. His book. Chapters on Rural Progress, was published in 1907. The latest public recognition of his eminent services in the cause of agricultural progress, is his appointment by President Roosevelt to the Commission on Country Life. In 1 906 President Butterfield accepted the Presidency of the Massachusetts Agri- cultural College. His work here has been steadily progressive. With his contagious enthusiasm and wide experience, the College looks forward to a future of ever increasing usefulness .
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