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  Liberty Hyde Bailey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was an American botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.
Born in South Haven, Michigan, he was educated and taught at the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) before moving to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he was director of the College of Agriculture.
Bailey is credited with being instrumental in starting agricultural extension services, the 4-H movement, parcel post and rural electrification.
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 Library of the Gray Herbarium Archives, Liberty Hyde Bailey
Liberty Hyde Bailey was born on a fruit farm in South Haven, Michigan, on March 15, 1858.
Bailey was appointed Dean of the faculty, Director of the College and its Experiment Station, and Professor of Rural Economy (Lawrence 31).
Bailey published a series of Carex papers between 1883 and 1900 and was a major expert in the field during that period.
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 Liberty Hyde Bailey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Born on a farm in Michigan in 1858, Liberty Hyde Bailey graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College with a degree in botany.
Bailey retired from Cornell in 1913, but continued his scientific, practical, and philosophical pursuits, and made his home in Ithaca for the rest of his life.
Liberty Hyde Bailey died in 1954 at the age of ninety-six.
www.cals.cornell.edu /Liberty_Hyde_Bailey.cfm   (277 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.64 (1994)
The career of Liberty Hyde Bailey—botanist; horticulturalist; plant breeder; teacher par excellence; visionary; astute, vigorous, successful administrator; lobbyist; prolific writer; superb editor; poet; rural sociologist; philosopher; environmentalist; traveler; and plant explorer—was remarkable for the magnitude of its accomplishments and the breadth and enduring quality of its influence.
Liberty Hyde Bailey was born on March 15, 1858, in South Haven, Michigan.
Bailey continued his cross-breeding experiments, his inspired teaching, and pioneering new experiments such as growing plants under electric lights because, while in Cambridge with Gray, he had observed differences in the behavior of plants that were growing near gas lamps on the streets.
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Liberty Hyde Bailey, born in 1858 on a farm in South Haven, Michigan, became a great man in the history of the agricultural sciences.
Liberty Hyde Bailey began his academic career at the Michigan Agricultural College (now the Michigan State University), from which he moved to Cornell University to serve as an instructor and eventually as the Dean of the College of Agriculture.
Another significant contribution was Bailey’s determination to carry the college of agriculture to the farm and not to restrict its facilities to the student in residence.
www.bsp.msu.edu /Background/BaileyBio.cfm   (5909 words)

  
 The State and the Farmer
Liberty Hyde Bailey was the leading public spokesman for rural renewal in the first decades of the 20th century.
Bailey believed that expertise should be "on tap, not on top." Education at every level, including particularly education promoted by cooperative extension, should have as its primary aim preparing people for "public work," developing their capacities to work together on common tasks of importance.
Liberty Bailey believed ardently in a democracy that rested upon the self-confidence, public spirit, and civic skills of ordinary people and in a government that worked in partnership with the people to produce things of public value.
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 Liberty Hyde Bailey -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A biologist specializing in the study of plants) botanist and cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.
Bailey is credited with being instrumental in starting agricultural extension services, the 4-H movement, parcel post and (Click link for more info and facts about rural) rural (The act of providing electricity) electrification.
He was considered the father of rural (The study and classification of human societies) sociology and rural (Newspapers and magazines collectively) journalism.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/liberty_hyde_bailey.htm   (128 words)

  
 Gonsalves: New Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor
He joins Rosie Provvidenti and Wendell Roelofs as the third Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor at Geneva, and the second in the department of Plant Pathology.
Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954) was a distinguished botanist, horticulturist, plant breeder, teacher, poet, and visionary who was dean of Cornell University's College of Ag and Life Sciences from 1903 to 1913.
L.H. Bailey professorships were established by the university trustees in 1972 to provide recognition for distinguished faculty within the College of Agriculture and Life Science who have national and international reputations in agriculture and related sciences.
www.nysaes.cornell.edu /pubs/press/gonsalves.html   (690 words)

  
 Floridata: Copernicia baileyana
Bailey palm is considered one of the most "stately" of all palms.
Bailey palm is now available from some nurseries and seed providers but still is considered quite rare and a real prize outside of its native Cuba.
Bailey palm is a source of wax and is used in its native Cuba for making brooms.
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 Liberty Hyde Bailey - A Man for All Seasons
Liberty Hyde, Jr., was their third son, born in 1858.
The Baileys were skillful and innovative farmers, and their farm became known for its prize-winning apple orchards.
Liberty Hyde Bailey was educated in the local school, where his teacher, Julia Fields, taught him grammar, geometry, and Latin, and encouraged his interest in nature.
rmc.library.cornell.edu /bailey/biography   (295 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.64 (1994)
Bailey's long list of honors, however, is remarkable less for its great length than for the breadth of the fields of study represented in it.
Bailey himself wrote some sixty-five books and a large number of the individual items in the several large encyclopedias that he edited.
His successor as director of the Bailey Hortorium, George H. Lawrence, estimated that he wrote at least 1,300 articles published in the world's periodical literature and over 100 papers in pure taxonomy.
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Bailey became known as the “Dean of American Horticulture”, serving as president of several societies, including the American Society for Horticultural Science, the American Pomological Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Bailey’s contributions earned him many honors, both before and after his death on Christmas Day, 1954 at the age of 97.
The Bailey Scholars Program, emphasizing transdisciplinary, self-directed, and active learning for undergraduates, designed to develop “the whole person”, was initiated at MSU in the spring of 1998.
www.hrt.msu.edu /bailey.htm   (601 words)

  
 Cornell News: Liberty Hyde Bailey Professors
In 1972 CALS proposed that a named professorship be established to honor agriculture researcher Liberty Hyde Bailey, and to recognize distinguished faculty in agriculture and related sciences.
Bailey played a key role in American agriculture in elevating the study of horticulture to a science.
He came to Cornell in 1888 as a professor of horticulture and soon founded the laboratory that became Bailey Hortorium, one of the country's first centers for observing, classifying and experimenting with cultivated plants.
www.news.cornell.edu /releases/March00/LibertyHyde.bpf.html   (836 words)

  
 Michigan Historical Marker: Liberty Hyde Bailey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The world-famous botanist and horticulturist, Liberty Hyde Bailey, was born in this frame house.
He graduated from Michigan Agricultural College in 1882, served on its faculty, and designed at that school the nation's first distinctively horticultural laboratory building.
Bailey went on to be director of Cornell's College of Agriculture, retiring in 1913.
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March 15 marks the 144th anniversary of the birth of Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954), renowned agricultural scientist.
He then went on to serve as grounds keeper of Rhode Island State Hospital until 1936.Lawrence received his Ph.D. from Cornell University where he was a student of the renown horticulturist, Liberty Hyde Bailey.
In 1951, Lawrence was named Director of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium and published Taxonomy of Vascular Plants.
www.uri.edu /library/special_collections/exhibits/lawrence/libertyhydebailey.htm   (495 words)

  
 CANR - Liberty Hyde Bailey Scholars Program Funding Priorities
Endowments for the Bailey Program are designed to enhance student learning experiences, as well as provide unique learning opportunities for all members of the Bailey community through interacting with and learning from visiting lecturers.
The Frank A. and Kathleen L. Fear Bailey Student Experiences Endowed Fund Named in honor of the first chairperson of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Scholars Program, this fund was initiated to encourage students to achieve their educational and professional goals.
Funding assistance would allow Bailey to continue to invite these scholars to campus for the enrichment not only of the Bailey program, but also across the CANR and the University.
www.canr.msu.edu /canrhome/fp_bailey.htm   (439 words)

  
 Liberty Hyde Bailey professorships
The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has named George Casella, professor of biometrics, Dennis Gonsalves, professor of plant pathology, and Maureen Hanson, professor of biological sciences, as the newest Liberty Hyde Bailey Professors.
Liberty Hyde Bailey was among the first of the truly supreme professors at Cornell.
Bailey had been recruited to teach here as a professor in 1888 and brought the study of horticulture to the forefront.
www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/96/4.4.96/baileyprofs.html   (607 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Liberty Hyde Bailey (Horticulture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Liberty Hyde Bailey 1858–1954, American botanist and horticulturist, b.
Bailey was influential in establishing horticulture as a respected science.
1935) and Cyclopedia of American Agriculture (4 vol., 1907–9), and compiled (with E. Bailey) Hortus (1930, rev. ed.
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 Guide to the Liberty Hyde Bailey papers, 1845 - 2004
Liberty Hyde Bailey was instrumental in separating Horticulture from Botany and establishing it as a distinct scientific pursuit.
Bailey's idea for a campus arboretum, botanical garden, and research field is realized with the opening of the Cornell Plantations
Personal, family, and professional papers relating to the life and work of Liberty Hyde Bailey and including correspondence, manuscripts, scrapbooks, journals, photographs, publications, genealogical and biographical information.
rmc.library.cornell.edu /EAD/htmldocs/RMA03342.html   (942 words)

  
 Cornell News: Bailey's Creme with Henry's Crunch
Its flavor is Irish cream and it is combined with dark chocolate flakes, caramel and peanuts.
The Bailey in the name is for the college's first dean, Liberty Hyde Bailey.
Bailey, an influential American agriculturist at the turn of the last century, is credited with tying several disciplines into horticulture.
www.news.cornell.edu /releases/May04/BaileysCreme.bpf.html   (678 words)

  
 Bailey, Liberty Hyde on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
1935) and Cyclopedia of American Agriculture (4 vol., 1907-9), and compiled (with E. Bailey) Hortus (1930, rev. ed.
RUGBY UNION: Masser and Bailey sidelined for Nuns opener.(Sport)
RUGBY UNION: Masser and Bailey sidelined for Nuns opener
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 Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum in South Haven, MI : details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum in South Haven, MI : details
-- This is the birthplace of the world-famous botanist and horticulturist Dr. Liberty Hyde-Bailey.
PAGE OVERVIEW: -- Provides general information about Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum, which may include web site and contact information, as well as description and collections info for those planning to visit Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum..
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bailey Liberty Hyde
MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bailey Liberty Hyde
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of (1609-1674), English statesman and historian, born in Dinton, and educated at the University of Oxford.
Hyde, Douglas (1860-1949), Irish statesman and scholar, born in Frenchpark, county Roscommon, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
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 ISU Horticulture: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Upon Professor Budds'death in 1905, Liberty Hyde Bailey said "that it ended the first epoch in the teaching of Horticulture in the country".
He was named to the ASHS Hall of Fame in 1993 in recognition for his outstanding achievements at Geneva and Iowa State.
Among his greatest achievements was the founding of the American Society for Horticultural Science in cooperation with Liberty Hyde Bailey with the first meeting being held in 1903.
www.hort.iastate.edu /history/1875-10.html   (663 words)

  
 Liberty Hyde Bailey - A Man for All Seasons
In 1883, Liberty Hyde Bailey married Annette Smith, the daughter of a Michigan cattle breeder, whom he met at the Michigan Agricultural College.
Bailey Family: Liberty Hyde Bailey, Ethel Zoe Bailey, Sara May Bailey, Annette Smith Bailey
This exhibition is made possible through a generous gift in memory of Lelah A. Cole.
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 Encyclopedia: Liberty Hyde Bailey
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 Why are canna flowers so unusual? -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The distinctions between the various hybrids were determined by Liberty Hyde Bailey of Cornell University in the early 1900s.
The garden cannas are the oldest hybrids, descendents of cannas hybridized in Europe (example: City of Portland).
Bailey's designations are blurred in later hybrids between the two types.
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 Liberty Hyde Bailey Garden Club of Ithaca, Ny
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Liberty Hyde Bailey Garden Club of Ithaca, Ny
Location:   Ithaca,   NY The Liberty Hyde Bailey Garden Club of Ithaca was formed by a group of gardeners at Cornell University some forty years ago.
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