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HENRY W. NORTHUP was born on a farm in Abington, once considered the 

 banner agricultural township in Luzerne county; he was educated in the 

 public schools and at Madison Academy. His chief business is that of farmer 

 and dairyman; has been greatly benefited in his line of business for the 

 last ten years by having associated with some of the best and most prac- 

 tical agriculturists in this and adjoining States in the institute work; has 

 had some experience in fruit and market gardening and in the disposition of 

 these products in the city of Scranton, where an excellent market has been 

 secured. 



T. E. ORR was born in Brooke county, Va., September 28, 1853. When nineteen, 

 years of age he was on the stock farms of his father and grandfather and 

 attending country schools. From 1872 to 1876 he taught country school two 

 winters and attended National Normal School balance of that time, graduating 

 in 1875. Taught surveying and civil engineering in 1876-7. From 1877 to 1886 

 was superintendent or principal of the public schools as follows: Mount 

 Vernon, Ind.; Le Mars, Iowa; Wellsburg, W. Va., and Bridgeport, Ohio, 

 doing teachers' institute work each summer. Leaving Bridgeport in 1886, and 

 at a salary of $1,800 per year, he took an interest in the "National Stockman 

 and Farmer," being one of its publishers and editors, which position he 

 occupied until l&Ol, doing occasional Farmers' Institute work 'and acting 

 as expert judge on poultry and live stock. Mr. Orr has always been closely 

 identified with live stock and poultry associations. 



WM. G. OWENS, of Bucknell University, was born in Union county; received 

 his early education in the public schools of Lewisburg, Pittsburg and Alle- 

 gheny City. Entered Bucknell University 1876; was graduated 1880; took his 

 A. M. in 1SS3; taught in Bucknell University five years after graduation. In 

 1885 he became instructor in Natural Sciences. Took special work at Harvard 

 and Berlin, Germany. In 1SS7 became professor of Chemistry and Physics, 

 the position which he now holds. Has spent almost all his vacations on a farm 

 and thus kept in close touch with nature. 



J. H. PEACHEY was born in Mifflin county. Pa., in 1851. His boyhood was 

 spent upon a farm; was educated in the public schools and graduated from the 

 Ohio Normal University in 1881. After completing his course at school he 

 followed teaching. In 1SS7 he began farming for himself and gave attention 

 chiefly to raising hogs, sheep and cattle. 



LEONARD PEARSON, State Veterinarian, was born in Indiana, August 17, 

 1868. In 1S84 he entered Cornell University, and graduated in 1888 in the 

 agricultural course. He graduated from the Veterinary Department of the 

 University of Pennsylvania in 1890. During 1890-91 he attended lectures in 

 the veterinary schools of Berlin and Dresden. In 18S2 Dr. Pearson was ap- 

 pointed non-resident lecturer on veterinary science at the Pennsylvania State 

 College. He was appointed State Veterinarian in 1896, was reappointed by 

 Governor Stone, and immediately thereafter was elected secretary of the State 

 Live Stock Sanitary Soai-d. He was again reappointed by Governor Penny- 

 packer, which position he still holds. 



THOMAS J. PHILIPS was born upon a farm in Chester county. Pa., Decem- 

 ber, 1846; attended public and private schools and graduated from Bucknell 

 University in T867; spent three years in manufacturing iron, and traveling, 

 and then settled upon the farm where he still lives, giving special attention to 

 dairying and raising dairy stock, but devoting much of the 200-acre farm to 

 the production of mixed crops, suitable to that location and market. That he 

 ihas been a success is attested by the fat that he has been a diretor in a 

 national bank for many years, a manager in one of the largest fire insur- 

 ance companies in the State, and of a building and loan assocition; served 

 two terms in the State Legislature, as a representative of the farming inter- 

 ests; he has contributed acceptably from rime to time of his experience to 

 the agricultural prtss, and in every way has kept in the front among the 

 most progressive of his locality, believing in higher education, attractive 

 country homes, and that success is the result of individual effort and judg- 

 ment. 



OLIVER D. SCHOCK was born on a farm near Hamburg, Berks county, Pa., 

 in 1858, and has always taken a deep interest in agricultural and horticul- 

 tural affairs. He was educated in the common and high schools, including a 

 course in a commercial and scientific academy. At the age of fifteen he 

 became a newspaper correspondent, and continues to represent leading daily 

 papers and agricultural journals. For a number of years he served as a 

 special agent of the Pennsylvania State Board of Agriculture, and later as a 

 clerk in the office of the Board, assisting Secretary Edge. With the creation 

 of the Department of Agriculture, in 1885. Governor Hastings promoted Mr. 

 Schock to the position of Chief Clerk in that Department, which position he 

 filled until July, 1899. After several years' experience in mercantile pursuits, 

 he was appointed in the spring of 1903, under Governor Pennypacker's admin- 

 istration, to the position of assistant to B. H. Warren, Dairy and Food Com- 

 missioner of Pennsylvania, which position he now holds. 



