2 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



It was during Colonel Brigham's incumbency as master of the 

 National Grange thai thai organization became a strong advocate of 

 the experiment stations, and threw the weight of its influence in sup- 

 port of the Hatch Act, then pending in Congress. On that occasion 

 he headed a legislative committee of the National Grange which was 

 in constant consultation and cooperation with an agricultural college 

 committee, whose efforts were heing directed toward the passage of 

 the experiment station bill. The two thing- which Colonel Brigham's 

 committee stood for especially were the guarding of the expenditures 

 for original investigation and the State control of the details of the 

 work. 



A few years later, when the second Morrill Act was under consid- 

 eration, he again appeared as chairman of a legislative committee of 

 the Grange to promote the interests of agricultural instruction. His 

 committee at first contended that the new appropriation should he 

 assigned entirely to instruction in agriculture, and for a time withheld 

 its support of the measure in maintaining this contention. Later a 

 compromise was effected in the wording of the hill, and the clause 

 restricting the application of the money to instruction in agriculture 

 and the mechanic arts was written in a conference with Colonel Brig- 

 ham and his committee, which brought the support of the National 

 ( i range. 



Throughout his life he remained a stanch friend and supporter of 

 the experiment stations of the country, in the making of which he 

 had played a no small part; and their success and advancement to a 

 position of great national importance was a source of pride and grati- 

 fication to him. 



Colonel Brigham was born December 12, L838, and hence was in his 

 sixty-sixth year at the time of his death. His military title was Avon 

 in service during the civil war. for which he enlisted in L861. He 

 served throughout the war ami was mustered out of service as colonel 

 of the Sixty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry. After the war he set- 

 tled in Fulton County. Ohio, where he engaged in farming. He held 

 various offices under the people of his State and county, serving three 

 terms as sheriff of Fulton County, one term in the State senate, for 

 six years as a member of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, during 

 one year of which he was president of that body. He also served 

 upon the hoard of trustee- of the Ohio State University and as presi- 

 dent of the Ohio State hoard of managers of the penitentiary. In 

 March. L897, lie was appointed by President McKinleytobe Assistant 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 



During his term of service in the latter office, inaddition to his other 

 duties, he was called upon to give much attention to the exhibits pre- 

 pared by this Department for exposition purposes, and was selected 

 as the Department representative on the Government board for the 



