PIONEER IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION 



S. W. Gold and his son Theodore. Connecticut, too, 

 established the first Agricultural Experiment Station 

 in America in 1875. The movement for the establish- 

 ment of this institution was promoted by T. S. Gold 

 from the first, and when established he was for more 

 than twenty years a member of its board of control. 



The Gold estate in Cornwall has now passed into the 

 seventh generation in the direct family line, and this fact 

 of itself, together with the increasing value of the prop- 

 erty, makes the former owner and the farm of more 

 than passing interest. The property has been trans- 

 mitted in the family line from the Douglas ancestors 

 who cleared the land from the forest. In the Gold 

 ancestry may be found such names as Talcott, Ruggles, 

 Sedgwick, Wadsworth and Cleveland, representing 

 strong lines tracing back to colonial days. 



Theodore Sedgwick Gold, the son of a Connecticut 

 physician and farmer, was born March 2, 1818, in 

 Madison, New York. While yet in his infancy, his 

 parents moved to Goshen in Litchfield County, where 

 Theodore spent most of his boyhood. In 1842 his 

 father gave up the practice of medicine and removed 

 to the ancestral home on Cream Hill, West Cornwall, 

 where he and Theodore began illustrious careers as 

 agricultural leaders and teachers. 



Graduating from Yale College in 1838, young 

 Gold spent the next four years in teaching and study. 



