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President 

 Charles B. Shuman 



Vice-President 

 Floyd E. Morris 



CHARLES B. SHUMAN, Sullivan, 

 Moultrie county livestock farmer 

 who comes in as president of the 

 Illinois Agricultural Association, is 

 admirably fitted by experience, ability 

 and background to discharge the duties 

 of this high office. He is a progressive 

 farmer, well-grounded through practi- 

 cal working knowledge and education 

 in agriculture, well-versed in Farm Bu- 

 reau and cooperatives through service 

 on these boards and with business 

 and administrative ability developed 

 through managing his own farm and 

 by his five years of service on the lAA 

 board. 



Mr. Shuman has demonstrated by his 

 work on the board of directors of the 

 Association that he is able to weigh 

 facts calmly and deliberately and make 

 sound decisions. He has also demon- 

 strated his capacity to grow and develop 

 as new responsibilities are placed upon 

 his shoulders. 



His biography supplements and ron- 

 firms these statements. Mr. Shuman 

 was born on a farm east of Sullivan, 

 the son of Grace Baker and Bliss Shu- 

 man, April 27. 1907. 



Mr. Shuman attended the Purvis 

 country school, where he later served 

 as a IJoard member, and the Sullivan 

 High School from which he was grad- 

 uated in 1924. He entered the Uni- 

 versity of Illinois in the fall of 1924 

 and received his bachelor's degree from 

 the College of Agriculture in June, 

 1928, graduating with honors. He 

 earned his master's degree in agronomy 

 from the College in February of 1929- 

 While working for his master's degree, 

 his minor study was agricultural eco- 

 nomics. During his college career, Mr. 

 Shuman was a member of Alpha Zeta, 

 agricultural scholastic honorary. Farm 



House social fraternity, Sigma Xi, 

 scientific fraternity, and the scholastic 

 journalism fraternity at the University. 

 He was elected to the latter fraternity 

 in recognition of his service on the 

 business staff of the Agriculturist, Col- 

 lege of Agriculture student publication. 



Mr. Shuman married Ida Wilson in 

 1933. She was a native of New Rich- 

 mond, Ind., and was born and reared 

 on the Charles Meharry farm near 

 there. She was teacher of mathematics 

 in Sullivan High School when she met 

 Mr. Shuman. 



When Mr. Shuman left College in 

 1929, he returned to the home farm of 

 456 acres which he operated with his 

 father. In 1933, he bought a 46-acre 

 farm adjoining the home place and he 

 and Mrs. Shuman moved to this farm 

 shortly after they were married. When 

 Mr. Shuman's grandmother, Mrs. Mary 

 Shuman died, he bought her farm of 

 230 acres from the estate and has oeen 

 renting it out. He has continued to 

 operate his 46-acre place and the 456- 

 acre home farm with his father. The 

 latter is a general livestock farm which 

 has been in the family since 1853. 



Mr. Shuman has purebred Angus and 

 Duroc-Jers'ey herds and raises some hy- 

 brid seed corn. The Angus cow herd 

 of 50 cows and calves is maintained to 

 use up the grassland on the place. Mr. 

 Shuman used to feed from 80 to 100 

 steers a year, but last year he fed only 

 a few cattle. About 200 hogs are raised 

 per year, but in the last few years this 

 number has been reduced. 



In all his farming operations, Mr. 

 Shuman has followed a good soil build- 

 ing program. All but 10 acres of the 

 land he operates has been limed and 

 about 50 per cent of it has had rock 



phosphate applications. He has also 

 established several grass waterways on 

 the land. 



Since graduation from College, Mr. 

 Shuman has been very active in Farm 

 Bureau, cooperative, and community 

 affairs. He served as a director of the 

 Moultrie County Farm Bureau from 

 1932 to 1933 and as president from 

 1934 to 1938. He was elected to the 

 lAA board of directors in 1941 to rep- 

 resent the 19th Congressional district 

 and served until his election to the 

 presidency of the lAA. During his 

 period as a board member he served 

 on the finance and marketing commit- 

 tees. 



Other cooperative activities of Mr. 

 Shuman include: directorship on the 

 Shelbyville and Charleston Production 

 Credit Associations from 1933 to 1935, 

 and from 1935 to 1941. respectively; 

 and as president of the Charleston PCA 

 from 1936 to 1938. 



Mr. Shuman servd as vice-president 

 of the Coles-Moultrie Electric 'Co- 

 operative in 1939 and as president since 

 1940; on the executive committee of 

 the Coles, Douglas, Moultrie Wheat 

 Control Association, 1933-34, and as 

 president in 1935 ; and as director and 

 secretary of the Moultrie Shipping As- 

 sociation, 1932-45. 



In the community, Mr. Shuman has 

 been deeply interested in school affairs. 

 He served for many years as a director 

 of the Purvis school, and now is presi- 

 dent of the Community Consolidated 

 District No. 3. The Purvis school dis- 

 trict was one of five districts merged 

 in the consolidated district. This re- 

 organization, which was worked out by 

 the local people, was outlined in a 

 story appearing in the February, 1944, 

 issue of the Illinois Agricultural Asso- 



DECEMBER, 1945 



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