80 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 
A SPONSOR FOR AGRICULTURAL INVESTIGATION 
25. Legislation for the founding of the agricultural college 
and experiment station system in America may be credited to 
three men, SENATOR Morritit (28), ConcrEssmAN Hatcu (27), 
and ConcressMAN ApamMs. Frailest physically, but most zealous 
intellectually, was the last named of the three, a man who burned 
the candle of life freely when he fought for his beloved agricul- 
tural interests. He claimed no laurels as an originator of rural 
legislation, but he found universal recognition in his framing 
of the meat inspection and pure food bills, his championship of 
the oleomargarine legislation and his supplementing of the 
appropriation for the agricultural experiment stations. 
Hon. Henry Cutten ApaAms was born September 28, 1850, at 
Verona, N. Y. His father was a professor of Greek and Latin 
at Hamilton College, but while he was still in his mother’s arms 
the family proceeded to Wisconsin. His early years were spent 
at Beaver Dam and Liberty Prairie, and he ultimately moved to 
a farm in the vicinity of Madison. His education was obtained 
in the rural and city schools and in the Albion Academy, while 
he spent three years at the University of Wisconsin. His career 
here was terminated due to ill health, and after an unsuccessful 
attempt to study law, he engaged in dairy and fruit farming. 
This was his chief occupation until the last five years of his life, 
when he devoted much of his time to real estate. As a farmer 
he entered into a variety of activities tending toward rural bet- 
terment. He was an institute worker in connection with the state 
university, secretary of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, 
member of the State Board of Agriculture, and President of the 
State Dairymen’s Association. 
In politics he was equally prominent. For two terms he was 
a member of the state legislature, Superintendent of Public 
Property for six years, and Dairy and Food Commissioner for 
eight years. He was elected representative from the 2d Wiscon- 
