Herbert Windsor Mumford I
Herbert Windsor Mumford I (1871-1938) was a professor of agriculture from 1901 to 1938 at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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Biography
He was born in 1871. He had a brother, Frederick Blackmar Mumford (1868-1946). He worked at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and was the department head for animal husbandry from 1901 to 1922. He was dean of the UIUC College of Agriculture and the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station and the cooperative extension service from 1922 till his death.[1] He died in 1938.
Legacy
On June 27, 1946 the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois approved a resolution to rename the agricultural building Mumford Hall. The renaming took place on April 17, 1947.[2]
In a neighboring state, the University of Missouri's Board of Curators honored Mumford's brother, F. B. Mumford, who served as Dean of that university's College of Agriculture, by renaming Mizzou's agriculture building Mumford Hall on March 18, 1930.[3]
References
- "Herbert W. Mumford". University of Illinois. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
- "University of Illinois: A History of Campus". University of Illinois. Retrieved 2008-12-10.
On April 17, 1947, the building was renamed Mumford Hall in honor of Herbert Windsor Mumford for his contributions towards agricultural education. Read aloud at the ceremony was his belief that "Education of the masses and the possibility of subjugated groups are incompatible objectives. The former is in harmony with the spirit of democracy, the later is directly opposed to it."
- "A Monument to 43 Years' Service to Agriculture". University of Missouri Archive. Retrieved 2021-10-27.
The finest structure on the White Campus was named for Dean F.B. Mumford in order that it may stand as a monument for that service to agriculture that has brought fame to him and to the University of Missouri.