Clarke County GaArchives Biographies.....Soule, Andrew M. 1872 - living in 1923
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DR. ANDREW M. SOULE

   Dr. Andrew M. Soule, B.S.A., Sc.D., F.R.S.A., LL.D., President of Georgia
State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, was born near Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada, July 8, 1872. He was prepared for college in the primary and
secondary schools at Niagara Falls, Canada. He received an associate diploma
from the Ontario Agricultural College in 1892, and graduated from the University
of Toronto in 1893 with the degree of B.S. A.

   In 1894 he accepted a position with the Missouri Experiment Station as
assistant director and in charge of the livestock and dairy work. In the fall of
1894 he was appointed assistant professor of agriculture and assistant
agriculturist of the Texas College of Agriculture and the Texas Experiment
Station. He served in this capacity until the fall of 1899 when he was called to
the University of Tennessee as professor of agriculture and director of the
Tennessee Experiment Station. In 1904, he was elected Dean of the College of
Agriculture and Director of the Experiment Station at the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute. In 1907, Dr. Soule became President of the 'Georgia State College of
Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, which position he still holds. From 1917-1919
he was Federal Food Administrator for Georgia, and chairman of Zone 5,
consisting of the states of North Carolina, South 'Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
and Alabama.

   Dr. Soule had the degree of Sc.D. conferred on hint by the University of
Georgia in 1911, and the degree of LL. D. by the same institution in 1916. He
was chosen a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts of London, England, in 1915. He
has traveled extensively in the United States, South America and Europe. He is
ex-president of the American Association of Farmers' Institute workers;
ex-vice-president of the Association of American Agricultural Colleges and
Experiment Stations; a member of the Association for the Advancement of Science;
the American Genetic Association; the National Geographic Society: the American
Economics Association; the Association for the Promotion of Agricultural
Science. He was a member of the Jury of Awards of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition held in St. Louis. He served as a member of the Arkansas Educational
Survey in the spring of 1922. He was appointed official delegate from the United
States to the Second American Congress of Economic Expansion and Commercial
Instruction, and the World Cotton Congress, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in
October, 1922. He is a member of the Phi Kappa and Alpha Zeta fraternities. He
is a Rotarian and an elder in the Presbyterian Church.

   Dr. Soule is the author of a book on "Agriculture; Its Fundamental
Principles," and of numerous papers, bulletins and monographs on agricultural
subjects, and has delivered many addresses and lectures before 'business,
scientific and educational organizations in all parts of the country. He has
been intimately associated with teaching, research and extension enterprises of
great magnitude. He participated very, actively in the agitation which led to
the expansion of the work of the state colleges of agriculture and the mechanic
arts through federal appropriations known as the 2nd Morrill Act; the Nelson
Act; the Adams Act for the furtherance of research work; the Smith-Lever Act for
the endowment of extension teaching through the placing of men and women agents
in agriculture and home economics in every county in each state; and the
Smith-Hughes Act for the promotion of instruction in vocational subjects as they
pertain to agriculture, home economics and the trades and industries. He has
thus been identified with every great educational movement originating in the
United States in the last quarter of a century.

  The Georgia State College of Agriculture has organized and developed under his
direction and now has a student body of 1,400 persons, and a teaching, research
and extension staff of 300. The institution has the state of Georgia for a
campus and intimately touches the lives of more than 200,000 citizens of the
state through its service work. Dr. Soule has always actively participated in
the formation and support of all organizations calculated to advance the public
welfare and has achieved considerable distinction as a thinker and writer along
economic lines.


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HISTORY OF ATHENS and CLARKE COUNTY
1923

H. J. ROWE, Publisher

THE McGREGOR CO., PRINTERS, ATHENS, GA.




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