Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Henry, William Arnon 
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Source: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897
Author: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson

HEADS OF INSTRUCTIONAL FORCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OE WISCONSIN.
WILLIAM ARNON HENRY, Agr. B., Dean of the College of Agriculture, was born at 
Norwalk, Ohio, June 16, 1850. His early life was spent on a farm in 
northwestern Ohio. He studied at the Defiance, Ohio, high school, Holbrook 
normal school, and Ohio Wesleyan University. Was principal of the New Haven, 
Indiana, high school, 1871. Principal of the Boulder, Colorado, high school, 
1873-76 Entered Cornell University in the fall of ’76, and was graduated from 
that institution in 1880, with the degree of Bachelor of Agriculture. In the 
summer of 1879 was with Professor O. V. Riley of the United States 
Entomological Commission, Washington, D. C. During 1879 and ’80 was assistant 
in the botanical department at Cornell university. Was appointed professor of 
botany and agriculture University of Wisconsin, beginning work in September, 
1880. In 1882, was relieved of botanical work and Elected professor of 
agriculture. In 1887 was given charge of the work of the experiment station 
under the title Of Director. In 1891 was appointed Dean of the College of 
Agriculture. Present title, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Director of 
the Agricultural Experiment Station. Since 1887 has served as staff 
correspondent for the Breeders’ Gazette, Chicago. In 1881-2, under the 
direction of the legislature, he conducted experiments in the manufacture of 
sugar from amber cane, and the ensuing of fodders, the report of the work being 
embraced in two volumes published by the state. The Experiment station, under 
his direction, has issued thirteen annual reports and fifty-five bulletins. He 
is the author of the chapter on Cattle Feeding in the special report on 
Diseases of Cattle and Cattle Feeding, published by the Department of 
Agriculture, Washington. By direction of the legislature of 1895, he prepared a 
hand book for the home seeker, a volume of 200 pages, with nearly 100 half-tone 
illustrations setting forth the agricultural features of northern Wisconsin. In 
December, 1896, he published a bulletin of 40 pages showing that Wisconsin is 
adapted to the production of sugar from the beet root.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

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