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William J. Spillman and the Birth of Agricultural Economics, Missouri Biography Series. By Laurie Winn Carlson. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005, viii + 210 pp. Illustrations, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)
      Born on a Missouri farm in 1863, eleventh child of a California gold rusher, William Jasper Spilman attended rural schools, taught a bit, and reached the state university at seventeen. Already a Granger, he was an excellent student, supporting himself with odd jobs and more teaching. Graduating in 1886, "W. J. Spillman" (as he had begun to refer to himself) held various teaching positions leading to specialization in botany and physics at Vincennes University. While he was located at Oregon State Normal School at Monmouth in 1894, a Vincennes friend brought him to Washington State Agricultural College, after Spillman had prepared himself by observing agricultural instruction at the University of Wisconsin for a few weeks. . . .
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