Joseph Budd

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Joseph Budd with his wife Sarah and children Etta & Allen

Joseph Lancaster Budd (July 3, 1834–December 20, 1904) was the first head of the Department of Horticulture and served from December 5, 1884 to February 1, 1885 as the acting president of ISU following the resignation of Seaman Knapp.

Professor Budd was born in New York and moved to Shellsburg, Iowa in 1858. After establishing an arboretum in Benton County, he moved to Ames and took his position with the Horticulture Department in 1877. While head of the department, he was commissioned by the State Horticultural society to travel abroad and bring species of trees and plants to Ames, among strains of Russian olive and May apple trees that are a part of the Ames landscape to this day.

Budd retired in 1898, but stayed on as an emeritus professor until 1904. He died in Phoenix, Arizona, and is buried in Ames. His daughter is Etta Budd.

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George Washington Carver said the following about Budd:

Budd was... my professor of Horticulture... kind, considerate, loving and loveable; a great teacher, and he made of his students his personal friends.

Everybody loved Prof. Budd.

[edit] References

Kehlenbeck, Dorothy (1958). The Iowa State College: Chronology of important events in the first 100 years. Ames: Iowa State Library.
Meads, Gladys H (1955). At the Squaw and the Skunk. Ames: Greenwood.