Robert F. Howard

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Robert F. Howard (1883-1963) spent the first 15 years of his professional career as an educator before owning and running a large beef cattle operation and commercial pecan farm in Texas for the better part of his life.

Howard was a professor and chairman of the Department of Horticulture at the University of Nebraska from 1914-24 after teaching previously at the University of Missouri, Nebraska and Wisconsin.

He moved to Wharton, Texas, in 1924, where he ran a 2,000-acre (8 km²) ranch with cattle and thousands of pecan trees. He provided leadership to many local and statewide civic organizations and initiatives in Texas for the last 40 years of his life.

Howard received his B.S. in Agriculture from the University of Missouri in 1908, where he was also a founding member of FarmHouse International Fraternity, Inc.. He received a M.S. in Agriculture 1912 while teaching at Nebraska.

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• Material pulled from the records of FarmHouse International Fraternity, Inc.