Kenyon L. Butterfield

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Kenyon Leech Butterfield

Kenyon L. Butterfield c. 1922
President of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, (now the University of Rhode Island)
In office 1903–1906
President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts Amherst)
In office 1906–1924
President of Michigan Agricultural College, (now Michigan State University)
In office 1924–1928
Personal details
Born	June 11, 1868 Lapeer, Michigan
Died	November 25, 1936(1936-11-25) (aged 68) Amherst, Massachusetts
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Kenyon Leech Butterfield (June 11, 1868 – November 25, 1936) was an American agricultural scientist and college administrator known for developing the Cooperative Extension Service at the Land Grant Universities, and was instrumental in developing the Smith-Lever Act of 1914. He was president of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (1903-1906); the Massachusetts Agricultural College (1906-1924), and the Michigan Agricultural College, (later Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science, which is now Michigan State University) from 1924 to 1928. Butterfield Hall at the University of Rhode Island, Butterfield House at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Butterfield Hall of the Brody Complex at Michigan State University are all dedicated in his name.

Selected works

"The Social Phase of Agricultural Education", Popular Science Monthly (1905)
Inaugural Address, Massachusetts Agricultural College (1906)
"Federation of Rural Social Forces", The Making of America Vol. V (1907)
Dedication Address of the Petersham Agricultural High School (1908)
"Chapters in Rural Progress" (1908)
"Rural Life and the Family", Proceedings of the third annual meeting of the American Sociological Society (1908)
"The Country and the Rural Problem" (1909)
"The Call of the Country Parish" (1914)
"A State System of Agriucultural Education" (1916)
"The Farmer and the New Day" (1919)
"Education and Chinese Agriculture" (1922)
"The Christian Mission in Rural India" (1930)
"The Training of Missionaries for Rural Service" (1933)

External links

Media related to Kenyon L. Butterfield at Wikimedia Commons

Biographical Information (Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections)
University of Rhode Island Historical Timeline

Academic offices
Preceded by David Friday	President of Michigan Agricultural College 1924–1925	Succeeded by Himself
Preceded by Himself	President of Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science 1925–1928	Succeeded by Robert S. Shaw

v t e Presidents of Michigan State University

Williams Fiske Abbot Willits Clute Gorton Snyder Kedzie Friday Butterfield Shaw Hannah Adams Wharton Harden Mackey DiBiaggio Guyer McPherson Simon

University of Massachusetts-Amherst Chancellors and Presidents

French (1864–1866)
Chadbourne (1866–1867)
Clark (1867–1879)
Flint (1879–1880)
Stockbridge (1880–1882)
Greenough (1883–1886)
Goodell (1886–1905)
Brooks (1905–1906)
Butterfield (1906–1924)
Edward M. Lewis (1924–1927)
Thatcher (1927–1932)
Baker (1932–1946)
Van Meter (1947–1954)
Mather (1954–1960)
Lederle (1960–1970)
Tippo (1970–1971)
Bromery (1971–1979)
Koffler (1979–1982)
Baritz (1982)
Duffey (1982–1991)
O'Brien (1991–1993)
Scott (1993–2001)
Williams (2001–2002)
Lombardi (2002–2007)
Cole (2007–2008)
Holub (2008–2012)
Subbaswamy (2012–)

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Name	Butterfield, Kenyon L.
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	June 11, 1868
Place of birth	Lapeer, Michigan
Date of death	November 25, 1936
Place of death	Amherst, Massachusetts

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