 | Autobiography of a Farm Boy This autobiography of the first Dean of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University offers an unconventional account of farm life in New York and the Middle West during the nineteenth century, and of the difficulties attendant upon building up a... Isaac Phillips Roberts was born in Seneca County, New York, in 1833. He came to Cornell University as Professor of Agriculture in 1873, and shortly afterward was made Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture andExperiment Station. |
