The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau. It occupies the northern central part of the United States. It was officially named the North Central Region by the Census Bureau until 1984. It is between the Northeastern United States and the Western United States, with Canada to the north and the Southern United States to the south.
Jonathan Baldwin Turner was a classical scholar, botanist, and political activist. He was heavily involved in the social movement of the 1850s that produced the land grant universities, pioneering public higher education in the United States. Turner was also involved in the establishment of the University of Illinois.
Marion Mahony Griffin was an American architect and artist. She was one of the first licensed female architects in the world, and is considered an original member of the Prairie School. Her work in the United States developed and expanded the American Prairie School, and her work in India and Australia reflected Prairie School ideals of indigenous landscape and materials in the newly formed democracies. The scholar Deborah Wood stated that Griffin "did the drawings people think of when they think of Frank Lloyd Wright ."
The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished ca. 1875. The movement included several parallel but independent political organizations — the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union among the white farmers of the South, the National Farmers' Alliance among the white and black farmers of the Midwest and High Plains, where the Granger movement had been strong, and the Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union, consisting of the African American farmers of the South.
Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands, integration with the landscape, solid construction, craftsmanship, and discipline in the use of ornament. Horizontal lines were thought to evoke and relate to the wide, flat, treeless expanses of America's native prairie landscape.
The Jim Edgar Panther Creek State Fish and Wildlife Area (JEPC) is a conservation area located within Cass County in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is 16,550 acres (6,698 ha) in size. A mix of plowed upland prairie and Panther Creek woodlands, the site is managed by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. It is drained by the Sangamon River. It is named for former Governor of Illinois Jim Edgar.
The Illinois Farm Bureau (IFB) is a nonprofit U.S. organization controlled by farmers who join the IFB through one of the 96 county Farm Bureaus in Illinois. The organization's legal name is the Illinois Agricultural Association. The IFB was founded in 1916 by a group of farmers who met at the University of Illinois to discuss the need for agricultural education, better information for farmers, and more effective farming practices. Modernly, the IFB represents two out of three Illinois farmers.
Farm Progress is the publisher of 22 farming and ranching magazines. The company dates back nearly 200 years. Farm Progress Companies is owned by Informa.
Wallaces Farmer is an agricultural newspaper based in Des Moines, Iowa. It is owned by media company Informa and operates as part of the company's Farm Progress division.
William Albert Albrecht chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of Missouri, was the foremost authority on the relation of soil fertility to human health and earned four degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. As emeritus professor of soils at the University of Missouri, he saw a direct link between soil quality, food quality and human health. He drew direct connections between poor quality forage crops, and ill health in livestock and from this developed a formula for ideal ratios of cations in the soil, the Base Cation Saturation Ratio. While he did not discover cation exchange in the soil as is sometimes supposed, he may have been the first to associate it with colloidal clay particles. He served as 1939 President of the Soil Science Society of America.
Twenty years before the phrase 'environmental concern' crept into the national consciousness, he was lecturing from coast to coast on the broad topic of agricultural ecology.
" The soil is the ‘creative material’ of most of the basic needs of life. Creation starts with a handful of dust.” Dr. William A. Abrecht.
Smith v. Kansas City Title & Trust Co., 255 U.S. 180 (1921), was a United States Supreme Court case that helped define the range and scope of federal question jurisdiction in state corporate law matters. The case dealt with whether or not a district court had the power to uphold the constitutional validity of the Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916.
The 1880 Greenback Party National Convention convened in Chicago from June 9 to 11, 1880, to select presidential and vice presidential nominees and write a party platform for the Greenback Party in the United States presidential election of 1880. Delegates chose James B. Weaver of Iowa for President and Barzillai J. Chambers of Texas for Vice President.
Chicago Livestock World was a daily newspaper published at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, Illinois in 1900. Located in Chicago's meatpacking district, it reported information about the livestock market, agricultural advice, advertisements, and world news. The slogan on the masthead read: "World's Greatest Farm Newspaper." It was edited and managed by Ashleigh C. Halliwell and Will F. Baum.
Farm, Field, and Stockman was a weekly American newsletter published in 1884 in the Farm, Field, and Fireside family of farming and home newsletters. Its slogan was: "Agriculture, Gardening, Livestock, and Home Literature." It was merged in 1901 with Chicago, Illinois newspaper Model Farmer and became Farm, Field, Stockman and Model Farmer. After the merger, the newsletter was again combined with Wisconsin Agriculturalist in 1902.
The Farmers Voice was a weekly or bi-weekly American agriculture-focused newspaper published beginning in 1885. It was published out of Chicago, Illinois. The Farmers Voice focused on different topics about farming, homemaking, and children's interests.
Illinois Farmer was a monthly farming newspaper started in the early 1856 and edited by S. Francis in Springfield, Illinois. and continued to sometime around 1863. It was considered under the "umbrella" of Farm, Field, and Fireside newspapers. Its masthead proclaimed that the newspaper was devoted to the farm, the orchard, and the garden. It was published by Bailhache and Baker. Its editor was M.L. Dunlap
The Western Rural and American Stockman (1883-1895) was a semi-weekly newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It published articles about agriculture, livestock, and farm life in the United States during the late 19th century. Its editor was Milton George. It was associated with the Farm, Field, and Fireside collective of newspapers.
Western Rural was a weekly journal published in Chicago, Illinois and Detroit, Michigan. It existed between 1862 and 1901.
The Ohio Farmer was an agricultural newspaper established by Thomas Brown in Cleveland, Ohio in the mid-1800s. It was a weekly publication centered on farm and family life and provided sections for farming, housekeeping, and for children.
Harriet E. Garrison was an American physician and medical writer whose practice was based in Dixon, Illinois. She traveled widely and wrote on medical topics, presenting papers at medical conferences.
