creator:

Joseph Lancaster Budd

title:

Papers

dates:

1870-1940

extent:

0.21  linear ft. (1 document box and 1 oversized folder)

collection number:

RS 9/16/13

repository:

Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

access:

Open for research

publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department

preferred citation:

Joseph Lancaster Budd Papers, 1870-1940, RS 9/16/13, University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

Biographical note

Joseph Lancaster Budd was born in Putnam County, New York, on July 3, 1834.  In 1858 he moved to Iowa, where he purchased a large tract of land near Shellsburg in Benton County.  On that land he established the Benton County Nursery.  Budd was employed by Iowa Agricultural College in 1877. He served as a Professor of Horticulture and head of the Horticulture Department from 1877 to 1898, and as a Professor Emeritus from 1898-1904.  He was the Acting President of Iowa State from December 5, 1884 to February 1, 1885.  In 1892 he traveled to Russia to investigate Russian varieties of fruits that would be winter hardy in the Midwest.  He died in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 20, 1904, and is buried in Ames, Iowa .