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Liberty Hyde Bailey

1858 - 1954

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Liberty Hyde Bailey (March 15, 1858 – December 25, 1954) was an American horticulturist and advocate for rural reform in the United States. He was cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. During the Progressive Era, Bailey was instrumental in establishing the Cooperative Extension System, 4-H youth development programs, the nature study movement, parcel post, and rural electrification.:44 In 1903, Bailey founded the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and served as its first dean until 1913. Bailey’s work was influential in defining rural sociology as a distinct and valuable field of study in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2024). Liberty Hyde Bailey is the 881st most popular biologist (down from 860th in 2024), the 7,668th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,134th in 2019) and the 123rd most popular American Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Liberty Hyde Bailey ranks 881 out of 1,097. Before him are Charles Wyville Thomson, Édouard Louis Trouessart, Ann Bishop, William Hemsley, Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, and Théodore Monod. After him are Henry Baker, Flossie Wong-Staal, Charles Tate Regan, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Claus, Thomas Andrew Knight, and Jakob Emanuel Lange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Liberty Hyde Bailey ranks 120. Before him are Henry Scott Tuke, Rosa Mayreder, Take Ionescu, May Robson, Albert Samain, and Carlo Luigi Spegazzini. After him are Dimitar Petkov, José Leite de Vasconcelos, Mary Harrison McKee, Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, Victorino Márquez Bustillos, and Furqat. Among people deceased in 1954, Liberty Hyde Bailey ranks 134. Before him are Abelardo Olivier, Miles Franklin, Charles Perrin, Sydney Greenstreet, Otto Gebühr, and Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs. After him are Vasily Yan, Rupert Hollaus, Vivian Woodward, Tadeusz Banachiewicz, Zhang Shichuan, and Julius Körner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Liberty Hyde Bailey ranks 7,670 out of 20,380. Before him are Charlotte Moore Sitterly (1898), Julia Stiles (1981), Mitchell Leisen (1898), George Washington Williams (1849), Joan Shawlee (1926), and Robert Farnan (1877). After him are George Kojac (1910), Rita Mae Brown (1944), Marion Jones Farquhar (1879), Julian Steward (1902), David Johansen (1950), and Mark Jackson (1965).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United States

Among biologists born in United States, Liberty Hyde Bailey ranks 123. Before him are Clinton Hart Merriam (1855), Beatrice Mintz (1921), John Kunkel Small (1869), George Ord (1781), Paul R. Ehrlich (1932), and Wilfred Hudson Osgood (1875). After him are Frederic Clements (1874), Benjamin Smith Barton (1766), Alfred G. Knudson (1922), Sereno Watson (1826), Joseph Banks Rhine (1895), and Stanley Norman Cohen (1935).

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