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Kelley, Oliver Hudson (1875). Origin and Progress of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry in the United States; A History from 1866 to 1873. Philadelphia: J. A. Wagenseller. Woods, Thomas A. (1991). Knights of the Plow: Oliver H. Kelley and the Origins of the Grange in Republican Ideology. Iowa State University Press. Spafford Area Historical ...
The Oliver Kelley Farm is operated as a historic site by the Minnesota Historical Society. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964 under the name Oliver H. Kelley Homestead—which also places it on the National Register of Historic Places—for its national significance in the themes of agriculture and social history. [2]
It was founded by Oliver H. Kelley, at that time an official working in Washington DC for the Department of Agriculture. He had been sent to Virginia to assess Southern agricultural resources and practices. He found them to be generally poor, and became determined to found an organization of farmers for the dissemination of information.
The commissioner of the Department of Agriculture commissioned Oliver Kelley, after a personal interview with President Andrew Johnson, [3] to go to the Southern states and to collect data to improve Southern agricultural conditions. In the South, poor farmers bore the brunt of the Civil War and were suspicious of Northerners like Kelley.
Oliver Kelley may refer to: Oliver Hudson Kelley, co-founders of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry; Oliver K. Kelley, ...
Father Oliver O’Grady at Sacred Heart Church in Turlock in 1981. He was arrested in 1993 and booked on 23 counts of child sexual abuse. O’Grady pleaded guilty in San Joaquin County to four ...
Kelley was born Olavi Koskenhovi in Salo, Finland, on June 28, 1904. He immigrated to the United States from Finland in 1921 at age 17 and changed his name to Oliver K. Kelley. [2] He was educated at Chicago Technical College, where he received B.S. and M.E. degrees graduating in 1925. Kelley worked for Nash Motor, Milwaukee, as a draftsman.
The Peavey–Haglin Experimental Concrete Grain Elevator is the world's first known cylindrical concrete grain elevator.It was built from 1899 to 1900 in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, United States, as an experiment to prove the design was viable.