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Professor for a short period. On February 2, 1858, the Horticulture Professorship was suspended, ostensibly for financial reasons (as well as the fact that the wild condition of the land hardly warranted a full-time horticulturalist as yet). Even so,
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merchant store. Within five years he had married his boss's daughter, and soon became a partner in the family business. Holmes served as president of the
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Michigan State Agricultural Society immediately assumed a lofty goal to foster the establishment of an agricultural college in Michigan. Holmes, who served as secretary of the Agricultural Society from 1849 to 1857, was also the college's most tenacious proponent. In conference with his fellow
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President Abbot said, "To no one man is the College so much indebted as John Clough Holmes." One hundred years after the founding, college historian Madison Kuhn's high regard for Holmes was clear, using as the frontispiece of his book a
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