Andrew Boss. 5" x 7 1/4" black and white photograph of Andrew Boss, "raised on a farm at Lake City, Minnesota; finished the 8th grade in a country school; attended the School of Agriculture at the University of Minnesota; spent his vacations as a farmhand at the University Farm. Was promoted to foreman, and Mrs. Boss boarded all the labor in the old farm house. Began teaching a class in butchering, the first in the United States; became head of Animal Husbandry; organized a new Department of Agronomy and Farm Management and built it up to one of the best in the United States. Published several books on Farm Management; helped reorganize Bureau of Agricultural Economics at Washington D.C.; became Vice-Director of the Experiment Station; president of the St. Anthony Park State Bank, director of Federal Land Bank, Deacon of Congregational Church, Sunday School teacher. It is an honor to have known Mr. Boss."
