Jonathan Baldwin Turner - Jacksonville, IL
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 39° 43.900 W 090° 14.841
15S E 735899 N 4401599
Professor of English who proposed Federal aid for farmers.
Waymark Code: WMKD19
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 03/23/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member NCDaywalker
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County of marker: Morgan County
Location of marker: Illinois College Quad
Marker erected by: University of Illinois
Date marker erected: April 13, 1962

Marker Text:

This tablet honors the memory
JONATHAN BALDWIN TURNER
Professor of English at Illinois College, great citizen of Illinois, who in February, 1852, first publicly proposed federal aid for a national system of agricultural and industrial universities, and whose devoted efforts towards the realization of this concept earned him the title:
"Father of the Land Grant Act of 1862."

Erected in the centennial year of the Land Grant Act
by The University of Illinois.

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Location: Illinois College Campus
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