Artist: Robert Wadsworth Grafton (1876–1936)
Frederick Blackmar Mumford
MUMFORD, FREDERICK BLACKMAR (1868–1946), inducted 1924
After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Albion College, Frederick Mumford became assistant director of the agricultural experiment station there while he pursued graduate studies at Michigan Agricultural College. He completed his master’s degree in 1893 and taught at Michigan for two years, before moving to the University of Missouri. Mumford took over as dean of the College of Agriculture and head of the experiment station in 1909. In his forty-three years there, he created new departments of forestry, farm management, poultry husbandry, soils, field crops, and dairy husbandry and established an extension service. During World War I, Dean Mumford headed the Missouri Council of Defense and the Missouri Division of the US Food Administration and was a member of the Mission Américaine de Rapproachment, to assess France’s economic needs after the war. During the Depression, Mumford served on the state board of agriculture, as well as relief and farm debt commissions. After retirement, he was president of the Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 147