Artist: Jack K. Hodgkin (born 1936)
Wesley Patterson Garrigus
GARRIGUS, WESLEY PATTERSON (1909–1985), inducted 1983
Wesley Garrigus followed a path much like his father H. L.’s: attending undergraduate school at Storrs Ag College before heading to the University of Illinois for his Ph.D. He completed his doctorate in 1935. In 1937, he accepted an appointment to the Animal Industry Group at the University of Kentucky, and in 1941, was named chairman of the department. The academic program expanded to include doctoral studies under his leadership. Research during his tenure advanced the Kentucky cow-calf program, forage-fed beef, and performance testing. Dr. Garrigus’s feed studies, using by-products from Kentucky’s distillery industry, received the Distinguished Nutritionist Research Award from the Distiller’s Research Council in 1964. Dr. Garrigus retired from the university in 1974, and soon after participated in the transfer of the Saddle & Sirloin Portrait Collection to Louisville. As its first curator, he prepared biographies of all inductees. Dr. Garrigus was himself honored with a portrait presented by the American Society of Animal Science in 1983.
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 94