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Mark, Jesse Jarue (M.S., Agriculture, 1931; Ph.D., Botany, 1935) 

Jesse Jarue Mark, Jr., was born 24 September 1905, in Apple Springs, Trinity County, Texas, to Jesse James Mark, Sr., a farmer, and his wife Lula V. Mark. Mark graduated from Prairie View State Normal & Industrial College (now Prairie View A & M University) in Prairie View, Texas, in 1929 and moved quickly on to Master’s Degree work in Agriculture at ISC, which he completed in 1931. While at ISC, Mark lived with Archie and Nancy Martin at 218 Lincoln Way

As early as 1931, Mark was teaching agriculture at Kentucky State Industrial College (now Kentucky State University), where fellow Iowa Stater Rufus B. Atwood was president. While working at Kentucky State, Mark pursued his Ph.D. in Botany, receiving it in 1935. That same year Mark’s work was recognized nationally when he was named a Rockefeller Fellow in Agriculture for 1935-36.

While at Iowa State, Mark had been employed at the Agricultural Experiment Station. He continued his ties to that organization while teaching and researching at Kentucky State, later becoming the Head of the Agriculture Department there. Following his teaching there, Mark also taught at Tennessee State College, Texas College, and Southern University of New Orleans. Mark He ended his career teaching biology there (“Dr. Mark Rites”).

Jesse Jarue Mark died at age 65 on 20 February 1971 and is buried in the Nigton Memorial Park Cemetery in Nigton, Texas.

Iowa State College Thesis Title: The relation of root reserves to cold resistance in alfalfa, 1935

Iowa State University Library Digital Repository Link:https://doi.org/10.31274/rtd-180813-14899; 

Iowa State College Dissertation Title: The response of winter grains to late fall seeding, 1931 

Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://iowa-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/12tutg/01IASU_ALMA21210594870002756

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Patterson, Frederick D. (“Pat”) (D.V.M., 1923; M.S., Agriculture, 1927)

Headshot of Frederick D Patterson

By Brad Kuennen, Iowa State University Vet Med and Animal Science Librarian

Born October 10, 1901, in Washington, D.C., Patterson was the youngest of six children born to William Ross and Mamie Brooks Patterson. Tragically, both of his parents would die from illness before Patterson turned two years old.

When his oldest sister, Wilhelmina, graduated from the Washington Conservatory of Music sometime around 1908, she moved to Texas to start her career in music education taking young Frederick Patterson with her. She worked at several different schools in Texas and Oklahoma, and used any extra money she had to pay for her brother’s education. Eventually she landed a job teaching music at Prairie View State Normal School and Industrial College (now Prairie View A&M University) and Patterson, who had been staying with relatives up to this point, moved in with her and enrolled at the school.

It was at Prairie View that Patterson first became interested in veterinary medicine. During his junior and senior years, Patterson spent many hours with the young school veterinarian, Edward B. Evans, who had just earned his DVM from Iowa State College (now University). He encouraged Patterson to pursue a career in veterinary medicine and recommended Iowa State to him. 

Patterson arrived in Ames, Iowa, during the late summer of 1919 and enrolled at Iowa State. Four years later, in the spring of 1923, he had earned his DVM. He accepted a position teaching agriculture at Virginia State College and worked there for nearly five years. While at Virginia State, Patterson received a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation General Education Board to pursue an advanced degree. He was granted leave from his teaching position and returned to Iowa State where he completed his M.S. in veterinary pathology in 1927. He returned to Virginia to take up his teaching role again, but was soon contacted by Tuskegee Institute (now University) about a teaching position there.

Patterson accepted the position to teach agriculture and animal science courses and also to act as the school’s veterinarian. He was again offered a fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation General Education Board to pursue an advanced degree and this time chose Cornell University, where he completed his Ph.D. in bacteriology in 1932. Shortly after returning to Tuskegee, the Director of the Agriculture Division was murdered, and Patterson was put in charge of the agriculture program. When President Robert Moton announced his retirement, the Tuskegee Board of Trustees tapped Patterson to serve as the third president of the school. At his inauguration ceremony that fall, Patterson had just turned 34.

During Patterson’s tenure as president, Tuskegee would face severe budget problems due to the Depression and then a World War. However, he managed to grow the academic programs at the school, oversaw the transition of Tuskegee from a technical institute to an academically diverse university, and established a different approach to fundraising which positively impacted nearly all historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the country. 

With the assistance of his mentor, Edward B. Evans, and a team of dedicated instructors, Patterson established Tuskegee’s School of Veterinary Medicine in 1945. It remains the only school of veterinary medicine at an HBCU and is estimated to have trained 70 percent of African American veterinarians in the United States. In addition, Patterson established a commercial aviation program in 1939, giving students the opportunity to earn a commercial pilots license. The school would also be home to a military aviation training program during the war whose pilots, the famed Tuskegee Airmen, would earn a stellar record and reputation. During his tenure, Patterson also oversaw the creation of the school of engineering and the program in commercial dietetics.

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Biography available at  HBCU Connections at Iowa State University :  Frederick D. Patterson ( http://hbcuconnections.iastatedigital.org/Frederick_D._Patterson

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Flowers, Walter Albert (M.S., Agriculture, 1937)

1/2 body shot of Walter Albert Flowers sitting leaning slightly to the left

According to the 1930 Federal Census, Walter was a public school teacher in Wayne, Mississippi, likely at the Rosenwald school there, since he shared a house with four other teachers. He married Mattye Milton Copeland between 1930 and 1933. Mattye gave birth to her daughter Patricia in January 1934 in Kentucky according to Kentucky Birth records, though the 1940 census lists Patricia’s birthplace as Iowa. By 1934, Walter had settled into work as an extension agent.  The Prairie View Standard reported that Professor W. A. Flowers of the Texas Extension Service, was on campus for a conference ( Both Walter and Mattye finished their M.S. degrees in 1937 and were living in Texarkana, Texas, by February of that year, when Walter was listed as a teacher at the Rosenwald school in Corley, Texas, and one of four Area Supervisors of Vocational agriculture in the Negro schools of Texas.

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Photo Credits Tennessee State Yearbook

Outstanding educators attend conferences at Prairie View. (1934, June). The Prairie View standard, 25.10, p. 3. Retrieved from  https://digitalcommons.pvamu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1034&context=pv-newspapers ).

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Marshall, Lonnie Algusta, (B.S., Agriculture; M.S., Agriculture, 1930)

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Lonnie Algusta Marshall was born in Milican, Texas, in 1898. The 1910 census indicates that he lived with his grandparents, Cager and Rebecca Scott. He first married Grace C. Marshall, then, in 1953, married Queen Esther Laws in Wakulla, Florida. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Prairie View State Normal & Industrial College (later Prairie View A&M University) in 1924, followed by a bachelor’s degree in agriculture from Iowa State College and a Master’s degree from Iowa State College in 1930.

Marshall’s professional career spanned multiple states and academic institutions. In 1929, he served as an Instructor of Teacher Training and Science, an itinerant Smith-Hughes agricultural teacher at Florida Agricultural College for Negroes (now Florida A&M University). In 1931, he began teaching at Princess Anne Academy, and by 1933-1934, he worked as the professor in charge of the Demonstration Farm. He was promoted to Director of Agriculture at Princess Anne Academy and continued to serve as a professor until 1940, until he returned to Florida A&M. At Florida A&M, he served as a representative of Florida A&M as a Negro Deputy on the War Bonds Staff and was later, in 1948, was listed as an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education, State itinerant teacher-training in Vocational Agriculture.

Marshall died in Tallahassee, Florida where he was buried at the Tallahassee Memorial Gardens.

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Stubblefield, Malcolm J.  (Two-Year Agriculture Certificate, 1924)

Headshot of Malcolm Stubblefield

Malcolm Jerome Stubblefield was born in Sioux City, Iowa, on 10 May 1898. His parents were Clarence and Camelia Stubblefield. He was briefly enlisted in the U.S. Military, enlisting in the Army from 28 October 1918 to 13 December 1918. He went to Iowa State College for two years, leaving in 1924. He then moved to New York City, where he worked for the New York Botanical Garden. He was well known for his public garden displays and his skills as a landscape gardener were highly praised. He died on 2 November 1980.

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