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+ | ==== Spaulding, Major Franklin ==== | ||
+ | Probably the first African American to receive a doctorate at UMass Amherst and the first nationally to receive a doctorate in agronomy, Major Franklin Spaulding earned a PhD in 1935 for his study [[http:// | ||
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+ | Born in North Carolina on Sept. 18, 1898, Major Spaulding was the sixth of at least eleven children of the farmer McIver Spaulding and his wife Elsie. Educated, successful, and prominent within their community, the Spauldings were of mixed-race ancestry, with both African and Lumbee heritage. Listed as " | ||
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+ | Spaulding was raised on the family farm in Welches Creek before beginning his advanced education at North Carolina A&T College (BS 1925). Heading north for a second bachelors degree at Cornell (BS 1927), he went directly to earn a MS from Cornell (1928) and doctorate from Massachusetts State College (1935), working as a laboratory assistant during much of his time in Amherst to pay his way. | ||
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+ | His distinguished career in agronomy included stints on faculty at several Historically Black Colleges and Universities, | ||
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+ | Spaulding was married twice: first to Leora E. Jones in Guilford, N.C., in June 1925, and then to Ella Walker Walker in 1955. Major Spaulding died on April 19, 1964. |