Benjamin Franklin Mudge was an American lawyer, geologist and teacher. Briefly the mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts, he later moved to Kansas where he was appointed the first State Geologist. He led the first geological survey of the state in 1864, and published the first book on the geology of Kansas. He lectured extensively, and was department chair at the Kansas State Agricultural College.
Benjamin Franklin Mudge
Edward Drinker Cope, ANS
Othniel Charles Marsh, Yale
Louis Agassiz, Harvard
Kansas State University is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Manhattan, Kansas. It was opened as the state's land-grant college in 1863 and was the first public institution of higher learning in the state of Kansas. It had a record high enrollment of 24,766 students for the Fall 2014 semester.
The college c. 1860s, from a mural at the U.S. Capitol
Bluemont Bell and Dickens Hall
Hale Library
Anderson Hall