Henry Leavitt Ellsworth
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Henry Leavitt Ellsworth was a Yale-educated attorney who became the first Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office, where he encouraged innovation by inventors Samuel F.B. Morse and Samuel Colt. Ellswor
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, first Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office, founder, United States Department of Agriculture
Oliver Ellsworth Homestead, Windsor, Connecticut, birthplace of Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, National Historic Landmark
Broadside advertising sale by Ellsworth of parcels of his western lands, Lafayette, Indiana, 1847
The Morse Telegraph, one of many inventions championed by Henry Leavitt Ellsworth
The United States Department of Agriculture is an executive department of the United States federal government that aims to meet the needs of commercial farming and livestock food production, promotes
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth
…Insurance Company, and was a major donor to Yale College, a commissioner to Indian tribes on the western frontier, and the founder of what became the United States Department of Agriculture. Ellsworth was born in Windsor, Connecticut, son of Founding Father and Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth and Abigail Wolcott. Ellsworth graduated from…
Jamie L. Whitten Building, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Harvey Washington Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Chemistry (third from the right) with his staff in 1883
The first Department of Agriculture Building on the National Mall around 1895
An IBM System/360 in use at the US Dept. of Agriculture, 1969