Land-grant university
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A land-grant university is an institution of higher education in the United States designated by a U.S. state to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, or a beneficiary under the E
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Jonathan Baldwin Turner
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Jonathan Baldwin Turner was an American classical scholar, agriculturalist, and abolitionist. He also led a political movement to create agriculture colleges, and campaigned to institute land grant un
Turner in the 1860s
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Boulder dedicated to Turner's speech at the Granville Convention proposing land grant colleges. The plaque reads "This marker commemorates the Granville convention of November 18, 1851 at which Jonathan Baldwin Turner first proposed the plan for establishing higher institutions of scientific industrial learning by federal aid, a plan which laid the foundation of the University of Illinois and all the land grant colleges of the nation."