William Penn Brooks was an American agricultural scientist, who worked as a foreign advisor in Meiji period Japan during the colonization project for Hokkaidō. He was the eighth president of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Brooks is... Wikipedia
Born: November 19, 1851, Scituate, MA
Died: March 8, 1938 (age 86 years), Amherst, MA
Organization founded: Phi Sigma Kappa
Books: Bulletin, Analyses of Manurial Substances Sent on for Examination ; Analyses of Licensed Fertilizers Collected by the Agent of the Station During 1898, Experiment Station Accuracy: A Correspondence Between William P. Brooks ... and Mr. Andrew H. Ward ... Touching the Relative Merits of Soda and Potash, and more
Children: Sumner Cushing Brooks
Education: University of Massachusetts Amherst