Norman Jay Colman

Norman Jay Colman (born May 16, 1827, near Richfield Springs, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 3, 1911, St. Louis, Mo.) was a farm journalist who, as U.S. commissioner of agriculture, so enlarged the scope and activities of his bureau that it was elevated to the level of a cabinet post. After a short law career, Colman in 1852 moved to St. Louis, where he became editor-publisher of The Valley Farmer (called Colman’s Rural World after 1864). Through...