Jessie Field (Shambaugh), the "mother" of 4-H

For more information about the Iowa 4-H Historical Photo Gallery contact Carol Ouverson, ISU Extension communication specialist, couverso@iastate.edu.

Last update: February 27, 2002

4-H celebrates 100 years: Resources

Learn more 4-H history from Iowa State University Extension.

Visit the National 4-H Centennial Web site.

For further reference:
Bliss, Ralph K. Extension in Iowa, History of Cooperative Agriculture and Home Economics, The First Fifty Years, Ames: Iowa State University of Science and Technology, 1960

Field, Jessie, College Women and Country Leadership, New York: National Board of the YWCA, 1915

Field, Jessie and Scott Nearing, Community Civics, New York: MacMillan Company, 1916

Field, Jessie. The Corn Lady, A Story of a Country Teacher’s Work, Chicago: A. Flanagan Company, 1911

Rasmussen, Wayne D. Taking the University to the People: Seventy-Five Years of Cooperative Extension, Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1989.

Schwieder, Dorothy. 75 Years of Service, Cooperative Extension in Iowa, Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1993

Whitmore, Faye and Manila Cheshire. The Very Beginnings in Southwest Iowa. Shenandoah, Iowa: World Publishing, 1963

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