Julius Sterling Morton
Overview
Grover Cleveland
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's Secretary of Agriculture. He was a prominent Bourbon Democrat
Bourbon Democrat
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, taking the conservative position on political, economic and social issues, and opposing agrarianism
Agrarianism
Agrarianism has two common meanings. The first meaning refers to a social philosophy or political philosophy which values rural society as superior to urban society, the independent farmer as superior to the paid worker, and sees farming as a way of life that can shape the ideal social values...
. In 1897 he started a weekly magazine entitled The Conservative.
Morton was born in Adams
Adams (town), New York
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, Jefferson County
Jefferson County, New York
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, New York
New York
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. He was raised in Detroit and graduated from the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
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. He was a member of Chi Psi Fraternity at Michigan.
Quotations
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man.
Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.
Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal.