C. A. Bratton papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 21-10-4234

Scope and content

Papers and reports relating to farm management; documents about incentive plans; insurance and unemployment information for laborers and their employers; information on wages and workers' compensation; labor management and hiring from the work force; documentation on migrant labor; and reports on farm management and the utilization of manpower, 1913-1986.

Dates

1913-1986.

Creator

Bratton, C. A. (Charles Arthur) (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Professor of farm management, agricultural extension project leader. Charles Bratton received a B.S. from Ohio State in 1937 and received an M.S. in 1938 and a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1942. He was a graduate assistant in agricultural economics at Cornell, 1937-38 and 1939-42; an extension economist, 1938-39; an instructor in the Department of Agricultural Economics, 1942-43; a field artillery captain in World War II; professor of farm management in the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell and an extension leader, 1946-79; and visiting professor at the University of the Philippines, 1952-53. C. A. Bratton died in 2000.