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J. P. LaMaster 1892–1971

Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

ABSTRACT

Joseph Paul LaMaster, 79, Head Emeritus of the Department of Dairy Science, Clemson University, passed away May 2, 1971. He retired in 1957. A native of Campbellsburg, Kentucky, he attended the State's University where he received the B.S. degree in 1913 and M.S. in 1928.

An appointment to the position of bacteriologist for the Elmendorf Farm, located at Lexington, Kentucky, was accepted upon graduation from the University. For five years he served in dairy extension in Mississippi and Georgia, and then as dairy field representative of the United States Department of Agriculture in the Southern states. He became extension dairy specialist with the South Carolina Extension Service in January 1920. On October 1, 1920 he was named head of the Clemson College Dairy Department and served in that position 37 years.

He was a leader in dairy cattle breeding studies and nutrition and was the first chairman of the regional technical committee on breeding better dairy cattle in the South.