AdonijahWelch

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First president of IowaStateUniversity. Well known for deciding where trees would be planted on the young Iowa State College campus by taking a potato and throwing it, and planting a tree wherever it landed (memorialized in the stained glass windows of GoldStarHall in the MemorialUnion http://www.mu.iastate.edu/en/about/traditions.html).

• http://www.lib.iastate.edu/art/pres_wel_txt.html