Lloyd Bruce Wescott, born November 21, 1907, in Washington County, Wisconsin, and died December 24, 1990, in Rosemont, New Jersey, was an American agriculturalist, civil servant and philanthropist who grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm before settling in New Jersey. He operated Mulhocaway Farm, which served as headquarters for the Artificial Breeding Association, a pioneer in the artificial insemination of dairy cows, and he chaired the National Agricultural Stabilization Committee for Dairy Products in 1961 and helped dedicate the New Jersey Museum of Agriculture in 1989. He was also instrumental in founding the Hunterdon Medical Center, chaired the New Jersey State Board of Control of Institutions and Agencies, and donated farmland that became Wescott Preserve, Hunterdon County's first county park; his brother was the novelist Glenway Wescott.
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Defining ContributionRan Mulhocaway Farm, headquarters of the Artificial Breeding Association 1 Sources
1. Lloyd Wescott, Wikipedia
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Wescott was born in 1907 on a dairy farm outside
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Wescott died in 1990 at his Rosemont home at the age of 83.
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Mulhocaway Farm, as it was known, became the headquarters for the Artificial Breeding Association, a pioneer in the
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