Cyril A. Stebbins
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Stebbins circa 1912
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| Born | June 20, 1880 Harrisville, Wisconsin |
| Died | February 26, 1953 Los Angeles, California |
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| Occupation | Agricultural educator |
| Spouse(s) | Louise Beck Stebbins |
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Cyril Adelbert Stebbins (1880-1953) was an American educator involved with nature and agricultural education. His publications in the early twentieth century were influential in promoting gardening in children's education, and he wrote much of the curriculum for the United States School Garden Army, a federal victory garden project during World War I. He wrote several publications with Ernest Brown Babcock. He also published several field guides to birds with his son Robert C. Stebbins.
Cyril Stebbins was born in Harrisville, Wisconsin on June 20, 1880, the son of A. O. Stebbins, of English descent, and Bessie Fuller. His family moved to South Dakota and then Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he attended North Community High School, playing on the baseball and football teams and graduating in 1898. Soon after, he moved to Chico, California, and entered the Chico State Normal School (now California State University, Chico), graduating from that institution in 1900. During the majority of the next decade, Stebbins taught at several schools in Glenn, Colusa, and Solano counties. He first became a teacher in the schools of Glenn County, and later became principal of a school in Arbuckle, and remained in that city three years; from there he filled the position of principal of the grammar schools in Dixon for one year; finally he became an instructor in the Chico State Normal for three years. Stebbins then entered the University of California in Berkeley, and in 1910 received his degree of bachelor of science, and was appointed as instructor in the Agricultural Educational Division of the University. He taught in this department for two years, in the meantime receiving his master's degree, in 1912. During his time at Berkeley he organized a community garden project where local children grew fruits and vegetables for profit. In 1913 he returned to Chico to become the head of the Biological Science Division of the State Normal. Upon his departure from Berkeley, two petitions were filed to the U.C. Regents–one from parents and one from children–urging that he be retained and given sufficient funding to continue his work on the children's gardening projects.
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