The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Shelton, Edward M.
Shelton, Edward M., was born in Huntingdonshire in 1846, and went as a child to the United States, where he graduated at the Michigan Agricultural College in 1871, and subsequently studied at the Illinois Industrial University. He afterwards superintended the establishment of the Government farm at Tokio, Japan, but returned to America and joined the Greeley Colony in Colorado. He afterwards revisited Michigan College; and in 1874 became Farm Superintendent and Professor of Agriculture at the Kansas College, but in 1889 became Instructor in Agriculture under the Queensland Government.