Our Pendleton Family
And Their Contributions To America
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Edmund Monroe Pendleton (1815-1884)
Edmund graduated from the South Carolina Medical School in 1838. He practiced medicine in Sparta, Georgia for many years. Edmund is most notablily identified with the development of agriculture and agricultural science in the South. He develeloped the Pendleton Formula for the manufacture of fertilizers, he was the first to use animal matter as plant food. With his son, William Micajah Pendleton, they were the first to grind cotton seed cake into meal and use it in the manufacture of fertilizers. He was the first to notice that phosphoric acid and nitrogen were taken out of the soil by cereal and cotton.
Dr. Edmund Monroe Pendleton held the chair of Agriculture and Horticulture at the University of Georgia from 1872-1877.
- He was the son of Coleman and Martha (Gilbert) Pendleton, grandson of Philip and Martha (Awbrey) Pendleton, great-grandson of James Pendleton and 2nd great-grandson of Henry and Mary Bishop (Taylor) Pendleton, 3th great-grandson of Philip and Isabella (Hurt) Pendleton.