Enos J. Perry, a husbandman from Pennsylvania, is inducted for his revolutionary work in cattle breeding.

Perry was educated at Pennsylvania State University and received his doctorate from Columbia University in New York. He began his career in agricultural extension at Pennsylvania State College, where he was county agent for four years.

Dr. Perry later worked for Rutgers University in New Jersey and first observed artificial insemination in Denmark during 1937. Thereafter, he became a lifelong student of animal husbandry. His expertise eventually earned him the distinction of “Father of Artificial Insemination in the United States.”

Dr. Perry organized the first U.S. Cooperative Breeding Organization in New Jersey in 1938. His work at the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station revolutionized the breeding of cattle in this country. The techniques and equipment he pioneered became the prevailing U.S. animal husbandry practices for cattle and other livestock.

Dr. Perry’s textbook on artificial insemination, published in 1945, became the standard reference manual on the subject and was translated into many languages. In 1956 he retired as Extension Professor of Dairy Science at Rutgers University.