The bust of the most recent inductee into the Nebraska Hall of Fame, Charles Edwin Bessey, has been placed in the north west gallery of the second floor rotunda in the Nebraska State Capitol. Bessey’s bust was sculpted by Littleton Alston. Charles Bessey is best remembered for the hand planted Nebraska National Forest near Halsey, Nebraska. Bessey was a Professor of Botany at the University of Nebraska from 1884 until 1915 and founder of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station. Bessey’s bust is in the same gallery as the bust of prominent legal scholar Nathan Roscoe Pound, one of Bessey’s first botany students at the University of Nebraska.
Bessey Bust Installed
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