Ruffin, Edmund
soldier, agriculturist, journalist, state legislator, author, was born Jan. 5, 1794, in Prince George county, Va. He served in the Virginia legislature, was secretary of the state board of agriculture, agricultural surveyor of South Carolina, for many years was president of the Virginia Agricultural society, and was the discoverer of the value of marl as a fertilizer of poor soil, by the use of which millions of dollars were added to the value of real estate of eastern Virginia. He published Essay on Calcareous Manures; Essay on Agricultural Education; and Anticipations of the Future to Serve as Lessons for the Present Time.
He died June 15, 1865, in Redmoor, Va.