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John N. De Lamater
1838–1916
A practical 19th-century farm writer, he is remembered for concise guides that taught readers how to stack grain so it would keep well for threshing and market. His surviving work offers a clear glimpse of everyday agricultural know-how in rural Ohio.
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About the author
John N. De Lamater was an American author associated with Norwalk, Ohio, and is best known for writing A Treatise on Grain Stacking and A Revised and Illustrated Treatise on Grain Stacking, both published in 1884. These short manuals focused on the hands-on craft of building grain stacks that would hold up well and protect the harvest.
The books were practical rather than literary, aimed at farmers who needed direct, useful instruction. That makes his writing especially interesting today: it preserves a small but vivid piece of 19th-century agricultural life, showing how much skill and experience went into work that was once completely routine.
Available records also indicate that he was born in New York in 1838 and died in Norwalk, Ohio, in 1916. Beyond those basics, the surviving public record appears to be fairly limited, so his reputation rests mainly on the durability of his farming guides and the window they give into everyday rural knowledge.