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Wrote the first FAC's textbook, "A Treatise on Domestic Economy."
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Ellen Swallow Richards was born in Danstabe, Massachusetts.
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Justin Smith was a representative from Vermont that helped pass the Morrill Act which encouraged the development and growth of agricultural and technical colleges. These were call "land grant universities."
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Ellen Richards was admitted to Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York and graduated in two years with a degree in Chemistry.
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Ellen Richards was the first woman to be admitted to MIT as a special student of Chemistry.
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Ellen Swallow Richards graduates MIT, creates a womens laboratory and becomes an instructor for the school.
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Ellen Swallow marries Robert H. Richards who was the head of the department of mining and engineering.
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Ellen Swallow Richards became the head of the science section of the Society to Encourage Studies at home at MIT.
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Ellen Swallow Richards became the first woman president of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
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Ellen Swallow Richards co-founded the Association of Collegiate Alumnae later known as the American Association of University Women.
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Ellen Swallow Richards wrote over a dozen books. Some of them included The Chemistry of Cooking, Home Sanitation: A Manual for Housekeepers, Laboratory Notes on Industrial Water Analysis: A Survey Course for Engineers, and Euthenics: The Science of Controllable Environment.
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Ellen Swallow Richards was appointed as an assistant to Professor Nichols in Sanitary Chemistry.
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Ellen Swallow Richards led the creation of the Rumford Kitchen at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
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"Home Economics" was adopted as the new name for the field at this conference headed by Ellen Swallow Richards and other like minded colleagues.
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The (AHEA) American Home Economics Association formed.
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AAFCA received its charter.
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Created the Cooperative Extension Service including FACS.
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The start of the Office of Home Economics under the States Relation Service
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Established FAC's as part of Vocational (CTE) Education
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AHEA changed to AAFCA (American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
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Secretary of Agriculture, Henry C. Wallace was authorized by Congress to create a Bureau of Home Economics to continue the work specified in 1915 appropriations act for the Office of Home Economics at the level of a full-fledged Bureau.
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Louise Stanley was chosen to be the new Chief.
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Appointed head of the Economic of the Home Branch of the Bureau.
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The first head of the Textiles and Clothing Division and eventually named Assistant to Hazel K. Stiebeling. She was an expert in Textile Chemistry.
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The Bureau moved to the Warner Theater in Washington D.C and the Bureau pioneered clothing patterns for children that allowed for easier movement for active playtime.
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Chief Louise Stanley declared the Bureau stop research as usual and start working on designs for non-traditional women's clothing who had to go to work due to WWII. The Bureau also issued publications about food conservation, preparation, and consumption to help food supplies for overseas and families left at home.
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The Bureau's name changed to "The Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics" to reflect its focus on Nutrition.
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With a doctorate degree in Chemistry, she was appointed to be the Chief of the new Bureau.
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Helped consumers with kitchen designs that included the step-saving kitchen.
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Bureau reorganized and some of its work continued at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service
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Hazel Stiebeling was appointed as Deputy Administrator for Nutrition and Consumer Use Research at USDA's Agricultural Research Service. She was over three divisions that worked on Human Nutrition, Household Economics, and Clothing and Housing.
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Bureau officially ceased to exsist
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The Carl Perkins Act increased quality to technical education within the U.S.
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AHEA voted to change the name of the profession to Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS.)
