(Editorial Note: Part 233 of a series of further development in the early days that impacted Franklin County. Sources: Franklin County Citizen, 1924-1930; Franklin County Extension records.)
Although the 4-H program began officially in the United States in 1902, it wasnât until 10 years later, 1912, that the program came to the state of Idaho as part of the extension program through the land grant universities. Our first recorded Extension Agent was Lucius Clark in 1918. He farmed in Treasureton and also taught school there. He had come from Freedom, WY, by a long route through the LDS Colonies of Mexico before arriving in Idaho, with training at the Agricultural College in Logan. The next extension agent was M. A. Powell who had the position from 1920 to 1929.
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