| LC control no. | no2010114459 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Quarshie, Tetteh, 1842-1892 |
| Associated country | Ghana |
| Birth date | 1842 |
| Death date | 18921225 |
| Place of birth | Christiansborg (Ghana) |
| Place of death | Ghana |
| Field of activity | Cacao--Breeding |
| Affiliation | Basel Missionary Industrial Training Institute in Osu (Accra, Ghana) Basel Mission Workshop |
| Profession or occupation | Agriculturists Cacao growers Blacksmiths |
| Found in | You can do better, c2007: cover (Tetteh Quarshie) p. 11 (b. 1842; d. 1892) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 14, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Quarshie, Tetteh; agriculturist, farmer, blacksmith; born 1842 in Christiansborg, Ghana; trained as a blacksmith at the Basel Missionary Industrial Training Institute in Osu (Accra, Ghana) (1854); worked as a toolmaker with the Basel Mission Workshop in Akropong-Akwapim; took up a contract as a toolmaker on cocoa plantations, island of Fernando Po (1870-1878); returned to the Gold Coast with some cocoa pods and resettled at Mampong-Akwapim, where he first planted cocoa seeds; reaped his first harvest (1883); farmers from neighboring communities came to his farm to buy seeds, and soon cocoa cultivation spread; he came to be known in the Gold Coast and Ghana as the “Father” of cocoa; his portrait is on the national currency; hospital in Mampong-Akwapim was named the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital; died 25 December 1892 in Ghana) |
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