Sam Higginbottom, the founder of Allahabad Agricultural Institute belongs to this category of leaders. Born in 1874 in a humble family in England and brought up in very indigent rural circumstances, Sam acquired school education by supporting himself and his studies by selling milk and doing other odd income-generating jobs. Later he migrated to the United States and pursued theological studies with the objective of becoming a missionary, to go to Latin America, Africa or China as was wont in those days of active evangelization of the colonized nations. By a strange turn of destiny, finally Higginbottom was assigned to India, especially the district of Etah in the present Uttar Pradesh, by his superior of the Presbyterian Church, North India Mission. Again by an unexpected change he was re-routed to Allahabad, the then capital of the Central Provinces under the British rule. At the age of 29 in 1903 Sam arrived at Allahabad and joined the Allahabad Christian College located on banks of Yamuna river near Sangam, the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and the legendary river Saraswati which had dried up long ago. Sam began his career as a teacher of economics and tried innovative methods of problem-solving, teaching and learning.