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* Columbia
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Record Group: 1 UW
Record Sub-Group: 1
Record Series: 3
Records Title: UM-System; Board of Curators; Official Correspondence: Growth and Change
Dates: 1876-1888
Volume: 3 cubic feet, 4.5 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
Series Three of Sub-Group One holds correspondence and other records relating to the years between 1876 and 1888. These decades were a period of considerable growth and building on the Columbia campus. This period also saw such notable events in MU history as the graduation of the first women to attend MU and the arrival at MU of Thomas Jefferson's original grave marker.
Note to Archivist: This entire collection has been microfilmed. The microfilm consists of 33 microfilm reels (MFR) in 35mm format, located in the Archives Reading Room's Microfilm Cabinet. Call number: UW:1/4/1a (A01-154).
Note to Researcher: Researchers are encouraged to use the microfilm version of this Sub-Group as the original documents are fragile and responsible preservation requires minimum use of the original paper records.
Inventory
Series Three - Growth and Change: 1876-1888
Box 4
FF 1 - 1876 - President Read's last Annual Report to Curators, correspondence regarding his resignation and a series of articles in Columbia newspapers; Conant vs. Foster regarding college lands; honorary degrees; appointment of Rollins as delegate to the National Education Association; faculty recommendations for degrees; resolution regarding payment of faculty salaries; specifications for cases for Natural History Hall; notes on education address by Dr. [Rambout]; report of committee to attend examinations; resolution regarding S.S. Laws acceptance of the Presidency.
FF 1A - 1876 - Applications for positions, letters of recommendation; land sales and leases; diploma fees; list of insurance carried on buildings; meeting minutes (7/18-19/1876) at Jefferson City; search for business manager; inauguration addresses ordered printed; resignation of Hammill; notice to counties to appoint beneficiary students.
FF 1B - 1876 - Correspondence, broadsides, rules providing for organization, by-laws, officers and members of the U.S. Centennial Commission, booklet regarding international exhibition, Philadelphia and U.S. Centennial celebration; acceptance of honorary degrees; Rollins expenses to attend National Education Association Convention; resignation of M. Lou Gillett; diploma fees; State Auditor request for information and response listing employees, faculty, positions and salaries; Curator oaths; appointments to faculty and acceptance.
FF 1C - 1876 - Notice to counties to appoint beneficiary students, appointment of students, examination of students and related correspondence; Report of the Director of the School of Mines; Report of the Executive Committee of School of Mines.
FF 2 - 1877 - Resolution regarding term of office for curators; faculty and position appointments and acceptances; Todd to Senator Morrison regarding an act voiding contracts by curators and the University; notice of alumni reunion and address; printed Normal School list of instructors and the schedule of classes; printed "Letter by Professor Swallow to President Laws on the Agriculture College..." and President Laws letter of transmittal to the Missouri General Assembly; act to amend statutes "Of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture"; "An Act to Reorganize the Board of Curators for the State University and repealing certain acts..."; contracts for the construction of the Scientific Building [Switzler Hall]; curator oaths; sales and leases of land.
FF 2A - 1877 - Sutherland's correspondence regarding Board of Curators meeting and actions; land sales and leases; clippings from the Missouri Statesman (6/15/1877); Horticulture Department Report and Inventory; College Home inventory; lease of the Hudson Mansion to Swallow; committee report regarding estimated receipts and expenses of the University; curator requests for resignations of faculty and responses; responses to meeting notices; circular from the Ordinance Office, U.S. War Department regarding loans of arms to colleges; applications, letters of recommendation, appointments to faculty and acceptance.
FF 2B - 1877 - Faculty recommendations for degrees; Runyan regarding boarding club rules and regulations; School of Art created and General Bingham to take charge of it; "old completed contracts" - vineyard, Scientific Building, Hudson House, pasturage of cattle, dining hall, rebuilding of the President's House and repairs [contracts date 1867-1874]; responses to meeting notices; position appointments and acceptances; Sutherland regarding Board request for his presence at a meeting; correspondence regarding insurance on buildings and rates; Report of the Special Committee to Inquire into the School of Mines Financial Condition; School of Mines Report; correspondence regarding the State Geological Survey appropriation of funds; Report of Executive Committee of the School of Mines; resignation and acceptance of same of C.P. Williams, Director of the School of Mines.
FF 2C - 1877 - Notice to counties to appointment beneficiary students, appointments of students and related correspondence.
FF 3 - 1878 - Honorary degree recommendations; responses to meeting notices; applications for positions, letters of recommendation; School of Mines finances; commencement program (6/6/1878); Report of the Horticulture Department; resignations of Ripley and Arnold; contract between T.J. Lowry and J.G. Norwood for Lowry to assist with teaching; recommendations for degrees; curator oaths; Cole's claim for back salary.
FF 3A - 1878 - Applications for positions, letters of recommendation, appointment and acceptances of positions; land sales and leases; librarian requested to prepare a catalog of books; Report of the Horticulture Department; appointments of county beneficiary students.
FF 3B - 1878 - Insurance policies and related correspondence; Report of the Executive Committee of the School of Mines; correspondence from agent in charge of sale of School of Mines lands; circular with engraving of School of Mines building and "Advantages of School."
FF 4 - 1879 - Committee on Finance Report; committee Report regarding Sutherland's debt; proposal to turn over library books of Columbia Library to the University; applications for positions, letters of recommendation, appointments and acceptances; faculty resolution regarding faculty leaves and vacations; recommendations for degrees; Report of the Department of Greek and Comparative Philology; curator oaths; Report of the Horticulture Department; improvement of the Agriculture College Farm; William H. Lackland regarding Sutherland; Henry Read regarding legislation in the Missouri Senate.
FF 4A - 1879 - L. Davis to J.S. Rollins regarding the selling of Arcadia College building in Iron County, Missouri and a photo of the building; bond of the treasurer; Lackland regarding Sutherland's debt; invitation to Stephens College Commencement exercises and invitation to graduates' reception; recommendations for degrees; appointments of county beneficiary students; Report of the Horticulture Department; Report to U.S. Ordinance Office of the U.S. War Department regarding arms in the possession of the University.
FF 5 - 1880 - Responses to meeting notices; resolution, correspondence and circular regarding purchase of the Shelbyville telescope; recommendations for degrees; Weekly Missouri Statesman (1/16/1880); resignation of S. Hayes, Librarian, and withdrawal of same; resolution regarding George C. Bingham's death; Certificate of Title to the Property of McDowell College [abstract]; Report of Agriculture College, including Horticulture, Pomology and Forestry Departments; receipts for apparatus by students from Department of Analytical Chemistry; Sutherland's debt.
FF 5A - 1880 - Notice to county beneficiary students and appointments; applications for positions, letters of recommendation, appointments and acceptances; resolutions regarding duplicate receipts from the Treasurer "for greater certainty in the accounts", ministers' free tuition, obtaining a second masters degree, death of W.E. Glenn; Rollins proposes establishment of new professorships; Sutherland's second annual Report as Land Commissioner to sell and lease lands; resignation of E. Jolley; report regarding book- keeping classes; School of Mines balance sheets, report of students by class and county-city-state of origin.
FF 6 - 1880-1881 - Agriculture College land sales and leases, related correspondence [some may date back to 1877 in folders 6 - 6C].
FF 6A - 1880-1881 - Agriculture College land sales and leases, related correspondence.
FF 6B - 1880-1881 - Agriculture College land sales and leases, related correspondence.
FF 6C - 1880-1881 - Agriculture College land sales and leases, related correspondence.
Series Three - Growth and Change: 1876-1888, (cont.)
Box 5
FF 1 - 1881 - T.J. Lowry's Report regarding the Engineering Department and the request to make it a school; reprints: address by Lt. Leach to graduating class in Engineering, "A Lecture on the Professional School in the American University" by T.J. Lowry; resolution regarding settlement with Sutherland; recommendations for degrees; applications for positions, letters of recommendation, appointments and acceptances; responses to meeting notices; requests from President Laws regarding material for appropriation submission; Lackland regarding Sutherland's debt; news clipping regarding McAnally Prize for English and a letter from McAnally; petition of University Boarding Club students for rent reduction; photo of chart by Lowry "University of the State of Missouri Historical Ordinates and Curve of Attendance" (1843-1881).
FF 1A - 1881 - Applications for positions, letters of recommendation, appointments and acceptances; resolution regarding the buying of bank stock; notice to county courts to appointment beneficiary students and student appointments; commencement program (6/2/1881); resolution regarding appropriations for the School of Mines; Todd regarding the report of indebtedness of the University; faculty recommendations for degrees; printed Report of the Board of Curators to the 31st General Assembly; letter to the General Assembly from the Board of Curators.
FF 2 - 1881-1882 - Agriculture College land sales and leases, related correspondence; Report to General Assembly listing lands sold and prices paid [some may date back to 1870].
FF 2A - 1881-1882 - Agriculture College land sales and leases, related correspondence.
FF 3 - 1882 - Agriculture College Report and Board of Curators response to the report; scrapbook of materials regarding Plow Trials 1887-1888.
FF 3A - 1882 - Petitions from citizens of Boone County regarding the Agriculture College Farm and experiments done there, retention of Maddex and Swallow, "Answer to Petition", reprint of report on experiments, related correspondence; friction between Laws and Swallow.
FF 3B - 1882 - Bond of Treasurer; faculty recommendations for degrees; acceptance of honorary degrees; responses to meeting notices; receipt for "speaking tube" hook up; Norwood to Laws regarding his health; payment by J.L. Stephens of money for the oratory prize; printed Alumni Reunion invitation card (5/31/1882); Schweitzer regarding the need for more laboratories and equipment; list of apparatus needed by Department of Physics; curator oaths.
FF 3C. - 1882 - Acceptance of honorary degrees; Report of the Medicine and Pomology departments; Swallow's failure to teach classes assigned to him by the Medical Department; books donated by U.S. government departments; resolution to declare Swallow's professorship vacant; resignation of Swallow; resolution regarding the storage of personal specimens at the University; Sutherland's claim for commissions on land sold; resignation of B. Gordon, Law Department faculty, due to lack of funds for the Department of Law; applications for positions, letters of recommendation, appointments and acceptances [inc.: Sanborn & J.C. Jones]; list of bonds purchased for the Agricultural College; resolution regarding death of President Garfield; appointments of county beneficiary students.
FF 4 - 1882-1883 - Agriculture College land sales and leases, related correspondence.
FF 4A - 1882-1883 - Agriculture College land sales and leases, related correspondence.
FF 5 - 1883 - Correspondence regarding hides of Chillingham Wild Cattle for sale; responses to meeting notices; Fleet's request for leave of absence; curator oaths.
FF 5A - 1883 - Faculty appointments and resignations; B.J. Thomas regarding the Edison Electric Generator; faculty recommendations for degrees; resolution regarding the sale of Agriculture College lands; responses to meeting notices; acceptance of honorary degrees; Enoch Crowder's application as Professor of Military Science.
FF 5B - 1883 - Appointments of county beneficiary students; Rollins Aid Fund applications, grade report, and related correspondence.
FF 5C - 1883 - Building Committee meeting minutes; bids, contracts, specifications, and bills regarding construction and repairs.
FF 6 - 1884 - Letter from E.W. Harrison, daughter of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, regarding Jefferson Monument Resolutions and copy of the Board of Curators Resolution; Swallow's Report regarding expenses and management of University; applications for positions, letters of recommendation, appointments and acceptances; correspondence regarding expenditure of appropriations by departments; J. Haden regarding need for physical education; student petition regarding the wearing of uniforms; recommendations for degrees; correspondence regarding the reopening of the Medical Department in St. Louis.
FF 6A - 1884 - Correspondence regarding the Medical Department in St. Louis reopening; recommendations for degrees; acceptance of honorary degrees; Tracy regarding his appointment as the Superintendent of the Division of Plants and Trees in New Orleans Cotton Centennial Exposition; resolution regarding the sale of Agriculture College lands; departmental reports of expenditure and appropriations; correspondence regarding semi-centennial of Columbia College; appointments to positions; appointments of county beneficiary students.
FF 6B - 1884 - Columbia Herald (11/13/1884) and Weekly Missouri Statesman (11/14/1884).
FF 6C - 1884 - Specifications, bids, contracts, Building Committee meeting minutes regarding construction and repairs, as well as steam heating for buildings [first typewritten material in collection].
FF 6D - 1884 - Materials regarding the School of Mines: Census of students by class and county-city-state of origin; news clippings; vouchers examined by the Legislative Committee; F.E. Whiting regarding her dismissal from position at Preparatory Department and related materials; petitions and correspondence regarding removal of R.W. Douthat from position in Department of Languages; resolutions regarding faculty grievance procedures, salaries and sale of lands; faculty of the Technical Department regarding the Preparatory Department; requests for meetings with the Board of Curators.
Series Three - Growth and Change: 1876-1888, (cont.)
Box 6
FF 1 - 1885 - Responses to meeting notices; applications for positions, letters of recommendation, appointments and acceptances; needs of departments for the years (1885-1886); correspondence regarding appointment of State Veterinarian; painting and repair bids; letter regarding incandescent lighting of the University.
FF 1A - 1885 - Proposed establishment of a Department of Political and Social Science; Alumni Association present a bronze bust of J.S. Rollins; retirement of McAnally; applications for positions, letters of recommendation, appointments and acceptance; recommendations for degrees; Missouri Statesman (6/2/1885); commencement program (6/4/1885); news clippings (6/12/1885 - 7/10/1885; reprint in German "Aur Molecular-Kinematick" by W.B. Smith; correspondence regarding the establishment of a vaccine laboratory in connection with the University and appointment of a State Veterinarian; appointments of county beneficiary students; Student Directory.
FF 1B - 1885 - Building Committee meeting minutes; correspondence regarding payments for services; steam heat and radiators; addition to Academic Hall; bids on library furniture; bond of the School of Mines' Treasurer.
FF 1C - 1885 - Insurance correspondence and bids; lists of coverage; policies.
FF 1D - 1885 - World's Centennial Exposition in New Orleans: correspondence, printed catalogs of exhibits of Guatemalan and "Venezuelan Productions Sent to the Centennial Cotton Exhibition...12/1884"; list of donations from U.S. government - seeds specimens and others; correspondence regarding S.M. Tracy's work at the Exposition for the University.
FF 2 - 1886 - Meeting minutes (1/12/1886); applications for positions, letters of recommendation, appointments and acceptances; correspondence regarding the restoration of connection with Missouri Medical College in St. Louis; correspondence regarding legislation before U.S. Congress regarding establishment of Agriculture Experiment Stations; report of agents for the sale of Agriculture College lands and abstract of registered lands; commencement program (6/3/1886); Report of the Veterinary Inspection of Missouri; Paquin regarding the work of Louis Pasteur and request for leave of absence; B.J. Thomas regarding U.S. dynamo; State of Missouri vs. City of St. Louis petition regarding Missouri Medical College; Paquin regarding a Vaccine Lab; appointment of county beneficiary students.
FF 2A - 1886 - Retirement of Todd; closing of streets and purchase of land to expand the campus; meeting minutes (6/3/1886); correspondence regarding Missouri Medical College agreement; faculty recommendations for degrees; meeting minutes (5/29/1886); resignation of J.S. Rollins due to ill health and resolution of thanks; donation of elephant, "Emperor", to University by President Laws, other specimens bought from Henry A. Ward; list of lands selected as balance due to Seminary Lands.
FF 2B - 1886 - Appointments of county beneficiary students; arrangement for Normal School students to observe pupils of Columbia School District; correspondence regarding B.J. Thomas and the tuning fork incident; organization of Cadet Band; damage to Union Literary Society furniture during Academic Hall improvements; Student Directory; School of Mines Treasurer's Report and estimate of expenses.
FF 3 - 1887 - Meeting minutes (1/11-13/1887).
FF 3A - 1887 - Schweitzer regarding needs of the Chemistry Department; petition from A.B. Club students regarding the reduction of rent; commencement program of the Law Department (3/24/1887); correspondence regarding well drilling; Bliss regarding the Law Library; proposed chair of the Political Science department; meeting minutes (5/30/1887); curator commissions and oath; request for the resignation of R.E. Call and his release from duties; State Veterinary Surgeon, Paquin, Quarterly Report and Financial Report; building repair bids; sale of Agriculture College lands.
FF 3B - Correspondence from Crowder regarding the Department of Military Science; Financial Report of the State Veterinarian; Report of Pratt regarding duties of Proctor, Purchasing Agent, Store Keeper, Auditor and Secretary of the Board of Curators; correspondence regarding the establishment of an Agriculture Experiment Station; bond of J.W. Monser, Librarian; curator commissions and oaths; Librarian's Quarterly Reports; essay regarding "Landlordism in America".
FF 3C - 1887 - Faculty resignations; correspondence regarding salary increases and duties; applications for positions, letters of recommendation, appointments and acceptances.
FF 3D - 1887 - Request to other colleges and universities for information regarding salaries paid professors and officers; replies to inquiry; University faculty lists of enrollment by class and teaching schedules.
FF 3E - 1887 - Building and equipment specifications, bids, contracts, and related correspondence; elevator blueprint.
FF 3F - 1887 - Appointments of county beneficiary students; inquiries regarding admission; announcement, "Programme of Examinations".
FF 3G - 1887 - Insurance policies, list of coverage, and related correspondence.
FF 4 - 1888 - Report of the Superintendent of Agriculture College lands; meeting minutes (1/10/1888); Paquin regarding U.S. appropriations for experimental agriculture; resolution regarding death of J.S. Rollins; Governor Leslie of Montana to Paquin regarding invitation to work on horse diseases; resolution regarding salaries of faculty lower than most other colleges and raises needed; commencement program (5/31/1888); sale and lease of Agriculture College lands; Spencer regarding back salary due; response to meeting notices; condition of buildings on Agriculture College Farm; correspondence and petitions regarding new Boarding Club building; faculty recommendations for degrees; petitions and correspondence regarding student dissatisfaction with President Laws.
FF 4A - 1888 - Meeting Minutes (5/28-31/1888); Department Reports; Librarian's Report; sale and lease of Agriculture College lands.
