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Hutchins, William James -- 1871-1958

 Person

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Augustus Noah May Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.66
Abstract Augustus Noah May (1876- 1944), a Magoffin County native, graduated from the Berea College Normal School in 1902 and went on to attend the Sloyd Training School in Boston in 1903. May returned to Berea in December of 1903 to teach Sloyd and Model School studies. May would hold positions at Berea, in the Model and Foundation Schools, teaching woodwork, Sloyd, and manual training and drawing until 1919 when he became a professor of Industrial Education at the University of Kentucky. Noah May...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1904-1944

Cassius Marcellus Clay Collection

 Collection — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3; Series 4; Series 5
Identifier: BCA 0218 HC 02
Abstract

Collection of materials by and about Cassius M. Clay.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1849 - 1975

Correspondence, 1894 - 1939

 File — Box 1: Series 5, Folder: 1
Identifier: 5
Scope and Contents Includes memorandum and correspondence including copies, excerpts, and originals. Includes typed excerpts of letters that may be notes of Elisabeth Peck (Peck notes). Includes correspondence regarding Union Church to and from the following individuals: Eleanor Frost, William G. Frost, anonymous, John H. Smith, J.R. Robertson, Lavant Dodge, T.J. Osborne, Seth Huntington, William J. Hutchins. Included in the foler is handwritten note by Steve Gowler with additional information...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1894 - 1939

Francis S. Hutchins Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.05
Abstract Francis Stephenson Hutchins (b. 1902), a native of Northfield, Massachusetts, was educated at Oberlin College (A.B., 1923) and Yale University (M.A., 1933). Having worked in China as an undergraduate, Hutchins returned to China as an instructor in 1925 as part of the Yale-in-China Association's educational mission. Forced to leave China in 1939 during the Japanese invasion, Hutchins was appointed president of Berea College to succeed his father—William J. Hutchins.  Hutchins served as...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1924-1979

Frontier Nursing Service collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0015 SAA 014
Abstract

The collection is comprised of correspondence, printed materials, articles, clippings and photographs relating to Kentucky's Frontier Nursing Service (FNS) and its founder, Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965).

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found within 1923 - 1988

Hindman Settlement School Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0010 SAA 009
Abstract

Collection of materials of the Hindman Settlement School (Hindman, Ky)

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1899-1977

Hutchins, Robert M. and William G., 1919 February 24

 File — Folder 10: Series 2
Identifier: Box 22
Scope and Contents From the Series: Materials in this series consist of personal/family, presidential/ administrative, and business correspondence. This series is not in alphabetical order. Correspondents may have contents in more than one folder.Personal/family correspondence spans the period from Hutchins student years (1890s) through his career as a pastor, professor, and college president, and continue through the mid-1950s and consists of family correspondence to and from Robert G. and Harriet J. Hutchins, his...
Dates: 1919 February 24

John F. Gregg Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.10
Abstract

John F. Gregg, descendant of John Gregg Fee, founder of Berea College, was born in Bracken County, Ky, in 1850.  He graduated from Berea College in 1875 alongside two classmates: John R. Rogers and A.A. Burleigh.  He later became a Berea College trustee and was a member of the board of trustees which called William Goodell Frost to the presidency of the College.  He passed away in Genoa Ohio in 1931.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1863-1931

Lincoln Institute collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 13-13.29
Abstract The Lincoln Institute was an all-black boarding high school in Simpsonville, Kentucky, near Louisville, that operated from 1912 to 1966. The school was created by the trustees of Berea College after the Kentucky State Legislature passed the Day Law (1904) putting an end to the racially integrated education at Berea that had existed since the end of the Civil War. The founders originally intended the institute to be a college as well as a high school, but by the 1930s it gave up its junior...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1905 - 2023

Noah Calvin Hirschy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.24
Abstract Noah C. Hirschy (1867-1925) was asked to join the faculty of Berea College as Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Science in 1920 (same year Dr. William J. Hutchins was appointed President of the College -- Hutchins and Hirschy had been seminary students together at Oberlin). Hirschy would become a Professor of Botany one year later and serve as head of the botany department until his death in March of 1925. While at Berea, Dr. Hirschy was known as a “real” teacher-- with his Sunday...
Dates: Other: Majority of material found in c. 1920s

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Collection 10
Archival Object 2
 
Subject
Berea (Ky.) 3
Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 3
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- History -- 20th century. 2
Appalachian Region. 2
Education, higher -- Administration 2