Joe Hurt papers

Collection

Identifier: RG 08-8.12

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

These are the papers of Joe Hurt, Berea College student in the early 1920s. Included in the papers are diaries describing arriving at Berea, preparing for the school year, and school activities and labor. Also included in the papers are a scrapbook and photographs.

Dates

created: 1923-2005
Other: Majority of material found in 1923-1928

Creator

Hurt, Joe (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Records can be accessed through the Reading Room, Berea College Special Collections and Archives, Hutchins Library, Berea College.

Conditions Governing Use

There are no restrictions on the collection other than federal copyright regulations.

Extent

1.00 ms_boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Papers of Joe Hurt, student of Berea College.

Bibliography

was born March 22, 1900, in Pike County, and attended Pikeville Academy, Berea College and the University of Kentucky where he received a BS in agriculture in 1928. He was an agriculture extension agent for 20 years, first in Boyd County and then McCracken County. In 1948 he moved to Mercer County where he operated a farm on Handy Pike.