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Geology and Geography Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.23
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Geology and Geography Department.
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1936-2023
Willard Rouse Jillson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0020 SAA 019
Abstract
Papers and records of Willard Rouse Jillson (1890-1975) who served as Kentucky State Geologist from 1919 to 1932.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1898-1978
S. Whittemore Boggs Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 08-8.04
Abstract
S(amuel) Whittemore Boggs born in Kansas on March 3, 1889 and graduated from Berea College in 1909. He received a M.A. from Columbia University in 1924 and a D.Sc. (honorary) from Berea College in 1949. Upon graduating from Berea, Boggs served as the private secretary to President Frost from 1909-12. As a geologist, he published many articles and edited numerous map compilations, including editing maps for World Missionary Atlas. Boggs served as a geographer with the U.S. Dept. of State...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1951
Wilbur G. Burroughs Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.05
Abstract
Wilbur Greeley Burroughs was born in Shortsville, New York on December 7, 1886 to Joseph B. and Emma Greeley Burroughs. Wilbur and his younger brother, Wallace, attended Oberlin where he received his A.B. in 1909 (Phi Beta Kappa) and A.M. in 1911. Burroughs founded the Geology department at Berea College in 1920 and went on to receive his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1932. In 1927, Burroughs was elected president of the Kentucky Academy of Science.
This collection consists of Burroughs...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1927-1959