Kuhn, Madison, 1910-1985
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1910 - 1985
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Bessey family papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.416
Scope and Contents
The Bessey family papers have been arranged into the following series: Biographical Data, Manuscripts and Publications, General, Correspondence, Scrapbooks, Oversized materials and Photographs.The biographical data series includes information on Charles and Ernst Bessey, and on relatives of Edith Carleton Higgins (Mrs. Ernst A. Bessey), including her mother, Ella M. (Noyes) Higgins (1851-1913); her sisters, Mabel Cornell Porter and Bertha Noyes and, her brothers, Leslie A. Higgins...
Dates:
1878 - 1968
Edmund A. Calkins papers
Collection
Identifier: UA-10.3.419
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of several scrapbooks containing newspaper articles of Franklin D. Roosevelt's private and political life from 1934 to 1940. There is also a Vermontville School Register (1891-1895), a booklet containing teacher contracts in Eaton County, financial records, data pertaining to Michigan railroads, Michigan Constitutional Convention of 1907 Handbook, and diaries dating from 1908 to 1933.
Dates:
1859 - 1940
Edward H. Ryder papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.40
Scope and Contents
The Edward H. Ryder collection contains correspondence, travel information from his trip around the world in 1923 and personal remembrances, including memorials and programs. Also found in the collection are materials pertaining to his wife, Georgia Smyth Ryder. The collection also contains correspondence to and from both Edward and Georgia Ryder. It includes copies of their original birth certificates as well as their obituaries. The bulk of the material relates to Edward Ryder and his...
Dates:
1854 - 1955
Edwin Willits papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.1.4
Scope and Content
The Edwin Willits papers consist of correspondence, financial records, Willits' inaugural address at Michigan Agricultural College, and various education-related materials, primarily concerning natural science.
Dates:
1884 - 1889
Jonathan LeMoyne Snyder papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.1.7
Scope and Contents
This collection contains eight series: correspondence, personal correspondence, speeches, reports, promotional literature, calendars, programs and tickets. All series represent the basic divisions of the collection prior to processing.The largest single series is correspondence, 1896-1915 (18.5 cubic feet). Contained in this series are many requests for college catalogues, many questions regarding admissions, as well as admissions requirements. Comments relative to such...
Dates:
1887 - 1918
Oscar Clute papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.1.5
Scope and Content
The Oscar Clute papers consist primarily of correspondence (1889-1893) during Clute's presidency at Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). Also included are several articles on education and M.A.C., and information about the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The period of Clute's presidency was characterized by student unrest, political crises, and faculty turnover.
Dates:
1889 - 1893
Ralph H. Young papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.114
Scope and Contents
The Ralph Young papers are divided into four series. Series 1, Correspondence, is arranged alphabetically by subject. The correspondence covers Young's last years as Athletic Director (1951-1952) and consists mainly of letters to directors at other institutions and agencies such as the N.C.A.A.
Series 2, Individual Sports, is composed of materials dealing with individual varsity sports. This series not only contains materials related directly to the varsity sport but also an extensive...
Dates:
1902 - 1958; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1958
Samuel Johnson papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-17.120
Scope and Contents
The early correspondence gives a description of Civil War fighting in Virginia and comments on the controversy following McClellan’s removal by Lincoln. The correspondence from the 1870s recounts Johnson’s efforts as Professor of Agriculture and deal with animal sales and purchases, grain tests, and other topics. Also included are lectures read by Johnson and Ray Stannard Baker’s student notebook of lectures given by Johnson.The second portion of the collection contains the...
Dates:
1824 - 1944
Theophilus Capen Abbot papers
Record Group
Identifier: UA-2.1.3
Scope and Content
The collection consists of correspondence, poetry, speeches, and diaries. There are also Abbot's testimonial records from the State Board of Agriculture.
Dates:
1844 - 1893
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Photographs 5
- Diaries 4
- Postcards 3
- Speeches 3
- Agricultural colleges -- Michigan 2
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 2
- College presidents -- Michigan 2
- Education -- Michigan 2
- Education, Higher 2
- Education, Higher -- Michigan 2
- Programs (Publications) 2
- Scrapbooks 2
- Agricultural education 1
- Agricultural education -- Michigan 1
- Agriculture -- Michigan -- Societies, etc. 1
- Botanists -- United States 1
- Botany -- United States 1
- Chicago (Ill.) 1
- College sports 1
- College sports -- Michigan -- East Lansing 1
- Constitutional conventions -- Michigan 1
- Eaton County (Mich.) 1
- Economics -- Study and teaching 1
- Education 1
- Education, Higher -- History -- 19th century 1
- Education, Primary 1
- Farm life -- Michigan 1
- Federal aid to education -- Michigan 1
- Financial records 1
- Government aid to higher education -- Michigan 1
- Home economics 1
- Ingham County (Mich.) -- Maps 1
- Kalamazoo (Mich.) 1
- Ledgers (account books) 1
- Livingston County (Mich.) -- Maps 1
- Maps 1
- Memorandums 1
- Minutes (Records) 1
- Mycology 1
- Natural history -- Study and teaching 1
- Notebooks 1
- Olympics 1
- Physical education and training 1
- Political science -- Study and teaching 1
- Railroads -- Michigan 1
- Reports 1
- Russia -- Description and travel 1
- Spiritualism 1
- Student movements 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Universities and colleges -- Alumni and alumnae 1
- Universities and colleges -- Faculty 1
- Vermontville (Mich.) 1
- Voyages around the world 1 + ∧ less
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