Biographical Sketch

1862 Apr 09   Born at Wabaunsee, KS

1883          Received B.S., Kansas State Agricultural College (KSAC)

1883-1887     Assistant Chemistry, KSAC

1884          Married Lydia P.  Gardiner of Wakarusa, KS

1886          Received M.S., KSAC

1887-1888     Graduate Student, John Hopkins University

1888-1897     Assistant Chemist, Kansas Experiment Station

1890-1896     Assistant Professor of Chemistry, KSAC

1897-         Chemist, Kansas Experiment Station

1897-1901     Professor of Applied Chemistry, KSAC

1900-1906     Director, Kansas Experiment Station

1901-1909     Professor of Chemistry, KSAC

1907-1918     Vice-Director, Kansas Experiment Station

1908          Received Sc.D., KSAC

1909-1930     Dean of the Division of General Science, KSAC

1910-         Chemist, Engineering Experiment Station, KSAC

1914          Acting President, KSAC, May-Sep

1918          Acting President, KSAC, Jan-Mar

1918-1935     Vice-President, KSAC

1936-1950     College Historian

1940          Published  History of the Kansas State College of Agriculture and Applied Science

1950          Died, Manhattan, KS, July 26

Container List

Box Folder  Folder Title

		Correspondence, Alphabetical, 1894-1906.

01	01		A-B
	02		C
	03		F
	04		G
	05		H-I
	06		J-L
	07		M
	08		N-P
	09		R
	10		S
	11		T
	12		W

		Correspondence, 1925-1948.  A-Z

	13		A-L
	14		M-Z

		Correspondence, 1905-1926

02	01		1905-1919
	02		1921
	03		1922
	04		1923
	05		1923-1924
	06		1924-1925
	07		1925-1926

		Subject Files - K-State

03	01		Academic Calendars, 1941-1946
	02		Ackert, J.E., 1936-1945
	03		Admissions
	04		Agriculture, College of, 1939-1946
	05		Agricultural Experiment Station, 1902; 1936-1945
	06		Agricultural Experiment Station, Ft. Hays, 1946
	07		Ahearn, Mike, 1941
	08		All Faiths Chapel, 1947
	09		Alpha Zeta, 1928-1939
	10		Alumni Loan Fund, 1916-1917
	11		American Association of University Women, 1923; 1931-1932
	12		American Association of University Women, 1922-1936
	13		Amos, Harold H., 1917-1918; 1932
	14		Amos, Nellie (Mrs. W.S.), 1938-1942
	15		Anderson Hall, 1945	
	16		Animal Husbandry, Dept. of
	17		Application for Employment and Tests, 1936-1942
	18		Articles
	19		Association of American Universities, 1926-1927
	20		Athletics, Dept. of, 1935-1947
	21		Bacteriology, Dept.of, 1936-1946
	22		Blackburn, W.E., 1918-1933
	23		Bluemont Central College
	24		Bluemont Central College, 1939-1944
	25		Bluemont Central College, Kansas State Historical Society, ME Church
	26		Bluemont Farmers Club, 1941

04	01		Board of Regents, 1913; 1930
	02		Botany, Dept. of, 1936-1945
	03		Bowen, Emma H., 1933-1936
	04		Building and Repair, 1936; 1944
	05		Buildings, 1943
	06		Business Office
	07		Campus Walks
	08		Capper, Arthur, 1917-1941
	09		Capper Farm Press, Kansas Farmer, 1919-1943
	10		Catalogs, 1936; 1940; 1946
	11		Chemistry, Dept. of
	12		Chemistry, Dept. of, p. 1-29
	13		Chemistry, Dept. of, p. 30-39
	14		Chemistry, Dept. of, p. 40-59
	15		Chemistry, Dept. of, p. 60-79
	16		Chemistry, Dept. of, p. 80-110
	17		Chemistry, Dept. of,  ca 1898-1914; 1949
	18		Chemistry, Dept. of.  Notebooks of Experiments, 1910 & 1922
	19		Chemistry, Dept. of. Grade Book, 1896-1900
	20		Christenson, J.C., 1941-1945
	21		Color - College, 1947

05	01		Civil Service Data, 1913-1915
	02		Circulars. Dept. Heads, 1911-1921
	03		Circulars. Travel by Faculty.  Responses, 1918
	04		Circulars. "KSAC is a Profitable Investment to the State."  Responses, 1915
	05		Civil Service, Dept. of. Salary Plans and Ranges, 1947-1948
	06		Civil Service, Dept. of, 1942-1950
	07		Classes, 1919
	08		Coburn, F.D.
	09		Cochel, W.A.  (C.W. McCampbell), 1937
	10		Cole, Albert M., 1946
	11		College Bell
	12		Course and Curriculum Changes, ca 1912-1918
	13		Course and Curriculum Changes, 1921-1937
	14		Course and Curriculum Changes, N.D.
	15		Crumbine, S.J. (Save the children fund), 1938-1948
	16		Dairy Husbandry, Dept. of, 1936-1941
	17		Dean, George A., 1924-1937
	18		Degrees, 1944
	19		Dickens, Albert, 1913-1915
	20		Dorsey, Henry (Connecticut State College), 1936
	
06	01		Education, College of, 1932
	02		Eisenhower, Milton, 1925
	03		Emeritus, 1946-1947
	04		Engineering, Division of, 1936-1941
	05		Examinations, 1911
	06		Experiments - Crops/Moisture; Pigs/Nutrition; Sorghum & Kafir/Hydrocyanic Acid; 
				Soils, 1901-1916
	07		Employment - Salary Sheets, 1936-1949
	08		Extension Service, 1938-1948
	09		Faculty, 1914; 1925-1927
	10		Faculty Meetings
	11		Faculty Reorganization, 1897; ca 1914
	12		Faculty Salaries, 1917-1918; 1912
	13		Faculty Salaries, 1919 (1921)
	14		Faculty - Selective Service, 1918
	15		Faculty - Faculty Loan Fund, 1945-1949
	16		Failyer, George H.
	17		Failyer, George H., 1904-1942

07	01		Farm and Home Week/Farmers' Institutes, 1939; 1945
	02		Farm and Home Week/Farmers' Institutes, 1905; 1937-1939; 1955
	03		Farmers Institute Train, 1904
	04		Fires
	05		Food and Drugs (Kansas State Board of Health, 1913)
	06		Ft. Hays Branch Experiment Station, 1947
	07		Founders Day, 1933
	08		Fraternities, 1930-1942
	09		Fraternities, Acacia
	10		General Science, Division of
	11		General Science, Division of, 1905-1931
	12		Harbord, James G., 1919-1920
	13		Herman, Esther; 1931-1932
	14		Historian, History Book and Historical Topics, A-M
	15		Historian, History Book and Historical Topics, P-Z
	16		History Index - Headings
	17		History - Manhattan and Riley County
	18		Hitchcock, Albert S., 1932-1935
	19		Honorary Degrees - Coe, Frank W.; Harbord, James G.; Helmick, Elia
	20		Honorary Societies - Alpha Zeta, 1928-1941
	21		Honorary Societies - Agriculture, Gamma Sigma Delta, 1920-1946
	22		Honorary Societies - Agriculture, Gamma Sigma Delta. Programs, 1930-1945 (inc.)
	23		Inventories
	24		Jones, Nellie Kedzie, 1925; 1933
	25		Justin, Margaret M.
	
08	01		KSAC, 1879/80 - 1929/30
	02		Kammeyer, J.E., 1936
	03		Kansas Academy of Science
	04		Kansas State Board of Agriculture, 1936-1942
	05		Kansas State Historical Society, 1932-1945
	06		Kimball, Ellen B. and Marie Toothaker
	07		King, H.H.
	08		Land, College
	09		Land, College
	10		LaValley, Mrs. Wm. (Avis Gilmore), 1935
	11		Laws, Re: KSAC, 1862-1925
	12		Leave (J.T. Willard)
	13		Lee, J.H. (family), 1936-1941
	14		Letters of Recommendation, 1899-1908
	15		Letters of Recommendation, 1936-1943
	16		Literary Societies
	17		Literary Societies, 1918; 1942; 1949
	18		Little, B. Belle, 1922
	19		Manhattan Town Association
	20		Marlatt, Abby Lillian
	21		Mathewson, Walter, 1928; 1931
	22		Maust, Orpha, 1926-1927
	23		Melton, Alice, 1908
	24		Memorial Stadium
	25		Memorial Stadium
	26		Memorial Stadium
	27		Menniger, Karl A., 1925
	28		Missouri Valley Oratorical Cont., 1917
	29		Modern Languages, 1913
	30		Mudge, Benjamin F.
	31		Mudge, Benjamin F., 1946
	32		Music, Dept. of, 1937

09	01		National Youth Administration
	02		Necrology, 1931-1933
	03		North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, 1930
	04		Obrecht, Mary Maud Gardiner
	05		Olin, Oscar Eugene, 1930
	06		Oleo/Butler, 1917-1918
	07		Organizations, 1937
	08		"P.M"
	09		Park, George S.
	10		Parkerson, Harriet, 1933
	11		Parkerson, Harriet, 1932; 1938
	12		Pauling, George Richard
	13		Peace Corps, 1964
	14		Peace Corps, 1964
	15		Pearce, Clinton Ellicott
	16		Peterson, John Christian
	17		Photography
	18		Photography
	19		Physics Department
	20		Perry Platt
	21		Platte, J.E.
	22		Populist Period	
	23		Potter, Andrey Abraham
	24		Pranks, Breaking up classes, 7 Nov 1918
	25		Pranks, 1937
	26		Presidents Office, N.D.; 1896; 1913; 1925
	27		Presidents Office, 1929-1932
	28		Presidents Office, 1933-1935
	29		Presidents Office, 1935-1938
	30		Price, Ralph Ray	
	31		Price, Robert T.

10	01		Publicity, 1922; 1926
	02		Pumps
	03		Putnam, H.J.
	04		Quill Club
	05		Radio Station, 1936
	06		Read, Gladwin A.
	07		Reed, Mary Frances
	08		Reports, 1932
	09		Requests for Information, 1909-1930
	10		Robbins, F. Joe, 1926-1928
	11		Robertson, David G.
	12		Roger, Charles Elkins
	13		Rooms, 1911
	14		Rose, Flora
	15		Ross, Lyman Bertrand
	16		Rosza, Tibor A.
	17		Rules at K-State
	18		Schachat, Lillian H.
	19		Scholarships, 1915
	20		School for Rural Leaders
	21		Science Club, 1927-1928; 1939-1940
	22		Schreiner, Fred H.
	23		Scrip
	24		Sears, Fred C.
	25		Searson, James C.
	26		Sewers
	27		Shakespeare Dinner
	28		Shelton, E.M., 1923
	29		Shelton, E.M.
	30		Sisson, Edward D.
	31		Smith, Roger C.
	32		Spade, Class
	33		Speech Department
	34		Speeches, Lectures, and Notes
		
11	01		Stallings, Lucy
	02		Stevens, O.A.
	03		Stewart, A.A., 1925
	04		Stewart, A.A.
	05		Stewart, Harry
	06		Student Council
	07		Student Forum
	08		Student Health Department, 1938-1943
	09		Student Secretaries, 1941-1948
	10		Student's Self Governing Association
	11		Sturmer, Anna M.
	12		Surmelian, Leon
	13		Swanson, Charles Oscar
	14		Swyers, Mary B., 1934-1936
	15		Tax, Mill
	16		Teacher Certification
	17		Teachers and Employees Association--Director's Minutes, 1928-1940
	18		Teachers and Employees Association--Director's Minutes, 1928-1940
	19		Teachers and Employees Association--Director's Minutes, 1928-1940
	20		Teaching Load Survey, 1917
	21		Telephones
	22		Thompson, Helen Bishop	
	23		Traffic and Parking
	
12	01		U.S. Dept.  of Agriculture, 1899
	02		U.S. Dept.  of Agriculture, 1937-1943
	03		VanDeman, Henry E.
	04		Van Zile, Mary Pierce
	05		V-E Day in Manhattan
	06		Veterinary Medicine
	07		Walters, J.D.
	08		Walters, J.D., 1927
	09		War Service Exemptions
	10		Ward, M.L., 1922; 1930
	11		Waters, Margaret, 1936 (Mrs. H.J. Waters)
	12		Waugh, Frank A.
	13		Wilson, Mehitable Bequest, 1923
	14		Woods, Paul H.
	15		World War I
	16		World War I
	17		World War II
	18		YMCA, 1936-1943
	19		YMCA
	20		Zener, Myrtle

		Subject Files - Personal

13	01		Biographical Information
	02		Biographical Information
	03		Birth Certificate, 1937-1942
	04		Financial Documents, Doctor's Mining Company, 1908-1909
	05		Financial Documents, Pierson Mfg. Co., 1918-1921
	06		Financial Documents, Tacoma Co., 1909-1919
	07		Financial Documents, Western States Portland Cement Co., 1910-1926
	08		Financial Documents, Western States Portland Cement Co., 1910-1926
	09		Financial Documents, Western States Portland Cement Co., 1910-1926
	10		John Hopkins University, 1900; 1919-1931
	11		Lingnan University, 1938-1949

14	01		Organizations. American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1901
	02		Organizations. American Chemical Society, 1921-1936
	03		Organizations. American Chemical Society, 1937-1949
	04		Organizations. Community Chest, 1945-1948
	05		Organizations. Cosmopolitan Club
	06		Organizations. Cosmopolitan Club
	07		Organizations. Eugene Field Society, 1941-1943
	08		Organizations. Kansas Pioneers Memorial Corp., 1936
	09		Organizations. Kansas State Teachers Association, 1936-1940
	10		Organizations. Manhattan Town Hall, 1937-1941
	11		Organizations. Rotary Club, 1919-1942
	12		Organizations. Rotary Club, 1943-1949
	13		Organizations. Willard Family Association, 1965
	14		Organizations. Who's Who in America, 1918-1919; 1927-1949
	15		Organizations. Who's Who in Various Titles, 1940-1948
	16		Property. Green Mountain Falls (Co.), 1917-1922
	17		Willard, Sherman, 1923


		Estate Records - Willard, Julius F.

15	01		1939-1940
	02		1936-1938
	03		1931-1936
	04		1917-1931
	05		1917-1922
	06		1917-1922
	07		1917-1922
	08		1930-1934
	09		1935-1940
	10		1918-1924
	11		1925-1929

		Literary Works, KSC: History in Newspapers

16	01		Part I, 1854-1872 (1)
	02		Part I, 1854-1872 (2)
	03		Part I, 1854-1872 (3)
	04		Part I, 1854-1872 (4)
	05		Part I, 1854-1872 (5)
	06		Part I, 1854-1872 (6)
	07		Part I, 1854-1872 (7)
	08		Part I, 1854-1872 (8)
	09		Part I, 1854-1872 (9)
	10		Part II, 1873-1875 (1)
	11		Part II, 1873-1875 (2)
	12		Part II, 1873-1875 (3)
	13		Part II, 1873-1875 (4)
	14		Part II, 1873-1875 (5)
	15		Part II, 1873-1875 (6)
	16		Part II, 1873-1875 (7)
	17		Part II, 1873-1875 (8)
	18		Part II, 1873-1875 (9)
	19		Part II, 1873-1975 (10)
	20		1897-1899
	21		1897-1899
	22		1897-1899
	23		1897-1899	
	24		1897-1899	
	25		1897-1899
		
		Literary Works.  Discussion of the Controversy of the Seventies

	26		(1870's)
	27		(1870's)
	28		(1870's)

		Literary Works.  History of KSC: Drafts

17	01		Drafts
	02		Physics, Department of
	03		Drafts
	04		Controversial Periods
	05		Index
	06		3rd Carbon, Chapters 1-3
	07		3rd Carbon, Chapters 4-5
	08		3rd Carbon, Chapter 6
	09		3rd Carbon, Chapter 7
	10		3rd Carbon, Chapter 8
	11		3rd Carbon, Chapter 9
	12		3rd Carbon, Chapter 9
	13		3rd Carbon, Chapter 10

18	01		3rd Carbon, Chapter 11
	02		3rd Carbon, Chapter 11
	03		3rd Carbon, Chapter 12
	04		3rd Carbon, Chapter 12
	05		3rd Carbon, Chapter 12
	06		3rd Carbon, Chapter 12
	07		3rd, Carbon, Photos, Charts, Indexes

		Literary Works

	08		Autobiography
	09		Autobiographical Reminiscences (Copy 1) Typescript
	10		Autobiographical Reminiscences (Copy 1) Handwritten Draft
	11		Autobiographical Reminiscences (Copy 1) Typescript with Corrections
	12		Poetry (Typescripts)


		Speeches
	
	13		1914; 1942
	14		"Thomas Graham's Work", Chemical Journal Meeting, John Hopkins 
				University, 1888
	
		Military Files.  SATC

19	01		Business Files, 1918-1919 (1)
	02		Business Files, 1918-1919 (2)
	03		Business Files, 1918-1919 (3)
	04		Business Files, 1918-1919 (4)
	05		Business Files, 1918-1919 (5)
	06		Business Files, 1918-1919 (6)
	07		Business Files, 1918-1919 (7)
	08		Business Files, 1918-1919 (8)
	09		1918 (June-August)
	10		1918 (September)
	11		1918 (October)
	12		1918 (October-November)
	13		1918 (October-November)
	14		Ft. Sheridan, Ill., 1918 (1)
	15		Ft. Sheridan, Ill., 1918 (2)
	16		Ft. Sheridan, Ill., 1918 (3)

		Military Files

20	01		ROTC.  1918 (1)
	02		ROTC.  1918 (2)
	03		ROTC.  1918 (3)
	04		KSC Students in Military Service, Correspondence, 1917, A-M
	05		KSC Students in Military Service, Correspondence, 1917 N-Z
	06		KSC Students in Military Service, 1917, Lists
	07		KSC Students Killed
	08		Military Service, Faculty - Age of Men, 1918
	09		Military Service, Faculty - Participating, 1918
	10		Military Service, Courses for Soldiers, 1918-1919
	11		Military Service, Credits for
 	12		War Measures, 1918


		Financial Documents.  College Historian

21	01		Purchase Orders, 1936-1949
	02		Vouchers, 1936-1941
	03		Vouchers, 1942-1950
	04		Receipts, 1936-1949
	05		Improvements and Repairs, 1937-1949
	06		Department Statements, 1949-1950
	07		Payroll, 1949

		Financial Documents

	08		Receipts
	09		Receipts
	10		Receipts

22	01		Laboratory Charges, 1923/24-1927/28
	02		Laboratory Charges, 1919/20-1922/23
	03		Special Reports, 1916-1918
	04		Special Reports, 1916-1919
	05		Miscellaneous
	
		Statistics

	06		Grades - Organizations
	07		Financial (Including Salaries), 1914-1924
	08		Attendance, 1909-1913
	09		Attendance, 1914-1932
	10		Attendance, 1919-1935
	11		Misc. Teaching Hours, Land Use, Enrollment, 1918-1926

		Reports

23	01		Association of Governing Boards of State Universities, 1926
	02		American Universities and Colleges, 3rd Edition, 1935
	03		Bible Study, Committee on, 1911
	04		Annual Report, Bureau of Education, Dept. of Interior, 1921-1922
	05		Annual Report, Bureau of Education, Dept. of Interior, 1917-1920
	06		Annual Report, North Central Association, 1921-1925
	07		Annual Report, North Central Association, 1927-1931
	08		Bureau of Education, 1927
	09		Chemistry Annex (Holtz Hall) - Fragment
	10		Committee on Admissions from Higher Institutions, 1921
	11		The Cost of Attending KSC, 1933
	12		Debate between KSAC and Oxford University, 1924
	13		Students' Army Training Corps. Report, Committee on Education and Special Training, 
				War Dept., 1919
	14		(KSAC in 1927)
	15		Robertson, David A., KSAC in 1926
	16		Municipal University of Akron RE: Forms used in Deans Office, 1926
	17		War Activities of the KSAC by W.M. Jardine, ca 1919
	18		Minerva, Redaktion Der, 1935
		
		Printed Material

	19		Invitations and Programs
	20		Syllabus (Speech Class)
	21		Articles, Poems, and Quotations
	22		Broadsides - The Kansas Teacher
	23		Misc. - KSC; "Friendship: To My Friend"
	24		Cambridge and Ohio State
	25		Illustrations

24-25		Card Files