Universities and colleges--Finance; Universities and colleges--Endowments; College buildings; Emporia (Kan.); College of Emporia
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
Between January 3, 1900 and 1972
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 71
Note (Status of gift)
Promised and made
Note
PDF may contain multiple grant documents.
Date based on grant approval.
Note (Historical note)
The College of Emporia was established in 1882 in Emporia, Kansas, and was associated with the Presbyterian church. The college officially closed in 1974. The Registrar's office at Emporia State University is the official custodian of the transcripts for the former College of Emporia...Colonel John Byers Anderson of Manhattan, Kansas, donated his personal library to the college in 1888. Twelve years later, a Carnegie grant provided the funds for the college to build the Anderson Memorial Library, in memory of John B. Anderson, whom Carnegie had known when younger and who later served on the board of trustees of the College of Emporia. The library was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 1987." [SOURCE: "College of Emporia." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_Emporia. Accessed 7 Aug. 2018.] "John Byars Anderson was the second and younger son of the Rev. John Anderson...In September, 1863, he was directed by the secretary of war to stock and equip railroads between Louisville and Chattanooga for military purposes. By October, 1863, his title was general manager 'of all Railways in the possession of the Government . . . in the Departments of the Cumberland, the Ohio and Tennessee.'... In the 1880’s he was president of the board of trustees of the College of Emporia, Emporia, Kan., where, in 1888, he established the Anderson Memorial Library. In 1899 Andrew Carnegie agreed to build a suitable building for this library as a memorial to Anderson, who had once opened his library of 400 books to Carnegie, then a youth working in Pittsburgh." [SOURCE: "Anderson Family Papers." Kansas Historical Society, https://www.kshs.org/p/anderson-family-papers/13973. Accessed 8 Aug. 2018.]