James Harrison Carruth correspondence
Overview
This correspondence between two botanists, Smyth, who was on the faculty of Kansas State University and later Ohio State University, and J. H. Carruth, who was on the faculty at Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, is devoted nearly exclusively to discussion of Kansas flora. The bulk of the letters are from Carruth to Smyth.
Dates
- Creation: 1877 - 1892
Creator
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Biography of Bernard Bryan Smyth (1843-1913)
Bernard Bryan Smyth was born in County Cavan, Ireland on March 8, 1843, the son of an English schoolmaster. After his father's death, Smyth was sent to live with his aunt in Dublin and later followed his mother to Norwalk, Ohio.
Smyth served in the Army during the U.S. Civil War and then returned to school, including the Michigan Normal School so that he could become a schoolteacher. He married Mary Adams in 1872, and soon thereafter they moved to Kansas. Smyth and his brother John started a nursery in Barton County, but the stock was destroyed in the grasshopper plague, so both brothers turned to teaching.
Smyth became a Kansas Academy of Science member in 1880 and served as its librarian from 1886-1902. From 1893 until his death in 1913 he served as the Gross Collection curator, and he held a professor of botany position with the Kansas Medical College from 1890-1895.
[Information retrieved from the Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, vol. 25 (December 1912).]
Extent
1 folder (22 items )
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
RH MS P41
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift, Earl Manchester, Ohio State University, 1940.
Subject
- Smyth, Bernard Bryan, 1843-1913 (Person)
- Title
- Guide to the James Harrison Carruth Collection
- Subtitle
- James Harrison Carruth correspondence
- Author
- lgg 1972, revised 1981 amh 2004
- Date
- 2004
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- Language of description
- Finding aid written in<language> English.</language>
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/8191126322
- Preferred citation
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James Harrison Carruth Collection, RH MS P41, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository