Ella Ewing Hunter
Collection 1896-1966, and
Scrapbook, 1885-1917

Collection No. 92-026

Correspondence, clippings and biographic research regarding Ella Ewing Hunter.

Hunter (1870-1935) was the first woman faculty member of Oklahoma A&M College (1894-1896), and along with Harry E. Thompson was responsible for establishing the preparatory school. Hunter taught for the junior class of the preparatory school.

Arranged chronologically

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Finding aid in the repository

3 folders

Dispersed from B.B. Chapman artificial collection, #77-002

Oklahoma State University Libraries
Special Collections and University Archives
Stillwater, OK 74078-1071

Folder:

1. Correspondence from Ella E. Hunter to Annie Jarrell 1896-1898
2. Correspondence re: Ella E. Hunter, 1962-1966
3. Clippings, biographical research notes, 1963-1965

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Collection No. 84-024

Microfilms of scrapbook kept by Ella Ewing Hunter, covering period 1885, when she graduated from Rockpoint High School, until the World War I period. Includes considerable information of early times at Tarkio and OAMC.

Hunter was born 1870 in Rockport, MO, and died December 31, 1935 in Phoenix, AZ. She attended Christian College, Columbia, MO, graduated from the Conservatory of Music at Tarkio College, Tarkio, MO, and was the first female faculty member at OAMC, 1894-1896. Her responsibilities at OAMC included the junior class of the preparatory school.

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Received from Ray H. Burley, 1984

Oklahoma State University Libraries
Special Collections and University Archives
Stillwater, OK 74078-1071

Description

• Atchison County Mail, January 24, 1930
• 1885 Graduation Essay
• "Read Nations in their Literature," oration, Arthur W. Adams, first Annual Exercise of the Junior Class OAMC 12/20/1894. Reprinted in the Oklahoma School Herald 3(4) February 1895.
• Miscellaneous Rockport and Larkin material
• Program. OAMC. 2nd Annual exercises of the Sophomore Class, March 28, 1895.
• Program. OAMC. 1st annual exercises of the Junior Class, December 20, 1894.
• Constitution, Bylaws and Rules of Order, Webster Literary Society, OAMC 1895 (shot each page opened, gives history and list of members.)
• Program OAMC. Contest in Oration for Magruder Medal, Junior Class, June 10, 1895.
• College Yell and song. (Toward the end)
• Photographs ID'd.
• Ella Hunter patent notice-improved domestic boiler ca. 1900.

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