Doten, Samuel B. (Samuel Bradford), 1875-1955
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1875-
- Existence: 1875
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Lorenzo D. Creel Papers
Collection
Identifier: 82-01
Abstract
The Lorenzo D. Creel Papers have been divided into two major groups and into series within the groups. The first group contains Creel family items and includes correspondence, financial records, business papers, memorabilia, photographs, and books which belonged to Creel family members with the majority of the material originating from Lorenzo and his son Cecil. Three-dimensional items, which accompanied the collection, have been donated to the University of Nevada, Reno, School of Home...
Dates:
1875-1945
Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station Records
Collection
Identifier: AC 0004
Abstract
The Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station began with the Hatch Act in 1887, which provided an annual appropriation of $15,000 to each state to establish a nation-wide system of experiment stations to conduct agricultural research. A Board of Control of each Station was to decide the problems to be investigated under this grant. The collection are primarily on the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station, 1901-1923, created during the tenure of Samuel B. Doten, Experiment Director, 1913-1946....
Dates:
1901-1923
Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station Records
Collection
Identifier: AC 0184
Abstract
The Agricultural Experiment Station began with the 1887 Hatch Act to develop agricultural research and education. In 1918, Samuel B. Doten, Station director, hired George Hardman and put him in charge of the Station farm and on the faculty. Hardman worked on an irrigation investigation of the Humboldt River, 1919-1921, and on soil experiments both in Reno and Las Vegas, Nevada. The collection primarily documents George Hardman's tenure with the Nevada Experiment Station, 1919-1934, and...
Dates:
1926-1943
Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture Records
Collection
Identifier: AC 0288
Abstract
Records are arranged into three divisions, the College of Agriculture, the Cooperative Extension Service, and the Agricultural Experiment Station. Records include correspondence with the deans and directors of the divisions; correspondence with university presidents and county agents; information of the Newlands Project, and the Nevada Farm Bureau; project reports; information on personnel; budgets; experiment record books; letterpress books; photographs; maps and graphs. Also included are...
Dates:
1889-1965
Grace Palmer Rasmussen Papers
Collection
Identifier: AC 0405
Abstract
Grace Palmer graduated from the Nevada State Normal School in 1893; she married Andrew Rasmussen in 1903. One handwritten letter of recommendation, June 16, 1894, by Stephen A. Jones, University of Nevada president; one typed letter, May 19, 1916, by Samuel B. Doten responding to a request for a teaching recommendation requested by Rasmussen from his deceased mother, a former teacher.
Dates:
1894, 1916
Samuel Doten Fishing Journals
Collection
Identifier: 2011-18
Abstract
Samuel Bradford Doten (1875-1955) was born in Gold Hill, Nevada to Alfred and Mary Stoddard Doten. Doten taught at the University of Nevada, Reno from 1900 until his retirement in 1946 and served as the director of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station. He was an avid fisherman and kept a fishing journal from 1906-1951. Collection contains his journal and a small amount of additional materials, including correspondence and photographs, found in the journals.
Dates:
1904-1951
Transcript of evidence before a joint committee of the Senate and Assembly of the Nevada Legislature to investigate matters in relation to the University of Nevada
Collection
Identifier: AC 0122
Abstract
In 1919, two Nevada regents, George F. Talbot and Walter E. Pratt, tried to persuade the Board of Regents to dismiss university president Walter E. Clark by presenting a resolution listing charges against him. These included condoning drunkenness and poor student discipline, misusing his entertainment fund, and other improprieties. Transcript of evidence taken before a joint committee of the Assembly and Senate, investigating matters in relation to the University of Nevada, Feb. 25-March 7,...
Dates:
1929
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- Irrigation -- Nevada 2
- Agricultural extension work -- Nevada 1
- Agriculture -- History -- Nevada 1
- Agriculture -- Nevada 1
- Bee culture 1
- Carson City (Nev.) 1
- Clark County (Nev.) 1
- Crow Indians 1
- Dairying -- Nevada 1
- Diaries 1
- Douglas County (Nev.) 1
- Elko County (Nev.) 1
- Esmeralda County (Nev.) 1
- Eureka County (Nev.) 1
- Fishing -- Nevada -- Washoe County 1
- Fishing -- Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Humboldt County (Nev.) 1
- Humboldt River (Nev.) 1
- Indians of North America -- California 1
- Indians of North America -- Florida 1
- Indians of North America -- Montana 1
- Indians of North America -- Utah 1
- Land use -- Nevada 1
- Lander County (Nev.) 1
- Lincoln County (Nev.) 1
- Lyon County (Nev.) 1
- Mono Indians 1
- Nevada -- Maps 1
- Nye County (Nev.) 1
- Outdoor recreation -- Nevada 1
- Paiute Indians 1
- Pershing County (Nev.) 1
- Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation (Nev.) 1
- Ranching -- Nevada 1
- Seminole Indians 1
- Sheep -- Nevada 1
- Shoshoni Indians 1
- Soil conservation -- Nevada 1
- Storey County (Nev.) 1
- Truckee River (Calif. and Nev.) 1
- Universities and colleges -- Nevada -- Reno -- Administration 1
- Washoe County (Nev.) 1
- Washoe Indians 1
- White Pine County (Nev.) 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
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