Finding Aid for the Claud F. Clayton Papers, 1923-1957


MS-1710

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, November 7, 2006.

Summary Information
Title: Claud F. Clayton Papers

Date/Date Range :   1923-1957

Extent: 2.0 linear feet

Abstract:
The bulk of this collection houses papers (written on soil studies throughout the U.S.) documenting Clayton's work with the United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conversation Service Economic Surveys Division. Other topics covered are Clayton's early 1950s visit to the Philippines to study rice production and Clayton's work on his family's genealogy.

Call number: MS-1710

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
Collection is property of the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], Claud F. Clayton Papers, MS-1710. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection consists of two boxes.


Biography / History

Claude Franklin Clayton was born on February 14, 1890. He began his professional career during the 1920s teaching at Arkansas State College and Michigan State College. He later worked for the U.S. Government, operating in such branches as the Department of Agriculture, the Resettlement Administration, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the State Department. He retired in 1955, and died in Knoxville, Tennessee on May 15, 1968.

Clayton also wrote a book on his family's genealogy: Family notes and recollections (Knoxville, TN: 1959).


Collection Scope and Content Note

The bulk of this collection houses papers (written on soil studies throughout the U.S.) documenting Clayton's work with the United States Department of Agriculture Soil Conversation Service Economic Surveys Division. Other topics covered are Clayton's early 1950s visit to the Philippines to study rice production and Clayton's work on his family's genealogy.

Subject Terms

  • Clayton, Claud Franklin, 1890-.
  • United States. Department of Agriculture.
  • Rice -- Philippines.
  • Clayton family.
Contents List
Box   1     Folder   1    
"Technical Bulletins: Land Utilization in Laurel Co., Ky." by C.F. Clayton and W.D. Nicholls, 1923-1938

Box   1     Folder   2    
Conference on the Economic and Social Problems on the Appalachian Highlands, 1929 December

Box   1     Folder   3    
Bibliographical Notes and Quotations, 1930-1941

Box   1     Folder   4    
"Land-Use Planning and the Game Crop" , 1934 January

Box   1     Folder   5    
"Economic and Social Problems and Conditions of the Southern Appalachians" , 1935 January

Box   1     Folder   6    
"Preliminary Digest of Materials Relating to Economic Surveys and Land Use Planning" , 1939 August

Box   1     Folder   7    
"Preliminary Statement Regarding Economic Surveys" , 1939 September

Box   1     Folder   8    
"Procedure for an Economic and Social Survey of an Agricultural Area" , 1939 December

Box   1     Folder   9    
"Cut-Open and Burned-Over Areas in Western Washington and Oregon" , 1939 December

Box   1     Folder   10    
"Procedure for an Economic and Social Survey of an Agricultural Area" , 1940 February

Box   1     Folder   11    
"Procedure for an Economic and Social Survey of and Agricultural Area" , 1940 May

Box   1     Folder   12    
"Economic and Social Survey Report for Horse and Rush Creeks Soil Erosion District Elbert County, Colorado" , 1940 November

Box   1     Folder   13    
"Energy Values of TN Crops and Pastures" , 1941 April

Box   1     Folder   14    
"Grasses Distribution by States" , 1941 May

Box   1     Folder   15    
"Clovers and Grasses for Hay and Pasture in TN" Revision of C.A. Mooers paper, 1941 June

Box   1     Folder   16    
"Development Study of the Alabama-Coosa Basin Area" , 1943 March

Box   1     Folder   17    
Prospectus of a Proposed Economic and Social Study of the Southern Appalachians

Box   1     Folder   18    
Notes on Procedure for a Study of the Economic and Social Conditions & Problems of the Southern Highlands

Box   1     Folder   19    
"The Philippine Statistician 1953" by C.F. Clayton, 1956

Box   1     Folder   20    
First Annual Report of Division of Agricultural Economics, 1953 October-1954 June

Box   1     Folder   21    
"A Report on the Survey of Area & Production of Rice for the Crop Year Ending June 1954 in the Philippines" , 1954

Box   1     Folder   22    
"Second Annual Report of the Division of Agricultural Economics" , 1954 July-1955 June

Box   1     Folder   23    
"Philippines: The Rice Situation" , 1954 October

Box   1     Folder   24    
"Final Report of Agriculture Economist for Mission" by Claud F. Clayton, 1954

Box   1     Folder   25    
Third & Fourth Annual Report of the Division of Agricultural Economics, 1955 July-1957 June

Box   1     Folder   26    
"ICA in the Philippines" , 1955

Box   2     Folder   1    
Ligon Lineage: Correspondence between Mrs. Claud Clayton and Mrs. Joe Pendleton, 1945-1956

Box   2     Folder   2    
Sitings from Smith Co., TN Deed Books, 1800s

Box   2     Folder   3    
Clayton Family #1

Box   2     Folder   4    
Clayton Family #2

Box   2     Folder   5    
Family Notes and Recollections by C.F. Clayton

Box   2     Folder   6    
Family Notes and Recollections by C.F. Clayton

Box   2     Folder   7    
Typed Manuscript of lineage of Clayton, 1952

Box   2     Folder   8    
Manuscript Ligon: Allied Families

Box   2     Folder   9    
Manuscript Strother Family

Box   2     Folder   10    
Manuscript Warden Family

Box   2     Folder   11    
Manuscript Andrews: Allied Families

Box   2     Folder   12    
Clayton Family Notes