Title: A. Gattinger Letter (copy)

Date/Date Range :   1890 January 10

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

This collection contains a photocopy of a January 10, 1890, letter from A. Gattinger to Dr. Charles W. Dabney, Jr., President of the State Agriculture College.

Call number: MS-2475

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

Aquisition Information:

Collection is property of the UT 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], A. Gattinger Letter (copy), MS-2475. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of a single folder.

Charles William Dabney, Jr. (1855-1945) attended Hampden-Sydney College, attained a master's in chemistry in 1877 from the University of Virginia, and completed his doctorate in 1880 at the University of Goettingen in Germany. In 1881 he became director of the North Carolina Experiment Station and was named state chemist, which made him responsible for analyzing chemical fertilizers to combat fraud. Dabney came to the University of Tennessee in 1887 as university president and director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. He opened the university to female students, created the law school and summer school programs, built new laboratories, increased library holdings from 8,000 to 20,000 volumes, and expanded the Department of Agriculture. In 1894 President Grover Cleveland appointed him the assistant secretary of agriculture, returning to UT in 1897. He then accepted the post as president of the University of Cincinnati in 1904.

No information could be located on A. Gattinger.

This collection contains the January 10, 1890, letter from A. Gattinger to Dr. Charles W. Dabney, Jr., President of the State Agriculture College. It is a photocopy of the letter in the front of the book Lithographiae Wirceburgensis by Georgius Ludovicus Hueber (located in the UT Special Collections Library at QE709.H8). It discusses parts of the book that would be amusing to read and donates it to the University Library.

See also UTK-MS-0325: Dabney Papers, 1884-1920 with addresses, speeches, and material related to the Association of Urban Universities, as well as UTK-MS-0074: Letter from Dabney to Theodore Roosevelt, UTK-MS-0021: The O.P. Temple Papers, 1832-, with some letters concerning or from Dabney, UTK-AR-0144 Presidents Thomas Humes and Charles Dabney Papers; UTK-AR-0001: Presidents Papers, 1867-1954; UTK-AR-0004: Presidents Papers, 1880s-1946.

• Dabney, Charles William, 1855-1945.
• University of Tennessee (Knoxville campus). Libraries.