Ira Chiles Papers
This collection of papers concentrates on the career of Ira Chiles while he held the office of Area Education Officer with the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1936 to 1948. Papers dealing with Chiles' official duties as Education Officer as well as other aspects of the TVA are included in the collection. A large portion of material covers the Guntersville Dam project in Alabama on which Chiles worked.
Dates
- 1936-1951
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Extent
7 Linear Feet (8 boxes)
Abstract
This collection of papers concentrates on the career of Ira Chiles while he held the office of Area Education Officer with the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1936 to 1948. Papers dealing with Chiles' official duties as Education Officer as well as other aspects of the TVA are included in the collection. A large portion of material covers the Guntersville Dam project in Alabama on which Chiles worked.
Biographical/Historical Note
Ira Chiles was born in Pemberton, Missouri on March 7, 1891. He held the office of Area Education Officer with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) from 1936 to 1948.
Prior to his tenure with TVA, Chiles was a Professor of Education from 1918 to 1925 and President of Central Wesleyan College in Warrenton, Missouri, from 1925 to 1935. He was a Central Wesleyan graduate, class of 1916. Upon leaving TVA, he joined the faculty of the College of Education at the University of Tennessee until his retirement in 1961.
He was active in the Methodist Church, Masonic Order and Omicron Delta Kappa. He died in Knoxville, Tennessee on June 8, 1980.
Arrangement
Collection is divided into four series:
- Series I: TVA Papers
- Series II: TVA: Guntersville, Water Resources
- Series III: TVA Publications
- Series IV: UT Education, Personal, Other Papers
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository