Ohio State University, Office of the President (James Hulme Canfield) Records 1884-1918

6.04 Cubic feet

(5) cartons; (2) file folders

James Hulme Canfield (1847-1909) was Ohio State University's 4th president. The Ohio State University, Office of the President (James Hulme Canfield) Records contain applications, committee minutes, Board of Trustees correspondence and reports, budget materials, general correspondence, letter books, a scrapbook, and publications.

[identification of item], Ohio State University, Office of the President (James Hulme Canfield) Records, RG 3.D, Ohio State University Archives, Ohio State University

The Ohio State University, Office of the President (James Hulme Canfield) Records contain applications, committee minutes, Board of Trustees correspondence and reports, budget materials, general correspondence, letter books, a scrapbook, and publications.

Materials are arranged in the order received.

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Accession Number UA.1973.0056; Accession Number UA.1981.0021: Business and Administration; Accession Number UA.1985.0230: University of Illinois at Champaign Archives; Accession Number UA.1995.0175: Neil Basen

Ohio State University Archives Biographical File: James Hulme Canfield

Ohio State University Archives Subject File: Office of the President

The University of Vermont Library: The James Hulme Canfield Papers

James Hulme Canfield (1847-1909) became The Ohio State University's 4th president in 1895. Under his administration, student enrollment topped 1,000 for the first time, courses in home economics and commerce and administration were established, a two-year medical program was approved (1899), a University Athletic Board was organized (1898) the College of Dentistry was established (1899), and a building program was started. Canfield resigned from the presidency in 1899 to become the librarian of Columbia College.

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Finding aid written by Zoe MacLeod, 2016 October

Finding aid prepared by Karen Glenn