Benjamin Ide Wheeler Papers, 1854-1927

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Benjamin Ide Wheeler Papers, 1854-1927

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Personal correspondence of the President of the University of California; his writings and speeches (Mss. and printed); genealogical material on the Wheeler and Ide families; and clippings relating mainly to the University of California, 1912-1913. A small group of papers of his father, Benjamin Wheeler, is included.

Number of containers: 11 boxes, 2 cartons, 1 portfolio, 1 oversize folder and 1 volume

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Bancroft Library

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Wheeler, Benjamin Ide, 1854-1927

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Biography Benjamin ide Wheeler, Greek scholar, philologist and president of the University of California, was born July 15, 1854 at Randolph, Massachusetts. He attended Thornton Academy and Colby Academy prior to entering Brown University. Upon his graduation in 1875, he taught in Providence High School for two years, then became a tutor at Brown from 1879 to 1881. He continued his studies in Germany, at Leipzig, Heidelberg, Jena and Berlin f...