Bertha (Gerneaux) Davis and Albert Fred Woods papers

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Bertha (Gerneaux) Davis and Albert Fred Woods papers

1888-1947 (majority 1910-1944)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1315

Albert F. Woods (1866-1948), a pioneer in plant virus research, was dean of the University of Minnesota College of Agricuture from 1910 to 1917, and president of the University of Maryland from 1917 to 1926. Later he was an assistant secretary in the United States Department of Agriculture, and president of the Land Grant College Association. Woods' wife, Bertha, wrote poems and children's literature. The Woods collection consists of two distinct groupings of materials. Albert Woods' activities at the University of Minnesota and the University of Maryland are documented in speeches, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings. Bertha Woods' poems, stories, manuscript notebooks, and scrapbooks make up the remainder of the collection

3.50 linear feet

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University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6993213

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Woods, Bertha (Gerneaux) Davis and Albert Fred

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Albert Fred Woods (1866-1948) was the first president of the University of Maryland system. Appointed as president of Maryland State College of Agriculture in 1917, he oversaw the 1920 merger between the College Park and Baltimore campuses, reorganized both the curriculum and administration, and set standards that established the University of Maryland as a genuine institution of higher education. His wife, Bertha Gerneaux (Davis) Woods (1873-1952) was a successful author and poet, ...

Patterson, H. J. (Harry Jacob)

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Woods, Bertha Gerneaux, 1873-1952

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Patterson, H. J. (Harry Jacob), 1866-1948

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Agricultural chemist, director of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, and president of the University of Maryland. From the description of Papers of Harry J. Patterson, 1886-1945. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 20484495 ...