Villavaso-Rather family papers, 1898-1963 ; 1898-1945.

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Villavaso-Rather family papers, 1898-1963 ; 1898-1945.

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Correspondence, clippings, and notes relate to Ethel Zivley Rather and her family, including her former fiance, Lester G. Bugbee; her father, C. T. Rather; her son, Ernest Villavaso, Jr.; and her brother's and sister's families, in the early Twentieth Century.

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Villavaso family.

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Ethel Zivley Rather Villavaso (1881-1967) obtained her B.A. from the University of Texas and became engaged to the history professor Lester Bugbee (1869-1902), before his death from consumption. They both wrote on the subject of Texas history and Ethel later attended Cornell and Yale and married Ernest Joseph Villavaso (1872-1972), a professor of Romance Languages at the University of Texas. They had a son, Ernest,Jr. (1918-1947), who was an outstanding student and athlete and received his B.A. ...

Bugbee, Lester G. (Lester Gladstone)

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Rather family.

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Rather, C. T., 1855-1931.

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Rather, Ethel Zivley

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Texas historian Ethel Zivley Rather (1881-1967) grew up in Gonzales, Texas. In 1902, she graduated from the University of Texas with a B.A. in history. Awarded a fellowship, she went on to get her master’s in history from UT in 1903. She was subsequently a Fellow in American History at Cornell from 1905 to 1906, then the Buckley Fellow in History at Yale from 1906 to 1907. She received her Ph.D. in history from Yale in 1908. Her master’s thesis, DeWitt’s Colony, and her Ph.D. thesis...

Villavaso, Ernest J., Jr.

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University of Texas at Austin.

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The University of Texas at Austin (UT) opened in 1883 with eight professors, four assistants, a proctor, and 221 male and female students. The first set of graduates, consisting of thirteen law students, attended UT commencement on June 14, 1884. By World War I, enrollment rose to 2,254 and by World War II to over 11,000. African Americans were admitted in 1950, and by 1966, there were 27,345 students. Over the next 40 years, the university continued to expand. In 2009 e...

Duncalf, Frederic 1882-

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