A. C. Reynolds Collection
Series
Identifier: MSS 80-59
A.C. Reynolds (1870 - 1953) served as the second president of Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School (Western Carolina University), from 1912 to 1920. He was influential in Buncombe County education and instrumental in establishing Rutherford College, in Brevard, NC. Reynolds wrote about his experiences in fostering education in western North Carolina, his beliefs about the role of education, and his life as a boy in the mountains of western North Carolina in the late 1890s.
The collection contains materials dealing with education in western North Carolina, the formation of Western Carolina University, Reynolds' life as an educator, Jackson County public schools, Buncombe County Board of Education minutes, a genealogy of the Flinton family, and a hotel register from the Mountain View Hotel, in Webster, NC.
Dates
- 1888 - 1965
Condition Description
Good
Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
1 Linear Feet
Condition Description
Good
- Correspondence
- Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School (Cullowhee, N.C.)
- Educators -- North Carolina, Western
- Hotels -- North Carolina -- Webster
- Hotels -- Registers
- Minutes (administrative records)
- North Carolina, Western -- Genealogy
- Public schools -- North Carolina -- Jackson County
- Reynolds, Alonzo Carlton, 1870-1953
- School boards -- Records and correspondence
- Western Carolina University -- History
Repository Details
Part of the Hunter Library - Special Collections Repository
Contact:
Cullowhee United States
Cullowhee United States
