Williston Wightman Klugh Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Mss-0064
This collection documents the perosnal, family and community life of a Clemson Agricultural College graduate who became a professor at his Alma Mater. Klugh's more than 50-year career at Clemson College provides insight into the daily workings of early student and faculty life on a rural Southern college campus. The collection contains glass plate negatives of family and freinds, photographs and scrapbooks. Also included are Jean Stobo Klgh's application to The Society of Colonial Dames of America (she was sixth in descent from Joseph Ball, 1649-1711, mamber of the House of Burgesses) along with extensive family genealogical records. The scrapbooks contain copies of newspaper clippings and other documents relating to early Clemson College history, 1888-1920. South Carolina newspapers represented include: The Advertiser (Laurens); The Charleston News and Courier; Columbia Register; Daily Herald (Pendleton); The Daily News; The Greenville News; Intelligencer (Columbia); Keowee Courier; Peoples Advocate; and The State. Topics include the Clemson bequest for founding an agricultural college; opposition to the idea; Clemson's will; Gideon Lee vs. R.W. Simpson; campus and buildings; laying of cornerstone; professors chosen for new college; President Craighead's resignation; troubles and inquiries at Clemson.
0.5 Cubic Feet ( (12" x 16" x 2"))
English
The Williston Wightman Klugh Papers document life at Clemson Agricultural College from 1894 to 1951, the years Klugh was a student and professor. Mrs. W.W. Klugh, wife of Williston Wightman, Class of 1896 & professor of mechanical drawing, compiled the original three scrapbooks from which this one has been copied. This scrapbook contains copies of newspaper clippings and other documents relating to Clemson College early history. The original scrapbooks are owned by the W.W. Klugh family. Mrs. R.R. Ritchie, who assisted J.C. Littlejohn in collecting Clemson historical documents, borrowed the Klugh scrapbooks for use in her research. In 1972 Mrs. Edward Simpson, Jr., formerly Mrs. Klugh, wife of the Klugh's son (deceased), allowed copies to be made from the originals.
Thomas and Bill Klugh, grandsons, presented the papers in 2013, acession 13-29. An earlier acession, 12-179, in 1981 included two small boxes of glass plate negatives and the original two scrapbooks mentioned below. Mrs. Edward W. Simpson, Jr., formerly Mrs. W.W. Klugh, daughter-in-law of Mrs. Klugh, compiler, in 1972, allowed Special Collections to copy from the original scrapbooks., and the originals were returned to Mrs. Simpson later that same year.
Maureen Simpson (Mrs. Edward), Clemson, South Carolina 2963l
Photocopy.
Part of the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Repository