Minutes of the Florida Agricultural College Board of Trustees
Scope and Content
Series 157 is a bound volume containing the minutes of the Board of Trustees of the Florida Agricultural College at Lake City. Earlier board minutes are not available, but some board transactions were published in School reports of Florida. The minutes contain annual expenditures and a record of faculty and administrative appointments. Of special interest are the lengthy annual reports of President Oscar Clute for 1895-1898 and discussion of an altercation between the college president and the director of the Agricultural Experiment Station in 1893. There is also considerable documentation on agricultural work done at Lake City and at the substations in DeFuniak Springs and Ft. Meyers.
Dates
- 1893-1905
Creator
Access
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Biographical/Historical Note
Florida Agricultural College (FAC) was established in Lake City, Florida in 1884. FAC was the first land grant college in the state of Florida, and as such received federal and state funding. Because of its land grant status, the FAC also had an agricultural experiment station as a part of the college. FAC was a co-educational school, with a military component required for all male students. In 1903, the FAC’s name was briefly changed to the University of Florida.
In 1905, the Buckman Act reorganized higher education in the state of Florida, and four of the state’s institutions were merged to form the University of the State of Florida (now the University of Florida). The four institutions that were merged were the East Florida Seminary, the Florida Agricultural College (University of Florida at Lake City), the St. Petersburg Normal and Industrial School, and the South Florida Military College.
Extent
0.1 Linear feet (1 volume and 1 folder)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Bound volume containing the minutes of the Board of Trustees of the Florida Agricultural College at Lake City.
Physical Location
University of Florida Smathers Library Building
Creator
- Title
- A Guide to the Minutes of the Florida Agricultural College Board of Trustees
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid created by Dept. Staff
- Date
- February 2010
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Prepared Using Dacs
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Description is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida Repository
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