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S2   Zachariah Xenophon Snyder. 1891-1915
FILE 1     Biographical data and items re: appointment.
  Six letters of recommendation dated 11/1887-2/1889.
  Photograph taken in Waynesburg, PA where he attended Waynesburg College.
  Letter signed by 29 colleagues, dated August 13, 1889, upon Snyder's leaving for new position.
  Article, with picture, of Snyder on his appointment as President of Colorado Normal School.
Snyder was born August 31, 1850, at Reagantown, Pennsylvania; he died November 11, 1915, in Greeley, Colorado.
FILE 2 Photographs
 

Photograph taken in Waynesburg, c. 1887.

  Three photographs in later years.
FILE 3 Snyder administration materials
  President's report on the opening of school, September 12, 1911.
  Miscellaneous speeches in newspaper clippings.
  Miscellaneous Snyder administration items.
see also Trustees minutes for 1891-1915
FILE 4 In Memoriam items
  Printed In Memoriam pamphlet of 16 pages with tipped in photo.
  Bound volume of "Letters in appreciation of the life and work of President Snyder presented to Mrs. Snyder by the Memorial Committee of the Faculty of the Teachers College of Colorado" in June 1916. It contains handwritten and typed letters from a number of persons prominent in the education field at the time.
  Letter from the Committee.
  Miscellaneous clippings on death of Dr. Snyder.
FILE 5 Artifacts
  Caps, gowns and hoods worn by Dr. Snyder.
  Silver college cup presented by the members of the student body, October 1913.
  Framed gold plaster profile (broken as of 1990).
  Bronze bust (class gift 1915. As of 9/1996, bust is in Michener Library--Reference.)
FILE 6 Insignia CTC 1909
FILE 7 Clipping file
FILE 8 Philosophy of Education: Report of Committees--Class of 1901. 565 pp. Composed by students under the direction of Dr. Snyder, this gives cohesion to various parts of the curriculum by showing how each discipline contributes to the whole person educated under the "Philosophy of Education" for the time. The books is shelved with RG SC40: LB1025 C56.
FILE 9 History of CSTC. 1911
FILE 10 Colorado state level investigation of State Teachers College in Greeley. 1912-1914
Page:
1 Authenticity certificate
5

Report on the State Teacher's College investigation (State Auditor)

Examination
22       Albert F. Carter
33 Mr. McKelvey
37 George M. Houston
43 John T. McCunniff
48 Nathaniel Lloyd
50 D.D. Hugh
51 Correspondence
78 Arguments in behalf of petitioners
89 Correspondence (State Auditor's office)
Examination
97 W.R. Bullock
98

Leo G. Mann

99 C.W. Williams
105 Leo G. Mann
115 Mr. Crone
Testimony
144

Mr. Crone

150 C.L. Carter
Examination
156 Dr. George Bruce Halstead
182 George D. Statler
Testimony
187 W.R. Detrick

Examination

214 G.M. Robbins
217

G.A. Hill

Statement
222 George B. Houston
257   Mr. West

Testimony

259 Henry B. Kepner
Examination
268 George Hetherington
Testimony
280

Mary C.C. Bradford

Examination
281 J.M.B. Petrikin
Testimony
289 Henry P. Steele
Examination
293 Rosepha C. Pulford
Testimony
299 Jas. W. Gault
  Examination
304 W.P. Dunleavy

Testimony

313 Mary C.C. Bradford
317 Anna Davis
325 James H. Hayes
329 A.C. Thomas
331 H.A. Pearl
333 W.F. Powers
334

Charles H. Williams

336 Mary Wray
337 Mary Jane Forseith
338

W.F. Church

340 Payroll of the State Teachers College of Colorado
Examination
343 Z.X. Snyder
365 Vernon McKelvey
373

W.H. Porter

375 Statement of receipts accepted
Statement
399 Mr. Bell
403 Correspondence
405 Minutes taken from the records by the State Auditor
Testified
429 Z.X. Snyder
435 James H. Hayes
442 Irving Elgar Miller
457 Gurdon Ransom Miller
461 Proposed questions to propound to the teachers of the State Teachers College
Testified
465

  William B. Mooney

472 Relative to the charge
Testified
480 S.M. Hadden
484

Arthur E. Beardsley

490

F.L. Abbott

493 John Thomas Lister
497 Jacob Daniel Heilman
503

E.A. Cross

507 Richard Ernesti
516 Charles H. Brady
526 Theophilus Emory Fitz
531 Buchard Woodson DeBusk
532 Eleanor Wilkinson
536 Elizabeth Maud Cannell
542 George William Finley
546 Bella Bruce Sibley
552 Elizabeth H. Kendel
560

Frank W. Shultis

563

Alice Marie Krackowizer

570 Kathryn Marie Long
580 Margaret Statler
585

John T. McCunniff

590 Max Schenk
593 Lulu A. Heilman
599 Mary E. Schenck
606

Emma C. Dumke

610 Agnes Saunders
613 Alice   E. Yardley
615 Grace Cushman
616 A.J. Park
618 Vernon McKelvey
620

Ray D. Herring

622 Charles D. Stephens
624 R.W. Dempsey
625 Authenticity certificate
Testified
630 F.C. Wright
631 L.F. Alber
632 Ralph Heck
633 J.L. Heckendorn
634 Clara Fankhauser
637 Helen Gilpin Brown
640 Ruth Lowery
643 Lyrra Kennedy
646 Paul J. Hewitt
654 Katherine Ommaney
658 Albert F. Carter
Statement
693 Z.X. Snyder
Testimony
760 George M. Houston
774 Rev. Paul Yourd, Pastor of the United Presbyterian Church
775 Rev. F.O.W. Gustafson,  Pastor of the Swedish Lutheran Church
776 Rev. Chas. W. Huett, Pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church
777 Rev. F.J. Estabrook, Pastor of the Congregational Church
779 Rev. J.W. Findley, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church
780 Rev. C.J. Miller, Pastor of the First Christian Church
781 Rev. Father A.B. Casey, Pastor of the Catholic Church
784 Mr. G.H. Brady, Pastor of the Episcopal Church
785

Rev. A.O. Leafgren , Pastor of the Swedish Free-Mission Church

786 Rev. John G. Mitchell, Pastor of the Unitarian Church
787 Rev. F. Sattler, Pastor of the German Congregational Church
788 Rev. W.D. Whan, Pastor of the First Baptist Church
789 Delph E. Carpenter
798 Mr. J.A. Hicks, Member of the 19th General Assembly
799 Correspondence (H. Reynolds)
800

Correspondence (State Auditor)

 

 

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