University Records

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)