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John Lewis Ferguson Historical Sketch

 Collection
Identifier: MS F38

Scope and Content Note

Photocopy of five-page unpublished article, "A History of the Arkansas Penitentiary," written about 1966 by Arkansas State Historian Ferguson

Dates

  • circa 1966

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

John Lewis Ferguson was born near Nashville, Arkansas on March 1, 1926. He became an ordained Missionary Baptist minister in 1951 and obtained his bachelor's in history from Henderson State Teachers College the following year. He went on to obtain a master's in history form the University of Arkansas in 1952 and a doctorate in history from Tulane University in 1960. Ferguson authored several books on Arkansas history throughout his professional career.

Ferguson served as head of the Department of Social Studies at Central Baptist College in Conway, Arkansas from 1952 to 1956. He then went on to teach history from 1958 to 1960 at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and then Arkansas Polytechnic College (now Arkansas Tech University) in Russellville, Arkansas. In 1960, he became director of the Arkansas History Commission in Little Rock, serving this commission until his retirement in 2005. Ferguson passed away at his home in Little Rock on March 25, 2006.

Extent

.001 Linear Feet (1 item)

Arrangement of the Papers

The collection consists of a single item, housed in a box with other smaller manuscript collections.

Acquisition Information

The John Lewis Ferguson Historical Sketch was donated to Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries in 1970 by Georgia Haller Clark of Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Processing Information

Unknown processing information.

Title
John Lewis Ferguson Historical Sketch
Status
Completed
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English.

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Department Repository

Contact:
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444