Henry Simms Hartzog Collection

Collection

Identifier: MC 604

Staff Only
Not requestable

Scope and Content Note

Biographical information and microfilm of scrapbook (1818-1971) containing Confederate bonds and money, letters, photographs, military papers, cards, programs, and other papers.

Biographical information on the life and work of the former University of Arkansas president (1902-1905), donated by Hartzog's daughter-in-law, Catherine Gibbons Hartzog, St. Louis, Missouri, January 1972.--Microfilm is copy of original owned by Clemson University Libraries (MSS 78).

Dates

1972

Creator

Hartzog, Henry S. (Henry Simms), 1866-1953 (Person)

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

"Photocopies of microfilm are not permitted without permission of Clemson University Libraries.

No Interlibrary Loan.

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

Biographical Note

Henry Simms Hartzog was born in South Carolina on July 17, 1866. He obtained a bachelor's degree from the South Carolina Military Academy in 1886 and would receive another degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He received his Doctor of Laws from Mercer University in 1900 after which he became a teacher and then elected president of Clemson Agricultural College. In 1902, he became president of the University of Arkansas.

Hartzog oversaw the appropriation of funds for several prominent buildings of the University of Arkansas campus including the 1903 Engineering Hall, Carnall Hall, original Chemistry Building, and the Agriculture Building. Hartzog left the university in 1905 and would later go on to become president of Ouachita Baptist University in 1907. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri to enter the educational publishing industry. He passed away in St. Louis on December 15, 1953.