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Stanford University Archives SC 109
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Title: Earl Barnes Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1882-1912
Collection number: Stanford University Archives SC 109
Creator:
Barnes, Earl
Extent:
2 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Language:
English.
None.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of
the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please
contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Gift of Joseph Barnes, 1957; transferred to University Archives in 1973.
[Identification of item], Earl Barnes Papers, SC 109, Stanford
University Archives, Stanford, Calif.
Earl Barnes was born in Martville, New York, on July 15, 1861. He married Mary Sheldon
(b. 1850) in either 1884 or 1885 while he was still in school. Barnes received an A.B.
from Indiana University in 1889 and an M.S. from Cornell in 1891. He held a position as
Professor of History at Indiana University in 1889. When David Starr Jordan was appointed
President of Stanford University in 1891, he took Earl Barnes with him as Professor of
Education. Barnes and his wife Mary Sheldon Barnes taught at Stanford until 1897, when
Barnes was asked by Jordan to resign. Jordan had discovered that Barnes had been involved
in an extramarital love affair, conduct which the President of Stanford University could
not tolerate in one of his faculty members. Barnes and wife went to Europe, where Mary
Sheldon Barnes died in 1898. In 1900 Barnes remarried; his second wife was Anna Kohler,
by whom he had four children --Joseph, Howard, Bernard, and Mary. After leaving Stanford
Barnes never again held a position in an American university. He was appointed staff
lecturer, London Society for Extension of University Teaching for the year 1900-01, but
after that supported himself as a free-lance lecturer and writer. During his later years
he resided in New Hartford, Connecticut, where he died on May 29, 1935.
His major publications are:
Studies in Education, 2v.
1897
Where Knowledge Fails, 1907
Women in Modern Society, 1912
Psychology of
Childhood and Youth,
1914.
The material in this collection was part of a gift made to the Library in 1957 of books
formerly belonging to Earl Barnes. Earl Barnes' son Joseph was the donor. These books and
other materials, since they all dealt with education, were stored in the Education
Library from 1957-1973, at which latter date 9 scrapbooks and approximately 1/2 linear
feet of unbound material were transferred to the Archives.
Seven of the nine scrapbooks deal generally with the subject of child psychology and
development. They illustrate Prof. Barnes' areas of research interest (1882-1897) and
contain numerous research notes and case histories, as well as some correspondence and
reprints of scholarly articles. [BOXES 1-3]
The eighth scrapbook contains clippings, correspondence, programs, etc. (1894-1896) about
Earl Barnes and the California Teachers Association. The ninth scrapbook contains
articles clipped from the London Daily News(1907-1908) dealing with famous British
personalities. [BOX 3]
The last group of material deals with race relations, 1892-1912. These items are not
bound into a scrapbook. They consist of clippings (pasted onto sheets of paper);
articles, either reprints or clipped from journals; some reviews; and some short
bibliographies compiled by Prof. Barnes. Although the subject of most clippings is the
status of the Black man in America, there are also clippings about Haiti and South
Africa. [BOX 4]