Finding Aid for the Los Angeles State Normal School. Office of the President. Administrative files of Jesse F. Millspaugh.
1906-1917.
Processed by UCLA University Archives staff; S Roud, 1986 Feb 05; finding aid revised by UCLA University Archives staff, 2005
May 17; Katharine A. Lawrie, 2013 Mar; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Los Angeles State Normal School. Office of the President. Administrative files of Jesse F. Millspaugh.
Date (inclusive): 1906/1917
Record Series number: 2
Creator:
Jesse F. Millspaugh
Extent:
4 boxes (1.7 linear feet)
Abstract: Record Series 2 contains correspondence, reports, committee minutes, and various other kinds of documents generated by the
President's Office at the California State Normal School, Los Angeles, during the period 1906-1917.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. University Archives.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Los Angeles State Normal School. Office of the President. Administrative files of Jesse F. Millspaugh.
(Record Series Number 2). UCLA Library Special Collections, University Archives, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Historical note
Due to a growing demand for trained teachers and limited space at the State Normal School in San Jose, a second State Normal
School was established in Los Angeles in 1881. On March 14, 1881, California Senate Bill 187-an Act to establish a Branch
State Normal School in Los Angeles was signed into law by Governor George C. Perkins. The first section of the legislation
stipulated that, "There shall be established in the County of Los Angeles a school, to be called the Branch State Normal School
of California, for the training and educating of teachers in the art of instructing and governing in the public schools of
this state." By 1913 there were six locations of the California State Normal School system including San Jose, Los Angeles,
Chico.
In 1919, an act of legislation made the Los Angeles branch part of the University of California. The other branches of the
State Normal School system form what is now the California State University system.
Jesse F. Millspaugh earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1979 and a medical degree from the University
of Pennsylvania in 1883. Millspaugh served as superintendent of city schools in Salt Lake City from 1890-1898 and as president
of Minnesota State Normal School at Winona from 1898-1904. In 1904 he accepted appointment as the President of the California
State Normal School at Los Angeles. In 1919, when the Los Angeles branch was added to the University of California, Millspaugh
was appointed to the post of associate dean.
Scope and Content
Record Series 2 contains correspondence, reports, committee minutes, and various other kinds of documents generated by the
President's Office at the California State Normal School, Los Angeles, during the period 1906-1917.
Records pertain to:
- 1. various campus agencies, including Board of Control, Board of Turstees, and alumni groups;
- 2. non-campus organizations such as Los Angeles Board of Education, State Board of Education, and other State Normal Schools
located at Chico, Fresno, Humboldt County, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, and Santa Barbara; and
- 3. subjects such as faculty and employees, campus lectures and entertainment, establishment of State Teachers College, and
Teachers Retirement Salary Fund.
This is an inactive record series; no additional University records are expected to be added.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
State Normal School, Los Angeles (Calif.). President's Office.
Container List
Box 1
Alumni Correspondence.
1912-1913.
Box 1
Architects- Allison and Allison.
1912-1917.
Box 1
Attorney General- New Site and Sale of Old Normal School Site.
1912-1914.
Box 1
Attorney General - Various Legal Matters Affecting School.
1914-1916.
Box 1
Board of Control- Appropriations.
1912-1916.
Box 1
Board of Control- Deficiencies.
1913-1915.
Box 1
Board of Control- Micellaneous.
1913-1917.
Box 1
Board of Control- New Site and Sale of Old Normal School Property.
1912-1913.
Box 1
Board of Control- Re. Architects and New Buildings and Equipment.
1912-1915.
Box 1
Board of Education- Los Angeles.
1914.
Box 1
Board of Trustees- Allison and Allison.
1913-1914.
Box 1
Board of Trustees- Cochran, George I.
1913-1917.
Box 1
Board of Trustees- Communications Affecting New Site and New Buildings.
1913.
Box 1
Board of Trustees- Communications to the Board from President of School.
1912-1917.
Box 1
Board of Trustees- Earl, E.T.
1912-1917.
Box 1
Board of Trustees- Heineman, Irene Taylor.
1916.
Box 1
Board of Trustees- Joint Board of Normal School Trustees.
1910-1914.
Box 1
Board of Trustees- Letts, Arthur.
1912-1913.
Box 2
Board of Trustees- Melrose, Richard.
1912-1916.
Box 2
Board of Trustees- President's Report.
1916-1917.
Box 2
Board of Trustees- Scherer, James.
1912-1917.
Box 2
City Superintendent of Schools- Keppel, Mark.
1914-1916.
Box 2
City Superintendent of Schools- Francis, J.H.
1913-1916.
Box 2
City Superintendent of Schools- Shiels, Albert.
1916-1917.
Box 2
City Superintendent of Schools- Assistant Superintendents.
1914-1917.
Box 2
Faculty and Employees- Employees.
1915, 1917.
Box 2
Faculty and Employees- Faculty.
1913-1917.
Box 2
Faculty and Employees- Recommendations.
1913-1917.
Box 2
Governor- Johnson, Hiram, W.
1913-1917.
Box 2
Lectures and Entertainments (Arranged Alphabetically), A-F.
1914-1917.
Box 2
Lectures and Entertainment (Arranged Alphabetically), G-W.
1913-1917.
Box 2
Normal Site Company- Sale of Buildings and Grounds.
1912-1914.
Box 3
Miscellaneous Correspondence.
1910-1917.
Box 3
Stanford University, University of California, University of S. California.
1906-1917.
Box 3
State Board of Education- Miscellaneous.
1915-1917.
Box 3
State Board of Education- Barnum, Mrs. O. Shepard.
1913-1917.
Box 3
State Board of Education- Chenoweth, Lawrence W.
1913.
Box 3
State Board of Education- High School Certification- Letters of Reference.
1913-1916.
Box 3
State Board of Education- Hyatt, Edward.
1913-1917.
Box 3
State Board of Education- Langdon, W.H.
1913.
Box 3
State Commissioners of Education- McNaught, Margaret S.
1914-1917.
Box 3
State Commissioners of Education- Snyder, E.R. - Comm. of Vocational Education.
1915-1917.
Box 3
State Commissioners of Education- Wood, Will C.
1914-1917.
Box 3
State Commissioners of Education- Miscellaneous.
1912-1917.
Box 3
State Controller- Chambers, J. S.
1913.
Box 3
State Controller- Nye, A.B.
1912-1913.
Box 3
State Engineer- Architects and Plans for New Buildings.
1912-1917.
Box 3
State Engineer- Repairs and Improvements.
1912-1915.
Box 4
State Normal Schools- Chico.
1913-1917.
Box 4
State Normal Schools- Fresno.
1914-1917.
Box 4
State Normal Schools- General.
ca. 1912.
Box 4
State Normal Schools- Humboldt Normal School, Arcata, CA.
1914-1917.
Box 4
State Normal Schools- San Diego.
1913-1917.
Box 4
State Normal Schools- San Francisco.
1914-1917.
Box 4
State Normal Schools- Santa Barbara.
1914-1916.
Box 4
State Normal Schools- San Jose.
1914-1917.
Box 4
State Printer- Richardon, F.W.
1912-1914.
Box 4
State Printer- Telfer, Robert S.
1915-1917.
Box 4
State Superintendent of Public Instruction- Accrediting and Certification.
1914-1916.
Box 4
State Superintendent of Public Instruction- Diplomas.
1912-1917.
Box 4
State Superintendent of Public Instruction- Reports, Statistics.
1912-1916.
Box 4
State Teachers College, Establishment of.
1913-1915, n.d.
Box 4
State Treasurer- Roberts, E.D.
1912-1913.
Box 4
Teachers Retirement Salary Fund.
1913-1917, n.d.
