Stanford University, President's Office, Medical School Correspondence, 1902-1912

Summary

Title:

Stanford University, President's Office, Medical School correspondence

Dates:

1902-1912

Creators:

Stanford University. Office of the President

Extent:

0.75 Linear Feet

Language:

English .

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Stanford University. President's Office. Medical School Correpsondence (SC0520) Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Background

Scope and content:

These records pertain to the merger of Cooper Medical College and Stanford University. They consist largely of correspondence, with a few reports and financial documents. Most of the letters are addressed to David Starr Jordan, although some of the correspondence is that of George A. Clark, the academic secretary of Stanford University. In addition to the details of the merger, the letters address curriculum issues, faculty appointments, fees, facilities, financial matters, future needs and plans, the medical school library, the possible association with the University of California, and the Lane Medical Lectures. An index to the correspondents is included in this guide.

These records appear to have been part of the university president's office but were at some time separated from other records and bound together. Three volumes, roughly chronological in arrangement, were removed from the four digit collection. The volumes were disassembled but rehoused in sequential order: folders 1 through 14 in box 1 represent the first volume and folders 15 through 23 represent the second volume. Box 2 represents the third volume. Within these three segments, the chronological arrangement of the letters was corrected where necessary.

Biographical / historical:

Cooper Medical College in San Francisco, which had antecedents in other medical schools in existence as early as 1858, was formally established in 1882 under the leadership of Dr. Levi Cooper Lane. With the financial generosity of Dr. Lane, the College was able to add laboratories and a hospital during the next two decades, but it was also becoming apparent that new sources of support would be necessary for its continued success. In 1901 Cooper Medical College and Stanford University began to talk about the possibility of a union. Between 1902 and 1907 the details of the merger were worked on and a final agreement was reached by the University Board of Trustees on January 31, 1908.

The first faculty was appointed in October 1908. Stanford faculty included among them were Arthur William Meyer, John Maxson Stillman, Oliver Peebles Jenkins, Frank Mace MacFarland, William Freeman Snow, George Clinton Price, and Robert Eckles Swain. From the Cooper faculty were the following: Adolph Barkan, Henry Gibbons, Jr., Joseph Oakland Hirschfelder, Stanley Stillman, Emmet Rixford, William Ophüls, and William Fitch Cheney. Ray Layman Wilbur was also appointed to the faculty at this time.

Acquisition information:

Administrative transfer, Stanford University President's Office.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Medical colleges -- California.
Medical education.

Names:

Stanford University. School of Medicine
Cooper Medical College.
Ophüls, William,
Ricketts, Howard Taylor,
Meyer, Arthur William
Pritchett, Henry S. (Henry Smith)
Rixford, Emmet,
Zinsser, Hans, 1878-1940.
Jordan, David Starr
Hopkins, Timothy
Clark, George A. (George Archibald)
Wilbur, Ray L. (Ray Lyman)
Blake, Clarence J. (Clarence John)
Barkan, Adolph.
Gibbons, Henry, Junior, MD, 1840 - 1911
Stillman, John Maxson

Indexes:

Index of Correspondents

Abel, John J.	Box 1, Folder 15, 16, 19
Alsberg, Carl L.	Box 1 Folder 12, 15, 20
Bain, A. J.	Box 1 Folder 19
Barkan, Adolph	Box 1 Folder 15
Barkan, Adolph	Box 2 Folder 7
Barnes, Jasper C.	Box 1 Folder 18
Blaisdell, F. E.	Box 2 Folder 6
Blake, Clarence J.	Box 1 Folder 1, 2
Branner, John C.	Box 1 Folder 21, 22
Branner, John C.	Box 2 Folder 8, 9
Bridge, Norman	Box 1 Folder 19
Burrage, Severance	Box 1 Folder 17, 19
Cheney, William F.	Box 1 Folder 18
Clark, George A.	Box 2 Folder 2-4, 6-8, 9-12
Coca, Arthur F.	Box 1 Folder 12, 16
Comstock, Annie	Box 1 Folder 20
Coulter, John M.	Box 1 Folder 12
Crawford, Albert C.	Box 1 Folder 19, 22
Crothers, George E.	Box 1 Folder 5-6, 10-11, 19
Davis, Horace	Box 1 Folder 12
Dean, Banford	Box 1 Folder 19
Dresbach, Melvin	Box 1 Folder 19-20
Ellinwood, C. N.	Box 1 Folder 3, 5
Elliott, O. L.	Box 2 Folder 8
Flexner	Box 1 Folder 15
Gage, Simon H.	Box 1 Folder 3, 20
Gay, Frederick P.	Box 1 Folder 18
Gibbons, Jr., Henry	Box 1 Folder 3, 9, 13, 17
Gilman, Philip K.	Box 1 Folder 12, 16
Hall, James P.	Box 1 Folder 17
Hatcher, Robert A.	Box 1 Folder 19
Hewlett, Albion W.	Box 1 Folder 11, 19
Hirschfelder, J. O.	Box 1 Folder 3
Hodgson, Caspar W.	Box 1 Folder 16, 18
Hollmann, E. F.	Box 2 Folder 13-14
Hood, S. B.	Box 1 Folder 18
Hopkins, Timothy	Box 1 Folder 13-14, 21-22
Hopkins, Timothy	Box 2 Folder 4-5
Huey, Edmund B.	Box 1 Folder 15
Hunt, Reid	Box 1 Folder 12, 20
Hyde, James N.	Box 1 Folder 12, 18
Jenkins, O. P.	Box 1 Folder 3
Jordan, David S.	Box 1 Folder 2, 3, 5, 11-14, 17, 20
Jordan, David S.	Box 2 Folder 2-7, 10-11
Judson, Henry Pratt	Box 1 Folder 19
Keeble, W. H.	Box 1 Folder 18
Kerr, Abram T.	Box 1 Folder 19
Little, Hubert	Box 2 Folder 7
MacFarland, Frank M.	Box 1 Folder 3
Meyer, Arthur W.	Box 1 Folder 13, 15, 20-22
Meyer, Arthur W.	Box 2 Folder 7-9
Montgomery, Walter A.	Box 1 Folder 18
Muirhead, A. L.	Box 1 Folder 19
Newman, John G.	Box 1 Folder 18
Ophüls, W.	Box 1 Folder 2-3, 12-21
Ophüls, W.	Box 2 Folder 6, 8, 12-14
Price, George C.	Box 1 Folder 3
Pritchett, Henry S.	Box 1 Folder 22
Pritchett, Henry S.	Box 2 Folder 4-5
Richards, A. N.	Box 1 Folder 17, 19
Ricketts, Howard T.	Box 1 Folder 12, 17-19
Ritchie, John W.	Box 1 Folder 12, 16-18
Rixford, Emmet	Box 1 Folder 11, 14
Rixford, Emmet	Box 2 Folder 4
Rosenberg, Emerich	Box 1 Folder 23
Sedgarck, W. T.	Box 1 Folder 16
Sloss, Leon	Box 1 Folder 12
Smith, Theobald	Box 1 Folder 15
Snow, William F.	Box 1 Folder 3, 16
Spalding, Alfred B.	Box 1 Folder 21
Stillman, J. M.	Box 1 Folder 2, 6-7, 11-14, 17, 20-22
Stillman, Stanley	Box 1 Folder 13
Swain, R. E.	Box 1 Folder 3
Voegtlin, C.	Box 1 Folder 12, 15, 20
Walker, Ernest L.	Box 1 Folder 16
Welch, William H.	Box 2 Folder 6
Wheeler, Benjamin	Box 1 Folder 3
Wilbur, Ray Lyman	Box 1 Folder 2, 14-16, 19
Wilbur, Ray Lyman	Box 2 Folder 2-14
William, Tom A.	Box 1 Folder 13
Wilson & Wilson, attorneys	Box 1 Folder 21
Zinsser, Hans	Box 1 Folder 12, 13, 19, 22
Zinsser, Hans	Box 2 Folder 4

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Stanford University. President's Office. Medical School Correpsondence (SC0520) Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Location of this collection:

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