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Young Ladies Institute (New Orleans, La.)

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Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Robert Hunter McGimsey family papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-Cent. Misc. Mss. 6
Scope and Contents The Robert Hunter McGimsey family papers primarily consist of material documenting his time as a student and faculty member at Centenary College of Louisiana. This includes his Franklin Literary Society certificate (1882), diploma (1882), and a typescript English translation of the Latin text on the diploma. A letter dated 1886 from Thomas Albert Smith Adams, the president of Centenary College of Louisiana, offers McGimsey a job to serve as the college’s professor of mathematics. A...
Dates: 1854 - 1919