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Size | 2.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2,000 items) |
Abstract | W. N. Sheats was Florida's superintendent of public instruction, 1893-1905 and 1913-1922. The collection contains correspondence, 1911-1922, between Sheats and Florida politicians, educators, campaign workers, personal friends, and others, concerned mainly with Sheats's successful campaigns for election as state superintendent of public instruction in 1912, 1916, and 1920. Campaign issues were the textbook system, records of the candidates, personalities involved, and the hiring of native Florida teachers, with the race issue and anti-Catholicism injected at intervals. Other papers concern the superintendent's office, Sheats's family, educational bills before the legislature, job appointments, and the Florida parole board. Items before 1911 are scant. Volumes include notebooks and personal accounts, 1872- 1875; scrapbooks, 1903-1922; and a copy of O. L. Parker's master's thesis, "William N. Sheats, Florida Educator" (University of Florida, 1949). |
Creator | Sheats, W. N. (William Nicholas), 1851-1922. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, September 2010; Dawne Howard Lucas, April 2021
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W. N. Sheats was Florida's superintendent of public instruction, 1893-1905 and 1913-1922.
Back to TopThe collection contains correspondence, 1911-1922, between Sheats and Florida politicians, educators, campaign workers, personal friends, and others, concerned mainly with Sheats's successful campaigns for election as state superintendent of public instruction in 1912, 1916, and 1920. Campaign issues were the textbook system, records of the candidates, personalities involved, and the hiring of native Florida teachers, with the race issue and anti-Catholicism injected at intervals. Other papers concern the superintendent's office, Sheats's family, educational bills before the legislature, job appointments, and the Florida parole board. Items before 1911 are scant. Volumes include notebooks and personal accounts, 1872- 1875; scrapbooks, 1903-1922; and a copy of O. L. Parker's master's thesis, "William N. Sheats, Florida Educator" (University of Florida, 1949).
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
The correspondence chiefly concerns Sheats's successful campaigns for election as state superintendent of public instruction in 1912, 1916, and 1920. Also included are some campaign literature, personal and family correspondence (including letters of condolence to Sheats's widow in 1922), and papers concerning prisoners' paroles. Folder 62 contains papers relating to the case of Samuel Cheatham, the son of a friend of Sheats, who was imprisoned for shooting and subsequently robbing the owner of a pawn shop.
Arrangement: chronological.
Folder 63 |
Volume 1: Miscellaneous lecture notes taken by Sheats as a student, 1872 |
Folder 64 |
Volume 2: Two long autobiographical reflections, March 1872 and April 1873Also included are miscellaneous notes and a clipping about commencement at Emory College, 1873 |
Folder 65 |
Volume 3: Scrapbook titled "The Eventful Life of W. N. Sheats, State Superintendent of Public Instruction," 1903-1922Chiefly clippings, with a few letters. |
Folder 66 |
Volume 4: Scrapbook of obituary tributes to W. N. SheatsContains letters and telegrams of condolence received by Sheats's widow and their daughter. |
Folder 67 |
Volume 5: "William N. Sheats, Florida Educator," by O. L. Parker, 1949A thesis for an M. A. degree in Education at the University of Florida. |
Image P-2999/1 |
Photograph of W. N. Sheats with several other government officials on the steps of a public building, undated |
Reel M-2999/1-3
M-2999/1M-2999/2M-2999/3 |
MicrofilmMicrofilm copy of the entire collection, except for O. L. Parker's master's thesis |