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Scope and Contents
The papers of Thomas H. Macbride consist of approximately eight linear feet of manuscripts dating from 1845 to 1954. They are organized alphabetically by format of material, and then chronologically within each format. They document his career as a professor and president of the University of Iowa from 1914 to 1916.
Included are letters from: Paul Bartsch, Charles E. Bessey, W.R. Boyd, Jay N. Darling, Harvey Ingham, Laurence C. Jones, Frank O. Lowden, G.W. Martin, Louis H. Pammel, Gifford Pinchot, Carl E. Seashore, Fred J. Seaver, Benjamin F. Shambaugh, Bertha M.H. Shambaugh, Bohumil Shimek, John Springer, and Robert B. Wylie.
Macbride's work as botanist is reflected in items such as speeches and lectures he delivered, articles he wrote, notebooks he kept, and his Iowa Lakeside Laboratory research. Also included are diaries and newspaper clippings which show his connections with University of Iowa Archives; Philip D. Macbride Papers, University of Washington; and the Nineteenth Century Club and Raphael Club records, State Historical Society of Iowa.
Other family members are represented in the Macbride papers, such as Harriet D. Macbride's diaries and notebooks, and Jean Macbride's compositions.
Biographical Note
Thomas Huston Macbride served as the tenth president of the University of Iowa, from 1914 to 1916.
Though he was president of the university for only two years, Macbride served the campus for more than a half-century as a scholar, conservationist, and administrator. The building that bears his name was constructed in 1904 as the Hall of Natural Science and was renamed in his honor in 1934.
Macbride received the Bachelor of Arts and, in 1873, the Master of Arts degrees from Monmouth College in Illinois. He joined the University of Iowa in 1878, becoming a professor of botany in 1883. In 1902, he was made head of the Department of Botany and served as secretary of the faculty from 1887 to 1893.
His love for the outdoors and its preservation inspired him to become the first president of the Iowa Park and Forestry Association, organized in 1901. He founded the Lakeside Laboratory at Lake Okoboji in northwest Iowa and promoted the development of state parks, including the lake and park that bear his name in Johnson County, north of Iowa City.
Macbride was born in Rogersville, Tennessee, on July 31, 1848. He married Harriet Diffenderfer on December 31, 1875, and they had four children. He died in Seattle, Washington, on March 27, 1934, at age 85.
[D. McCartney; 12/2006]
Related Materials
Conklin, Mary Winifred. "The History of the State University of Iowa: Thomas Huston Macbride." M.A. thesis, University of Iowa, 1945. 119 pp. Main; Archives
Conard, Rebecca. Places of Quiet Beauty: Parks, Preserves, and Environmentalism. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997. 382 pp., illus., map, tables, notes, bibliog. Includes Thomas H. Macbride and Bohumil Shimek.
Gallaher, Ruth A., Robert B. Wylie, and Thomas H. Macbride. "Thomas Huston Macbride." Palimpsest 15 (May 1934): 161-192, illus. Main.
Schertz, Mary Winifred Conklin, and Walter L. Myers. Thomas Huston Macbride. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1947. 77 pp., illus. Main; Iowa Authors; Archives
Shimek, B. "Thomas Huston Macbride." Iowa Academy of Science Proceedings 41 (1934): 33-37, illus. Main.
Box Contents List
Box 1 Address books -- Series II: Correspondence of T.H. Macbride, May 1874
Box 2 Correspondence of T.H. Macbride, July 1874 -- 1892
Box 3 Correspondence of T.H. Macbride, January 1893 -- 1904
Box 4 Correspondence of T.H. Macbride, 1905 -- March 1911
Box 5 Correspondence of T.H. Macbride, April 1911 -- 1913
Box 6 Correspondence of T.H. Macbride, January 1914 -- 1924
Box 7 Correspondence of T.H. Macbride, 1925 -- 1931
Box 8 Correspondence of T.H. Macbride, 1932 -- Correspondence of Macbride family, 1870 -- 1889
Box 9 Correspondence of Macbride family, 1890 -- Dayton, C.H.
Box 10 Diaries of Harriet D. Macbride, 1876 -- Thomas H. Macbride, 1917
Box 11 Diaries of Thomas H. Macbride, 1918 -- Journals of Harriet D. Macbride
Box 12 Journals of Harriet D. Macbride -- New Year's cards, 1931 -- 1934
Box 13 Newspaper clippings -- Philosophy of education, 1887 -- 1932
Box 14 Poetry notebook -- Reprints of articles by Thomas H. Macbride, A -- O
Box 15 Reprints of articles by T.H. Macbride, P -- Z -- Zoological notebook
Unboxed Letters of appreciation -- Scrapbooks of letters
Address books
Botany notebooks, 1879
Compositions written in school by Jean Macbride
Conservation
Convocation notes, 1914
Correspondence of T.H. Macbride
1869, 1871
1872
1873
January -- May 1874
Correspondence of T.H. Macbride cont.
July -- December 1874
January -- February 1875
March -- December 1875
1876 -- 1879, including letters from Samuel Calvin and W.O. Currier
1880 -- 1884
1885
1886 -- 1889
1890 -- 1892
Correspondence of T.H. Macbride cont.
January 1893
February -- November 1893 and undated
1894 -- 1897
1898, including letters from J.C. Arthur, Charles E. Bessey, Samuel Calvin, and Gifford Pinchot
1899, including letters from Gifford Pinchot, W. B. Allison, C.M. Waterman, Frank O. Lowden,
G.S. Schaeffer, and L.H. Pammel
1900 -- 1901, including letters from Gifford Pinchot, C.M. Waterman, and Frank O. Lowden
1902 -- 1904, including letters from Robert B. Wylie and L.H. Pammel
Correspondence of T.H. Macbride cont.
1905 -- 1907, including letters from George E. MacLean, Nathan R. Leonard, Charles R. Leonard,
and Horace E. Deemer
1908 -- 1909, including letters from Nathan R. Leonard, Robert B. Wylie, W. Anderson, and Henry
Sabin
January -- August 1910, including letters from George E. MacLean
September -- December 1910, including letters from George E. MacLean, Charles E. Bessey, L.H.
Pammel, Luther A. Brewer, Gifford Pinchot, and Benjamin F. Shambaugh
January -- February 1911, including letters from L.H. Pammel, Robert Hunter, Eli C. Perkins, Leslie
E. Francis, George W. Koontz, C.E. Pickett, W.O. Finkbine, and J.C. Arthur
March 1911, including letters from Benjamin F. Shambaugh, Gifford Pinchot, George W. Koontz,
and Charles E. Bessey
Correspondence of T.H. Macbride cont.
April 1911, including letters from Frank O. Lowden
May 1911, including letters from L.H. Pammel
June -- September 1911, including letters from Robert Hunter, W.O. Finkbine, George E.
MacLean, William J. McChesney, Bohumil Shimek, Charles E. Bessey, and J.B.
Weaver
October -- December 1911, including letters from J.C. Arthur, Charles E. Bessey, Forest C.
Ensign, and Robert B. Wylie
Undated, ca. 1911
January -- April 1912, including letters from L.H. Pammel, J.C. Arthur, W.R. Boyd, and Charles E.
Bessey
May -- December 1912, including letters from Edgar R. Harlan, J.B. Weaver, L.H. Pammel, Robert
B. Wylie, Bohumil Shimek, Charles E. Bessey, Frederic Larrabee, Benjamin F.
Shambaugh, Frank C. Pellett, Anna M. Klinenhagen, and Frank O. Lowden
1913, including letters from John G. Bowman, Bohumil Shimek, Robert B. Wylie, H.O. Bernbrock,
Laurence C. Jones, Launcelot W. Andrews, W.O. Finkbine, Charles E. Bessey, G.W.
Clarke, L.H. Pammel, and William S. Kenyon
Correspondence of T.H. Macbride cont.
January -- April 1914, including letters from Frank O. Lowden, L.B. Weaver, Robert Hunter, L.H.
Pammel, and Benjamin F. Shambaugh
May -- November 1914, including letters from Charles Bundy Wilson, Charles E. Bessey, Bohumil
Shimek, and Launcelot W. Andrews
1915 -- 1919, including letters from William H. Taft, Charles Bundy Wilson, G. W. Clarke, W.R.
Boyd, J.R. Weaver, Benjamin F. Shambaugh, Edgar R. Harlan, Walter A. Jessup,
W.J. McChesney, George W. Patrick, Robert B. Wylie, W. O. Finkbine, L. H.
Pammel, John Springer, and Gifford Pinchot
1920 -- 1921, including letters from Gifford Pinchot, Walter A. Jessup, Carl E. Seashore, Bohumil
Shimek, Robert B. Wylie, L. H. Pammel, Launcelot W. Andrews, Edgar R. Harlan, W.
O. Finkbine, Paul Bartsch, Harvey Ingham, E.T. Meredith, and W.R. Boyd
1922, including letters from Robert B. Wylie, Edwin L. Sabin, John W. Kime, L. H. Pammel, and
Walter A. Jessup
1923 -- 1924, including letters from John W. Kime, Gifford Pinchot, Forest C. Ensign, Laurence C.
Jones, Robert B. Wylie, L. H. Pammel, Ada Knight Terrell, Carl E. Seashore, Harvey
Ingham, John P. Irish, W.R. Boyd, Benjamin F. Shambaugh, Jay N. Darling, and
George F. Kay
Correspondence of T. H. Macbride cont.
1925 -- 1926, including letters from Walter A. Jessup, Benjamin F. Shambaugh, W.R. Boyd, Jay
N. Darling, Carrie Chapman Catt, John Hammill, George W. Patrick, Carl E.
Seashore, George W. Martin, and Bohumil Shimek
Folder 2: 1927, including letters from Bohumil Shimek, Benjamin F. Shambaugh, Evelyn Schuyler
Schaeffer, L. H. Pammel, Bertha M. H. Shambaugh, Walter A. Jessup, Charles
Bundy Wilson, Robert Hunter, Robert B. Wylie, Carl E. Seashore, George E.
MacLean, and Forest C. Ensign
1928, including letters from Walter A. Jessup, Carl E. Seashore, Laurence C. Jones, Robert B.
Wylie, L. H. Pammel, George W. Martin, Benjamin F. Shambaugh, and Charles
Bundy Wilson
1929, including letters from Carl E. Seashore, George W. Martin, Benjamin F. Shambaugh,
George F. Kay, Walter A. Jessup, John Hammill, L. H. Pammel, Robert B. Wylie,
Gifford Pinchot, Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer, and Frank O. Lowden
1930, including letters from George W. Martin, Carl E. Seashore, W. O. Finkbine, Forest C.
Ensign, Walter A. Jessup, John Hammill, L. H. Pammel, Robert B. Wylie, Gifford
Pinchot, Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer, and Frank O. Lowden
1931, including letters from Harvey Ingham, Benjamin F. Shambaugh, George E. MacLean,
Forest C. Ensign, Bohumil Shimek, Charles H. Mayo, and Walter A. Jessup
Correspondence of T. H. Macbride cont.
1932, including letters from George W. Martin, Paul Bartsch, Bohumil Shimek, and Walter A.
Jessup
1933, including letters from Robert B. Wylie, Walter A. Jessup, Benjamin F. Shambaugh, Edgar
R. Harlan, Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer, J. B. Weaver, Harvey Ingham, Laurence C.
Jones, and Bertha M. H. Shambaugh
1934 -- 1954, including letters from George W. Martin, Robert B. Wylie, and Harvey Ingham
Undated, including letters from Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer, Bertha M. H. Shambaugh, and Robert
B. Wylie
Undated
Undated
Correspondence of the Macbride family
1870 -- 1887
1888 -- 1889
Correspondence of the Macbride family cont.
1890 -- 1891
1892 -- 1895
1896 -- 1927, including letters from Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer, Alice French, and Bertha M. H.
Shambaugh
Undated, including letters from Charles A. Schaeffer and Evelyn Schuyler Schaeffer
Undated
Day Book, 1930 -- 1931
Dayton, C. H., Laboratory journal, Conchology: Notes of Observations and Experiments made in the
Laboratories. S.U.I., 1882, by James Lee, a student of T. H. Macbride
Diaries of Harriet D. Macbride
1876, 1885
1888, 1891
1894, 1922
Diary of J. B. Macbride, 1845, father of T.H. Macbride
Diaries of Thomas H. Macbride
1869 -- 1899
1903 -- 1908
1909 -- 1917
Diaries of Thomas H. Macbride cont.
1918 -- 1927 and undated
Emerson and the Lyceum and chautauqua, 7 documents with no photographs, 1940
Essays, 3 folders
Grade Books 1872 -- 1877
Harriet D. Macbride. Ancestry 1897 -- 1910, including "Some of the Descendants of John Michael Dubendorf,
1695 -- 1778, 1897 -- 1910," by Frank Ried Diffenderffer
Manuscript notes of In Cabins and Sod-houses
Journals of Harriet D. Macbride, undated
Journals. Harriet D. Macbride, undated
Leather pouch. T.H. Macbride, Monmouth College, Illinois
Lectures and lecture notes, 2 folders
Map of Iowa Lakeside Laboratory region, as a blueprint
Miscellaneous
1863 -- 1933
Undated
Miscellaneous programs and invitations, 1874 -- 1933, to such events as a dinner to honor the new women's
gymnasium in 1915, the opening of the first state park in Iowa in 1920, a 1922 luncheon to honor
alumni explorers, and a brief history of Delta Tau Delta dated 1927 -- 1928, among others.
New Year’s cards from Macbride with photographs of trees, 1931 -- 1934
Newspaper clippings
Appointment of T.H. Macbride to University of Iowa presidency, 1914
Book reviews, 1914 -- 1929 and undated
Lake Macbride State Park, 1934
Macbride’s death, 1934
Miscellaneous, 1870 -- 1934 and undated
Our Native Trees, a series of articles by Macbride
Nineteenth Century Club
1883 -- 1901
1901 -- 1923
Notebooks, Harriet D. Macbride, two folders
Notes on religion
Philosophy of education, 1887 -- 1932
Poetry notebook
Presidential journal, 1914 -- 1915
Raphael Club
1883 -- 1908
1908 -- 1922
Reprints of articles by T.H. Macbride
A -- N
O
Reprints of articles by T.H. Macbride cont.
P -- Z
Speeches
1882 -- 1912 and undated
Undated
Translations of Heinrich Heine by Macbride in 2 folders, and letter concerning them from T.M. Coan, 1892
Tributes to T.H. Macbride, 1908 -- 1935 (includes Thirty years in the State University; a tribute to Thomas Huston Macbride, 1908)
Zoological notebook
Bound volume of letters of appreciation, 1912
Three scrapbooks containing letters, 1892 -- 1928
