Education Related Files, 1853 - 1937

These educational materials of Alford Carleton document the span of early education through his collegiate graduation and from there to the Hartford Theological Seminary in 1937. The series consists of his report cards and student papers from his primary and secondary education in the Ames, Iowa public school system and years at Oberlin College (1916, 1919-24), as well as his senior thesis from Hartford Seminary titled The Millet System: For the Government of Minorities in the Ottoman Empire (1937). A notebook, dated 1854-57, exists for Gowen Wilson from his time at Waterville College in Maine. The notebook contains a list of names of his classmates, course notes (i.e., Greek, first term, freshmen year), and a record of college related expenses.