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Finding Aid for the Los Angeles State Normal School. Office of the President. Administrative files of Jesse F. Millspaugh.
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Title: Los Angeles State Normal School. Office of the President. Administrative files of Jesse F. Millspaugh.
Date (inclusive): 1906/1917
Record Series number: 2
Creator:
Jesse F. Millspaugh
Extent:
4 boxes (1.7 linear feet)
Abstract: Record Series 2 contains correspondence, reports, committee minutes, and various other kinds of documents generated by the
President's Office at the California State Normal School, Los Angeles, during the period 1906-1917.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. University Archives.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
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Copyright of portions of this collection has been assigned to The Regents of the University of California. The UCLA University
Archives can grant permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish
or quote must be submitted in writing to the UCLA University Archivist.
[Identification of item], Los Angeles State Normal School. Office of the President. Administrative files of Jesse F. Millspaugh.
(Record Series Number 2). UCLA Library Special Collections, University Archives, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Due to a growing demand for trained teachers and limited space at the State Normal School in San Jose, a second State Normal
School was established in Los Angeles in 1881. On March 14, 1881, California Senate Bill 187-an Act to establish a Branch
State Normal School in Los Angeles was signed into law by Governor George C. Perkins. The first section of the legislation
stipulated that, "There shall be established in the County of Los Angeles a school, to be called the Branch State Normal School
of California, for the training and educating of teachers in the art of instructing and governing in the public schools of
this state." By 1913 there were six locations of the California State Normal School system including San Jose, Los Angeles,
Chico.
In 1919, an act of legislation made the Los Angeles branch part of the University of California. The other branches of the
State Normal School system form what is now the California State University system.
Jesse F. Millspaugh earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1979 and a medical degree from the University
of Pennsylvania in 1883. Millspaugh served as superintendent of city schools in Salt Lake City from 1890-1898 and as president
of Minnesota State Normal School at Winona from 1898-1904. In 1904 he accepted appointment as the President of the California
State Normal School at Los Angeles. In 1919, when the Los Angeles branch was added to the University of California, Millspaugh
was appointed to the post of associate dean.
Record Series 2 contains correspondence, reports, committee minutes, and various other kinds of documents generated by the
President's Office at the California State Normal School, Los Angeles, during the period 1906-1917.
Records pertain to:
- 1. various campus agencies, including Board of Control, Board of Turstees, and alumni groups;
- 2. non-campus organizations such as Los Angeles Board of Education, State Board of Education, and other State Normal Schools located at Chico, Fresno, Humboldt County, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, and Santa Barbara; and
- 3. subjects such as faculty and employees, campus lectures and entertainment, establishment of State Teachers College, and Teachers Retirement Salary Fund.
This is an inactive record series; no additional University records are expected to be added.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
State Normal School, Los Angeles (Calif.). President's Office.