Florida Agricultural College, Lake City.
     Records, 1894-1905, bulk 1899-1905.
     1.8  linear ft. (4 boxes, 1 volume)

     Series 162 contains correspondence of President Thomas H. Taliaferro of the Florida Agricultural College at Lake City.  Also included are miscellaneous documents from that institution and the correspondence of W. P. Jernigan.  Jernigan served as the college's auditor and bookkeeper and was clerk of the college's Board of Trustees. Documents for 1894-1898 are few and include several letters of President W. F. Yocum.
     Correspondence with W. E. French at the Narcoosee cattle ranch station was found in the papers of Raymond Becker.
     The correspondence is continued in Series P3, Administrative policy records of Andrew Sledd.  Sledd served as the last president of the Florida Agricultural College (renamed the University of Florida in 1903) and the first president of the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Contents

Volume 1 Letterbook of W. P. Jernigan, 1899-1901

Box 1

Yocum correspodence 1897-1902
Correspondence with W. E. French at Narcoosee cattle station, 1900-1901
Taliaferro correspondence, 1901-1902 (6 folders)

Box 2

Taliaferro correspondence, 1903-1904 (7 folders)

Box 3

Alumni
Annual cadet ball, 1895
Athletic Association, 1904
Board of Trustees, 1894-1904
Building specifications, Science Hall and Gymnasium
Business Office, Correspondence, 1901-1905 (3 folders)
Commencements, 1896; 1901-1903
Debating societies
Land titles and deeds
Reports, 1895-1896

Box 4

Reports, 1870-1892
Reports, 1898-1904 (3 folders)
Restraining order forbidding sewage disposal in Alligator Lake, 1903
Valedictory speech, L.C. Maguire, 1905 (photocopy)