Edwards, Elijah Evan (class of 1853)

Collection Statement

This collection contains letters to Benjamin covering the years 1851-1918, clippings, programs, a diary from 1860, pamphlets, list of holdings in the William Henry Smith Memorial Library, and a notebook of poems and essays.

Collection Statement The collection consists of diaries, illustrations, poems, letters, journals, and articles by and about Elijah Evan Edwards. It includes data about his life as a student at Indiana Asbury University, his military service as a Chaplain in the Civil War, his term as the first president of Colorado State Agricultural College, now Colorado State University, and other information by or about Elijah Edwards from 1846-1910. Illustrations consist mainly of pen and ink sketches of student life at...