Hayward Merriam Severance Papers
Scope and Content Note
The Hayward Severance Memorial Collection contains personal correspondence arranged chronologically from 1958 through 1971. It also contains typescript of Green Mountain Gateway: The Story of the Rutland Railway, and handnotes of the same. Also included are other articles and handnotes written by Severance, Appalachian Trail Log and Bulletins, Central Vermont Railway (timetables), Long Trail News, post cards and miscellaneous publications, The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletins, Rutland Railway miscellaneous printed material and newspaper clippings, and the Vermont Historical Society's News and Notes.
Dates
- 1931-1971
Creator
- Severance, Hayward Merriam, 1887- (Person)
Access:
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights:
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Manuscripts.
Biographical Note
Hayward Merriam Severance was born January 19, 1887, in Buffalo, New York. His parents were Frank Hayward Severance and Lena Lilian (Hill) Severance. He attended Masten Park High School (Buffalo), Cornell University, and the University of California (B.S. 1910--Chemistry). He worked two field seasons for the U.S. Forest Service in Siskiyou County, California, and did graduate work at California and the University of Chicago. Severance then taught chemistry at Chico High School (California), the University of Arizona, Oregon State College, and from 1931-52 at Los Angeles City College. He retired in 1952.
Hayward Severance was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Emeritus), American Chemical Society, Ecological Society of America, Nature Conservancy, Sigma Xi, Sierra Club, Green Mountain Club, Vermont Historical Society, Isle LaMotte Historical Society, and Buffalo, New York, and Erie County Historical Society.
Extent
1 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Hayward Severance Memorial Collection contains personal correspondence, typescripts, and handnotes.
Physical Location
Library Research Annex; contact uvmsc@uvm.edu for access.
Acquisition Information
Gift of his sister, Edith Emerson Andrews, August 12, 1971
- Title
- Hayward Merriam Severance Papers, 1931-1971
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processor: G. Faggingen-Auer.
- Date
- 2002
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Vermont Libraries, Special Collections Repository
Silver Special Collections Library
48 University Place, Room B201
Burlington Vermont 05405 U.S.A. US
(802) 656-2138
(802) 656-4038 (Fax)
uvmsc@uvm.edu
