William H. Jesse Tribute
This collection consists of two copies of a memorial composed for William H. Jesse after his death in 1970. It includes a brief obituary, a tribute written by University of Tennessee President Andy Holt, and a tribute written by Jesse's Secretary Daphne Townsend.
Dates
- 1970
Conditions Governing Access
Collections are stored offsite and must be requested in advance. See www.special.lib.utk.edu for detailed information. Collections must be requested through a registered Special Collections research account.
Conditions Governing Use
The UT Libraries claims only physical ownership of most material in the collections. Persons wishing to broadcast or publish this material must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants on www.special.lib.utk.edu for detailed information. Collections must be requested through a registered Special Collections research account.
Extent
0.1 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection consists of two copies of a memorial composed for William H. Jesse after his death in 1970. It includes a brief obituary, a tribute written by University of Tennessee President Andy Holt, and a tribute written by Jesse's Secretary Daphne Townsend.
Biographical/Historical Note
William Herman Jesse was born in Versailles, Kentucky to Watson McIlvain and Helen (Wolfe) Jesse on 16 September 1908. He attended Transylvania College in Lexington, Kentucky (1929-1931) and the University of Kentucky (1933) before earning degree in Library Science from Columbia University in 1938. He earned an additional AM from Brown College in 1945. Jesse married Edith Miller on 12 September 1938. He worked as a teacher-librarian in Johnson County, Kentucky (1933-1935), as the Director of Libraries for the Johnson County schools (1935-1938), as the Readers' Division Chief at Brown University (1938-1942), as the Assistant Director of Libraries at the University of Nebraska (1942), and as the Head of the Readers' and Reference Division of the U. S. Department of Agriculture Library in Washington, D.C. (1943) before coming to the University of Tennessee as a Professor of Bibliography. At UT, he raised the library's collection to over a million books and obtained entry for the University of Tennessee Library system into the Association of Research Libraries, a select group of libraries recognized for excellence as research centers. Jesse died on 1 July 1970 and is buried in Nicholasville, Kentucky.
Arrangement
Collection consists of a single folder.
Acquisition Note
Collection was donated to University Archives.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository