urn:taro:ttu.sw.00005 Kate Adele Hill: An Inventory of Her Papers 1861-1971 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Lynn Whitfield The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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July 2000 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, September 2000. Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 15:20:26 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00005 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the Kate Adele Hill Papers, 1861-1971 and undated Lynn Whitfield The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, July 2000 Descriptive Summary Hill, Kate Adele Kate Adele Hill Papers, 1861-1971 and undated Records of Kate Adele Hill, a former home demonstration agent with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. S 442.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 2 boxes and 3 scrapbooks (2.3 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

A home demonstration agent with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, Kate Adele Hill was born November 19, 1900, in Manor, Texas, and was the author of several books. Her family was engaged in breeding Angus cattle. She attended Texas Technological College and Texas Women's University, receiving her Ph.D. from TWU in 1957. Hill was active in the American Texas Home Economics Association, the Texas Agricultural Workers' Association, and the Business and Professional Women's Association. She died in a San Angelo nursing home on October 30, 1982.

 Scope and Contents

These papers include correspondence, legal documents, literary productions, photographs, post cards, printed material and scrapbook material pertaining mainly to the business and civic affairs of Dr. Hill. The literary publications contain extensive information on cotton industry pioneer A. L. Ward.

The photos were transferred to Photographs. Of special interest are family photographs on the Hills' Kerr County ranch, including some from Christmas seasons from 1905 to 1908 showing mesquite Christmas trees and Kate Hill as a child with her parents.

 Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.

Subjects (Persons) Hill, Kate Adele, 1900-1983 Hill, Kate Adele, 1900-1983--Archives Hill, Sam Houston Hill, William Hickman Ward, A. L. (Arland Langdon), 1885-1965 Subjects (Organizations) Texas Agricultural Extension Service Texas Cottonseed Crusher's Association Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers' Association Cal Farley's Boys Ranch (Tascosa, Tex.) Places Kerr County (Tex.)--History Tom Green County (Tex.)--History Subjects Aberdeen-Angus cattle Agricultural extension work--Texas Cattle--Breeding Home demonstration work--Texas Home economics--Texas Home economics, Rural--Texas Home economics extension work--Texas Ranches--Texas--History Sheep ranches--Texas--History Women--Texas--Societies and clubs--History Acquisition

Gifts, 1960-1968

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Lynn Whitfield, July 2000

 Preferred Citation

Kate Adele Hill Papers, 1861-1971, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 Additional Sources The Handbook of Texas has published a more in-depth online biography of Kate Adele Hill at http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/search.html

For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, see the following collections:

Hill, Kate Adele, 1900-1983. Kate Adele Hill oral history interview [sound recording], 1977. Collection Inventory Manuscript Files 1 1 Address by Dr. Walter Prescott Webb to Arlington State College, 1960 1 2 Book Draft: A. L. Ward- Texans, 1967 1 3 Correspondence, 1920-1971 and undated 1 4 Correspondence, 1952-1959 1 5 Genealogy: Hill Family, undated 1 6 Hill, Sam H., 1909-1933 1 7 Legal Documents, 1861-1933 1 8 Literary Publications, 1933-1951 and undated 1 9 Literary Publications by Kate Adele Hill, 1925-1965 1 10 Literary Publications by Kate Adele Hill, 1927-1963 1 11 Magazine Clippings, 1951-1957 1 12 News Clippings: Kate Adele Hill, 1965-1971 and undated 1 13 News Clippings: Literacy and Kate Adele Hill, 1965-1967 and undated 1 14 News Clippings: Will Hill, 1942-1950 1 15 Newspapers, 1918-1967 1 16 Printed Materials, 1931-1971 and undated 1 17 Printed Materials: Professional Agricultural Workers of Texas, 1967-1969 1 18 Printed Materials: Texas Agricultural Workers Association, 1964-1966 2 1 Proceedings of the 57th Annual Convention Texas Cottonseed Crushers' Association, Inc., 1951 2 2 Proceedings of Research Conference on Processing as Related to Cottonseed Meal Nutrition at Southern Regional Research Laboratory, 1950 2 3 Rolled item: Portrait of W. B. Mitchell of Marfa, Texas, 1940 2 4 Scrapbook, 1916-1937 2 5 Scrapbook, 1928-1929 and undated 2 6 Scrapbook: Kate Adele Hill News Clippings, 1939 and undated 2 7 Scrapbook: News Clippings, 1934-1941 2 8 Speeches by A. L. Ward, 1931-1943 2 9 Speeches by A. L. Ward, 1940-1947 2 10 Speeches by A. L. Ward, 1948-1953 2 11 Speeches by A. L. Ward, 1952-1958 2 12 Speeches by Kate Adele Hill, 1940-1966 2 13 Texas Cottonseed Crushers' Association: A. L. Ward Portrait Presentation to Texas A and M College, 1951 2 14 Texas County Name Origins, undated Oversized Scrapbooks Item 1 Scrapbook, 1938-1960 Item 2 Scrapbook, 1954-1960 Item 3 Scrapbook: Boys' Ranch, 1950