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James Cawston Evenden papers

 Collection
Identifier: MG 134

Content Description

The papers of James C. Evenden span the years 1910 and 1969, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1920 and 1954.

The papers include both military and forestry related correspondence, diplomas, certificates, lecture notes for courses taken and courses given, reports on Insect control, and a large number of reports and articles, a majority of which were authored by Evenden.

Dates

  • Creation: 1910-1969

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Biographical / Historical

James Cawston Evenden was born June 19, 1889 in McMinnville, Oregon. He attended the preparatory school of Oregon State Agricultural College for half years during 1907 and 1908, and registered as a freshman in the fall of 1909. He left school after his freshman year to work in Portland, but returned in the fall of 1911. He obtained his B.A. in June 1914 and his M.S. in June 1936.

He was employed as a forest ranger with the U.S. Bureau of Entomology from 1914 to 1917. From June 1917 to May 1919 he served with the U.S. Army in France, and following his discharge he remained a member of the infantry reserve corps until 1927.

In June 1918 he married Ella Kate Bishop; they had two children.

From 1919 until his retirement at the end of 1954 he was in charge of the USDA Forest Insect Laboratory in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He was elected a fellow of the Society of American Foresters in 1953 and held memberships in the Northwest Scientific Association and the American Association of Economic Entomologists. He was the author of over twenty-five articles on forest insects.

Extent

2 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Correspondence, reports, and publications related to the control of forest insects collected and generated by Evenden as Director of the Forest Insect Laboratory, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, 1919-1954.

Arrangement

The material in this Manuscript Group was in no apparent order when received, therefore the series were created during processing.

The correspondence was sorted by subject and each folder was arranged chronologically. The military correspondence concerns correspondence schools and summer training camps. There is also his affidavit concerning the bravery of two soldiers during World War I. The remaining correspondence deals with forest insects, Evenden's election as a fellow of the Society of American Foresters, and his retirement.

The second series contains Evenden's diplomas, certificates, routine employee evaluations, newspaper clippings and diaries.

The lecture notes are for ECW courses for foresters and courses Evenden taught at Montana State University and the University of Idaho. There is also a set of lecture notes for an entomology course Evenden took at Oregon State in 1913.

Evenden was a member of the Idaho Forest Study Committee and this series contains his records of that committee.

The items in the insect control series are separated by topic. The material on the 1947 tussock moth project was originally in a scrapbook, but due to its fragile condition the clippings and photographs were removed and placed in folders.

The publications were sorted by type and each folder arranged in chronological order. The typescripts and journal articles are by Evenden, but the inter-office reports which are carbon typescripts, were written by Evenden and members of his staff.

All duplicate copies of printed or typed material were removed from the collection. Published works by foresters other than Evenden were also removed and offered to the Science Library. In all, about 3 c.f. of material was removed.

Acquisition Information The papers of James C. Evenden were donated to the University of Idaho Library by the Evenden family in the summer of 1984.

Title
Guide to James Cawston Evenden papers
Status
Completed
Author
Finding aid prepared by Judith Nielsen; updated by Sara Szobody.
Date
1985, 2021
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid written in English.
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Repository Details

Part of the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Repository