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America Hamilton Mattix Papers

Personal Papers, ca 1912-1928

Manuscript Collection 1439


INFORMATION ABOUT AMERICA HAMILTON MATTIX
 
America Hamilton Mattix (Sep 27, 1896-Sep 27, 1982) attended the State Agricultural School in Jonesboro from 1913 to 1914 and received her first teacher's license for Craighead County on September 18, 1914.  She started her teaching career in 1915 by taking a position at Weiner, Arkansas.  In 1916, Mattix continued with her education at the Teacher's Normal, State Agricultural School.  Later, she also attended the University of California in summer of 1923 and took correspondence courses at the University of Arkansas in 1944 and 1945.  Mattix spent most of her teaching years (1940s to 1960s) as a substitute teacher at the Valley View School, teaching all eight grades and all subjects.  For her outstanding service and dedication, America Hamilton Mattix was inducted into the Valley View School "Hall of Honor" in 1999.
 

INFORMATION ABOUT THE COLLECTION

The material in the collection, pertaining to the life of America Hamilton Mattix, comprises family and official correspondence, a diary (ca 1914-1928), teacher licenses and contracts (ca 1924-1928), loose pages with pasted newspaper/magazine clippings mostly of poems with a few handwritten notes, Home Economics class notes, a photocopy of Mattix's 1915 class picture, a photograph of Valley View Hall of Honor Inductee plaque, and other papers.  The collection further contains papers of Esther Mattix Wilson (America Hamilton Mattix's sister-in-law ?) as well as papers of Mattix's brother, Charles G. Hamilton.

The America Hamilton Mattix Papers were donated to Special Collections by Janice Mattix, Jonesboro, Arkansas, on December 9, 1999.

Processed by Vera Ekechukwu, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, September 2001.


CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION
 1 container (.5 linear feet)

Box 1

 1. Correspondence-Minnie Hamilton to America Hamilton Mattix, 1915.
 2. Correspondence-Charles G. Hamilton to America Hamilton Mattix, Dec 19, 1912, Apr-Oct 1915, n.d.
 3. Other miscellaneous letters and papers, ca 1914-1940s.
 4. Teacher licenses and contracts, ca 1914-1928.
 5. Diary, ca 1914-1928.
 6. Clippings and diary notes, early 1920s.
 7. University of California papers, 1923.
 8. Class notes, n.d.
 9. 1915 class photograph and a plaque photograph.
 10. Charles G. Hamilton papers, 1911-1915.
 11. Esther Mattix Wilson papers, 1920s-1999.


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