Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Guide to the Vincent Lafayette Higgins Diaries
1892-1936
Cage 649
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections
- Creator
- Higgins, Vincent Lafayette, 1851-1941.
- Title
- Vincent Lafayette Higgins Diaries
- ID
- Cage 649
- Date [inclusive]
- 1892-1936
- Extent
- 3 Linear feet of shelf space, 4 Boxes
- Language
- Collection materials are in English.
- Abstract
- The collection consist of 20 diaries and accounting records of Vincent Lafayette Higgins, a Pullman, Washington area farmer, and 2 notebooks kept by Belle Rucker (nee Higgins), a daughter, while attending college.
Preferred Citation
[Item description]
Vincent Lafayette Higgins Diaries, 1892-1936 (Cage 649)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Biography/History
Vincent Lafayette Higgins (1851-1941) was born near Burnsville, North Carolina. As a young man, he moved west, living in Arkansas, Missouri, Northern California, and the Willamette Valley in Oregon, eventually settling permanently at Union Flat near Pullman, Washington in 1884. There he established a diversified agriculture farm, which had wheat growing as its principal activity. Vincent married Emma Peed of Jasper, Missouri in 1889, and their daughter, Frankie Belle Higgins, was born in 1890. Both Vincent and Emma Higgins were active in Masonic organizations, and Vincent was a member of the International Order of Odd Fellows.
Belle Higgins graduated from Pullman High School and attended Washington State College. She married Lee Roy Rucker in 1915, and they had two children, Delbert Leeroy (1916-1976) and Dale Elliot (1919-1920).
Scope and Content
The collection consists of 20 diaries and accounting records of Vincent Lafayette Higgins. His diaries document daily life and work on his diversified agriculture farm, which had wheat growing as its principal activity, in the Pullman, Washington area. Also included are two notebooks kept by his daughter, Belle, while attending the State College of Washington.
Arrangement
The collection has been arranged in a chronological order, with the exception of a few large, oversize books which, of necessity, are out of order and at the end of the sequence.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2022
https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/
Terrell Library
P.O. Box 645610
Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA
509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open and available for research use.
Restrictions on Use
Copyright restrictions may apply.
Acquisition Information
The collection was donated to the Washington State University Libraries in 1995 by Suzanne Rucker of Titusville, Florida (MS95-13).
Related Materials
Related Material
Vincent Lafayette Higgins Papers, 1900-1920 (Cage 1983)
Higgins and Rucker Family Papers, 1884-1994 (Cage 783)
Higgins Scrapbooks, circa 1890s-1950s (unprocessed collection: UPC 0004).
A biographic sketch of Vincent Lafayette Higgins is included in the James Emerson Lindsey Papers, 1926-1972 (Cage 491)
Names and Subjects
Corporate Name(s)
Subject(s) :
- State College of Washington -- Students.
Family Name(s)
- Higgins family.
Geographic Name(s)
- Pullman (Wash.) -- Diaries.
- Whitman County (Wash.) -- Diaries.
Personal Name(s)
Subject(s) :
- Higgins, Vincent Lafayette, 1851-1941 -- Archives.
- Higgins, Vincent Lafayette, 1851-1941 -- Diaries.
- Rucker, Frankie Belle, 1890- -- Archives.
Creator(s) :
- Rucker, Frankie Belle, 1890-
Subject(s)
- Agriculture -- Washington (State) -- Whitman County -- Diaries.
- Agricultural diversification -- Washington (State) -- Diaries.
- Agriculture
- Washington (State)
- Colleges and Universities
- Diaries
Detailed Description of Collection
| box | volume | |||
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Daily Diary and Accounting Records Feb., 1892 - May, 1897 |
1 | 1 | ||
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Transcription of Diary and Accounting Records Feb., 1892 -May, 1897 |
1 | 2 | ||
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Accounting, Breeding, and Crop Records; Newspaper Clippings 1893-1930 |
1 | 3 | ||
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Diary May, 1897 - April, 1901 |
1 | 4 | ||
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Diary April, 1901 - May, 1903 |
1 | 5 | ||
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Diary May, 1903 - May, 1905 |
2 | 6 | ||
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Diary June, 1905 - July, 1907, August 3, 1908 |
2 | 7 | ||
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Diary July, 1907 - July, 1909 |
2 | 8 | ||
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Diary August, 1909 - November, 1914 |
2 | 9 | ||
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Diary December, 1914 - June, 1917 |
2 | 10 | ||
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Diary and Notes August, 1925 - July, 1926 |
2 | 11 | ||
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Diary August, 1926 - October, 1927 |
2 | 12 | ||
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Diary September, 1928 - June, 1930 |
3 | 13 | ||
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Diary February 25, 1930 - October, 1933 |
3 | 14 | ||
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Diary July, 1930 - October, 1933 |
3 | 15 | ||
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Diary December, 1931 - October, 1932 |
3 | 16 | ||
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Diary October, 1933 - March, 1936 |
3 | 17 | ||
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Newspaper Clippings, Pamphlets, Letters 1917 - 1926 |
3 | 18 | ||
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Belle Higgins, Physics Laboratory Experiment Notebook, Washington State College 1908 - 1909 |
3 | 19 | ||
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Belle Higgins, Laboratory Manual of Elementary Physics, Washington State College 1908 - 1909 |
3 | 20 | ||
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Oversize Diary and Accounting Records 1916 - 1930 |
4 | 21 | ||
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Oversize Diary July, 1917 - July, 1925 |
4 | 22 | ||