William Martin Blanchard papers, 1874-1942
DePauw University
DC 91

Archives of DePauw University

and Indiana United Methodism

William Martin Blanchard Papers

1874-1942

Size: 0.40

Restrictions: none

Accession: none or unknown

Provenance: donor

Processed by: unknown

Biographical Sketch

Dean Blanchard retired from the DePauw faculty in September 1941, the oldest member of the staff both in age and period of service, after coming to DePauw University in the fall of 1901 as professor of chemistry at the age of twenty-six. He was one of very few teachers who came to DePauw with the rank of full professor. A native of north Carolina and a graduate of Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, Dr. Blanchard came to Indiana in 1900 after receiving the Ph.D. degree at Johns Hopkins University to take a place as instructor on the faculty of Rose Polytechnic Institute at Terre Haute. A year later upon the death of Dr. Phillip S. Baker, head of the department of chemistry at DePauw, Dr. Blanchard was given his post on the DePauw faculty. In 1937 he was awarded the Honorary Doctor of Science degree by Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa.

Collection Statement

The William Martin Blanchard collection contains clippings, laboratory exercises and a President's Address. Also in the back of the document case there are lecture notes, a blow-pipe analysis and four miscellaneous notebooks that are untitled.

DC 91

Folder 1 Laboratory Exercises in General Chemistry by Wm. M. Blanchard

2 "A Tribute to Business Character"
        (Photocopy of three pages from a book by this title)

3 Clippings

4 President's Address, "The Unselfish Service of Science"

5 Chemical Laboratory - DePauw University in account with
        W.M. Blanchard, Oct. 1, 1903- Oct. 1, 1904

6 Memoriam

7 Miscellaneous

8 Blanchard-Huffard

In back of document case

Lecture notes on Organic Chemistry

Lecture notes on General Chemistry

Blow-Pipe Analysis

4 Miscellaneous notebooks untitled

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