Carl Milton Brewster (1881-1961) was Professor of Organic Chemistry at the State College of Washington (later Washington State University) from 1912 to 1950. He was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, the son of Milton Brewster and Mary (Lambert) Brewster. He received his A.B. degree from Oberlin College in 1903, and then taught high school science for two years at Two Harbors, Minnesota. He then pursued graduate study in organic chemistry, receiving his A.M. degree from Harvard University in 1906. He was Francis Parkman Fellow at Harvard from 1908 to 1909. Brewster continued his studies at Heidelberg University prior to becoming professor of chemistry at Mount Union College (1910-1912). After his marriage to Alfhild Nordby, he joined the faculty of the State College of Washington.
This collection includes memoirs, correspondence, photographs, clippings, and publications of the State College of Washington Chemistry professor, Carl Milton Brewster. Series 1 includes Brewster's memoirs, called "True Stories" (1951-1958). These consist of loose-leaf pages with several hundred brief typescripts by Brewster, photographs, sketches, stamps, news clippings and other items glued in or inserted. On the first page of volume 1 (1951-1955), Brewster described "True Stories" as "Incidents and recollections written mainly for the children and grandchildren as they came to mind, and set down in abbreviated form to enclose with my weekly letters." Series 2 consists of miscellaneous documents, including a small amount of correspondence, a listing of books donated by Brewster to the Washington State University Libraries, and other items.
Organized in two series.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions may apply.
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Carl Milton Brewster Papers, 1902-1958 (Cage 44)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Carl Milton Brewster donated this small collection of his papers to the Washington State University Libraries in 1960.
This collection was initially processed shortly after it was received, and was reprocessed by Cheryl Gunselman, Manuscripts Librarian, in 2005.
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