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NTE2cg649.xml Guide to the Vincent Lafayette Higgins Diaries 1892-1936 Higgins (Vincent Lafayette) Diaries Finding aid prepared by Andrea Sabo Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2022 Finding aid encoded by Suzanne James-Bacon. 2022 Finding aid written in English. English. Finding aid based on DACS 2nd Edition ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Cage 649 Higgins, Vincent Lafayette, 1851-1941. Vincent Lafayette Higgins Diaries 1892-1936 3 Linear feet of shelf space 4 Boxes 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. Collection materials are in English

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).

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.

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.

This collection is open and available for research use.

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Vincent Lafayette Higgins Diaries, 1892-1936 (Cage 649)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

The collection was donated to the Washington State University Libraries in 1995 by Suzanne Rucker of Titusville, Florida (MS95-13).

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)

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Higgins, Vincent Lafayette, 1851-1941 -- Archives. Higgins, Vincent Lafayette, 1851-1941 -- Diaries. Rucker, Frankie Belle, 1890- -- Archives. Rucker, Frankie Belle, 1890- Higgins family. State College of Washington -- Students. Pullman (Wash.) -- Diaries. Whitman County (Wash.) -- Diaries. Agriculture -- Washington (State) -- Whitman County -- Diaries. Agricultural diversification -- Washington (State) -- Diaries. Agriculture Washington (State) Colleges and Universities Diaries 1 1 Daily Diary and Accounting Records Feb., 1892 - May, 1897 1 2 Transcription of Diary and Accounting Records Feb., 1892 -May, 1897 1 3 Accounting, Breeding, and Crop Records; Newspaper Clippings 1893-1930 1 4 Diary May, 1897 - April, 1901 1 5 Diary April, 1901 - May, 1903 2 6 Diary May, 1903 - May, 1905 2 7 Diary June, 1905 - July, 1907, August 3, 1908 2 8 Diary July, 1907 - July, 1909 2 9 Diary August, 1909 - November, 1914 2 10 Diary December, 1914 - June, 1917 2 11 Diary and Notes August, 1925 - July, 1926 2 12 Diary August, 1926 - October, 1927 3 13 Diary September, 1928 - June, 1930 3 14 Diary February 25, 1930 - October, 1933 3 15 Diary July, 1930 - October, 1933 3 16 Diary December, 1931 - October, 1932 3 17 Diary October, 1933 - March, 1936 3 18 Newspaper Clippings, Pamphlets, Letters 1917 - 1926 3 19 Belle Higgins, Physics Laboratory Experiment Notebook, Washington State College 1908 - 1909 3 20 Belle Higgins, Laboratory Manual of Elementary Physics, Washington State College 1908 - 1909 4 21 Oversize Diary and Accounting Records 1916 - 1930 4 22 Oversize Diary July, 1917 - July, 1925