J. M. Gillette Papers, 1880-1949

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Series 1: Correspondence

This series contains Gillette’s professional and personal correspondence, 1895-1949.

Box 1

Folder 1: Letters of recommendation, 1895-1903

Folder 2: 1899-1908

Folder 3: 1909

Folder 4: 1910

Folder 5: 1911

Folder 6: January-June 1912

Folder 7: July-December 1912

Folder 8: January-March 1913

Folder 9: April-August 1913

Folder 10: September-December 1913

Folder 11: January-March 1914

Folder 12: April-August 1914

Folder 13: September-December 1914

Folder 14: January-April 1915

Folder 15: May-August 1915

Folder 16: September-October 1915

Folder 17: November-December 1915

Folder 18: January-February 1916

Folder 19: March-May 1916

Folder 20: June-September 1916

Folder 21: October-December 1916

Folder 22: January-February 1917

Folder 23: March-May 1917

Folder 24: June-September 1917

Folder 25: October-December 1917

Box 2

Folder 1: January - March 1918

Folder 2: April - July 1918

Folder 3: August - December 1918

Folder 4: January - March 1919

Folder 5: April - August 1919

Folder 6: September - December 1919

Folder 7: January - June 1920

Folder 8: July - December 1920

Folder 9: January - June 1921

Folder 10: July - December 1921

Folder 11: January - May 1922

Folder 12: June - December 1922

Folder 13: January - June 1923

Folder 14: July - December 1923

Folder 15: January - June 1924

Folder 16: July - December 1924

Folder 17: January - March 1925

Folder 18: April - September 1925

Folder 19: October - December 1925

Folder 20: January - April 1926

Folder 21: May - August 1926

Box 3

Folder 1: September - December 1926

Folder 2: January - April 1927

Folder 3: May - September 1927

Folder 4: October - December 1927

Folder 5: January 1928

Folder 6: February - March 1928

Folder 7: April - May 1928

Folder 8: June - September 1928

Folder 9: October - December 1928

Folder 10: January - March 1929

Folder 11: April - June 1929

Folder 12: July - September 1929

Folder 13: October - December 1929

Folder 14: January - April 1930

Folder 15: May - September 1930

Folder 16: October - December 1930

Folder 17: Mayo Clinic Health Report, 1930

Folder 18: January - April 1931

Folder 19: May - August 1931

Folder 20: September - December 1931

Folder 21: January - June 1932

Folder 22: July - December 1932

Folder 23: January - April 1933

Folder 24: May - August 1933

Folder 25: September - December 1933

Box 4

Folder 1: January - April 1934

Folder 2: May - August 1934

Folder 3: September - December 1934

Folder 4: January - March 1935

Folder 5: April - December 1935

Folder 6: January - June 1936

Folder 7: July - December 1936

Folder 8: 1937

Folder 9: 1938

Folder 10: 1939

Folder 11: 1940

Folder 12: 1941

Folder 13: 1942

Folder 14: 1943

Folder 15: 1944

Folder 16: 1945

Folder 17: 1946

Folder 18: 1947

Folder 19: 1948

Folder 20: 1949

Folder 21: Correspondence regarding Gillette sent to Dr. P. A. Munch from J. M. Reinhardt

Folder 22: Post-mortem correspondence and honors regarding Gillette

Series 2: Research Files, Manuscripts, Publications, and Miscellaneous

Gillette’s research files can be found in Boxes 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 14, and 15. The vast majority of the files are sociological in nature, although there are several files related to theology, the University of North Dakota, agriculture in North Dakota, and the Nonpartisan League.

Manuscripts of various books and scholarly articles written by Gillette are found in Boxes 9, 10, 11, 14, and 15. This includes drafts of both published and unpublished works, including Rural Sociology, Eighty Years a Plainsman, “Social and Economic History of North Dakota,” and “North Dakota Weather and the Rural Economy.”

Reprints of Gillette’s articles from scholarly journals are found in Boxes 13, 15, and 16. Gillette was a prodigious scholar, whose work appeared in many journals, including Publications of the American Sociological Society, Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, North Dakota Historical Quarterly, and American Sociological Review.

Diaries and appointment books, 1894-1920, are in Box 7, although not every year is included. The diaries record Gillette’s service as a minister in Dodge City, Kansas, his time at the Chicago Theological Seminary, and his first two years at the University of North Dakota.

The text for various speeches and presentations delivered by Gillette are found in Box 13, and Box 12 contains research papers written by Gillette’s sociology students. Most of the student papers are from the 1930s.

Box 5

Folder 1: University of North Dakota salary survey, 1914-1932

Folder 2: Survey on the effects of World War II on Grand Forks churches and North Dakota city schools, 1942

Folder 3: Survey on attitudes of the liquor problem

Folder 4: Casselton (North Dakota) church and school survey, 1936

Folder 5: Deaths and death rates, 1932-1934

Folder 6: Village statistics

Folder 7: North Dakota farm tenancy statistics

Folder 8: Population loss and gain percentages, 1920-1930

Folder 9: Immigration statistics

Folder 10: North Dakota death rate statistics and charts

Folder 11: Tabular material on rural health problems

Folder 12: North Dakota temperature and rainfall statistics and correlations, 1892-1936

Folder 13: Growth of cities in the United States, 1880-1910

Folder 14: Gillette's anthropometrics

Folder 15: Income statistics of the United States, 1930

Folder 16: Tabular material on population loss in urban areas, 1920-1930

Folder 17: Unsorted sundry and unlabeled charts and statistics

Folder 18: North Dakota agricultural and climatic charts and statistics

Folder 19: Oakes (North Dakota) survey, 1930s

Folder 20: Agricultural statistics, 1890-1930

Folder 21: Miscellaneous data

Folder 22: Report of the Socio-Economic Committee of the North Dakota State Planning Board, 1935

Folder 23: Village population statistics, 1920

Folder 24: Statistics regarding the efficiency of North Dakota schools

Folder 25: Precipitation data, 1903-1924

Folder 26: North Dakota State Planning Board maps

Folder 27: FERA DRS 77 survey of rural relief in North Dakota, 1934

Folder 28: FERA DRS 190 survey of changes in the rural relief population of North Dakota

Folder 29: North Dakota Socio-Economic submergence survey, 1939

Box 6

Folder 1: Instructions concerning methods of research on FERA surveys

Folder 2: Social psychology

Folder 3: Origin of religion

Folder 4: Cooley: Social organization

Folder 5: The rural church

Folder 6: Kidd, Comte, Spencer, Ward, Cooley

Folder 7: Spencer: Theory of progress

Folder 8: Vocational education

Folder 9: Biblical sociology

Folder 10: Social movements

Folder 11: Ethnology

Folder 12: Sociology of Lester Ward

Folder 13: Statistics lectures

Folder 14: Lectures on the problems of child welfare

Folder 15: Lectures on the problems of child welfare

Folder 16: Poor relief and jails in North Dakota

Folder 17: Population statistics and charts, 1900-1910

Folder 18: Population statistics and charts, 1910-1920

Folder 19: Population statistics and charts, 1920-1930

Folder 20: North Dakota county survey regarding delinquency, defects, and dependents, 1907-1911 and 1922-1923

Box 7

Folder 1: Financial report on conditions by county in North Dakota, 1937

Folder 2: FERA N - DRS-2 Project Part 1, survey of rural education in North Dakota, 1935

Folder 3: FERA N - DRS-2 Project Part 2, survey of rural education in North Dakota, 1935

Folder 4: "The Conception of Personality in Modern Philosophy," Gillette's Ph.D. Dissertation, Chicago Theological Seminary, 1899

Folder 5: Diary and notebook, 1894-1903

Folder 6: Appointment and diary books, 1903 and 1907-1908

Folder 7: Appointment and diary books, 1911-1920

Folder 8: Early notes and sermons

Folder 9: "How the Rev. Horatio Jenks Converted Dry as Dust” by Laudable Malady

Folder 10: Stories and essays of Gillette's seminary days

Folder 11: Sermons, 1890s

Folder 12: Notebook on Salmagundi, Union Theological Seminary, 1893

Folder 13: Theological notes, ca 1900

Folder 14: Psychology notebook, 1894

Folder 15: Child study and record of Margaret Gillette (daughter), 1904

Folder 16: Child study notebook, 1904

Folder 17: Notebook, 1892

Folder 18: Notebook, 1904

Folder 19: Miscellaneous lectures and talks

Box 8

Folder 1: Talk on unknown nobodies

Folder 2: Songs composed by Gillette

Folder 3: Short speeches

Folder 4: Class records, 1908-1920

Folder 5: Notes on Haye's sociology

Folder 6: Notes on Blackmar and Gillian's sociology

Folder 7: Lectures on Thompson's Population Problems

Folder 8: Lectures on the sociology of conflict

Folder 9: Lectures on the methods of sociological investigation

Folder 10: Lectures on the sociology of education and lectures on social legislation

Folder 11: Lectures on the family

Folder 12: Anthropology lectures

Folder 13: Social problems

Folder 14: Population

Folder 15: Miscellaneous rural sociology notes

Folder 16: Race problems

Folder 17: Race notes

Folder 18: Neighborhood activities

Folder 19: Social control and social evolution

Box 9

Folder 1: Manuscript: Social Conflict and War by Gillette

Folder 2: American Sociological Society abstracts

Folder 3: Essays and stories of personal events in Gillette’s life

Folder 4: Speeches, studies and writings of Gillette

Folder 5: Book reviews written by Gillette

Folder 6: Essay: “How I Became Interested in Sociology” by Gillette

Folder 7: Articles, essays, and manuscripts written by Gillette

Folder 8: Manuscript: Rural Sociology (incomplete)

Folder 9: Manuscript: Rural Sociology, third edition, 1936

Folder 10: Miscellaneous

Folder 11: Miscellaneous (including correspondence)

Box 10

Folder 1: Manuscript: Eighty Years a Plainsman (Autobiography) 1945-46 with revisions from 1949

Folder 2: Manuscript: "One World Only?: A Symposium of Shibboleths."

Folder 3: Manuscript: "One World Only?: A Symposium of Shibboleths." (copy 2)

Folder 4: Manuscript: "Mounds and Mound Builders of the U. S."

Folder 5: Vera Kelsey manuscript, Labor in China

Folder 6: Manuscript: "Social and Economic History of North Dakota," ch. 1-3

Folder 7: Manuscript: "Social and Economic History of North Dakota," ch. 4-8

Folder 8: Manuscript: "Social and Economic History of North Dakota," ch. 9-11

Folder 9: Manuscript: "Social and Economic History of North Dakota," ch. 12-14

Folder 10: Manuscript: "Social and Economic History of North Dakota," Miscellaneous notes and charts

Folder 11: Manuscript: "North Dakota Weather and the Rural Economy"

Box 11

Folder 1: Manuscript and research: "A Quarter Century of Trends in a Great Plains State: North Dakota"

Folder 2: Manuscript and research on Bowman, Burleigh, and Grand Forks counties: "North Dakota Farm Enlargement: Reasons and Causes"

Folder 3: Grant County church surveys

Folder 4: Grand Forks County church and community surveys

Folder 5: Kidder County church and community surveys

Folder 6: Rolette County church and community surveys

Folder 7: Sheridan County church and community surveys

Folder 8: Stark County church and community surveys

Folder 9: Wells County church and community surveys

Box 12

Folder 1: Sociology Student Term Papers Written for Gillette, 1930s-1940s

Box 13

Folder 1: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Agriculture

Folder 2: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Anthropology

Folder 3: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Education and society

Folder 4: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Education and rural society

Folder 5: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: The family (a social unit)

Folder 6: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: North Dakota

Folder 7: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Politics

Folder 8: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Population distribution, fluctuation and growth

Folder 9: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Population, continued

Folder 10: Miscellaneous correspondence and publications: Personal events

Folder 11: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Public health

Folder 12: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Regionalism

Folder 13: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: The rural church

Folder 14: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Rural society

Folder 15: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Rural society

Folder 16: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Sociology

Folder 17: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Teachers and teaching

Folder 18: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Teaching social sciences

Folder 19: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: The university and society

Folder 20: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Vocational aptitude

Folder 21: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Woman

Folder 22: Miscellaneous publications and presentations: Youth

Folder 23: Miscellaneous

Box 14

Folder 1: Essays on different aspects of population

Folder 2: Manuscript: “Mounds and Mound Builders”

Folder 3: Student Papers: Anonymous - L

Folder 4: Student Papers: M - P

Folder 5: Students' Papers: R - W

Folder 6: Manuscript and research: Population

Folder 7: University of North Dakota Extension Division

Folder 8: Publication: Rural Sociology, chapters 1-13

Folder 9: Publication: Rural Sociology, chapters 15-31

Folder 10: Urban sociology

Folder 11: Manuscript: "The City"

Folder 12: North Dakota Agricultural College

Folder 13: Family adjustments during wartime

Folder 14: World War II maps

Folder 15: Social ethics newspaper clippings

Folder 16: Home Owners Loan Cooperation case

Folder 17: War aims and peace newspaper clippings

Folder 18: University employee salary information

Folder 19: Normal School extensions

Folder 20: Miscellaneous correspondence and essays

Box 15

Folder 1: Letters, brochures and articles concerning organizations and associations, 1910-1947

Folder 2: Letters and articles concerning heart disease, 1908-1927

Folder 3: Letters and articles relating to Rural Sociology, 1911-1948

Folder 4: Papers relating to the presidency of Thomas F. Kane at the University of North Dakota, 1918-1933

Folder 5: General correspondence, 1917-1918

Folder 6: Student paper: "Is There a law of Migration?" by W. C. Hanson, 1935

Folder 7: Correspondence, Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, 1937-1938

Folder 8: Gillette appreciation dinner speeches, telegrams, and newspaper clippings, November 13, 1940

Folder 9: General correspondence, 1941-1945

Folder 10: Correspondence with U. S. Home Owners' Loan Corporation, concerning home loan, 1934-1935

Folder 11: Miscellaneous, notes, outlines, fragments of Eighty Years a Plainsman

Folder 12: Sample incidents in Eighty Years a Plainsman

Folder 13: Some chapters of Eighty Years a Plainsman

Folder 14: "Plainsman Episodes"

Folder 15: Eighty Years a Plainsman: Tentative list of chapters from the 1949 revision

Folder 16: Miscellaneous notebooks, and a report written by Catherine Davies

Folder 17: Fragments from "Plainsman Episodes"

Folder 18: Cape collection regarding Gillette

Folder 19: Correspondence about Nonpartisan League (5 items), 1918-1919

Folder 20: Notes and writings about Nonpartisan League (11 items)

Folder 21: Pamphlets about "Townleyism"and Nonpartisan League (11 items)

Folder 22: Newspaper clippings about the Nonpartisan League

Folder 23: Publication: “Ancestorless Man: The Anthropological Dilemma.” Scientific Monthly, December 1943

Folder 24: Publication: “Can We Plan Successfully for Normal Society?” Sociology and Social Research, November-December 1939

Folder 25: Publication: “Changing Relations Between Town and Country.” Publications of the American Sociological Society, 1927

Folder 26: Publication: “Church Membership in North Dakota.” Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, April 1925

Folder 27: Publication: “City Trend of Population and Leadership.” Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, October 1910

Folder 28: Publication: “Community Concepts.” Social Forces, June 1926

Folder 29: Publication: “Conditions and Needs of Country Life.” American Academy of Political and Social Science, March 1912

Folder 30: Publication: “The Conservation of Talent Through Utilization.” Scientific Monthly: November 1915

Folder 31: Publication: Culture Agencies of a Typical Manufacturing Group: South Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1901.

Folder 32: Publication: “Democracy and Partisan Politics.” Publications of the American Sociological Society: 1919

Folder 33: Publication: “Discussion and Reports: Multiple After-Images.” Psychological Review: May 1901

Folder 34: Publication: “The Drift to the City in Relation to the Rural Problem.” Publications of the American Sociological Society: 1911

Folder 35: Publication: “Economic and Social Background of the University of North Dakota.” Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota: October 1922

Folder 36: Publication: Eighty Years a Plainsman. Edited by Kenneth J. Dawes. University of North Dakota: 1988

Folder 37: Publication: Essentials of Human Personality (Excerpts of his Ph.D. dissertation, presented to the Chicago Theological Seminary). 1898

Folder 38: Publication: “An Examination of Criteria for the Determination of Normal Society.” American Sociological Review: August 1937

Folder 39: Publication: “Extent of Personal Vocabularies and Cultural Control.” Scientific Monthly: November 1929

Folder 40: Publication: Farming Hazards in the Drought Area. By R.S. Kifer and H.L. Stewart. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1938

Folder 41: Publication: “Immigration and the Increase of Population in the United States.” Social Forces: September 1926

Folder 42: Publication: “The Improvement of the Rural Communication System.” Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota: October 1920

Folder 43: Publication: “Insanity in North Dakota.” Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota: January 1915

Folder 44: Publication: “Measure of Rural Migration and Other Factors of Urban Increase in the United States.” Quarterly Publication, American Statistical Association: September 1914

Folder 45: Publication: “Mitigating Rural Isolation.” Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota: January 1917

Folder 46: Publication: “Mounds and Mound Builders of the United States.” North Dakota Historical Quarterly: July 1944

Folder 47: Publication: “Nature and Limits of Social Phenomena.” Social Forces: June 1927

Folder 48: Publication: “North Dakota Farm Enlargement: Reasons and Causes.” Bulletin 12, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of North Dakota: January 1946

Folder 49: Publication: “North Dakota Weather and the Rural Economy.” North Dakota History: January 1945

Folder 50: Publication: “Notes on After-Images.” The Psychological Review, July 1890

Folder 51: Publication: “Notes on Breaking the Human Life Cycle.” Bulletin 13, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of North Dakota, January 1946

Box 16

Folder 1: Publication: “On Breaking the Human Life Cycle.” Sociology and Social Research: November-December 1946

Folder 2: Publication: “An Outline of Social Study for Elementary Schools.” The American Journal of Sociology: January 1914

Folder 3: Publication: “Perspective of Public Health in the United States.” Scientific Monthly: September 1941

Folder 4: Publication: “Presidential Addresses: Urban Influence and Selection.” Publications of the American Sociological Society: 1929

Folder 5: Publication: “Quest for a Rejuvenine.” Bulletin 10, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of North Dakota: June 1945

Folder 6: Publication: “Reconstruction of History for Teaching Purposes.” The School Review: October 1909

Folder 7: Publication: Rural Communities. Studies in Social Science, No.4. Edited by William I. Thomas. Chicago: Zalaz Corporation, 1915.

Folder 8: Publication: “The Scope and Methods of Instruction in Rural Sociology.” Publications of the American Sociological Society: March 1917

Folder 9: Publication: “Social and Economic Background of the University of North Dakota in the Eighties of Last Century.” Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota: July 1923

Folder 10: Publication: Social Economics of North Dakota. Minneapolis: Burgess, 1942

Folder 11: Publication: “Social-Economic Submergence in a Plains State.” Rural Sociology: March 1940

Folder 12: Publication: Sociologie Venkova. 1928 [Czech translation of Rural Sociology]

Folder 13: Publication: “Sociology as a High School Subject.” Educational Review: March 1913

Folder 14: Publication: “Some Population Shifts in the United States, 1930-1940.” American Sociological Review: October 1941

Folder 15: Publication: “A Study in Social Dynamics: A Statistical Determination of the Rate of Natural Increase, and of the Factors Accounting for the Increase of Population in the United States.” Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association: December 1916

Folder 16: Publication: “Training the ?Fittest’:” School and Society: February 25, 1922

Folder 17: Publication: “The University in the Service of Society.” Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota: July 1917

Folder 18: Publication: “The Vocational Concept.” Publications of the American Sociological Society: 1918

Folder 19: Publication: “Woman and Her Future.” Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota: January 1918

Folder 20: “The North Dakota Harvest of the Nonpartisan League,” by J.M. Gillette. The Survey, v.4, n.22 (March 1, 1919)

Photographs :

Two photographs were separated and placed in the Photograph File Cabinets.

Photograph 1: Mel H. Ruder, United States Navy

Photograph 2: Dr. J. M. Gillette

Photograph 3: Gillette feeding birds, 1949

Text from back of photograph: "Dear good 'Gramp' feeding birds and squirrels-back yard of home place. Bird lunch counter. 57 Fourth Ave. S. Grand Forks, North Dakota. 1949. Love to 'Gram' from 'Biddy'"

Placed in Oversize Photograph File Cabinets