Bursar's Office. Elliott Brantly Earnshaw Records
Elliott Brantly Earnshaw was an instructor in Mathematics and the Acting Bursar from 1906-1907. He was the Assistant Secretary of the Board of Trustees (1907-1923), when he was promoted to Secretary of the Board of Trustees. He served as Bursar (1907-1952) and Superintendant of the College Hospital (1911-1952). This collection contains correspondence, subject files, ledgers and related materials, Masonic loan fund papers and related materials, and Edith Earnshaw's Citizen Sevice Corps materials.
Biographical and Historical Note
Elliott Brantly Earnshaw graduated with a B.A. from Wake Forest College (1906) and later received an M.A. (1908). He was a member of the honor society Omicron Delta Kappa.was In 1906 he was a Senior Speaker, a member of the Glee Club, and Editor in Chief from the Euzelian Society. Earnshaw was also a champion tennis player, with Hubert Poteat as his doubles partner.
Earnshaw was an instructor in Mathematics and the Acting Bursar from 1906-1907. He was the Assistant Secretary of the Board of Trustees from 1907 until 1923, when he was promoted to Secretary of the Board of Trustees. He served as Bursar from 1907-1952 and Superintendant of the College Hospital from 1911-1952.
Earnshaw married Edith Taylor on June 23, 1910. Born in 1886, Edith was the youngest of six daughters of President Charles Elisha Taylor. She worked in the Bursar's office for forty years, retiring in 1952. Edith was also a published poet. Her last poem, published post-mortem, included the lines, "Wake Forest, blessed village of my birth, you evermore will be my Heaven on earth." She died in 1962.
Elliott Earnshaw died on January 3, 1952. The Earnshaws donated their entire estate to Wake Forest College.
Sources:
- Wake Forest Cemetery Advisory Board. "Wake Forest Cemetery Historical Listings." https://www.wakeforestnc.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/cemetery_advisory_board/historical-listings.pdf
Collection Overview
This collection contains correspondence, subject files, ledgers and related materials, Masonic loan materials, and Edith Earnshaw's Citizen Sevice Corps materials. Box 9 was previously a box of unsorted, unidentified correspondence and related materials; some of these materials remain unsorted, but some portions were able to be identified.
Although the bulk of these materials were created by and/or about Elliot Earnshaw, some of the bursar, secretary, and treasurer records date from after Earnshaw's death and were created or maintained by Worth Copeland, who served as Assistant College Secretary and Treasurer (circa 1946-1951) and later College Secretary and Treasurer (1952-1968).
Administrative Information
- Publication Information
- Processed by: John Woodard; machine-readable finding aid created by Apex., 2004
- Revision Description
- Revised by Finley Turner and Stephanie Bennett, Stephanie Bennett, 2019 December, 2022
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- Preferred Citation
- Bursar's Office. Elliott Brantly Earnshaw Records (RG17.3), Z. Smith Reynolds Library Special Collections and Archives, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.