- Creator
- Schaub, I. O. (Ira Obed), 1880-1971
- Size
- 5.05 linear feet (5 legal boxes, 1 album box, 1 flat folder, 1 flat box)
- Call number
- MC 00021
The Ira Obed Schaub Papers contain correspondence, news articles, writings, publications, awards, and certificates concerning Schaub's professional life, from his career in 4-H work to his work at North Carolina State's cooperative extension program and as dean of the North Carolina State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. The Schaub Papers also includes information about the personal life of Ira Obed Schaub, including his community involvement, travel, and education. A small number of documents concerning Maud Kennedy Schaub, the wife of Ira Obed Schaub, and some materials regarding the Schaub and Kennedy families, are also part of the collection. The collection dates from 1855 to 1974.
Biographical/historical note
Ira Obed Schaub (1880-1971) was born in Stokes County, North Carolina, on September 28, 1880. The fourth of five sons of William Henry and Mary Grabs Schaub, he attended Pinnacle Academy in the town of Pinnacle, North Carolina. From 1896 to 1900, he attended North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University) and was one of the college's first graduates, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. Upon his graduation from North Carolina State, Schaub did graduate work in chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, leaving before receiving a degree. His first job was as assistant chemist in the Illinois Experiment Station, where he worked for nearly two years. In 1905, Schaub moved to Iowa and became assistant professor of soils at Iowa State College. Schaub returned to North Carolina State College in 1909 and became involved in work with boys' and girls' 4-H clubs until 1913, when he became superintendent of farm demonstration work for the Frisco Railroad, based in Springfield, Missouri. In 1918, when, due to World War I, the Frisco Railroad was taken over by federal authorities, Schaub began work for the United States Department of Agriculture as their field agent for southern states.
In 1924, Schaub again returned to North Carolina State College and worked as director of agricultural extension through his retirement in 1950. In 1926, Schaub became Dean of the School of Agriculture at North Carolina State College, a position he held through 1945 concurrently with his agricultural extension work. He was also the director of North Carolina State College's Experiment Station from 1937 through 1940.
Schaub was active in many organizations during his life, including the Kappa Sigma fraternity, the City of Raleigh Planning Commission, the Agricultural Foundation of North Carolina, the State Council of National Defense, the Pine Burr Scholarship Society of North Carolina State College, the North Carolina Agricultural Hall of Fame Board of Directors, and the North Carolina Rural Rehabilitation Board. He was an unofficial North Carolina State University historian, composing manuscripts on former faculty members and the board of trustees of the college. Schaub also consulted with the first North Carolina State University Archivist on the activities and operations of the University Archives. He received two honorary doctorates of agriculture: one from Clemson University in 1937 and one from N.C. State in 1951.
Schaub married Maud Kennedy, daughter of an Iowa farm family, on July 27, 1910. The Schaubs had two children: Maud Kennedy and Ira Obed, Jr. Schaub died on September 13, 1971, in Raleigh at the age of 90.
Scope/content
The Ira Obed Schaub Papers contains materials relating to the professional and personal life of Ira Obed Schaub. It also contains information about Schaub's wife, Maud Kennedy Schaub, and the Schaub and Kennedy families. The collection contains correspondence, journals, certificates, newspaper clippings, awards, publications, diplomas, volumes, account books, dress patterns, and photographs (both prints and negatives). The collection is organized into four series.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into four series:
- The first series, Professional, includes documents relating to Ira Obed Schaub's professional life and contains five subseries. The Correspondence subseries contains Schaub's professional correspondence from the North Carolina Agricultural Extension service, along with several other agencies of employment. The second subseries, Writings, includes published and unpublished articles and manuscripts by Ira Obed Schaub on the subject of agriculture. Newspaper articles written by Schaub are included in this subseries rather than in the News Articles subseries. Furthermore, correspondence that had been attached to items in the Writings subseries remains in this subseries so as to maintain the documents' original order. The News Articles subseries comprises published newspaper articles about Schaub's professional activities and about agriculture-related topics. External Publications contains published materials collected by Schaub that relate to his professional interests. The final subseries within the Professional series is Awards and Certificates. This subseries includes awards and honors that Schaub received for his professional activities. It also includes correspondence and newspaper articles relating to these awards.
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The second series, Personal, includes three subseries. The first, Ira Obed Schaub, contains documents relating to Schaub's personal life, including his community involvement, his travels, and his education. This subseries includes personal correspondence along with a small amount of biographical information. This subseries is a majority of the Personal series. The second subseries, Maud Kennedy Schaub, includes Maud Schaub's dress pattern envelopes, a manuscript that she wrote, and information about her community involvement. Finally, the Family subseries contains documents relating to family members in the Schaub and Kennedy families. It also includes some Schaub family genealogical information, as well as several items relating to both Ira and Maud Schaub.
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The third series, Photographs, contains three subseries: Prints, Negatives, and Oversize. All three of these subseries contain photographs relating to both the Professional and Personal series. The photographs have been organized as closely as possible in the same order as the general collection.
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The final series, Oversized Materials, contains documents that have been cross-listed in this finding aid in their intellectual locations.
- 4-H clubs
- Agricultural education -- North Carolina.
- Agriculture -- Middle West
- Agriculture -- North Carolina
- Agriculture -- Southern States
- North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service--History
- North Carolina State College--History
- North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
- North Carolina State College School of Agriculture and Life Sciences -- History
- North Carolina State University--History
- North Carolina State University -- History
- Schaub, I.O. (Ira Obed), 1880-1971
- Schaub, Maud Kennedy
- Schaub family
- Sewing
- Travelers' writings, American
- Schaub, William Samuel.
Use of these materials
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ira Obed Schaub Papers, MC 00021,
Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Source of acquisition
Gift of Ira Obed Schaub, 1966-1969, and Maud Schaub, 1971-1972.
Separated material
- The following book, previously with the Ira Obed Schaub Papers, has been moved to the Rare Books collection: Rus: A Biographical Register of Rural Leadership in the United States and Canada. Compiled by L.H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey. Ithaca, New York, 1930.
Processing information
Processed by Stephanie Horowitz;
Machine-readable finding aid created by Stephanie Horowitz;
Updated by Aaron Cusick, 2009 November
The collection is organized into four principal series:
Professional Papers 1908-1974 (MC 00021 Series 1)
Size: 1.5 linear feet (2 legal boxes)
The Professional series is divided into five subseries: Correspondence, Writings, News Articles, External Publications, and Awards and Certificates. The series contains information about Ira Obed Schaub's professional career in agriculture. The bulk of the material concerns Schaub's work in the North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service and in the Department of Agriculture at North Carolina State College. However, there are also a number of documents relating to Schaub's work with 4-H Clubs, the Frisco Railroad, the United States Department of Agriculture, and several consulting projects. The series also contains general materials on agriculture written by Schaub and collected by Schaub due to their relation to his career. Finally, the series includes awards and honors given to Schaub for aspects of his professional career from various organizations.
Consulting Work, Hartwell Dam 1957
Frisco Railroad 1913-1920
General, Incoming 1962, 1966
Illinois Experiment Station 1908
"North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station-The First 60 Years, 1877-1937," 1955
North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service 1924, 1944
North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, Controversy 1955
North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, Retirement [File 1 of 3] 1950
North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, Retirement [File 2 of 3] 1950
North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, Retirement [File 3 of 3] 1950
North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, Retirement, Book of Letters 1950
North Carolina Department of Agriculture 1909
North Carolina State College School of Agriculture 1941, 1945
United States Department of Agriculture, Boys' and Girls' 4-H Clubs[no date] 1912-1913,
United States Department of Agriculture 1919, 1923
Agriculture Articles, General 1950, 1953
"Agricultural Extension Work: A Brief History," 1953
Agricultural Supplement to Milne's "Progressive Arithmetic" 1957
Consulting Work, Hartwell Dam 1957
Consulting Work, Hartwell Dam, "The Problem," 1957
Consulting Work, Occupied Germany 1948-1949
"Does the Score Card Score?" [no date]
"History of the Land Scrip Fund in North Carolina," 1951, 1961
"North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station - The First 60 Years, 1877-1937," 1955
Notecards, Agriculture, General, [no date]
"Sam Hill and His Daddy," 1920-1921
"The Way I See It," Talks on Agriculture 1956
4-H Club[no date] 1949-1955,
Association of Southern Agricultural Workers 1940
Better Acres Contest, Award Presentation by Schaub c. 1951
Committees and Conferences[no date] 1940-1950,
Frisco Railroad[no date] 1913,
North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service[no date] 1939-1949,
North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, 50th Anniversary 1953
North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service,"Extension Farm-News", Grain Deficit [See Oversized Materials] 1947
North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, History 1954
North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service, Retirement 1950
North Carolina Department of Agriculture 1949
North Carolina State College, Controversies 1940-1941, 1949
North Carolina State College, School of Agriculture, Retirement 1950
North Carolina State College, School of Agriculture, Appointment as Dean 1926
Agricultural Extension Service, Historical Marker Dedication 1965
Historical United States Agriculture 1937
Historical United States Agriculture 1953, 1956
International Institute of Agriculture, "An Outline of the European Co-operative Credit Systems," 1912
Nebraska Department of Agricultural Extension, "Simple Water Supplies for the Farm," 1913
North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, "Scuppernong and Other Muscadine Grapes: Origin and Importance," 1909
4-H Club, Enshrinement Ceremonies 1974
4-H Club, House Resolution 409, Recognition of Achievements 1955
Agriculture, General Awards 1951-1968
Agricultural Foundation, Membership Certificate, [no date]
Camp Schaub Dedication 1950
Diplomas, Bachelor of Science from North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts 1900
Epsilon Sigma Phi, Distinguished Service Ruby 1940-1941
Epsilon Sigma Phi, Distinguished Service Ruby, Certificate [See Oversized Materials] 1940
Farm and Home Week, Dedication 1950
Farm Hands Club, Dean Schaub Day 1969
Honorary Degree, Clemson College, Doctorate of Science 1937
Legal box 2, Folder 19; Flat folder 1
Honorary Degree, North Carolina State College, Doctorate of Agriculture 1951
Honorary Degree, North Carolina State College, Doctorate of Agriculture, Certificate Holder 1951
General Alumni Association Meritorious Service Award 1951
Iredell County, Honoring Director I.O. Schaub, Scrapbook 1949
Iredell County, Honoring Director I.O. Schaub, Program 1949
Men of the Year in Service to North Carolina Agriculture 1938, 1952
North Carolina Agricultural Hall of Fame Certificate Presented by Governor Luther Hodges 1955
North Carolina Extension Director, Awards as 1934-1953
"North Carolina State Agriculturist" Magazine Dedication 1959
North Carolina State College, Portrait Dedication 1947
Schaub Food Science Building Dedication 1969-1970
State of North Carolina Proclamation by Governor W. Kerr Scott 1952
"Tar Heels of the Week,""News and Observer" 1950, 1965
United States Department of Agriculture Superior Service Award 1949
Legal box 2, Folder 30; Flat folder 1
Personal Papers 1870-1971 (MC 00021 Series 2)
Size: 1.5 linear feet (2 legal boxes)
This series includes three subseries. The first subseries, constituting the bulk of the series, is Ira Obed Schaub. This subseries contains documents relating to Schaub's education at North Carolina A & M, Schaub's compositions on the history of North Carolina State University, two travel journals, and other information relating to Schaub's community involvements and hobbies. It contains one sub-subseries, Personal Correspondence. The Maud Kennedy Schaub subseries contains the envelopes for numerous sewing patterns, several documents regarding her community involvement and schooling, and a manuscript composed by Maud Schaub before her marriage entitled "Heroes of Obscurity." The final subseries, Family, includes several documents relating to both Ira and Maud Schaub, including a bridal book with wedding guest information, as well as documents relating to other members of the Schaub and Kennedy families or to the families in general (including one narrative genealogy on the Schaub family). Many of these documents relate to Ira Schaub's brother Sidney.
Alamance County Extension Homemakers Achievement Program 1968
Architectural Contract, [no date]
Biographical Information 1949
Community College Internship Program 1969
Death of C.W. Warburton 1950
Incoming, Clarence Poe,"The Progressive Farmer" 1947
Incoming, David C. Killen, North Carolina State University Homecoming Parade 1970
Incoming, Don S. Matheson, North Carolina State Senator, [no date]
Incoming, Earl Maharg, Kappa Sigma 1968
Incoming, Frank P. Graham, University of North Carolina 1947
Incoming, J.F. Lutz, Professor of Soil Science, North Carolina State University 1969
Incoming, James W. Patton, University of North Carolina Library Southern Historical Collection 1964
Incoming, Jane S. McKimmon 1949
Incoming, John H. Bonitz, Sr. 1969
Incoming, Kohler Greenfield 1969
Incoming, M.T. Payne 1948
Incoming,"News and Observer" Article on Schaub 1969
Incoming, P.J. Walton to M.I. Evinger 1967
Incoming, R.F. Poole, Clemson Agricultural College 1947
Incoming, W. Kerr Scott 1948
Incoming, Wilhelm Prilipp et al., German 1951
Outgoing, Heinrich Noell, Hessen-Nassau Chamber of Agriculture 1958
Duke University Geriatrics Interdisciplinary Program 1958
Exchange Club of Western Boulevard, Book of Golden Deeds, Certificate 1962
Fishing[no date] 1926, 1954,
"German Without a Master", [no date]
I.O. Schaub Scholarship Fund 1950-1971
Identification Cards[no date] 1918, 1948,
Iowa State College Dance Card 1909
Johns Hopkins University Acceptance Note 1903
Kappa Sigma Fraternity 1909-1969
North Carolina Agricultural Hall of Fame 1959-1967
North Carolina Agricultural Hall of Fame, Certificate, Membership, Board of Directors [See Oversized Materials] 1959
North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Grade Transcript [See Oversized Materials] 1903
North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Graduating Address 1900
North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Graduating Thesis 1900-1903
North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Milne's"Standard Arithmetic", Ira Schaub's textbook 1892
North Carolina Rural Rehabilitation Corporation [File 1 of 2] 1954-1964
North Carolina Rural Rehabilitation Corporation [File 2 of 2] 1954-1964
North Carolina Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, Certificate, Membership, Board of Directors [See Oversized Materials] 1953
North Carolina Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, Certificate, Membership, Board of Directors [See Oversized Materials] 1955
North Carolina Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, Certificate, Membership, Board of Directors [See Oversized Materials] 1960
North Carolina Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, Plan, American Legion Post 116 [See Oversized Materials] 1962
North Carolina State Agricultural Society, Fair Advertisement [See Oversized Materials] 1855
North Carolina State"Alumni News" 1967, 1970
North Carolina State College, Alumni Association, 50th Anniversary of Class of 1900 1950
North Carolina State University, History[no date] [File 1 of 3] 1956-1969,
North Carolina State University, History[no date] [File 2 of 3] 1956-1969,
North Carolina State University, History[no date] [File 3 of 3] 1956-1969,
North Carolina Teachers' and State Employees Retirement System, Salary Record 1941-1953
Patrons of Husbandry 1932
Phi Kappa Phi, Membership Certificate [See Oversized Materials] 1924
Picture, Newspaper, [no date]
Pine Burr Scholarship Society, North Carolina State College, [no date]
Raleigh Planning Commission 1960
Travels, Journal, Europe 1927
Travels, Journal, West Coast 1909
Travels,"Sights, Scenes, and Wonders at the World's Fair" 1904
World War II,"Raleigh Times" 1942
World War II, State Council of National Defense 1940
World War II, State Council of National Defense, Certificate [See Oversized Materials] 1940
World War II, War Manpower Commission, Manpower Priorities Committee, Certificate [See Oversized Materials] 1945
World War II, War Production Board Certificate 1943
Maud Kennedy Schaub Papers
Collins Public Schools, Report Card, Grade 10 1902
Correspondence, Incoming, M.G. Mann, North Carolina Cotton Growers Cooperative Association 1936
Drawing, "Ex Libris-Maud Schaub," [no date]
Dress Patterns, Envelopes, [no date]
Manuscript, "Heroes of Obscurity," [no date]
News Articles[no date] 1946-1964,
Patrons of Husbandry, Certificate 1932
Sheriff's Association, Membership Card 1974
A.L. Kennedy, Mr. and Mrs., Invitation, 25th Wedding Anniversary 1906
Caroline Kennedy, Correspondence 1911
Caroline Kennedy, Travel Journal 1926-1929
Ira and Maud Schaub, Southern Railway Company Freight Bill, [no date]
Ira and Maud Schaub, Wedding, Bridal Souvenir Book 1910
Kennedy Family, News Articles[no date] 1917,
Mary Schaub, Obituary 1893
Oscar Schaub, News Articles 1930
Picture, Unidentified Male, [no date]
Robah Schaub, Memorial Program 1964
Schaub Family, Christmas Card, Transparency 1947
Schaub Family, Genealogy, [no date]
Schaub Family, News Articles[no date] 1870-1961,
Sidney Schaub, Biographical Information, [no date]
Sidney Schaub, Correspondence, to Ira Obed Schaub 1954
Sidney Schaub, News Articles, [no date]
Sidney Schaub, Resolution on Death 1955
William Henry Schaub, Biographical Information, [no date]
William Henry Schaub, Correspondence, to Sidney Schaub 1905, 1916
William Henry Schaub, Gristmill and Sawmill, Account Book 1889-1891
William Henry Schaub, Gristmill and Sawmill, Account Book 1890-1895
William Samuel Schaub, Memoir 1893
Photographs 1900-1950 (MC 00021 Series 3)
Size: 1.55 linear feet (1 legal box, 1 flat folder, 1 album box)
The Photographs series consists mainly of photographs of Ira Obed Schaub in various professional and personal activities. It contains photographs, both prints and negatives, of Schaub at his various places of employment, at ceremonies honoring him, and on travels to Europe, Louisiana, and unknown locations. The series also includes a small number of photographs of other members of the family, including Maud Kennedy Schaub and Sidney Schaub as well as some who are unidentified. The series is divided into three subseries: Prints, Negatives, and Oversize. Within subseries, photographs are arranged as closely as possible to the order of the series in the rest of the collection.
Professional, Iowa State College, [no date]
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts 1900
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, Travels, [no date]
Personal, Maud Kennedy Schaub, [no date]
Moounted Photo of Women, 3 identified as Maud, Lulu, and May
Mounted Photo of Women, Most Identified
Mounted Photo of a Stage with People Dressed in Revolutionary Era Clothes (Maud Kennedy
identified)
1906
Professional, Dinner, Unidentified, [no date]
Professional, Iowa State College, [no date]
Professional, Iredell County Program Honoring Ira Obed Schaub August 27, 1949
Professional, North Carolina State College, Portrait Dedication 1947
Professional, Retirement 1950
Professional, United States Department of Agriculture, Superior Service Award May 16, 1949
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, [no date]
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, Travels, Europe 1927
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, Travels, Fishing Trips, [no date]
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, Travels, General, [no date]
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, Travels, Louisiana 1922
Personal, Maud Kennedy Schaub, [no date]
Personal, Family, [no date]
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, Travels, General, [no date]
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, Travels, World's Fair, St. Louis 1904
Personal, Family, [no date]
Oversized Materials 1855-1962 (MC 00021 Series 4)
Size: 0.5 linear feet (1 flat box)
This series contains documents from both the Personal and Professional series that are cross-listed in this finding aid in the places in which they fit intellectually.
Professional, News Articles, North Carolina Agricultural Extension Service,"Extension Farm-News", Grain Deficit 1947
Professional, Awards and Certificates, Epsilon Sigma Phi, Distinguished Service Ruby, Certificate 1940
Personal, prints, photograpahs, and diplomas
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, North Carolina Agricultural Hall of Fame, Certificate, Membership, Board of Directors 1959
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts, Grade Transcript 1903
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, North Carolina Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, Certificate, Membership, Board of Directors 1953
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, North Carolina Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, Certificate, Membership, Board of Directors 1955
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, North Carolina Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, Certificate, Membership, Board of Directors 1960
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, North Carolina Rural Rehabilitation Corporation, Plan, American Legion Post 116 1962
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, North Carolina State Agricultural Society, Fair Advertisement 1855
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, Phi Kappa Phi, Membership Certificate 1924
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, World War II, State Council of National Defense, Certificate 1940
Personal, Ira Obed Schaub, World War II, War Manpower Commission, Manpower Priorities Committee, Certificate 1945
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Ira Obed Schaub Papers, MC 00021,
Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Use of these materials
The nature of the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections means that copyright or other information about restrictions may be difficult or even impossible to determine despite reasonable efforts. The NC State University Libraries claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials.
The materials from our collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.