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.
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.
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.
The collection is organized into four series:
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[Identification of item], Ira Obed Schaub Papers, MC 00021, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Gift of Ira Obed Schaub, 1966-1969, and Maud Schaub, 1971-1972.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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[Identification of item], Ira Obed Schaub Papers, MC 00021, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The NC State University Libraries generally claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. Libraries staff are unable to advise on copyright and other legal matters; the user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Helpful resources for assessing copyright include Cornell Libraries' "Copyright Services: Copyright Term and the Public Domain" and copyright.gov. This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information about identifiable living individuals, which may be protected under federal or state laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that there may be legal ramifications for disclosing this information.
The University Archives operates in accordance with the State Public Records Act, with unrestricted access to records not covered by state and federal statutes and regulations.