Records of Superintendent Scott Shipp, 1890-1907

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Military Institute Archives
Preston Library
Virginia Military Institute
345 Letcher Ave.
Lexington, VA 24450-0304
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Jeffrey S. Kozak
Phone: (540) 464-7516
Phone: (540) 464-7566
Fax: (540) 464-7089

Summary

Extent:
20 cubic feet
Creator:
Shipp, Scott, 1839-1917 and Virginia Military Institute. Office of the Superintendent.
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

Official records of the Scott Shipp administration, including correspondence, annual reports, and related papers/records for the period 1890-1907.

Correspondence, incoming and outgoing, of VMI's 2nd Superintendent, Scott Shipp. Incoming and outgoing letters were maintained separately. Outgoing letters are in bound letterbook volumes. Incoming letters are in box/folder sequence

Bound volume (Supt. Scott Shipp's personal copy) containing typewritten "trancript of record of the joint committee of the Legislature appointed to investigate the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, VA, April 30th to May 5th, 1906"

Biographical material and personal papers of Scott Shipp.

Scott Shipp individual biographical file, compiled over decades. Contains biographical and genealogical information. Shipp served as VMI's second Superintendent, from 1890-1907

Correspondence, certificates, financial records, photographs, and printed material that Scott Shipp maintained in his personal files during his time at the Virginia Military Institute and his retirement.

Miscellaneous publications that belonged to Superintendent Scott Shipp and were signed by him. They were likely kept in his office.

Biographical / historical:

Brigadier General Scott Shipp (b. 1839 d. 1917) graduated from VMI in 1859 and was the first VMI alumnus to serve as Superintendent. He served on the VMI faculty from 1859-1889, at various times teaching Mathematics, Latin, and Tactics. He also served as the Commandant of Cadets from 1862-1889 and was in command of the Corps at the Battle of New Market on May 15, 1864. He took office as the Institute's second Superintendent on January 1, 1890 and retired on June 30, 1907. He died at age 78 on December 4, 1917.

Physical location:
Archives stacks, Record Group 02, Superintendent