Sedgwick Watson Materials

Collection

Identifier: MC 1709

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Scope and Content Note

Materials in the Sedgwick Watson Materials include newspaper clippings, certificates, photographs, and a copy of the 1966 timber management plan for the White River Wildlife Refuge.

Dates

1939-2004

Creator

Watson, Sedgwick, 1913-2007 (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

Sedgwick Harwood Watson was born September 3, 1915 to Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Watson and grew up in Troy, New York. He graduated high school in Lansingburg, New York. As a young man he worked in the timber industry in upper New England before serving in the Seabees in the U.S. Navy in WWII. He later joined the U.S. Forest Service and worked as a ranger in the Warm Springs Ranger District of Virginia, before working as a forestry technician in the White River National Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas.

Watson died February 27, 2007 in Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas.

Extent

1.75 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

Additional Description

Arrangement of the Papers

Materials are arranged by topic.

Acquisition Information

The Sedgwick Watson Materials were donated to the Special Collections Department, University of Arkansas Libraries, on October 12, 2006 by Mary Rice of Naperville, Illinois