Gilbert Hillhouse Boggs Memorial Speech
Collection — Box: Multi
Identifier: MF010
This collection contains two copies of a memorial speech given on the death of Georgia Tech chemistry professor, Gilbert Hillhouse Boggs, in 1941.
(one archival folder)
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This collection contains two copies of a memorial speech given on the death of Georgia Tech professor, Gilbert Hillhouse Boggs. During his funeral services, the entire student body gathered on Grant Field to hear this tribute. As one copy of the speech bears the handwritten name W.G. Perry, the speech may have been given by William Gilmer Perry, then Dean of General Studies at Georgia Tech.
Gilbert Hillhouse Boggs was born on October 2, 1875, in Memphis, Tennessee to William Ellison and Marion Brackett Alexander Boggs. His father served as Chancellor of the University of Georgia. He received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Georgia in 1896, and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1901. Boggs began his teaching career at Georgia Tech in 1903, and served on numerous student committees as a faculty representative. He was also the head of Georgia Tech's chemistry department from 1925-1935, as well as the dean of graduate courses from 1935-1940. At the time of his death, he was head of both the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Departments.
Boggs married Emily Boulton Newbold on August 24, 1904. The couple had one son, Gilbert Hillhouse Boggs, Jr. Dr. Boggs died on May 14, 1941, in Atlanta, Georgia.
A print copy of this finding aid is available in the Georgia Tech Archives reading room.
Accession #2001.132.
(one archival folder)
Jody Lloyd Thompson described this item in 2002.
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