{"id":1815,"date":"2015-07-24T14:12:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T18:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/?page_id=1815"},"modified":"2016-07-05T14:50:10","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T18:50:10","slug":"c-a-wilson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/the-people\/other-colby-people\/c-a-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Carroll A Wilson &#8217;40 LLD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carroll Atwood Wilson (1887-1947) was born in Benton Falls, Maine and had strong family ties to Colby. A graduate of Williams College, he was awarded a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1911 from Worcester College at Oxford. Wilson received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby in 1940.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student scholarship:\u00a0<\/strong>Read a <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/c-a-wilson-bio\/\" target=\"_blank\">brief biography<\/a> written by Makhieba Simon, Class of 2018, 2015 Special Collections intern.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><em>CARROLL WILSON AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wilson was very active with the Colby Library Associates and contributed articles to the <em>Colby Library Quarterly<\/em>.\u00a0 As a renowned bibliophile, he was a generous benefactor to the Treasure Room. Importantly, he introduced Curator Carl Weber to H Bacon Collamore during a trip to Wellesley College in 1937. That introduction led to significant acquisitions of Edwin Arlington Robinson materials and associated collections.<\/p>\n<p>Works consulted:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Carroll Atwood Wilson, Doctor of Laws.&#8221; <em>Colby Alumnus<\/em>. 15 July 1940. 6. Print.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll A Wilson donor file. Colby College Special Collections.<\/p>\n<p><em>Colby Library Quarterly<\/em>. Waterville, ME: Colby College Library. Print and web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carroll Atwood Wilson (1887-1947) was born in Benton Falls, Maine and had strong family ties to Colby. A graduate of Williams College, he was awarded a Bachelor of Civil Law degree in 1911 from Worcester College at Oxford. Wilson received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby in 1940. Student scholarship:\u00a0Read a brief biography [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"parent":163,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1815\/revisions\/1887"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}