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Fraser, James Wilbur (“Jimmy”)  (B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1924)

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James Wilbur (“Jimmy”) Fraser was born 6 March 1901 in South Carolina to James W. Fraser, Sr., a house contractor,  and Catherine Gourdine Fraser. A class of 1924 electrical engineering major, Fraser was an avid boxer at Iowa State College and, by October 1923, he was President of the Alpha-Nu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha (Tutt, 1923). Additionally, according to J. R. Otis, in Chronicles of Faith, he was an original member of the Interstate Club at 226 ½ Main Street, where he lived for three years (1991). 

Jimmy Fraser married Gertrude Heins in 1934. After the birth of their first son, also named James, Fraser became known as James W. Fraser, Sr., as his son took on the Jr. title. In 1935, Jimmy attended the banquet held for Iowa State Alumni at the inauguration of Frederick D. Patterson as President of Tuskegee. At that time, Fraser was reported to be the owner of Fraser Auto Repair Shop in Charleston, South Carolina.

Fraser died on 16 July 1991 in Hurt, Virginia, and is buried in the Gretna Burial Park in Gretna, Virginia.

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Photo Credit: Iowa State University. (1924). 1924 Bomb, p. 89. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.lib.iastate.edu/islandora/object/isu%3ATheBomb_42683#page/94/mode/2up

Otis, J. R. “Little-known facts about F.D. Patterson.” (1991). In Frederick D. Patterson, Chronicles of faith: The autobiography of Frederick D. Patterson. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, pp. 187-89.

Tutt, Harold L. (1923, Oct.). Alpha Nu chapter, Des Moines, Iowa. The Sphinx, 9(4), p. 3. ISSUU. Retrieved from https://issuu.com/apa1906network/docs/192300904

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Hutchison, Claron B. (B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1913)

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Claron B. Hutchison was born in DeSoto, Iowa, in December 1888 to Elza Elsworth Hutchison, from Virginia, and Miriam E. Dillon Hutchison, from Iowa. In the 1900s he lived in Van Meter, Dallas County, Iowa, with his parents and five siblings. The first ISC graduate in Electrical Engineering, Hutchison earned his bachelor’s degree in 1913. In 1938, he was listed as an Electricity Instructor in St. Louis, Missouri, public schools. By 1957, Hutchison was a teacher at the Manual School there. His sister, Doris Aline Hutchison, married another Iowa State graduate, William T. Wells (ISC 1925).

Iowa State College Dissertation Title: Design of hydro-electric plant at Preston, Minnesota, 1913

Iowa State University Catalog Record:https://quicksearch.lib.iastate.edu/permalink/01IASU_INST/174tg9m/alma990019993590102756 

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Photo Credit” The Bomb

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Marshall, Lonnie Algusta, (B.S., Agriculture; M.S., Agriculture, 1930)

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Lonnie Algusta Marshall was born in Milican, Texas, in 1898. The 1910 census indicates that he lived with his grandparents, Cager and Rebecca Scott. He first married Grace C. Marshall, then, in 1953, married Queen Esther Laws in Wakulla, Florida. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Prairie View State Normal & Industrial College (later Prairie View A&M University) in 1924, followed by a bachelor’s degree in agriculture from Iowa State College and a Master’s degree from Iowa State College in 1930.

Marshall’s professional career spanned multiple states and academic institutions. In 1929, he served as an Instructor of Teacher Training and Science, an itinerant Smith-Hughes agricultural teacher at Florida Agricultural College for Negroes (now Florida A&M University). In 1931, he began teaching at Princess Anne Academy, and by 1933-1934, he worked as the professor in charge of the Demonstration Farm. He was promoted to Director of Agriculture at Princess Anne Academy and continued to serve as a professor until 1940, until he returned to Florida A&M. At Florida A&M, he served as a representative of Florida A&M as a Negro Deputy on the War Bonds Staff and was later, in 1948, was listed as an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education, State itinerant teacher-training in Vocational Agriculture.

Marshall died in Tallahassee, Florida where he was buried at the Tallahassee Memorial Gardens.

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Chapman, Compton Vatell (B.S., Engineering, 1926)

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Compton V. Chapman was born in Buxton, Iowa, on 4 February 1896 to John J. Chapman and Willie J. James Chapman. An original member of the “Interstate Club” at 226 ½ Main Street, Chapman was one of only 13 Black regular session students at ISC when he graduated with his B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1926 (“A Record,” 1926). His classmates included Benjamin Crutcher, Maurice Thomasson, and Willa Juanita Ewing. Chapman lived in Des Moines most of his life where he was a member of the Corinthian Baptist Church. In 1917 when he registered for the draft, Chapman was working as a janitor for the Western Union Telegraph Company. In World War I, he was a US Army Sergeant and member of the American Legion Post 126. In 1935, he worked as a general contracting engineer in Des Moines. In the same year, Chapman attended a Iowa State Alumni Association banquet celebrating the inauguration of Frederick D. Patterson as President of Tuskegee Institute.

He is noted for working at the Des Moines Waterworks, where he worked until his retirement. Married to Cora Chapman, he died on 10 April 1980 and was buried in Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines, Iowa.

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A record of the Negro at college 1926. (1926, August). The crisis: A record of the darker races, p. 174.

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Bibb, Cornelius Connant (B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1925)

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Cornelius Connant “Cal” Bibb was born in Alton, IL, in 30 Dec 1900, one of six children born to Scott Nathaniel Bibb, born into slavery in Missouri, and Minnie L. Stokes Bibb, who had been married 23 March 1882. In 1908, when Cornelius was seven, Bibb’s father won a long-fought battle for Black children to be admitted with White children to schools in Alton, IL. The case had been in the courts since 1897, before Cornelius was born, gaining extensive national news coverage for Bibb’s family. Scott Bibb died in 1909, leaving Minnie a widow. By 1915, the family had moved to Ottumwa, IA, where Cornelius could enroll alongside White students and graduate from Ottumwa High School.

During his time at ISC, he lived for a number of semesters in what residents called “The Interstate Club,” an apartment at 226 1/2 Main Street in the Elliott Building. His marriage to Beatrice Jennie Campbell occurred in New York City on 12 May 1941. He was employed by the New York Transit System Power Division and as a machine operator in a refining company. Bibb, a Methodist, died 18 November 1959 in The Bronx, NY. He is buried in Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hartsdale, New York.

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Photo Credit: Iowa State University. (1925). Cornelius C. Bibb. [Photograph]. 1925 Bomb, p. 47. Retrieved from  https://n2t.net/ark:/87292/w9n04q

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