SEELEY WINTERSMITH MUDD
Seeley Wintersmith Mudd: 1861-1926
Mudd was a mining engineer from Missouri who moved with his family to Los Angeles to work for the Guggenheim company in 1904.
With a heart for philanthropy and a passion for education, Mudd made substantial donations to Pomona College, USC, and many other schools. He encouraged these passions in his sons, who followed in his footsteps.
Several university buildings around the country are named in his honor, including the Seeley W. Mudd building at Columbia University and Mudd Hall of Philosophy at USC.
SEELEY WINTERSMITH MUDD FOUNDATION BOOKLET
The Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Foundation Special Collection's 1940 booklet details the acquisitions of the Hoose Library of Philosophy at the time.
A "Historical Statement" at the beginning of the booklet provides a brief history of the library and background information on the collection. The booklet contains a description of the most recent acquisition to the collection that had been made, 3,200 volumes of both first-editions and "collected works" from English, French, and German philosophers dating from a period between 1700 to 1850.
See the box to the right of this page to explore a PDF scan of the booklet and a transcript of its contents.
HARVEY SEELEY MUDD
Harvey Seeley Mudd: 1888-1955
The eldest son of Seeley Wintersmith Mudd, Harvey followed in his father's footsteps to become a mining engineer. He earned degrees from both Stanford and Columbia Universities. He worked with his father in the family mining company and helped donate money for the Claremont Colleges in Claremont, California. For 25 years, Mudd served as chairman of the Board of Fellows of Claremont College.
Though his planning efforts were instrumental in establishing the science and engineering-focused Harvey Mudd College, he died shortly before it opened in 1955.
BOOKLET PDF AND TRANSCRIPT
Click below to view the Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Foundation Special Collection's 1940 Booklet, a scan in PDF format or a transcript in a Word document.
SEELEY GREENLEAF MUDD
Seeley Greenleaf Mudd: 1895-1968
The youngest son of Seeley Wintersmith Mudd, Seeley Greenleaf received his BS from Columbia University in mining engineering in 1917 and his MD in 1924 from Harvard University.
He later taught at Caltech, and established the Seeley G. Mudd Foundation to support educational excellence. More than 30 educational institutions have named buildings in his honor.
He held the position of Dean at the USC School of Medicine from 1941 to 1943 and the Seeley G. Mudd building on the USC campus was named for him.