Biography:

Professor of English, librarian. Born– November 8, 1879, Fredonia, Ala. Parents– John Blake and Eugenia (Askew) Rutland. Married– Hulda Mary Horton.  Children– 3.  Education– Alabama Polytechnic Institute, B.S. (1900), M.S. (1901); Harvard, B.A. (1904); further study at the University of Chicago.  Teacher in seconday schools, 1901-1903; instructor in English and math at API, 1904-05; librarian at API, 1905-1915; professor of English, 1908-1912.  Editor, Auburn Alumnus; vice-president, Alabama Library Association; president of the Alabama Association of English Teachers; founder of the Auburn little theater.  Died 1948.

Papers;

The Auburn University Archives holds a collection of the papers of James Richard Rutland, most of them related to his career as Professor of English at Auburn.

Source:

Historical Sketch included in the “Finding Aid” to the James Richard Rutland Collection.

Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2.

Editor:

Irving’s Tales of a Traveler. Cincinnati; American Book Co., 1911.

Old Testament Stories. Boston; Silver Burdett, 1912.

Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Philadelphia; Lippincott, 1929.

Compiler:

State Censorship of Motion Pictures. S.l.; H. W. Wilson, 1923.