Temple Rice Hollcroft, Sr. (8 April 1889, Alton, Indiana – 1967) was an American mathematician and local historian.
[2] He received in 1917 his Ph.D. from Cornell University under Virgil Snyder[3] and during WW I served in France as a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery.
He served for 14 years as associate secretary of the American Mathematical Society.
[1] In 1932 in Zurich he was an Invited Speaker of the ICM, with talk The general web of surfaces and the space involution defined by it.
The collection also contains some Alonzo Delano papers, Henry Warner Slocum autograph letters, and miscellaneous documents related to the history of Cayuga County, New York.