Vance, James E.

Physician, surgeon, and bird hunting enthusiast who practiced medicine in El Paso, Texas, from around the turn of the century until his death in 1955.

From the description of James Vance manuscript. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 37720735

James E. "Monk" Vance, longtime Texas agricultural writer and photographer, was born in Iola, Texas, in 1918 and was raised in Bryan, Texas. Vance graduated from Texas A&M University with a BS in agriculture in 1941, and served in the U.S. Air Force from 1941 to 1946. He went to work for the Texas Agricultural Extension Service in 1946, and left in 1949 to become the farm and ranch editor at the Beaumont Enterprise. Vance returned to Texas A&M in 1954 as the assistant editor for the Agricultural Information Office. In 1959 he became agriculture editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Vance returned once more to Texas A&M in 1978 as assistant editor for the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. He retired in 1982, but continued to write for the Bryan-College Station Press until his death on March 16, 1987.

From the guide to the James E. "Monk" Vance Photograph Collection, 1949-1985, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American HistoryThe University of Texas at Austin)