Quintin Miller Smith (1891-1976) served as the president of Middle Tennessee State College from 1938-1958.  The Quintin Miller Smith Collection includes correspondence, reports, speeches, clippings, notes, surveys, and other documentation of the first three quarters of the twentieth century in Murfreesboro.  The collection primarily documents Smith's academic career from the time of his 1911 matriculation into the first class conducted at Middle Tennessee Normal School (now Middle Tennessee State University) through his tenure as a president of that college.  Also documented are his activities as President of Tennessee Polytechnic Institute, Chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Tennessee Education Association, President of Tennessee College Association, Director of the Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State University Study, Coordinator of the Civil Defense Council of Rutherford County, and Trustee of the Tennessee Teachers Retirement System.

Nancy Smith Moss, Q.M. Smith's daughter, donated this collection to the Gore Research Center for public use.