Emery T. Filbey papers, 1931-1959.

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Emery T. Filbey papers, 1931-1959.

Contains correspondence, minutes, reports, and invitations. Material relate to Filbey's term as Vice-President at the University of Chicago as well as his involvement in several philanthropic organizations. Correspondents include Edith Abbott, William Benton, Harry T. Fultz, Robert M. Hutchins, Carl Huth, and Leverett S. Lyon. Also includes minutes, reports, and other records from the George M. Pullman Educational Foundation, the Douglas Smith Fund, and the Young Men's Christian Association.

2 linear ft. (4 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7759706

University of Chicago Library

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Young Men's Christian Association (Chicago, Ill.)

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Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 1899-1977

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University president; interviewee d.1977. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert Maynard Hutchins : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309740103 American author and University administrator. From the description of Typed letters signed (2) : Chicago, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1941 Feb. 4 and Apr. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868116 From the CSDI Collection (Mss 18) descriptio...

Douglas Smith Health Education Service, Chicago.

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Filbey, Emery Thomas.

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Educator and university administrator. From the description of Emery T. Filbey papers, 1931-1959. (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 57156552 ...

Huth, Carl.

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University of Chicago.

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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...

George M. Pullman Educational Foundation

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Lyon, Leverett S. (Leverett Samuel), 1885-1959

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Leverett Samuel Lyon (1885-1959) was a lawyer, economist and business executive. From 1916-1929 he taught economics at several universities, including the University of Chicago, Washington University and the Robert Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government. He joined the Brookings Institutution in 1929 and was its executive vice-president from 1932-1939. Lyon was chief executive officer of the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry from 1939-1954, served on the Chicago Home Rul...

Benton, William, 1900-1973

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Senator, publisher. From the description of Reminiscences of William Benton : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481066 From the description of Reminiscences of William Benton : oral history, 1968. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309721364 Art collector, politician; Chicago, Ill. Publisher of ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, Vice-President of the University of...

Abbott, Edith, 1876-1957

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Edith Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska in 1876, daughter of the state's first Lieutenant Governor, Othman A. Abbott. She received her A.B. from the University of Nebraska in 1901, her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1905, and spent the year 1906-1907 in post-graduate study at the University of London. Upon her return to Chicago in 1908, she became a resident of Hull House, where she remained until 1920. During this same period, 1908-1920, she served as Associate Director of the ...

Fultz, Harry Trevlin

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