Embree, Edwin R. (Edwin Rogers), 1883-1950

Foundation executive and author.

From the description of Edwin R. Embree collection, [undated]. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70971646

Edwin Embree was secretary (1917-1924), director of the Division of Stusies (1924-1927), and vice-president (1927) of The Rockefeller Foundation, president of the Rosenwald Fund (1927-1948), and president of the Liberian Foundation.

From the description of Papers, 1925-1930. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122628995

Between 1917-1927, Edwin Rogers Embree served as secretary, director of the Division of Studies, and vice-president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Between 1928-1948, he was vice-president, director of the Division of Human Biology, and president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund.

From the description of Edwin Rogers Embree papers, 1903-1956 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702166381

From the description of Edwin Rogers Embree papers, 1903-1956 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122390715

American visitor to Central America.

From the description of Family journal : trip to Central America, March and April 1927 : mimeograph, n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122446762

Biographical/Historical Note

American visitor to Central America.

From the guide to the Edwin Rogers Embree mimeograph : Family journal : trip to Central America, March and April 1927., undated, (Hoover Institution Archives)

Between 1917-1927, Edwin Rogers Embree served as secretary, director of the Division of Studies, and vice-president of the Rockefeller Foundation. Between 1928-1948, he was vice-president, director of the Division of Human Biology, and president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund.

• 1883: Born 31 July at Osceola, Nebraska; youngest of seven children
• 1883: Father, Norris Jones Embree, Union Pacific Railroad Company, telegrapher
• 1883: Mother, Laura Ann (Fee) Embree, daughter of Rev. John Gregg Fee, abolitionist preacher and founder of Berea College (in Kentucky). Family later moved to Wyoming and then Kentucky where young Embree came under the influence of his grandfather, Rev. John Fee. Collection contains correspondence with his brother, William Dean Embree, '02, born in 1880 in Humbolt, Kansas.
• 1906: B.A. from Yale
• 1906 - 1907 : Reporter, New York Sun
• 1907: 16 July, Married Kate Scott; Embree had three children: John Fee; Edwin Rogers, Mrs. E. A. Devereux; Catherine Day, Mrs. A. L. Harris.
• 1907 - 1917 : Member of administration at Yale:
• 1907 - 1909 : Associate Editor, Yale Alumni Weekly; Met Clarence S. Day, Jr., '96.
• 1909 - 1911 : Alumni Editor, Yale Alumni Weekly
• 1910: Organizer with Clarence S. Day, Jr., of Class Secretaries Bureau
• 1910 - 1917 : Director of Class Secretaries Bureau
• 1911 - 1917 : Alumni Registrar and Executive Assistant to Secretary, Yale University
• 1914 - 1917 : Secretary, Bureau of Appointments
• 1914: M. A. in Philosophy from Yale
• 1917 - 1927 : Association with Rockefeller Foundations:
• 1917 - 1923 : Secretary, Rockefeller Foundations
• 1918: Trip to France as member of Rockefeller Tuberculosis Commission. Met Julius Rosenwald.
• 1924 - 1927 : Director, Division of Studies, Rockefeller Foundation
• 1927: Vice-President, Rockefeller Foundation
• 1920: Trip to Europe
• 1921: Trip to China
• 1922: Trip to China
• 1923: Trip to Puerto Rico and Europe
• 1925 - 1926 : Trip to Pacific
• 1927: Trip to Central America
• 1928 - 1948 : Association with Julius Rosenwald Fund:
• 1928 - 1930 : Vice-President and Director, Division Human Biology, Julius Rosenwald Fund
• 1930 - 1948 : President, Julius Rosenwald Fund
• 1931: Publication - Brown America
• 1932: Death of Julius Rosenwald
• 1932: Trip to Samoa
• 1932: Publication - Prospecting for Heaven A New School for American Samoa
• 1933: Trip to Java
• 1934: Publication - Island India Goes To School Trip to Russia
• 1939: Publication - Indians of the Americas
• 1942: Publication - American Negroes
• 1943: Publication - Brown Americans
• 1944: Publication - Thirteen Against the Odds
• 1948 - 1949 : Publication - Peoples of the Earth
• 1948 - 1949 : President, Liberia Foundation. Associated with Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. Took trip to Liberia.
• 1949: Publication - "Timid Billions;" Investment in People; Death of Edward Stettinius
• 1949 - 1950 : Consultant John Hay Whitney and Greenwood Foundations
• 1950: Death of Embree on February 21; death of his son, John F. Embree, and John's daughter, Clare, on December 22.

From the guide to the Edwin Rogers Embree papers, 1903-1956, (Manuscripts and Archives)