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

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Birth 1883-07-31
Death 1950-02-21
Americans,

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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)

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