Ernest W. Stirn received his Masters degree in history from the University of Chicago in 1922 and later worked as a statistical consultant for private businesses and the government. Between 1931 and 1943 he was involved with the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Bankruptcy Reorganization. During his lifetime he was also actively interested in the life of Robert M. LaFollette, and in 1937 the University of Chicago Press published a bibliography he had prepared on LaFollette.
mong these manuscripts are letters written to and by his father, Henry J. Stirn who, in addition to working in his printing company, was an expert on the collecting of old violins and stamps.
From the guide to the Stirn, Ernest W. and Henry J. Papers, 1885-1943, (Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.)
