Guide to the Elmer Holmes Bobst Collection, 1862-1978

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Guide to the Elmer Holmes Bobst Collection, 1862-1978

1862-1978

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Elmer Holmes Bobst was born in 1884 in Clear Springs, Maryland with aspirations to become a doctor, but instead, he taught himself pharmacology. Bobst became manager and treasurer of the Hoffman-LaRoche Chemical Works by 1920. In 1928, Hoffman-LaRoche became Roche-Nutley, and when Bobst retired from there in 1944, he was one of the nation's highest paid corporate executives. In 1945 he took charge of the ailing William Warner Company (later Warner-Lambert) and he remained board chairman. Bobst had close connections to President Eisenhower, but was also a close friend of President Nixon, helped guide his career and contributed generously to his campaigns. In 1968, Bobst became a White House advisor on health issues. Philanthropic pursuits were also of tremendous importance, particularly cancer research and education. The collection includes family documents from the American Civil War, Bobst's documents and artifacts of both a public and private nature.

40 Linear Feet, 47 sound discs (lacquer) 47 phonograph records: 33-1/3 (16), 78 (31), 2 videocassettes (u-matic), 2 videocassettes (vhs), 40 open reel films, 10 open reel audiotapes, 15 audiocassettes

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Mamdouha As-Sayyid Bobst (July 8, 1925-September 10, 2015) was a philanthropist and public health advocate. She began her career as part of the Lebanese delegate to the United Nations in the early 1960s and was an advisor for the World Health Organization. She married the pharmaceutical executive Elmer Holmes Bobst in 1961 and together they founded the Bobst Foundation in 1968....

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Elmer Holmes Bobst (1884-1978), the third of five children of Isaac and Alice (Holmes) Bobst. Bobst's first wife, Ethel Rose, died in 1953. In 1961 he remarried the former Mamdouha As-Sayyid, a social scientist serving on Lebanon's delegation to the United Nations. Elmer Holmes Bobst began his career as a pharmacist and later exerted tremendous influence over the modern pharmaceutical industry, becoming, in 1920, manager and treasurer of the Hoffman-LaRoche Chemical Work...

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