Owen L. Coon (1894-1948) Scrapbook 1907-1962

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Owen L. Coon (1894-1948) Scrapbook 1907-1962

http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-nua-archon-392

The Owen L. Coon Scrapbook began as a record of Coon's years at Northwestern University. Nearly half of the scrapbook does document Coon's college life between 1912 and 1919. However, the balance of the scrapbook is filled with clippings, photographs, and ephemera that precede and postdate Coon's Northwestern years-including items from Coon's youth in Rantoul and from his travels in Europe, as well as general Coon family photographs and memorabilia.

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Northwestern university

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During World War II, Northwestern offered its facilities for use by the War Department. The Army, Navy, and Civil Aeronautics Administration operated eleven training programs at Northwestern in addition to the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (N.R.O.T.C.) established in 1926: the Navy V-7, Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School; the Navy V-5, Naval Aviation Prepatory Program; the Navy V-1, Accredited College Program; the Naval Training School (Radio); the Army Signal Corps Officers Training Scho...

Coon, Owen L., 1894-1948

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Business executive and philanthropist Owen L. Coon was born on July 1, 1894 in the small town of Leroy, Illinois. Coon attended Northwestern University as an undergraduate from 1912 – 1915 and returned to NU for law school. He was a practicing attorney for six years before launching the Motor Acceptance Corporation of Chicago with his brother in 1925. This company later merged with and became known as General Finance Corporation, of which Coon remained Chairman. He died in 1948 afte...