Robert Ralph Young papers 1909-1985

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Robert Ralph Young papers 1909-1985

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1738

The papers consist of correspondence, business files, autobiographical and other writings, photographs and other materials documenting the business career and personal life of Robert R. Young. The collection documents Young's efforts to take control of the Alleghany Corporation and the New York Central Railroad. The papers also include materials concerning the lives of his wife, Anita O'Keeffe Young, and his daughter, Eleanor Young.

10 linear feet

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351617

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Alleghany Corporation

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New York Central Railroad Corporation.

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Young, Eleanor Jane.

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Young, Robert R., 1897-1958

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Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company

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Wheeler, Burton K. (Burton Kendall), 1882-1975

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Burton Kendall Wheeler was born in Hudson, Mass., on 27 Feb. 1882 and moved to Montana shortly after his graduation from law school in 1905. He began his law career in Butte, serving as U.S. Attorney for Montana from 1913 to 1918 prior to his election to the U.S. Senate in 1922. In 1924 he ran unsuccessfully for vice-president on the Progressive Party presidential ticket. Wheeler is remembered as one of the most powerful senators in Washington, D.C., in the 1930s. Chairman of the Interstate Comm...