Stirn, Ernest W. and Henry J. Papers 1885-1943

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Stirn, Ernest W. and Henry J. Papers 1885-1943

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Ernest W. Stirn received an MA in history from the University of Chicago in 1922 and later worked as a statistical consultant for businesses and the government. From 1931 to 1943 he was involved with the Radio-Keith-Orpheum Bankruptcy Reorganization. The University of Chicago Press published a bibliography he had prepared on Robert LaFollette (1937). Among the papers are letters written to and by his father, Henry J. Stirn, printer and expert on the collecting of old violins and stamps.

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La Follette, Robert M. (Robert Marion), 1855-1925

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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...