Foundation records. 1918-1989.

F.A. Bean Foundation (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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The F. A. Bean Foundation was incorporated in November of 1918, in New Prague, Minnesota. The foundation was named after F. A. Bean, Sr., (1840-1930), whose opening stock contribution had a cash value of $182,000. The first trustees and board were Francis Atherton Bean, Sr. and William L. Harvey, who were at that time vice president and secretary, respectively, of the International Milling Company. During the foundation's 59 years it grew to distribute approximately $16 million. ...

Bean, John Boynton, 1919-

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Bean, Ruth Leslie, 1921-

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Minnesota Orchestral Association

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Bean, Francis Atherton, 1878-1955.

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Boy Scouts of America. Viking Council (Minn.)

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United Hospital Fund.

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Minneapolis society of fine arts

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Gould, Laurence McKinley, 1896-1995

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Laurence (Larry) McKinley Gould was born in Michigan in 1896. He studied law and geology at the University of Michigan before serving in Italy and France with the US Army Ambulance Service during the First World War. After the war, he resumed his geological studies at the University of Michigan, receiving his doctorate in 1923. In 1926, he was a member of the University of Michigan's expedition to Greenland under Professor W.H. Hobbs and the following year, he joined George Palmer Putnam in expl...

Bean, Winifred Wollaeger, 1909-

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Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.

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In 1914, University of Minnesota president Dr. George E. Vincent approached Drs. William and Charles Mayo to form a partnership that would combine the educational offerings of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota with the Graduate School at the University of Minnesota. In 1915, the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research was established and endowed to support general medical and surgical education and research. In 1964, the name of the Foundation was changed to the Mayo Graduate Sc...

Western Foundation (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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The Western Foundation was incorporated on June 12, 1939 for the purpose of supporting "religious, charitable, scientific, or educational purposes or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, but expressly excluding from its purposes the carrying on of propaganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation [Western Foundation articles of incorporation, 1939]." The founding trustees were Bertha Boynton Bean, Atherton Bean (Francis Atherton Bean III), and Bertha Bean Flinsch. The ...

University of Minnesota. Medical School

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The 1851 territorial legislative act establishing the University of Minnesota provided for a Department of Medicine. This department, as originally instituted, was not an educational department but rather a credentialing board that provided examinations and conferred degrees upon physicians who had learned to practice medicine by studying with a preceptor. In April 1887, Percy Millard, Charles Hewitt, D. Hand, and President Cyrus Northrop petitioned the Board of Regents to abolish t...

Guthrie Theater

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The idea of the theater began in 1959 during a series of conversations among Tyrone Guthrie and two colleagues -- Oliver Rea and Peter Zeisler -- who were disenchanted with Broadway. They wanted to create a theater with a resident acting company that would perform the classics. In Minneapolis/St. Paul a steering committee was formed to bring theater to the Twin Cities. The T.B. Walker Foundation donated the land behind the Walker Art Center for a building and contributed $400,000 fo...

Politis, James M.

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Bean, Atherton (Francis Atherton), 1910-1998.

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Bean, Francis Atherton, 1840-1930.

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Francis Atherton Bean III, known as Atherton Bean, was born on September 14, 1910, in New Prague, Minnesota. His parents were Francis Atherton and Bertha Boynton Bean. He attended the Blake School in Minneapolis, graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. degree from Carleton College (1931), did post-graduate work at the Harvard School of Business Administration (1931-1932), and received a B.A. degree from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar (1934). Atherton Bean married Winifred Eliza...