Foundation records. 1934-2009 (bulk 1934-2006).

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Foundation records. 1934-2009 (bulk 1934-2006).

http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00669.xml

Minute books, subject files, project files (on microfiche),and microfilmed administrative files, annual reports, board agendas, executivedirectors' files, and other records of a St. Paul-based foundation established in1934 by railroad executive Louis W. Hill that for many years awarded grants to awide variety of programs in states from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest, and thatlater narrowed its focus to programs seeking to reduce poverty.

eng,

Minnesota Historical Society

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6646984

Related Entities

There are 10 Entities related to this resource.

Saario, Terry Tinson.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d0949n (person)

Taylor, John D.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t27vm1 (person)

Hill, Maud Van Cortlandt Taylor 1870-1961.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ph1c8q (person)

Maud Van Cortlandt Taylor was born in Staten Island, New York, on April 11, 1870, to a wealthy family descended from early American colonists. She met Louis W. Hill, son of railroad baron James J. Hill, while living with her family in St. Paul, Minnesota. Maud began studying to become a nurse at Presbyterian Hospital in New York in 1900 but ended her schooling when she became ill with typhoid later that year. She became engaged to Louis Hill in April of 1901 and they married at the ...

Hill, Louis Warren, -1948

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6959fr0 (person)

Heckman, A. A. (Aldred Arthur), d. 1994.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64b4wmv (person)

Heckman came to St. Paul in 1931 as general secretary of the United Charities in St. Paul. During the 1930s he reorganized the Ramsey County Welfare Board, directed the federal Works Progress Administration and started a Family Economics Program. In 1952 Heckman became executive director of the Hill Family Foundation, which later became the Northwest Area Foundation. From the description of Oral history interview with A.A. Heckman, 1982. (Minnesota Historical Society Library). WorldC...

Louis W. and Maud Hill Family Foundation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zp7w18 (corporateBody)

Lexington Foundation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qs0dxb (corporateBody)

Northwest Area Foundation (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qk15jt (corporateBody)

The Northwest Area Foundation makes grants to organizations and programs in eight states that were served by the former Great Northern Railway Company: Minnesota, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, and Washington. It was founded in 1934 by Great Northern chairman Louis W. Hill, Sr. as the Lexington Foundation, making grants for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes that were deemed to contribute to the public welfare. Funds constituting its capital ...

Hill Foundation Company (St. Paul, Minn.).

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gr5fnj (corporateBody)

Patman, Wright, 1893-1976

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gx4mdt (person)

John William Wright Patman (1893-1976) was a U. S. Representative from Texas, serving from March 4, 1929 until his death on March 7, 1976. At various point in his congressional career, he was Chairman of the Select Committee on Small Business, the Joint Economic Committee, the Joint Committee on Defense Production, and the Committee on Banking and Currency. Before his election to the U.S. House of Representatives, he was an assistant county attorney in Cass County, Texas, a member of the Texas S...