Floyd Halleck Higgins Collection 1790-1982

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Floyd Halleck Higgins Collection 1790-1982

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News editor for Caterpillar Tractor Company (1927-1933); freelance agricultural journalist (1933-1971). Brochures, correspondence, manuscripts, clippings, serials, photographs, and posters relating to the development of agricultural machinery in the United States, Canada, and Europe, particularly the history of tractors and combines.

565.4 linear ft.

eng,

University of California, Davis. General Library. . Dept. of Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6660904

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Higgins, Floyd Halleck, 1886-1975.

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Floyd Halleck Higgins was born on May 15, 1886, in Keokuk, Iowa. After graduating from Iowa State College in Ames, he moved to Chicago and western Canada to work in a variety of public relations positions including Director of Public Relations, National Association of Farm Equipment Manufacturers (1922-1926). Higgins moved to California in 1927 where he became the News Editor for Caterpillar Tractor Company. He immediately found that farm machinery history "was gathered by each company's ad men ...