Charles Fremont Dight papers, 1883-1984.

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Charles Fremont Dight papers, 1883-1984.

Correspondence (undated and 1892-1936), photographs (1879-1930s), lecture notes (1900-1908), essays, article manuscripts (1906-1910, 1933-1936), newspaper clippings (1900-1927), scrapbooks (1914-1930s), radio scripts (1928, 1933), editorials (ca.1921-1935), income tax forms (1919-1936), pamphlets, flyers, bills, minutes, and printed matter related to the life and career of a Minneapolis medical professor, socialist politician, and leader of the eugenics movement in Minnesota.

4.0 cu. ft. (8 boxes).

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SNAC Resource ID: 6694282

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University of Minnesota. Dight Institute

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The Charles Fremont Dight Institute for the Promotion of Human Genetics was established in 1941 to support the study and promulgation of human genetics, to provide instruction in human genetics, and to establish a resource center for persons who desire counseling on these questions. The institute has studied a variety of genetically linked disorders, including albinism, Down's syndrome, impacted teeth, muscular dystrophy, cleft palate, asthma, harelip, hay fever, hemophilia, and Huntington's dis...

American eugenics society

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The Second International Conference on Eugenics, held in New York in 1921, produced one concrete result: the American Eugenics Society. Although the eugenics movement had been gaining strength in the United States for over a decade, there was at the time no formal organization through which to pursue its broader political and educational agenda. As a result, a group of prominent eugenicists founded the Eugenics Committee of the U.S.A., which became the Eugenics Society of America, a...

Gilkey, Georgia May Dight, b. 1877.

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Minnesota Eugenics Society.

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Francis, Frances Dight, b. 1883.

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Llano Colony (Secular community)

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Utopian socialist community formed in 1914 in Southern Calif.; moved to La. in 1917; declared bankruptcy in 1936; attempt to recover assets begun in 1959. From the description of Llano del Rio records, 1911-1969. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122642341 The Llano del Rio Co-operative Colony was incorporated in 1914 by Los Angeles attorney Job Harriman, the socialist nominee for mayor of Los Angeles in 1911. The settlement was located in California's Ant...

Dight, Charles Fremont, 1856-1938

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C. F. Dight was born in Mercer, Pennsylvania in 1856. He graduated with a medical degree from the University of Michigan in 1879. After serving as a health officer in Holton, Michigan, from 1879 to 1881 he returned to the university to assist pathology professor Alonzo B. Palmer. From 1883 to 1889 he was professor of anatomy and physiology at the American University of Beirut, Syria (now Lebanon). From about 1890 to 1892 Dight served as resident physician and teacher of physiology a...

Dight, George Washington, [1850?]-1930.

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Hover, Galen M., b. 1896.

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Human Betterment Society (Pasadena, Calif.).

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Hover, Sarah Isabella Dight, b. 1888.

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University of Minnesota. Dept. of Medicine (1888-1913).

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Lockhart, A. F.

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Whipple, Lizzie Emma Dight, b. 1876.

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Minnesota. State Board of Health

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American university of Beirut

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Previously known as the Syrian Protestant College and earlier as the St. Paul's Institute. From the description of Records of the American University of Beirut, 1895-1958, n.d. (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702132151 The American University of Beirut is located in Beirut, Lebanon and was built under a charter from the state of New York. The American University of Beirut was first opened as the Syrian Protestant College in 1866 i...

Citizen's Artesian Water League (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Minneapolis College of Physicians and Surgeons

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Dight family.

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Minneapolis (Minn.). City Council

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Minnesota. State Board of Control

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Eitel, George G., d. 1928.

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