Raphael Zon papers, 1887-1957.

University of Minnesota

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The West Bank Union at the University of Minnesota was established in 1967 to offer services to students. It took until 1980 for the union to have its own space in Willey Hall, including an auditorium and lounge spaces for students. Student services and facilities were established in the newly constructed West Bank Union skyway, which connected Willey and Blegen Halls. From the guide to the West Bank Union papers, circa 1970s-1980s, (University of Minnesota Libraries. University Arch...

Adamič, Louis, 1899-1951

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Political writer and literary figure. From the description of ALS, 1939 March 21, Milford, New Jersey, to Edward Hoyt. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63935383 Adamic was an author deeply concerned with American immigrants and their experiences in the "melting pot", and was the first editor of Commond Ground. From the description of Louis Adamic papers, 1848-1951 (bulk 1921-1951). (Princeton University Library). WorldCat record id: 122561726 ...

Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965

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Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American politician, journalist, and farmer who served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, the 33rd vice president of the United States, and the 10th U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He was also the presidential nominee of the left-wing Progressive Party in the 1948 election. The oldest son of Henry C. Wallace, who served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1921 to 1924, Henry A. Wallace was born in Adair County, Iowa in...

Laurinburg Normal and Industrial Institute (Laurinburg, N.C.).

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Schenck, Carl Alwin, 1868-1955

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Carl Alwin Schenck, founder of the first forestry school in the United States, Biltmore Forest School (1898-1913), was born in Darmstadt, Germany on March 25, 1868. Prior to the opening of the school at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, he studied forestry in Tubingen and Giessen Universities, receiving a Doctorate of Philosophy. In 1895, he was appointed forester of the Biltmore Estate. He returned to Germany to marry Adele Bopp in 1896, and settled in North Carolina, where he o...

Sparhawk, William N.

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Hosmer, Ralph S.

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Coffey, Walter Castella, 1876-1956.

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Walter Coffey was an educator at the University of Illinois and the University of Minnesota, and president of the University of Minnesota and of Hamline University in St. Paul MN. From the description of Walter Castella Coffey papers, 1909-1956. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63300701 Walter Castella Coffey, B.S. (1906), M.S. (1909), University of Illinois. Dean, Department of Agriculture (1921-1940), President (1941-1945), Universit...

Pack, Arthur Newton, 1893-1975

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Cary, Austin, 1865-1936

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Austin Cary was born in 1865 in East Machias, Maine. He received an A.B. degree from Bowdoin College in 1887, an A.M. degree in 1890, and an honorary Sc.D. in 1922. He also studied biology at Johns Hopkins and Princeton. He was an instructor in the Department of Geology and Biology at Bowdoin in 1887 and 1888, taught at the Yale Forest School in 1904 and 1905, and was an assistant professor of forestry at Harvard from 1905 to 1909. Cary was one of the first people to enter the new profession of ...

Olson, Floyd Björnstjerne, 1891-1936

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Boisen, Anton T. (Anton Theophilus), 1876-1965

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Foster, Ellery A.

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Ellery Foster was born in 1905 in Elmira Township, Olmstead County, Minnesota. He served in the U.S. Forestry Service, U.S. Bureau of Agricultural Economics, the War Production Board, and was a State Forester in Minnesota (1938, 1939). He was Director of Research and Education for the International Woodworkers of America (CIO) from 1945 to 1948. Marion G. Foster, born in St. Paul, worked as a newpaper reporter, social worker, and later an associate professor of sociology and/or social work at Mi...

Moon, Franklin Frederick, 1880-1929.

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Stoddard, Charles H. (Charles Hatch), 1912-1997

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Baker, Hugh P. (Hugh Potter), 1878-1950

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President of the Massachusetts State College (now UMass Amherst) from 1933-1947. From the description of Hugh P. Baker papers, 1919-1951. (University of Massachusetts Amherst). WorldCat record id: 52950000 Dean of the college, 1912-1920 and 1930-1933. From the description of Correspondence, 1916-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155456306 ...

Benson, Elmer Austin, 1895-1985

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Benson was appointed state commissioner of securities by Governor Floyd B. Olson in 1933 and commissioner of banks later the same year. In 1935 he was appointed to the U.S. Senate to fill an unexpired term and served until 1936. He was elected governor of Minnesota in 1936 but was defeated for reelection in 1938. From the description of Oral history interview with Elmer A. Benson, 1969 March 28. (Minnesota Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 45441449 ...

Shipstead, Henrik, 1881-1960

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U. S. Senator from Minnesota. From the description of Speech and article of Henrik Shipstead [manuscript], 1932. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647959046 ...

Stedman, Alfred D.

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Chapman, Herman Haupt, 1874-1963

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Herman Haupt Chapman was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 8, 1874. He earned a B.S. and a Bachelor of Agriculture degree from the University of Minnesota and received a Master of Forestry degree from Yale University in 1904. Chapman joined the faculty of the Yale Forestry School in 1906 and was named a professor emeritus in 1943. During his tenure at Yale, Chapman authored texts on forest valuation, mensuration, regulation, finance, and management. He also served as president of the S...

Kirkland, Burt P.

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Adams, Charles C. (Charles Christopher), 1873-1955

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Epithet: of the University of Chicago British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000741.0x0000b5 Museum director, scientist (ecology). Director of the New York State Museum from 1926-1943. From the description of Charles C. Adams papers, 1931-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84402253 Charles C. (Charles Christoper) Adams (1873-1955) was a director of the New York State Museum who was involved in t...

Moore, Barrington

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Greeley, W. B. (William Buckhout), 1879-

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Zon, Raphaël, 1874-1956

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Bryant, Ralph Clement, 1877-

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Ralph C. Bryant (1877-1939): forester of New York State Forest, Fish and Game Commission, 1900-1901; assistant chief forester of Philippine Bureau of Forestry, 1902-1905; U.S. Forestry Service, 1905-1906; professor of lumbering, Yale University, 1906-1939. From the guide to the Ralph Clement Bryant papers, 1897-1939, (Manuscripts and Archives) Ralph C. Bryant (1877-1939): forester; forester of New York State Forest, Fish and Game Commission, 1900-1901; assistant chief forest...

Woolsey, Theodore Salisbury, 1852-1929

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Professor of international law at Yale. From the description of Theodore S. Woolsey letter, 1888 June 12. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 78611150 ...

Hawes, Austin F. (Austin Foster), 1879-1962

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Austin Foster Hawes was born in 1879 in Danvers, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. from Tufts College in 1901 and a M.F. from the Yale University School of Forestry in 1903. In 1904 he became state forester of Connecticut and from 1909 to 1917 served as state forester of Vermont and professor of forestry at the University of Vermont. In 1921 he was again named state forester of Connecticut and served in this position until 1943. In retirement he traveled extensively in Central and South America ...

Mason, David Townsend, 1883-1973

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David Townsend Mason, forestry advocate, was born in 1883. From the guide to the David Townsend Mason papers, 1858-1973, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) David T. Mason (1883-1973): professor of forestry at the University of California, manager of the Western Pine Association, executive officer of the New Deal Lumber Code Authority, advocate of sustained-yield forestry management. From the guide to the David Townsend Mason Papers, 1907-1973, (Manuscri...

Cox, William T. (William Thomas), 1878-1961

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Shepard, Ward, 1887-1959

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Ward Shepard (1887-1959): forestry expert and environmentalist; B.A., Harvard College, 1910, Master's degree from Harvard Forest School, 1913; director of Harvard Forest School, 1936-1939; worked with the U.S. Office of Indian Affairs as assistant to John Collier, 1933-1936 and after 1939 as advisor to the Department of Agriculture on forest policy; wrote on problems of erosion and on the development of natural resources. From the description of Ward Shepard papers, 1909-1959 (inclus...

Ahern, George Patrick, 1859-1942

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Army officer, conservationist, and director, Philippine Bureau of Forestry. From the description of George Patrick Ahern papers, 1911-1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79423511 ...

Sheftel, Gregory.

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Clarke, Wilfred.

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Marshall, Robert, 1901-1939

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Forester and explorer; graduate of New York State College of Forestry, 1924. From the description of Papers, 1923-1954. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155478351 Civil servant in the U.S. Forest Service. From the description of Papers, 1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155524092 Wilderness advocate and forester Robert Marshall was born in New York Jan. 2, 1901. Graduating from the College of Forestry at Syracuse University in 1924, he went on to earn a...

Heske, Franz

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Puzirisky family.

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Dana, Samuel Trask,, 1883-1978

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Professor of forestry and dean of the School of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan, member of the Hoover Commission on the Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Federal Government, and fellow and president of the Society of American Foresters. From the description of Samuel Trask Dana papers, 1893-1970. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423096 Samuel T. Dana, a specialist in forestry and forest economics, was the first dean of ...

Silcox, Ferdinand A., d. 1939.

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American Forestry Association.

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Schmitz, Henry, 1892-1965

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Quetico-Superior Council.

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Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)

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The Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal agency, was created as part of the New Deal in 1935. From the description of Civilian Conservation Corps photograph collection [graphic]. 1936. (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38548415 On March 31, 1933, congress passed the Emergency Conservation Work Act, creating the Civilian Conservation Corps. On April 5, the president appointed Robert Fechner of Tennessee as Director of Emergency Conservation Work. Fechner, a vic...

Cheyney, Edward G. (Edward Gheen), 1878-1950

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Mackaye, Benton, 1879-1975

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Zon, Anna Abramovna Puziriskaya, ca. 1871-

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Taylor, Norman A. C. (Norman Alexander Campbell), 1935-

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Norman Taylor was born in England in 1834 and emigrated to Victoria in 1854 to take up an appointment at the Assay Office, Melbourne. He was a field geologist under A.R.C. Selwyn, the Government Geologist, until the Geological Survey Department was disbanded in 1868. He then worked in NSW and Qld, both in the public service and as a private consultant. Returning to Victoria, he worked at the Technological Museum and Laboratory, Melbourne, under J.C. Newbery. He re-entered the Victorian public se...

Society of American foresters

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Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946

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First director, United States Forest Service (1905). He changed the name of protected "forest preserves" to "national forests" and advocated a controversial "wise use" policy for the resources of the national forests, whereby a greater use of forest resources, such as tree harvests and grazing rights could be permitted. From the description of Correspondence, 1905-1945. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 40804560 Forester and governor of Pennsylvania. F...

National Research Council (U.S.)

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The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of further knowledge and advising the federal government. The Council has become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities. From the descriptio...

Marshall, George

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United States. Forest Service

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The evolution of the USDA Forest Service is rooted in the General Provision Act of l89l in which Congress authorized the President to designate particular areas of the forested public domain to be set aside as "reserves" for future use. The number and size of these reserves increased notably in l897 when the President was authorized to establish reserves in order to protect watersheds, to preserve timber, and to provide lumber for local use. There was no provision for management or...

Fernow, B. E. (Bernhard Eduard), 1851-1923

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Bernhard Fernow was Chief of the Division of Forestry, U.S. Department of Agriculture (1886-1898), and Director of the New York State College of Forestry at Cornell University (1898-1903). From the description of Bernhard Eduard Fernow papers, 1885-1930. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64758872 From the guide to the Bernhard Eduard Fernow papers, 1885-1930., (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) ...

Hallock, H. G. C. (Henry Galloway Comingo), 1870-1971.

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Mulford, Walter.

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Gill, Tom, 1891-1972

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Author, international forester. From the description of Reminiscences of Thomas Harvey Gill : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376668 ...

Tennessee Valley authority

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The TVA was created in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act creating a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region, then suffering from soil depletion, flood damage, and economic depression. Fifty years later, over 30 electricity-producing dams controlled the Tennessee and its tributaries, and a navigation channel had been created from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. In addition TVA had carried out programs to prevent pollution, improve forest and farm management, ...

Herbert, Paul A.

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Coulston, M. B., Mrs.

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Cosmos Club (Washington, D.C.)

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Bates, Carlos G. (Carlos Glazier), 1885-

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Lake States Forest Experiment Station (Saint Paul, Minn.)

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Aladin, Alexis, d. 1927.

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Roth, Filbert, 1925-

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Clapp, Earle H. (Earle Hart), 1877-1970

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Olmsted, Frederick E.

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Pack, Charles Lathrop, 1857-1937

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Pack was an expert in forestry, conservation, war gardens and stamp collecting. He served as President of the National Conservation Congress, the National War Garden Commission and the American Forestry Association. He founded the American Tree Association. From the description of Charles Pack papers, 1871-1954 1910-1934. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 35000945 ...

Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman), 1867-1937

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American zoologist; officer in relief organizations in Europe during World War I. From the description of Vernon Lyman Kellogg papers, 1914-1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868923 Charlotte Hoffman Kellogg was born in 1874 at Grand Island, Nebraska, and was educated at the University of California, earning a Ph.B. in 1900. She taught English at Miss Head's School in Berkeley, California from 1903 until 1907. During World War I, she participated in civilia...

Walker, T. B. (Thomas Barlow), 1840-1928

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Thomas Barlow Walker (1840-1928) was born at Xenia, Ohio, to Platt Bayless Walker (1808-1849) and Anstis Keziah Barlow Walker (1814-1883). His father died in 1849 at Westport, Missouri, while on the way to the California gold fields in search of fortune. His mother married Xenia widower Oliver Barnes (circa 1800-1868) in 1854. The household included four other children: Oliver W. Barnes; Platt Bayless Walker II (1832?-1906), founder of the Mississippi Valley Lumberman magazine; Adel...

Graves, Henry Solon, 1871-1951

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Henry Solon Graves was born on May 3, 1871 in Marietta, Ohio. He was a forester and organized the School of Forestry at Yale University. Graves died in Brattleboro, Vermont on March 7, 1951. Graves attended Yale University (B.A. 1892, M.A. 1900), Harvard University, and the University of Munich, Germany. From 1900-1910, he was director of the Yale Forestry School. Graves was chief forester of the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 1910-1920. In 1923 he returned to Yale University, where he was ...

Butler, Ovid, 1880-

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Clark, Noble.

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Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974

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American journalist and author. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : Washington, D.C., 23 September 1960, to Joan Peyser, 1960 Sept. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270992594 Lippmann was an American journalist and author. From the description of Walter Lippmann letters to Hazel Albertson, 1910-1982. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612206746 From the guide to the Walter Lipmann letters to Hazel Albertson, 1910-1982., (H...