Foundation records, 1918-1989.

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Foundation records, 1918-1989.

Grant files and miscellaneous records of the F.A. Bean Foundation, a philanthropic foundation (1918-1979) established by Francis Atherton Bean, Sr., of New Prague and Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1966 the F.A. Bean Foundation merged with the Western Foundation, another small foundation begun by other members of the Bean family. In 1979 the F.A. Bean Foundation was dissolved.

8.0 cu. ft. (8 boxes).

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Bean, John Boynton, 1919-

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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...

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Bean, Winifred Wollaeger, 1909-

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Bean, Ruth Leslie, 1921-

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Gould, Laurence McKinley, 1896-1995

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