Foundation records, 1930-1967.

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Foundation records, 1930-1967.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317118759

Grant files and other records of the Western Foundation, a philanthropic foundation (1939-1966) established by members of the Bean family of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The records largely document the grants awarded to many educational, medical research, social service, and religious organizations in Minnesota and elsewhere. The files include correspondence, pamplets, progress reports, and some financial statements and annual reports. Especially prominent are programs of Congregational Church organizations and the League to Uphold Congregational Principles, the Sister Kenny Foundation, the Minneapolis Association for Retarded Children, and the Young Men's Christian Association. There is a great deal of crossover between the records of the Western Foundation and the F.A. Bean Foundation.

2.25 cu. ft. (3 boxes).

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Young Men's Christian Association of Minneapolis.

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Bean, Ruth Leslie, 1921-

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F.A. Bean Foundation (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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Bean, Atherton 1910-1998.

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Bean, Francis Atherton, 1878-1955.

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Western Foundation (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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The Western Foundation was incorporated on June 12, 1939 to support "religious, charitable, scientific, or educational purposes or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals, but expressly excluding from its purposes the carrying on of propaganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation" [Western Foundation articles of incorporation, 1939]. The founding trustees were Bertha Boynton Bean, Atherton Bean (Francis Atherton Bean III), and Bertha Bean Flinsch. The foundation's first ...

Bean, Bertha Boynton, 1878-1954.

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Minnesota Association for Retarded Children

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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...

Sister Kenny Foundation.

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Bean, John Boynton, 1919-

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Bean, Winifred Wollaeger, 1909-

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League to Uphold Congregational Principles

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