Children's Fund of Michigan records, 1929-1965 (bulk 1929-1961).

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Children's Fund of Michigan records, 1929-1965 (bulk 1929-1961).

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Series in this record group include: Administration, Alphabetical, Photographs, Scrapbooks, Financial, and Miscellaneous. The Administration series contains annual reports, board of trustees minutes and resolutions, files of William J. Norton, executive vice president and secretary including in part reports of field visits and memoranda received from the Child Health Division. The Administration series also includes reports, correspondence and other records of the Fund's subunits, the Research. Laboratory, the Child Health Division and the Child Guidance Division. The Alphabetical series details the Fund's relationship with organizations receiving grants. File headings with substantial materials include the Michigan State Emergency Relief Administration, Detroit's Interracial Committee, the University of Michigan, the United Community Services of Metropolitan Detroit, and Children's Hospital of Michigan. The record group includes files of correspondence and other papers of John Dorsey. James J. Couzens, Kenneth Gibson, Maud Watson, Marion E. Kenworthy, and B.W. Carey. The record group documents support of children's health and recreational programs in Michigan during the depression, World War II, and the post-war period.

23 linear ft., 4 v. [outsize] and 1 outsize folder.Photographs .2 linear ft.

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Gibson, Kenneth Richard, 1895-1959.

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Detroit, Michigan, dentist, director, 1929-1948, of the dental division of the Children's Fund of Michigan, and director of the child health division of the Children's Fund. From the description of Kenneth R. Gibson papers, 1930-1956. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421663 Kenneth Richard Gibson was born December 12, 1895, in Dunbar, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in 1918, and earned his master's degre...

Children's Hospital of Michigan

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Located in Detroit, Mich. From the description of Records, 1886-1983. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28419760 ...

Watson, Maud E.

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Children's Fund of Michigan

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Philanthropic foundation created by Senator James J. Couzens and administered by William J. Norton to fund organizations in Michigan involved in child health and child guidance. From the description of Children's Fund of Michigan records, 1929-1965 (bulk 1929-1961). (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34423385 The Children's Fund of Michigan (CFM) was a charitable corporation created April 11, 1929 by Michigan Senator James Couzens with a gift of ten m...

Michigan. State Emergency Welfare Relief Commission

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Couzens, James, 1872-1936

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U.S. senator from Michigan, mayor of Detroit, Michigan, and industrialist. From the description of James Couzens papers, 1903-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70982271 Detroit Mayor and civic leader, U.S. Senator, Ford Motor Co. executive James Couzens was born in Chatham, Ont., Aug. 26, 1872, son of James J. and Emma (Clift) Couzens; married Margaret A. Manning, Aug. 31, 1898. Began the manufacture of automobiles in 1903 ; vice-president, genera...

Norton, William J. (William John), 1883-1975

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Social worker. From the description of Reminiscences of William John Norton : oral history, 1954. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309741122 William J. Norton, social worker, was born in Maine, April 8, 1883. After graduating from Bowdoin College, he entered social settlement work in Brooklyn, New York and later Cleveland, Ohio. In the period 1913-1917, he organized the Cincinnati Council of Social Agencies; and Community Union and Detroit C...

Kenworthy, Marion E. (Marion Edwena), 1891-1980

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Professor of psychiatry and psychiatrist, New York, N.Y. From the description of Letters and printed material, 1954-1976. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 31182055 Marion Edwena Kenworthy (1891-1980) was a psychiatrist who specialized in the field of children’s mental health. Kenworthy served as president of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, as well as the Academy of Child Psychiatry, and established the psych...

United Community Services of Metropolitan Detroit

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Established 1917 as Detroit Community Union, incorporating the existing Detroit Association of Charities, founded in 1878; later name changed to Council of Social Agencies of Metropolitan Detroit; reorganized 1951 as United Community Services of Metropolitan Detroit. From the description of Records, 1878-1972 (bulk 1920s-1960s). (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28421669 ...

Detroit (Mich.). Mayor's Interracial Committee

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Dorsey, John M. (John Morris), 1900-1978

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Carey, B. W.

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