Oral history interview with A.A. Heckman, 1982.

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Oral history interview with A.A. Heckman, 1982.

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Heckman discusses private and public welfare organizations in St. Paul in the 1930s; his association with Louis Hill and other Hill family members involved in the family foundation; Francis Butler, lawyer for Louis Hill; various projects supported by the foundation and the foundation's history. Also includes interviews with Irving Clark, Northwest Area Foundation board member.

Transcript : 180 p. ; 28 cm.

Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Minnesota Historical Society Library

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Lexington Foundation

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Heckman, A. A. (Aldred Arthur), d. 1994.

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Heckman came to St. Paul in 1931 as general secretary of the United Charities in St. Paul. During the 1930s he reorganized the Ramsey County Welfare Board, directed the federal Works Progress Administration and started a Family Economics Program. In 1952 Heckman became executive director of the Hill Family Foundation, which later became the Northwest Area Foundation. From the description of Oral history interview with A.A. Heckman, 1982. (Minnesota Historical Society Library). WorldC...

Ramsey County (Minn.). Welfare Board

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Northwest Area Foundation (U.S.)

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The Northwest Area Foundation makes grants to organizations and programs in eight states that were served by the former Great Northern Railway Company: Minnesota, Idaho, Iowa, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, and Washington. It was founded in 1934 by Great Northern chairman Louis W. Hill, Sr. as the Lexington Foundation, making grants for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes that were deemed to contribute to the public welfare. Funds constituting its capital ...

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Hill, Louis Warren, -1948

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