Ward M. Canaday collection, 1902-1991.

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Ward M. Canaday collection, 1902-1991.

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The collection contains Canaday's correspondence, speeches, photographs, newspaper clippings, and honors. Also included are materials related to his wife, Mariam, who was active in the Toledo community, and personal material reflecting their lives as a couple. The collection also contains materials on their daughter, Doreen Canaday Spitzer, author of a family biography, By One and One (c1984), as well as benefactor and archaeologist, and her husband, Lyman Spitzer, Jr., a reknowned astronomer and researcher. Additional material relates to Ward M. Canaday's brother, Frank, and his wife, Molly; and documentation on Willys-Overland Motors and specifically the Jeep Administration Building and its history (1941-1974).

1 linear ft.

University of Toledo, William S. Carlson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7375742

University of Toledo, William S. Carlson Library

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Canaday, Ward Murphey, 1885-1976.

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Canaday, Frank H. (Frank Harrison), 1892 or 1893-1976

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Businessman. Educated at Harvard (A.B. 1914). In the 1920's Canaday was associated with the British-American Tobacco Company in China. As part of the company's advertising and promotion team, he traveled throughout China to represent the company to retailers in shops and at fairs. For further information see: Sherman Cochran's book, Big Business in China: Sino-Foreign Rivalry in the Cigarette Industry (Harvard University Press, 1980). From the description of Papers of Frank H. Canada...

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Canaday, Ward Murphey

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Canaday, Molly Morpeth, 1903-1971

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