Edwin De Turck Bechtel papers 1930-1971.

Bechtel, Louise Seaman, 1894-1985

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Editor, author, lecturer on children's literature. Louise Seaman Bechtel, 1894-1985, served as Editor and Head of the Juvenile Book Department of Macmillan Publishing Company in New York City. A 1915 graduate of Vassar College, Bechtel began work for Macmillan in 1919. After leaving Macmillan in 1934, Bechtel worked as a freelance writer and lecturer. She was the editor of the children's section of the New York Herald Tribune Book Review from 1948 to 1956 and was associate editor of The Horn Boo...

New York Botanical Garden

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Nisbet, Fred J., 1912-

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Bechtel Rose Garden.

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Bechtel, Edwin DeTurck, 1880-1957

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Edwin De Turck Bechtel (1880-1957) was President and Board Chairman of the New York Botanical Garden. He was an amateur rosarian and art collector. He was winner of the Jane Righter Rose Medal of the Garden Clubs of America in 1953. The Bechtel Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden was named in his honor in 1972. A lawyer by profession, he was associated with the firm of Carter, Ledyard and Milburn. He graduated from Harvard University. He was married to Louise Seaman, founder of the chil...

Hunt, Rachel McMasters Miller, 1882-1963

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William Pitt, the younger, was prime minister of Great Britain from 1783-1801. James O'Hara served in the Revolutionary War and became an important businessman and landholder in Pittsburgh. John Heckewelder was a Moravian missionary trying to convert Indians in the Ohio territory to Christianity. From the description of Rachel McMasters Hunt collection 1792-1839. (Historical Society of W Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 48226811 ...