Letters, 1940-1967.

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Letters, 1940-1967.

Numerous letters of Henry to his son John are full of family news keeping him updated on activities, health, travels, problems, social outings, finances and work for himself and Anna and the Darbys and Wrights. He also wrote of his past and his beliefs. Includes chapters of an unpublished book he wrote on his own religious and philosophical beliefs. A number of letters from Anna to John usually discuss family affairs and her trips to California. A few letters from John, his wife Virginia, Arlene and Georgene. News clippings, usually on economic or political news. Photographs.

2.5 linear feet (2 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7667692

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Langum family

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Langum, Henry, 1882-1967.

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Son of Norwegian immigrants to Lake County, South Dakota, he earned degrees in science, theology and chiropractic and worked at all of those in South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota. He spent most of his adult life in Minnesota with his wife Anna Nelson Langum. They had three children: John K. Langum, a noted economist; Georgene, who married Justin Darby and lived in Minneapolis; and Arlene, who married Charles Wright, and moved to New Jersey in 1958. Anna had relatives in California and visited ther...

Wright family.

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Langum, Anna (Anna Georgene Nelson)

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Darby family.

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Langum, John K. (John Kenneth), 1913-1998.

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Owner and president of Business Economics, Inc. founded in 1951 in Chicago, a vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 1941-1951, economics lecturer at University of California, Berkeley, 1940-41, part time lecturer at University of Chicago, Northwestern and University of Indiana, banking seminar instructor for various universities including the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin, which he helped found, and Stonier at Rutgers, Chairman of the Board of Founder...

Nelson family.

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