Papers of Catherine Atwater Galbraith, 1913-2008 (inclusive).
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Harvard University
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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-2006
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Galbraith taught economics at Harvard. From the description of Papers of John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973248 John Kenneth Galbraith was born in Iona Station, Ontario, Canada in 1908. He emigrated to the United States in 1931 and became an American citizen in 1937. He received degrees from Ontario Agricultural College (1931), University of California (1933, 1934), and studied at Cambridge, England (1937-38). His academic career has...
Galbraith, Catherine Atwater
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Writer and wife of economics professor and diplomat John Kenneth Galbraith, Catherine Atwater Galbraith was born in Plandome, New York, the daughter of Charles and Alice Caroline Merriam Atwater. She graduated from Smith College and studied German as a graduate student in Munich. She married Galbraith in 1937; they had four sons, one of whom died at age seven. Catherine Galbraith was of inestimable value in managing the family's affairs and in supporting her husband's undertakings, whether at Ha...
