Arthur Yager Papers, 1913-1921.

United States

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Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 with post offices being established as early as 1876. From the guide to the Franklin County, Idaho Post Office Location Records, 1876-1945, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) These photographs document Region 4, started in 1910, of the US Forest Service, covering Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. From the guide to the US Forest Service Photograph Collection., 19...

Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924

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Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was President of the American Federation of Labor and a member of the President's First Industrial Conference in 1919. He was a member of the President's Unemployment Conference in 1921. ...

Lake Mohonk Conference

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Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

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Woodrow Wilson (b. Thomas Woodrow Wilson, December 28, 1856, Staunton, Virginia-d.February 3, 1924, Washington, D.C.), was the twenty-eight President of the United States, 1913-1921; Governor of New Jersey, 1911-1913; and president of Princeton University, 1902-1910. Biographical Note 1856, Dec. 28 Born, Staunton, Va. 1870 ...

Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937

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Newton Diehl Baker Jr. (December 3, 1871 – December 25, 1937) was an American lawyer, Georgist, politician, and government official. He served as the 37th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1912 to 1915. As U.S. Secretary of War from 1916 to 1921, Baker presided over the United States Army during World War I. Born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, Baker established a legal practice in Cleveland after graduating from Washington and Lee University School of Law. He became progressive Democratic ally of...

McIntyre, Frank, 1865-1944

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Iglesias Pantín, Santiago, 1872-1939

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Santiago Iglesias Pantín (February 22, 1872 – December 5, 1939), was a Spanish-born Puerto Rican socialist, trade union activist, and politician. Iglesias is best remembered as a leading supporter of statehood for Puerto Rico and as the Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico in the U.S. Congress from 1933 to 1939. Born in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, he left school at age 12 to become a carpenter’s apprentice. Early in his training, he took part in a violent strike, his first act in a lifelong str...

Lane, Franklin K.

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Lane, 1864-1921, born in Canada and lived in California where he practiced law in San Francisco; he was United States Secretary of the Interior from 1913-1920. From the description of Proclamation with portrait of Theodore Roosevelt : broadside. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863398 In 1917, Brown became Special Assistant to Secretary of the Interior, Franklin K. Lane, and worked with him until November 1918, when he enlisted in the Army. After the war, Brown...

McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs), 1863-1941

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Lawyer, business executive, Democratic Party leader, U.S. secretary of the treasury, Director General of Railroads, and U.S. senator from California. From the description of Papers of William Gibbs McAdoo, 1786-1941 (bulk 1880-1941). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063506 McAdoo was born near Marietta, Cobb County, GA, on Oct. 31, 1863; attended the Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville; admitted to TN bar in 1885 and began law practice in Chattanooga, TN; moved to NYC, 1892; devel...

Puerto Rico. Governor (1913-1921 : Yager)

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Beckham, John Crepps Wickliffe, 1869-1940

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Governor of Kentucky, U.S. senator, educator. From the description of Letter, 1904. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 34122343 J.C.W. Beckham served the Commonwealth of Kentucky as governor from 1900-1906, being elected by special session and then serving a full term. In 1915, he was elected as United States Senator and served in this capacity until 1921, when he lost his reelection bid. From the description of J.C.W. Beckham letter : 1918. (Kentucky...

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

Puerto Rico.

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Córdova Dávila, Félix, 1878-1938

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Félix Lope María Córdova Dávila (November 20, 1878 – December 3, 1938) was a political leader and judge from Puerto Rico who served as Puerto Rico's fourth Resident Commissioner in Congress and later as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. Born in Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, he attended the public schools in Manati. After the United States acquired Puerto Rico in 1898, Córdova Dávila, knowing very little English, decided to invest the earnings of a book of poetry that he prod...

United States. Bureau of Insular Affairs

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Travieso, Martin.

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Muñoz Rivera, Luis, 1859-1916

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Luis Muñoz Rivera (July 17, 1859 – November 15, 1916) was a Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician. He was a major figure in the struggle for political autonomy of Puerto Rico. In 1887, Muñoz Rivera became part of the leadership of a newly formed Autonomist Party. In 1889, he successfully ran a campaign for the position of delegate in the district of Caguas. Subsequently, Muñoz Rivera was a member of a group organized by the party to discuss proposals of autonomy with Práxedes Mateo Sag...

Weeks, John W. (John Wingate), 1860-1926

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John Wingate Weeks (April 11, 1860-July 12, 1926) was an American politician in the Republican Party. He served as a United States Representative for Massachusetts from 1905 to 1913, as a United States Senator from 1913 to 1919, and as Secretary of War from 1921 to 1925. Weeks was born and raised in Lancaster, New Hampshire. He received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy, graduating in 1881, and served two years in the United States Navy. Weeks made a fortune in banking during the...

Prudential Insurance Company of America

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Patterson, James K. (James Kennedy), 1833-1922

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Breckinridge, Henry, 1886-1960

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Lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Henry Breckinridge : oral history, 1952. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309727930 ...

Bustillos, Victorino Marquez, 1858-1941.

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Georgetown College (Georgetown, Ky.)

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Historical note: Georgetown College, the first Baptist college west of the Allegheny Mountains, was chartered and incorporated in 1829 by members of the Kentucky Baptist Education Association. The institution became co-educational in 1892 when it was consolidated with Georgetown Female Seminary. In addition, title to the property and endowment of Bethel College in Russellville, Kentucky, passed to Georgetown College in 1944. The college has continued to operate as a small liberal arts college wi...

Yager, Arthur, 1858-1941.

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Born in Henry County, Kentucky in 1858, Arthur Yager received A.B. and A.M. degrees from Georgetown College in 1879 and 1882. He attended Johns Hopkins University from 1882-1884 and was a classmate of Woodrow Wilson. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1884 and returned to Georgetown where he taught History, Economics, and Political Science. He remained at Georgetown and served as the college's president from 1908 until 1913, when he resigned after accepting an appointment by President W...

Steffens, Lincoln, 1866-1936

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American journalist. From the description of Letter, 1931 July 5, Carmel, Calif., to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184904650 American journalist & editor. From the description of Papers of Lincoln Steffens [manuscript], ca. 1910. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647817346 Discussion of the corruption in the city at the turn of the twentieth century. From the description of Pittsburgh: a city as...

Cantrill, James Campbell, 1870-1923.

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Politician. James Cantrill was born in Georgetown, Ky., and received his education there at Georgetown College. He was active in organizing Kentucky tobacco farmers from 1906 to 1923, and was president of the American Society of Equity for Kentucky. He served in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 1897 to 1901 and in the Kentucky Senate from 1901 to 1905. He represented the 7th Kentucky District in the United States House of Representatives from 1909 to 1921. ...

Watterson, Henry, 1840-1921

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Journalist, author, and politician. From the description of Papers of Henry Watterson, 1857-1983, (bulk 1882-1921). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71071676 American journalist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Louisville, KY, to Hon. D. A. Wells, 1887 Oct. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270660897 Watterson was the editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. From the description of Autograph letters signed from Henry Watters...

Price, William Jennings 1873-1922.

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Shaw, Albert, 1857-1947

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Albert Shaw (1857-1947) was an editor, journalist and scholar who spent most of his career as the editor and publisher of the Review of Reviews, a digest of progressive thought and political analysis. Shaw's principal interests were the improvement of municipal government, the relationship of business and organized labor, agricultural reform, international affairs, and contemporary politics and economics, topics which he wrote and spoke on frequently. From the guide to the Albert Sha...

Jones, William Atkinson, 1849-1918

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William A. Jones resided in Richmond County, Va. and served in the U.S. Congress from 1891 until his death in 1918. From the description of Election papers, 1906. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122609134 ...

James, Ollie M. (Ollie Murray), 1871-1918.

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U.S. Senator. James, a native of Crittenden County, Ky., became a lawyer in 1891, following in his father's footsteps. He involved himself in Kentucky Democratic politics at an early age. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1903-1911. He won election to the U.S. Senate in 1912, and served as permanent chairman of the 1912 and 1916 Democratic National Conventions. He died in 1918, while campaigning for a second term. From the description of Oll...

Kenyon, William Squire, 1869-1933.

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U.S. Senator from Iowa and U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge. From the description of Papers of William S. Kenyon 1911-1933. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233130623 ...

Puerto Rico. Insular Police

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Shafroth, John F. (John Franklin), 1854-1922

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Colorado attorney, Shafroth served as U.S. Representative, Governor, and U.S. Senator from 1895-1919. From the description of Papers : 1880-1922 ;. (Colorado Newspaper Project, Colorado Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 26920891 ...

Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948

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Josephus Daniels, son of Josephus and Mary (Cleves) Daniels, was born in Washington, North Carolina, May 18, 1862. He attended the Wilson Collegiate Institute. On May 2, 1888, he married Addie W. Bagley. At the age of eighteen, he was editor of the "Wilson Advance"; admitted to the bar in 1885; state printer for North Carolina, 1887-1893; chief clerk, Department of the Interior, 1893-1895; editor of the "Raleigh State Chronicle", 1885; editor of the "Raleigh State News and Observer", 1894-1919; ...