Oral history interviews with Howard O. Guess, 1990.

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Oral history interviews with Howard O. Guess, 1990.

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Guess discusses the relations among the Pew family financial office, the Sun Oil Company, and the Glenmede Trust Company. He recalls the various members of the Glenmede Trust Company board of directors and its workings. He discusses his relations with J. Howard Pew and Mabel Pew Myrin. He also discusses Glenmede's sale of the Farm Journal and General Crude Oil, Sun Oil's acquisition of Becton-Dickinson, and the issue of diversifying Glenmede's stock holdings.

Sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes (3 hr.) : analog.Transcript: 93 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Pew Charitable Trusts Library

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The Glenmede Trust Company and The Pew Charitable Trusts are subsidiaries of The Glenmede Corporation. The Glenmede Trust Company was chartered in Pennsylvania in 1956 primarily to oversee the operation of trusts established by the Pew family which founded the Sun Oil Company. The Pew Charitable Trusts grew out of the trust department of The Glenmede Trust Company and was established as a separate entity in 1990. From the description of Records, 1957-1990 (bulk, 1981-1989). (Unknown)...

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Howard Owens Guess was born in 1932 in Norfolk, Virginia and attended schools there. In 1950 he joined the United States Air Force. Following his armed service he attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. After graduating in 1957 he took a job with the accounting firm of Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he began working with the accounts of several Pew family members and the Glenmede Trust Company. In 1960 Guess joined the Estate ...