Alvan Macauley, Sr., papers 1908-1952.

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Alvan Macauley, Sr., papers 1908-1952.

The papers deal mainly the the Packard Motor Car Company, containing newspaper clippings, publications and correspondence, including personally signed letters from Franklin D. Roosevelt and General John J. Pershing.

1 linear ft. (2 boxes, 1 volume)

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Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948

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Career Army officer who served in the Philippines as an adjutant general and engineer officer, collector of customs, and cavalry squadron commander, participating in actions against the Tausug (Moros), 1899-1903; later apppointed governor of Moro Province and commander, Department of Mindanao, 1909-1913. Well-known for his command of the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I, 1917-1919. From the description of General John J. Pershing photograph collection [pictu...

Packard motor car company

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The Packard Twin-Six was manufactured and sold in 1915. Joy made a trip in the spring of 1915 and Waldron made several trips afterwards, maybe as early as the fall of 1915, when Waldon was the General Manager of Packard. Henry B. Joy was born on Nov. 23, 1864, the son of James F. and Mary (Bourne) Joy. After graduating from Phillip's Academy (Andover, Mass.), Sheffield Scientific School, and Yale University, he began life as an office boy with the Pennisular Car Co., working his way up to clerk,...

Macauley, Alvan, 1872-1952.

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Alvan Macauley was born in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1872, he received a law degree from George Washington University. Macauley married Estelle C. Littlepage in 1895 and they had three children, the collection of his son, Alvan Jr., is also in the Burton Historical Collection. Macauley joined the Packard Motor Car Company in 1910 as general manager, was appointed vice president in 1913 and three years later was elected president, still retaining the office of general manager, in 1939 he was ele...

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...