George Jarvis Thompson papers, 1906-1957.

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George Jarvis Thompson papers, 1906-1957.

Collection includes student papers from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School; lecture notes, passports, and correspondence (including a chart of Chinese kinship nomenclature and law diagrammed by a student) from Thompson's tenure at Pei Yang University in Tientsin, China; correspondence and other papers relationg to the Cornell University Law School, with letters from former students, some of whom were serving in the Armed Forces in World War II; correspondence, bills, and legal papers relating to a textbook on contract law on which he collaborated with Professor Samuel Williston; papers and articles by Thompson, including "Introductory Lectures in Procedure," 1934; personal correspondence, and correspondence about Indian relics which Thompson collected and cases involving Indian land claims. Also, diplomas and certificates.

5.4 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7910770

Cornell University Library

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Harvard University

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University of Pennsylvania.

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Pei Yang University.

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Thompson, George Jarvis, 1886-1957

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Professor of law. George Jarvis Thompson received a B.S. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1909, an LL.B. from Harvard University in 1912 and an S.J.D. in 1918. From 1914-1917 he taught Anglo-American Law at Pei Yang University in Tientsin, China. While there he was admitted to the bar of the United States extraterritorial court for China. In 1917 Thompson served as one of the blind-folded drawers of draft numbers for the first draft in World War I. He ...

Cornell University

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