Hixon family papers, 1919-1938.

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Hixon family papers, 1919-1938.

Hixon family papers, 1919-1938.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/718737772

Correspondence, wedding book, financial information, appraisal inventories, scrapbooks, notebooks, and other papers relating to Frank P. and Alice Green Hixon. Mr. Hixon was a Distinguished Service Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Chicago. Mrs. Hixon was active in social service organizations. The wedding book lists guests, gifts, and details of the wedding celebration. The collection includes photocopies of newspaper clippings about prohibition and correspondence, etc. of the Anti-Saloon League belonging to Mrs. Mary Sumner Boyd of New York City. In addition are booklets, brochures, event invitations, reports, correspondence, and meeting minutes from several Chicago welfare societies, such as the Community Fund of Chicago; also included are correspondence, brochures, and meeting minutes from the Home for Destitute Crippled Children and the Illinois League of Women Voters, both of which Alice Hixon served as president during the 1930s. The Illinois League of Women Voters materials relate to registering voters and include a disassembled scrapbook of newspaper clippings. The collection also contains board minutes and correspondence about the new women's prison in Dwight, Illinois, that the League of Women Voters advocated. The prison originally was known as the Oakdale Reformatory for Women, then the Illinois State Reformatory for Women, and later as the Dwight Correctional Center. There also is a scrapbook entitled: Women's Week 7th War Loan Drive, Peoria, Illinois, containing clippings, radio programs, and letters.

2 linear ft.

Chicago History Museum