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  • Title: Anson Conger Goodyear papers
    Date (inclusive): 1919-1922
    Collection Number: 56024
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 3 manuscript boxes, 3 envelopes, 1 oversize folder (1.6 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Correspondence, diary, speeches and writings, memoranda, reports, maps, clippings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to coal production and distribution in Silesia, Bohemia, Galicia, and Serbia, political and economic conditions in Poland, and the partition of Silesia.
    Creator: Goodyear, A. Conger (Anson Conger), 1877-1964
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

    Access

    The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

    Use

    For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1975.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Anson Conger Goodyear papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biographical Note

    1877, June 20 Born, Buffalo, New York
    1899 Bachelor Degree, Yale University
    1900-1911 President, Goodyear Lumber Company
      Director, Crown Zellerbach Corporation
      Chairman of the Executive Committee, Director, G.M. & O. Railroads
    1911-1917 President, Norwich Lumber Company
    1917 Captain, Field Artillery, U.S. Army
    1918 Colonel; Commander, 307th Field Artillery
    1918 Commander, 81st Field Artillery, France
    1918 General Inspector, Transportation Corps, A.E.F.
    1918, May 2 President, Coal Commission for Central Europe
    1919, September 5 Member, Inter-Allied Commission on Upper Silesia
    1919, October Discharged honorably from the two last posts
    1919 Major General, 1st Division, New York National Guard
    1929-1960 Trustee, President, Museum of Modern Art, New York
    1944-1945 Deputy Commander, American Red Cross, Pacific Ocean Areas
    1947 Personal Representative of Secretary of War, American Zone, Germany and Austria
    1952 Master of Laws, Norwich University
    1958 Doctor of Fine Arts, Adelphi College
    1964, April 23 Died, Old Westbury, New York

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Poland -- History -- 1918-1945
    Reconstruction (1914-1939)
    Coal mines and mining -- Czech Republic -- Bohemia
    Coal mines and mining -- Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)
    Coal mines and mining -- Serbia
    Coal mines and mining -- Silesia
    Silesia -- Economic conditions
    Silesia (Poland : Voivodeship) -- Economic conditions
    Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
    Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920). Supreme Economic Council. Coal Mission (Location of meeting: Central Europe)
    Inter-Allied Commission in Upper Silesia