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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
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Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1975.
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[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 |
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Director, Crown Zellerbach Corporation |
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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