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  • Title: Alonzo Englebert Taylor papers
    Date (inclusive): 1911-1943
    Collection Number: XX267
    Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
    Language of Material: English
    Physical Description: 26 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 1 album box, 1 envelope (15.0 Linear Feet)
    Abstract: Correspondence, speeches and writings, memoranda, reports, studies, bulletins, statistical data, and maps, relating to economic conditions and food supply in Europe during World War I, postwar reconstruction, and activities of the War Trade Board, Food Administration, and American Relief Administration
    Creator: Taylor, Alonzo Englebert, 1871-1949
    Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

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    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.

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

    Acquisition Information

    Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Alonzo Englebert Taylor Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

    Biographical Note

    1871 March 19 Born, Alden, Iowa
    1886-1888 Student, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa
    1888-1890 Attended DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
    1890-1891, Attended University of Berlin, Germany
    1894 M.D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    1899 Nov 2 Married Madeline Peck
    1906 Author, Fermentation
    1907 Doctor of Science?
    1910 Professor, Pathology and Physiological Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley?
    1910-1921 Rush Professor, Physiological Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania
    1912 Author, Digestion and Metabolism
    1917 Author (with V. L. Kellogg), The Food Problem
    1917-1919 Member, American War Trade Board
    1918 Author, War Bread
    1920 LL.D., University of Wisconsin
    1921-1936 Director, Food Research Institute, Stanford University
    1928 Author (with Carl Lucas Alsberg), The Fats and Oils
    1932 Author, Corn and Hog Surplus of the Corn Belt
    1935 Author, The New Deal and Foreign Trade
    1936-1940 Director of Research, General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota
    1940- Consultant
    1941 Author, Germany Then and Now
    1949 Died

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief
    World War, 1914-1918 -- Food supply
    World War, 1914-1918 -- United States
    International relief
    World War, 1914-1918 -- Economic aspects
    Reconstruction (1914-1939) -- Europe
    United States -- Commerce
    American Relief Administration
    United States Food Administration
    United States. War Trade Board