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Scope and Content of Collection
Title: Hubert Gregory Schenck papers
Date (bulk): 1945-1960
Collection Number: 50007
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
27 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 8 album boxes, 35 envelopes, 1 oversize folder
(22.7 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, reports, clippings, maps, and photographs relating to the Allied occupation
of Japan, relations between Taiwan and the United States, and economic conditions in Japan and Taiwan.
Creator:
Schenck, Hubert G. (Hubert Gregory), 1897-1960
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1950, with increments received in 1957, 1959, 1977 and 1996.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Hubert Gregory Schenck papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
1916 |
Enlisted in the U.S. Army |
1897 September 24 |
Born, Memphis, Tennessee |
1920-1921 |
Geologic aide, Division of Mines, Philippines |
circa 1916-1919 |
Served in the Coast Artillery Corps |
1923 |
M.A., geology, University of Oregon |
1922 |
A.B., geology, University of Oregon |
1924 |
Married Inga Bergstrom, Berkeley, California |
1926 |
Ph.D., geology, University of California, Berkeley |
1924-1927 |
Instructor, field geology course, Stanford |
1926 |
Appointed to teaching staff as instructor, Stanford University |
1933-1934 |
Advanced Fellow at the Royal Museum of Natural History of Belgium, Commission for the Relief of Belgium Educational Foundation |
1935 |
Associate professor, Stanford University |
1927 |
Assistant professor, Stanford University |
1937-1938 |
Paleontologist in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, Amiranian Oil Company |
circa 1943-1945 |
Served in military government posts in New Guinea, the Philippines, and Japan |
circa 1943 |
Commissioned as a major in the U.S. Army, trained for Civil Affairs duties |
1940 |
Professor of Geology, Stanford University |
1951 |
Promoted to colonel |
circa 1954-1960 |
Returned to Stanford University on a part-time basis |
1960 June 19 |
Died, Stanford, California |
1951-1954 |
Chief, Mutual Security Mission and Economic Cooperation Administration in Taiwan |
1945-1951 |
Chief, Natural Resources Section, General Headquarters, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, Japan |
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, reports, clippings, maps, and photographs relating to the Allied occupation
of Japan, relations between Taiwan and the United States, and economic conditions in Japan and Taiwan.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Military government
Taiwan -- Economic conditions
Taiwan -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- Taiwan
Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952
Technical assistance, American -- Asia
Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1945-1989
United States. Army
Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
United States. Foreign Operations Administration