Guide to the Wartime activities of William Bowers Bourn
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
October 2010
Stanford, California
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Call Number: SC0793
Creator:
O'Day, Edward F. (Edward Francis), b. 1883.
Title: Wartime activities of William Bowers Bourn
Dates: circa 1930
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear feet (1 volume)
Summary: Narrative account of Bourn's work with the Friends of France, which funded ambulance units, and the American League of California,
with extensive quotes from Bourn's correspondence, 1914-1918, including Stanford students who were serving on ambulance units
in France. Also included is a brochure, "The American Field Service Memorial," 1923.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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Wartime activities of William Bowers Bourn (SC0793). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University
Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
William Bowers Bourn, owner of the Empire gold mines in Grass Valley and a Stanford University trustee, organized the Friends
of France at the outbreak of World War I, serving as its president from 1914-1919.
Narrative account of Bourn's work with the Friends of France, which funded ambulance units, and the American League of California,
with extensive quotes from Bourn's correspondence, 1914-1918, including Stanford students who were serving on ambulance units
in France. Also included is a brochure, "The American Field Service Memorial," 1923.
American League of California.
Bourn, William Bowers, 1857-1936.
Friends of France.
O'Day, Edward F. (Edward Francis), b. 1883.
World War, 1914-1918--Medical care--France.
World War, 1914-1918.
Box 1
Narrative