Register of the Haig Shekerjian papers

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Title: Haig Shekerjian papers

Date (inclusive): 1905-1966

Collection Number: 72081

Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives

Language of Material: English

Physical Description: 4 manuscript boxes, 1 envelope (1.7 Linear Feet)

Abstract: Correspondence, notes, speeches, and medals, relating to American chemical warfare activities during World War II

Creator: Shekerjian, Haig

Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1972.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Haig Shekerjian Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical Note

Shekerjian, Haig, 1886-1966

1886, 13 June	Born, Turkey
1906	Student, Colgate University
1907	Entered military service as a cadet
1911	Graduate, B.S. degree and commissioned as second lieutenant of Infantry
1916-17	Served with the Punitive Expedition in Mexico under General Pershing
1914-1918	Assistant military attaché in Greece, with the Allied Armies of the Orient in the Middle East
1923	Transferred to the Chemical Warfare Service
1942	Promoted to Brigadier General
1939-1945	Chemical Officer, First Army; Commanding General of the Chemical Warfare Replacement Center; Commanding General at Camp Sibert, Alabama
1946	Retired from military service
1966	Died

Scope and Content of Collection

Correspondence, notes, speeches, and medals, relating to American chemical warfare activities during World War II

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Officers

Chemical warfare

World War, 1939-1945 -- Chemical warfare

United States. Army

Correspondence 1926-1964.

Scope and Contents note

Correspondence, arranged alphabetically by name of correspondent.

box 1

Ahmed Abboud Pasha 1945

Almond, E.M. (Brigadier General) 1942

Assistant Secretary of State 1946

Bain, William J. 1946

Brees, H.J. (Lt. General) 1940

Brigham, C.E. (Major General) 1936

Chamberlain, Fred V.S. 1926

Chipman, Mrs. Guy W.

Craig, Mr. 1941

Eisenhower, Dwight 1955

Gantengein, Mrs. James

Guggenheim, Robert (Colonel) 1946

Gullion, Allen W. 1942

Hanford, Ned 1940

Harmer, H.R., Inc. (International Stamp Auctioneers) 1962, 1963

Hoover, Herbert Clark 1954

Inzer, J.C. 1945

Karagosian, Sonia 1944

New York Police Commission 1941

Nichols, Lola

O'Hara, Mrs. Edwin J.

Porter, William N. (Colonel) 1941

Republican National Committee 1964

Roemer, L.E. (Major) 1941

Royal Canadian Institute 1939

Shilstone, Cecil M. (Captain) 1944

Silvester, L. Mcd. (Major General) 1942

Somervell, Brehon 1945

Souren, Y. 1944

Treasury Department. Office of Customs. 1955

U.S. Army. Finance Center. Retired Pay Division. 1964

War Department 1942

Watson, Edwin M. 1944

Williams, Charles (Lt. Colonel) 1941

Willkie, Wendell L. 1943

Miscellaneous correspondence and memoranda

Subject File 1905-1966.

Scope and Contents note

Reports, military documents, notes, printed matter, and other miscellaneous materials, arranged alphabetically by subject.

box 1

Application for federal employment

Camp Robinson, Arkansas. Replacement Training Center - Instructor's Handbook 1943

Camp Sibert, Alabama

Financial statements - bills, checks, invoices, etc.

Furlough Book, U.S.M.A. 1911

Home Defense Guide 1942

Maps

box 2

Medals

Omar Khayyam by Darvish of Tehran

Our Boys

Sixth U.S. Army - Retired Army Officers Rosters 1963, 1964, 1966

Special Orders 1946

Speech of General George S. Patton Jr. to his 3rd Army on the Eve of the Normandy Invasion

The Suckers Club 1934

Trainee Tribune. Edgewood Arsenal, Md. March 20, 1942

The Traveller's Insurance Company

Travelling Itinerary

Treasury Department. Office of Collecter of Customs. 1955

Uniform Insignia

U.S. Military Academy 1958

U.S. Post Office - Commemorative Stamp Book 1955

box 3

Yale University - Sheffield Scientific School 1905

Speeches 1942-1943.

Scope and Contents note

Speeches arranged alphabetically by title.

box 3

Address by Brigadier General Haig Shekerjian Bestowing Army-Navy Production Award to Lempco Products, Inc., Bedford, Ohio. December 14, 1942

Honor Speech, Bain 1943

Miscellaneous speech materials

Miscellaneous.

Scope and Contents note

Clipping file, medals, and memorabilia.

Medals

box 3

Campaign and Service Medals

box 3

American Defense Medal

box 3

American Theater of Operations Medal

box 3

European, African and Middle Eastern Theater Campaign Medal

box 3

Asiatic-Pacific Theater Campaign Medal

box 3

Victory Medal, WWII

box 3

Mexican Service Medal (Number 13818) (for service in Mexico against Pancho Villa)

box 3

Victory Medal, WWI

box 3

Decorations

box 3

Legion of Merit (named)

box 3

Army Commendation Medal (named)

box 4

Memorabilia

box 4

Clippings