Root, Elihu, 1845-1937.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Civil Service Reform Association records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 549
Scope and content
Files of the New York State Civil Service Reform Association and the National Civil Service Reform League relate to the organization, development, history, and activities of these associations. They include correspondence, briefs, extracts, reports, clippings, pamphlets, and other material relating to appointments, examinations, investigations, prosecutions, and removals, finances and membership campaigns, Civil Service laws, assembly and senate bills, congressional activities, the views on...
Dates:
1880-1947.
Jacob Gould Schurman papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3-4-6
Abstract
The Schurman papers consist of correspondence, addresses, photographs, testimonials, diplomas, certificates, newspaper clippings, printed material, and records of the New York Constitutional Convention (1915). The material listed covers Schurman's career as a teacher, college president, and diplomat; the majority of the papers involve his role in national and foreign affairs. His views on American imperialism are reflected in letters to President McKinley, David Starr Jordan, David J. Hill,...
Dates:
1867-1942, [1986].
State Department records
Collection — Microfilm reel 1 (negative)
Identifier: 2612
Scope and content
Correspondence, reports, cables in cipher, and some articles concerning U.S. administration of and aims in the Philippines, conduct of the war against Filipino insurgents, and possible future independence of the Philippines. Much of the correspondence is between Secretary of State John Hay and Jacob Gould Schurman, President of the Commission. Other correspondents include J. E. Sawyer, Thomas W. Cridler, J. H. McGowan, A. E. Buck, Seretary of the Commission John R. MacArthur, Acting...
Dates:
1899-1900.
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