William I. Myers papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 21-2-466

Scope and content

Papers include correspondence with Cornell Faculty and administrators, agricultural experts including the National Agricultural Advisory Commission, state and national politicians, state and federal agencies, and other universities concerning administrative matters, courses of study, budgets, and the building program at the New York State College of Agriculture, general agricultural programs and problems, and the aims and activities of national, state, and Tompkins County committees, commissions, and college and company boards on which he served; also included are Myers' student notebooks, 1910-1919; lecture notes and teaching materials, 1910-1934; financial records, 1915-1971; newspaper clippings in bound volumes, 1921-1959; scrapbooks and photograph albums, 1924-1966; diaries, 1931-1975; related reports, copies of Myers' addresses, minutes of meetings, and other printed material in bound volumes, 1921-1959; and an Oral History Interview (by Cornell Program in Oral History), 1964-1969. Also, a five volume set of survey records and analyses from his study of the use of farm tractors, 1920; and tabulation sheets on milk cow production, used for his Ph.D. thesis

Dates

1892-1977.

Creator

Myers, William Irving, 1891-1976. (Person)

Restrictions on Access

Access to Box 56 Correspondence is restricted.

Biographical / Historical

Dean, New York State College of Agriculture. William I. Myers, Cornell University Class of 1914, Ph.D. 1918, was born December 18, 1891 in New York City. After receiving his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1918, he taught farm finance and farm management at Cornell. He headed or was a member of a number of farm agencies, including the Farm Credit Administration, the Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation, President Roosevelt's Committee on Farm Tenancy, the American Institute of Cooperation, the New York State Commission on Agriculture, President Truman's Famine Emergency Committee, the New York State Food Commission, and the National Agricultural Advisory Commission. From 1938-1943 he was head of the Department of Agricultural Economics at Cornell University, and from 1943-1959 was Dean of the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University. In 1948 he became Director of the Insular Lumber Company, and in 1950 became Director of Smith-Corona Marchant, Incorporated. He died in Ithaca, New York on January 30, 1976.