Alpheus W. Smith papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 3695

Scope and content

Includes military correspondence, reports, and talks; photographs of Cornell University; Cornell publications; research on Ezra Cornell and on early Cornell history; correspondence with George L. Burr; manuscripts and verses of Ruby Green Smith and Albert W. Smith; letter (1915) from Harper Sibley in Rochester and from Jacob Gould Schurman (1918); scrapbook of newspaper clippings, June 1945-March 1946; leaflets from Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations; and other papers of Alpheus W. Smith.

Dates

[ca.1915-1947].

Creator

Smith, Alpheus W. (Alpheus Waldo), 1898-1977. (Person)

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Family is to be notified if anything is written for publication from this collection and must be notified prior to publication..

Biographical / Historical

Alpheus W. Smith was born in 1898 in Lake Arrowhead, California. He entered Cornell University in 1915 and left for military service during World War I. He received his A.B. degree from Cornell in 1919 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1932. A psychologist, he taught at the University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, the University of Nebraska, and Cornell University. He served with the army again during World War II from 1942-1946 and was awarded the Legion of Merit in 1945. He was a member of the American Association of University Professors, the Industrial Relations Research Association, and the Ithaca Personnel Association.