Samuel Garmezy papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 6443

Scope and content

Legal documents and stock agreements from the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company of Manila; correspondence, invitations, and brochures relating to his time in the Philippines; correspondence, documents and clippings relating to his time in internment camps at Santo Tomas and Los Baños, and war damage claims; photographs and other items of or relating to the Philippines; and items relating to the Cornell Club of New York, Cornell reunions, the Tower Club, the College of Engineering.

Scope and content

Also materials relating to the Philippine Club of New York and various Cornell publications.

Dates

1918-1973.

Creator

Garmezy, Samuel, 1892-1979. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Samuel Garmezy was born in Russia in 1892. He graduated from Cornell University in 1913, with a degree in Civil Engineering, and worked for the American Bridge Company until 1916. He then went to the Philippines with the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company of Manila, the largest construction company in the Philippines. He was employed by the firm for 32 years, becoming its president in 1945. During World War II, he was interned by the Japanese in Santo Tomas and Los Baños for three years.