| Description |
Correspondence from 1965 related to MSE's role as an elector for the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. Includes letters of nomination for candidates, with biographical information about Finley Peter Dunne (journalist), Admiral David Watson Taylor, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, Francis Asbury (18th century Methodist), Francis Scott Key, Elwood Haynes (1857- 1925, metallurgist, automobile inventor), Donald McKay (architect and ship builder), Victor Herbert (composer), George Gershwin, Caroline Scott Harrison (wife of Pres. Benj. Harrison, 23rd Pres), Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (humanitarian, 1787 - 1851), Sylvanus Thayer, Jane Addams (social worker, teacher, Nobel laureate), Henry Bergh (ASPCA founder, 1813-1888), and Lillian D. Wald. Includes 4-page typescript of a "Response by Marriner S. Eccles" given at the Electors Award Dinner in New York City on 28 October 1965. |
