William I. Myers Papers,1892-1977
Collection Number: 21-2-466
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell
University Library
Title:
William I. Myers
papers, 1892-1977.
Collection Number:
21-2-466
Creator:
William Irving, Myers
1891-1976.
Quantity:
83.3 cubic
ft.
Forms of Material:
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library
Abstract:
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
Language:
Collection material in English
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.
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
Names:
Myers, William
Irving,1891-1976.
American Institute of
Cooperation.
Cornell University--Officials and
employees.
Cornell University.Dept. of Agricultural
Economics.
Federal Farm Mortgage
Corporation.
Insular Lumber Company.
National Agricultural Advisory
Commission.
New York (State).Commission on
Agriculture.
New York (State).Food
Commission.
New York State College of Agriculture
and Life Sciences.
Smith-Corona Marchant,
Incorporated.
United States.Farm Credit
Administration.
United States.Special Committee on Farm
Tenancy.
United States.Famine Emergency
Committee.
Subjects:
Agriculture--Economic
aspects.
Agricultural credit.
Agricultural education.
Agricultural colleges.
Universities and colleges--Officials
and employees.
Agriculture--Study and
teaching.
College teachers.
Form and Genre Terms:
Scrapbooks.
Photographs.
Diaries.
Interviews.
Slides
(photographs).
Access Restrictions:
Box 56 Correspondenceis restricted.
Cite As:
William I. Myers papers, #21\2\466. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Includes collection #21-02-1069.
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