William I. Myers Papers,1892-1977

Collection Number: 21-2-466

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

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


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

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.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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
SUBJECTS

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).


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Access Restrictions:
Box 56 Correspondenceis restricted.
Cite As:
William I. Myers papers, #21\2\466. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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Includes collection #21-02-1069.

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