Maurice C. Burritt papers, 1832-1959.
Collection Number: 2414
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Maurice C. Burritt papers, 1832-1959.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
2414
Abstract:
Correspondence, reports, budgets, and other materials relating to the work and life
of Maurice C. Burritt.
Creator:
Burritt, M. C. (Maurice Chase)
Quanitities:
21 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Agriculturist, public servant.
Maurice C. Burritt (Cornell University Class of 1908, M.S. 19100) was vice-director
and later director of Extension, Cornell University (1917-1924); a member of the board
of the Western New York Fruit Growers Cooperative Packing Association (1925+); director
and fiscal officer of the Grange League Federation (1924-1928); a member of the Agricultural
Advisory Commissions of Governors Roosevelt and Lehman; member, New York State Public
Service Commission (1930-1949); president (1932-1939) and director (1932-1956) of
the State Bank of Hilton and an official in other banks and loans associations; leader
in the Farm Bureau Federation; Alumni Trustee (1934-1941); author of APPLE GROWING
and THE COUNTY AGENT AND THE FARM BUREAU; and owner and operator of Beechwood Farm,
Hilton, New York.
Correspondence, reports, budgets, and other materials relating to the Food Supply
Commission; letters to Howard E. Babcock, general manager of G.L.F. and others; minutes
of meetings, 1924-30. Correspondence and related papers pertaining to activities and
policies of the AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, Cornell University Arboretum, Farm Credit
Administration, Federal Land Bank of Springfield, Federal Farm Board, Gannett newspapers,
New York State Department of Agriculture, New York State College of Agriculture at
Cornell University, New York State Horticultural Society, and various other agencies
and institutions of which he was a member. Correspondence with publishers; notes for
and copies of Burritt's speeches and articles on public utilities and rural electification,
1930s, and other subjects. Also, diaries, 1897-1956 and 1959, journals, scrapbooks,
and other items on his travels in the British Isles, Alaska, Mexico, India, and elsewhere;
letters from his daughter, Helen Burritt Latif, describing her experiences travelling
or teaching in Australia and India, 1935-1937; scrapbooks of articles and editorials
he wrote; memoranda books; detailed accounts of Beechwood Farm, with related land
papers; and crop production cost analyses including cost analyses for the Office of
Farm Management, U.S.D.A., 1909-1914.
Also, personal and family accounts; farm and household accounts of Burritt's parents,
Stephen Day Burritt and Anna Chase Burritt; genealogical data on the Burritt, Phelps,
and Barber families; records of School District #9, Parma, 1890-1948; Beechwood Farm
photo album and other photographs; blueprints; manuscript and printed material relating
to the history of Hilton and of agriculture in New York State; and other printed items.
Correspondents include Howard E. Babcock, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Edmund Ezra Day, Thomas
E. Dewey, Edward R. Eastman, Livingston Farrand, Frank E. Gannett, Halsey B. Knapp,
Carl E. Ladd, Herbert H. Lehman, Albert R. Mann, Henry Morganthau, Jr., William I.
Myers, James E. Rice, Elmer S. Savage, Paul Taber, Edward H. Thomson, Martha Van Rensselaer,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Robert F. Wagner, George F. Warren, Charles S. Wilson, and
other public officials and Cornell University professors.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Maurice C. Burritt papers, #2414. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Babcock, H. E. (Howard Edward), 1889-1950.
Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954.
Burritt, Anna Phelps.
Burritt, Stephen Day.
Day, Edmund Ezra, 1883-1951.
Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971.
Eastman, E. R. (Edward Roe), 1885-1970.
Farrand, Livingston, 1867-1939.
Gannett, Frank E. (Frank Ernest), 1876-1957.
Knapp, H. B. (Halsey B.), 1888-1976.
Ladd, C. E. (Carl Edwin), 1888-1943.
Latif, Helen Burritt.
Lehman, Herbert H. (Herbert Henry), 1878-1963.
Mann, Albert Russell, 1880-1947.
Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-1967.
Myers, William Irving, 1891-1976.
Rice, James Edward, 1865-1953.
Savage, Elmer S. (Elmer Seth), 1884-1943.
Taber, Paul.
Thomson, Edward H.
Van Rensselaer, Martha, 1864-1932.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1877-1953.
Wilson, Charles S.
Burritt family.
Phelps family.
Barber family.
Cooperative Grange League Federation Exchange
Cornell University
Federal Land Bank of Springfield
Frank E. Gannett Newspaper Foundation
New York (State). Department of Agriculture
New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
New York State Horticultural Society
United States. Department of Agriculture
United States. Farm Credit Administration
United States. Federal Farm Board
United States. Office of Farm Management
Places:
Hilton (N.Y.) -- History.
Mexico -- Description and travel.
India -- Description and travel.
Great Britain -- Description and travel.
Australia -- Description and travel.
Alaska -- Description and travel.
Subjects:
Rural electrification.
Farm management.
Agricultural extension work.
Agricultural education.
Agricultural credit.
Form and Genre Terms:
Scrapbooks.
Photographs.
Genealogies.
Diaries.
Blueprints.
Account books.
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