Willcox, Walter Francis,  1861-1964. <br/><br/>
Walter Francis Willcox papers, 1851-1965  (bulk 1886-1940). 

 - 12,000  items. 50  containers. 1  microfilm reel. 20  linear feet. 
 -  Arranged in 6 series.  Series 1: Family Papers, 1888-1957; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1886-1954; Series 3: Subject File, 1851-1961; Series 4: Book and Article File, 1900-1952; Series 5: Scrapbooks, 1933-1952; and Series 6: Microfilm, 1938-1965. 
<br/><br/> Open to research. 
<br/><br/> Correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, books, articles, scrapbooks, and other materials relating primarily to Willcox's career as professor of economics and statistics at Cornell University and as chief statistician, U.S. Bureau of the Census, for the 12th U.S. census in 1900.  Subjects include African American population studies, apportionment and reapportionment of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, demography, divorce, hygiene, international cooperation in collecting statistics, and sociology.  Includes drafts of Willcox's Studies in American Demography (1940) and an 1851 diary of J.C.G. Kennedy.  Willcox (Wilcox) family papers include correspondence between Willcox and his wife, Alice Elaine Work.  Correspondents include Carl L. Becker, Joseph A. Hill, Herman Hollerith, Harold Joseph Laski, S.N.D. North, Stuart A. Rice, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jacob Gould Schurman, Henry L. Stimson, Alfred Holt Stone, F.W. Taussig, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Cressy L. Wilbur, and Carroll Davidson Wright. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Microfilm of originals in private hands. 
<br/><br/><br/>Private 
<br/><br/><br/>Statistician and professor of economics. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English. 
<br/><br/> Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011075 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>mm 73045765  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Becker, Carl L. 1873-1945 --Correspondence.<br/>Hill, Joseph A. 1860-1938 --Correspondence.<br/>Hollerith, Herman, 1860-1929 --Correspondence.<br/>Laski, Harold Joseph, 1893-1950 --Correspondence.<br/>North, S. N. D. 1849-1924 --Correspondence.<br/>Rice, Stuart A. 1889- --Correspondence.<br/>Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945 --Correspondence.<br/>Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942 --Correspondence.<br/>Stimson, Henry L. 1867-1950 --Correspondence.<br/>Stone, Alfred Holt, 1870-1955 --Correspondence.<br/>Taussig, F. W. 1859-1940 --Correspondence.<br/>Vandenberg, Arthur H. 1884-1951 --Correspondence.<br/>Wilbur, Cressy L. 1865-1928 --Correspondence.<br/>Work, Alice Elaine--Correspondence.<br/>Wright, Carroll Davidson, 1840-1909 --Correspondence.<br/>Wilcox family.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Bureau of the Census. <br/>United States. Congress.  House. <br/>Cornell University--Faculty.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--Population.<br/>Apportionment (Election law)--United States<br/>Demography.<br/>Divorce--Statistics.<br/>Hygiene--Statistics.<br/>Population--Statistics.<br/>Sociology.<br/>Statistics.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Census, 1900.<br/>United States--Politics and government--Statistics.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Occupation: </label><br/>Educators.<br/>Statisticians.