TY - GEN AU - Ayres,Leonard Porter AU - Young,Agnes Brooks TI - Leonard Porter Ayres papers, KW - Goldsmith, Alan Gustavus, KW - Herter, Christian Archibald, KW - Ayres family KW - United States KW - War Department KW - War Manpower Commission KW - Allied Powers (1919- ) KW - Reparation Commission KW - Cleveland Foundation KW - Survey Committee KW - Cleveland Trust Company KW - Russell Sage Foundation KW - Education KW - Ohio KW - Cleveland KW - Puerto Rico KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Reparations KW - Statistics KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Europe KW - Description and travel KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Social life and customs KW - Army officers KW - itoamc KW - Economists KW - Educators KW - Statisticians N1 - Open to research N2 - Correspondence, memoranda, journals, reports, notes, subject files, printed matter, statistical tables and graphs, clippings, and other papers relating chiefly to Ayres's career as a statistician, military officer, and educator. Documents his service as chief statistical officer for the U.S. War Dept. during World War I, technical adviser to the Allied Powers Reparation Commission as part of the Dawes Committee in 1924, consultant to the War Dept. between the wars, and statistical coordinator for the War Dept. and consultant to the U.S. War Manpower Commission during World War II. Also documents his years as an educator in Puerto Rico, 1902-1908; his work with the Cleveland Foundation Survey Committee, Cleveland Trust Company, and Russell Sage Foundation; and his travels in Europe. Subjects include education, especially in Puerto Rico and Cleveland, Ohio; and the American colonial administration and life in Puerto Rico. Includes a journal kept by Agnes Brooks Young as Ayres's secretary at the War Dept. and War Manpower Commission, a file of correspondence between Christian Herter and Alan Goldsmith relating to the Dawes Committee, and Ayres family correspondence ER -