04632cpcaa2200769 4500 mm 81075817 DLC 20260227111710.0 cr ||||||||||| 820107|||||||||||| eng mm 81075817 DLC dacs DLC DLC R lcmd Vrooman, Carl Schurz, 1872-1966. Carl Schurz Vrooman papers, 1872-1975 (bulk 1890-1975). 4,750 items. 14 containers. 5.4 linear feet. Open to research. Correspondence, diaries, speeches, writings, and other papers of Vrooman and Scott family members, chiefly Vrooman; his wife, Julia Scott Vrooman; his mother-in-law, Julia Green Scott; and his brothers, Frank Buffington Vrooman, Hiram Vrooman, and Walter Vrooman. Subjects include agriculture and agricultural policy, especially during Vrooman's tenure as assistant secretary of agriculture in the Woodrow Wilson presidential administration; social life in Washington, D.C., in the early twentieth century; and Vrooman's interest in religion and spirituality. Includes material pertaining to Carl G. Bickel and the Farmers' Political Conference of Illinois; the poet Vachel Lindsay; the founding of Ruskin Hall, Oxford; a deposition of Carl Schurz Vrooman in a case concerning the Scott-Lees Collegiate Institute, Jackson, Ky.; and the "Wisconsin matter" of 1917 in which Vrooman questioned the wartime loyalty and leadership of the University of Wisconsin. Vrooman's correspondents include Louis Dembitz Brandeis, William Jennings Bryan, Paul H. Douglas, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, Edward Mandell House, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Correspondents of Julia Scott Vrooman include Mary Baird Bryan, Vachel Lindsay, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai E. Stevenson (1900-1965), and Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. Farmer, publicist, and U.S. assistant secretary of agriculture. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012190 Bickel, Carl G. Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941 Correspondence. Bryan, Mary Baird, 1861-1930 Correspondence. Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925 Correspondence. Douglas, Paul H. (Paul Howard), 1892-1976 Correspondence. Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923 Correspondence. Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964 Correspondence. House, Edward Mandell, 1858-1938 Correspondence. Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931. Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931 Correspondence. Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971 Correspondence. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 Correspondence. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 Correspondence. Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 Correspondence. Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt, 1872-1961 Correspondence. Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924. Scott family. Vrooman family. United States. Department of Agriculture. Farmers' Political Conference of Illinois. Ruskin Hall, Oxford. Scott-Lees Collegiate Institute. University of Wisconsin. Agriculture United States. Agriculture and state United States. Patriotism. Religion. Spirituality. World War, 1914-1918 United States. Washington (D.C.) Social life and customs. Farmers. itoamc Publicists. itoamc Public officials. itoamc Scott, Julia Green, 1839-1923. Julia Green Scott papers. Vrooman, Frank Buffington, 1862-1951. Frank Buffington Vrooman papers. Vrooman, Hiram, 1871- Hiram Vrooman papers. Vrooman, Julia Scott. Julia Scott Vrooman papers. Vrooman, Walter, 1869- Walter Vrooman papers. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012190 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012190.3 43268 43268