Vrooman, Carl Schurz 1872-1966 creator mixed material monographic eng 4,750 14 5.4 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. Open to research. 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 Publicists Public officials Scott, Julia Green, 1839-1923 Vrooman, Frank Buffington, 1862-1951 Vrooman, Hiram, 1871- Vrooman, Julia Scott. Vrooman, Walter, 1869- mm 81075817 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012190 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012190.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012190 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012190.3 Open to research. DLC 820107 20260227111710.0 mm 81075817