GEORGE CHASE CHRISTIAN:
An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Christian, George Chase, 1873-1919. | |
| Title: | George C. Christian papers. | |
| Dates: | 1887-1944 (bulk 1887-1929). | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Correspondence, notes, scrapbooks, and miscellany revealing Christian's interest in Shakespeare, aeronautics, genealogy of the Manville family, and education. The collection also includes memordanum books kept by Christian's father George Henry Christian. | |
| Quantity: | 1.9 cubic feet (2 boxes and 5 oversize items in 1 folder). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
George Chase Christian was one of four children born to George Henry Christian (1839-1918), a Minneapolis miller, and his wife Lenora Hall Christian (1845-1916). George Chase Christian married Carolyn McKnight (1875-1964), daughter of Sumner Thomas McKnight (1836-1908) and Eugenia M. Manville (1848-1903) in 1897.
George Henry Christian was born in Alabama in 1839. By 1867 he had arrived in Minneapolis, where he engaged in buying flour. In a few years he was in business with Cadwallader Washburn, whose grain company was eventually known as General Mills. After patenting a grain separation process, Christian left flour milling by 1875 and became involved in the hardwood and paper businesses. In 1916, Christian founded the Citizen's Aid Society.
Lenora Hall Christian was born in 1845 in Salem, Wisconsin. Following the death of their second son, Henry Hall Christian, from tuberculosis in 1905, George Henry and Lenora Hall Christian funded a summer camp on the Mississippi River for children with tuberculosis and Lenora served as vice president of the Anti-Tuberculosis Committee. Following Lenora's death in 1916, the Citizen's Aid Society memorialized her by financing the construction of a building that could care for 60 children with tuberculosis at the Glen Lake Sanatorium.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. George C. Christian papers. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number: 2510; 5678; 5927
Processing Information:
Catalog ID number: 001733292
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
| Box | |||||||||||
| 129.E.9.3B | 1 | Correspondence, 1907, 1926-1929. 3 folders. | |||||||||
| Includes Manville family material. | |||||||||||
| Notes on aeronautics. 2 folders. | |||||||||||
| Mathematical calculations and charts on airplanes. | |||||||||||
| Biography of Dr. James Hall. | |||||||||||
| The Open Air School Movement. | |||||||||||
| General material on Manville Farm. | |||||||||||
| Poems and related material. | |||||||||||
| Includes an idyl entitled "Single Savages." | |||||||||||
| Language notes. | |||||||||||
| Citizens Aid Society of Minneapolis (1916-1944), 1944. | |||||||||||
| George H. Christian memorandum books: | |||||||||||
| Some of the books mention Hardwood Manufacturing Company and Northern Bag Company. | |||||||||||
| Volume 13. 1899. | |||||||||||
| Volume 14. 1909. | |||||||||||
| Volume 15. 1910. | |||||||||||
| Volume 16. 1911. | |||||||||||
| Volume 17. 1912. | |||||||||||
| Volume 18. 1913. | |||||||||||
| Volume 19. 1914. | |||||||||||
| Volume 20. 1915. | |||||||||||
| Volume 21. 1916. | |||||||||||
| Volume 22. 1917. | |||||||||||
| Volume 23. 1918. | |||||||||||
| [0.5 cubic feet empty, legal size] | |||||||||||
| Box | |||||||||||
| 129.E.9.4F | 2 | Volumes: | |||||||||
| No. 1. Spanish-English Dictionary. | |||||||||||
| No. 2. Scrapbook. | |||||||||||
| No. 3. Scrapbook. | |||||||||||
| No. 4. Poems. | |||||||||||
| No. 5. Verbs. | |||||||||||
| No. 6. Quotations from Shakespeare. | |||||||||||
| No. 7. Synonyms and Pneumaties [sic]. | |||||||||||
| No. 8. Pneumaties [sic]. | |||||||||||
| No. 9. Verbs. | |||||||||||
| No. 10. Nouns. | |||||||||||
| No. 11. Ancestral Tablets. | |||||||||||
| No. 12. Correspondence about Chase genealogy. | |||||||||||
| +334 | Oversize Material: | ||||||||||
| Carolyn McKnight Christian pedigree chart, 1898. | |||||||||||
| French aviation table. | |||||||||||
| Invention drawing by George H. Christian. | |||||||||||
| Square aeroplane horizontal flight chart by Charles W. Hastings, 1891. | |||||||||||
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Aeronautics.
- Education -- United States.
- Persons:
- Brockway family.
- Christian, George Henry, 1838-1918.
- Hall family.
- Hall, James, -1889.
- Lyman family.
- Mandeville family.
- Manville family.
- McKnight family.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Document Types:
- Poems.
- Scrapbooks.
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