George Dodd Carrington, 1879-1969 [RG1008.AM]

HISTORY NEBRASKA MANUSCRIPT FINDING AID

RG1008.AM: George Dodd Carrington, 1879-1969

Auburn, Nemaha County, Nebraska: Superintendent of Schools
Scrapbook: 1916-1968
Size: One volume

BACKGROUND NOTE

George Dodd Carrington, Jr., son of George Dodd and Mary Minerva (Hendershot) Carrington, was born at Brownville, Nebraska, April 5, 1879. From 1904-1909 he served as the County Superintendent of Schools in Auburn, Nemaha County, Nebraska. According to his World War I draft registration, he served as the Over Seas Secretary for the YMCA in New York City. After World War I, Carrington ran a Navy Exchange ship’s store at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois for twenty-five years. He died in Illinois in November of 1969.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This collection consists of one item, a scrapbook compiled by George Carrington. The scrapbook is composed almost entirely of letters received from various individuals. Also included are a few newspaper clippings, photographs and other ephemera. The materials date from 1916-1968. A name index to the scrapbook was provided by Carrington.  Note: Page 29-30 had been removed and was re-inserted between pages 108-109.

INVENTORY

Scrapbook

Index to Letters (page number)

Angle, Paul – Chicago Historical Society (79, 87)
Barr, Clinton – of Hastings, Dean of Men-Milwaukee Normal School (92)
Brooke, Edward – Senator, Massachusetts (108)
Brooks, Phillip C. – Director, Harry S. Truman Library (20)
Brownell, Herbert, Jr. – U.S. Attorney General (22)
Brownell, Herbert – professor, Peru State Normal School (24, 25)
Carson, Rachel – scientist, author of Silent Spring (62)
Chase, Stuart – writer (23)
Clark, Ramsey – U.S. Attorney General (89)
Colliers Magazine (75)
Combo, Chiri – high school senior (58)
Comport, Joleen – poem, “Lovely Little Girl Friend” (66)
Cousins, Margaret – writer (with photo) (49, 85)
Cronkite, Walter – CBS broadcaster (65)
Danker, Dr. Donald F. – historian, Nebraska State Historical Society (87)
Davidson, Carter – commentator (38)
Dawson, Jack – post master, Trenton, N.J. (90-91)
Debs, Eugene – (also Theodore D.) – controversial Socialist in prison (27)
Dedmon, Emmett – editor, scholar, Chicago Sun Times (born in Auburn, Neb.) (93)
Dirksen, Everett – senator, Illinois (83)
Douglas, Paul – senator, Illinois (18, 19, 82)
Douglas, William O. – judge, Supreme Court (67)
Drummond, Roscoe – columnist (60)
Eduardo, Frank – news commentator, TV (16)
Fells, Mary – single tax (16)
Ferber, Edna – novelist (55)
Fontaine, Frank – actor, singer, humorist (photo) (63)
Friendly, F.W. – CBS (41)
Fulbright, J.W. – senator, Arkansas (16, 66)
Gallery, D.V. – admiral, U.S. Navy (15)
Garbo, Greta – actress (98)
Goldberg, Arthur – ambassador, United Nations (77)
Graffis, Herb – columnist, writer, Chicago Sun Times (21, 44, 45, 51)
Grazeadei, J.H. – Commander, Supply Corps, U.S. Navy (photo) (88, 94, 95)
Grubert, Carl – cartoonist (The Berrys) (29)
Harriman, Averell – ambassador, ex-Governor of New York (80)
Harris, Fred R. – senator, Washington (109)
Hepburn, Katharine – actress (98, 99)
Hoff, P.J. – weatherman, CBS-TV (with cartoon) (64)
Holly, William H. – judge (8)
Hoover, Herbert – President of the United States (9)
Johnson, F.E. – mayor, Brownville, Nebraska (proc. on Gen. Grant’s funeral) (back cover)
Kefauver, Estes – senator, Tennessee (34, 43)
Kelsey, Frances O. – doctor, HEW Drugs (52)
Kennedy, Edward – senator, Massachusetts (103)
Kerr, Clark – president, University of California (84)
Kiechel, Doane – judge, Lincoln, Nebraska (107)
Kim, Ungyong – Korean genius (96, 97)
Landers, Ann – columnist, Chicago Sun Times (36)
Life Magazine (12)
Lippmann, Walter – columnist, writer (40)
Lovering, Library of Congress, Washington, DC (53, 56, 57)
McCabe, Joseph – historian, writer, lecturer (26)
McInnes, Helen (101)
McNamara, Robert S. – Secretary of Defense (105, 106)
McPhearson, General (6)
Malik, Charles – ambassador, Lebanon (10)
Marshall, G.C. – general, U.S. Army (Marshall Plan) (7)
Mauldin, Bill – cartoonist (76)
Mears, Library of Congress (55-57)
Minow, Newton – Secretary of Commerce (46)
Morse, Wayne – senator, Oregon (17)
Murrow, Edward R. – reporter, TV commentator (13)
Pandit, Mme. Vijaya L. – India, former United Nations President (11)
Pearson, Drew – columnist (48, 50, 61)
Peterson, Val – ex-Governor, Nebraska (59)
Reedy, William Marion – St. Louis Mirror (3, 32, 33)
Reuther, Walter – labor leader (73)
Reynolds, Frank – reporter (30)
Roosevelt, Eleanor – Former First Lady (28)
Sandburg, Carl – poet (47)
Scofield, Lillian – librarian, Auburn (29)
Sevareid, Eric – writer, CBS-TV broadcaster, historian (37, 43, 73, 78)
Sinclair, Upton – novelist (2)
Smith, Howard – TV commentator (39)
Smith, Lois – artist (photo) (104)
Stalin, Svetlana – daughter of Joseph Stalin (photo) (100)
Stevenson, Adlai – Governor, Illinois, U.N. Ambassador (14, 42)
Stienberg, William – Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (110)
Strickler, Kenneth – commander, U.S. Navy (68)
Tarbell, Ida – novelist, Lincoln biographer (31)
Thomas, Norman – Socialist leader, presidential candidate (photo) (69-71)
Tracy, Spencer – actor (99)
Traubel, Horace – poet, literary executor of Walt Whitman (1, 5)
Welty, Paul – Political science professor, Northern Illinois Univ. (102)
Weston, Mrs. J.W. – Lincoln’s flower girl, nomination convention (16)
Williams, Mona (Mrs. Meade) – writer (86)


Revised TMM          12-06-2016