Walter Francis Willcox papers
Contributors: Kennedy, J. C. G. (Joseph Camp Griffith), 1813-1887
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12000
Subjects: Correspondence; Statistics; Divorce; Cornell University; Hygiene; Census, 1900; Demography; Faculty; African Americans; Universities and colleges; Population
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, books, articles, scrapbooks, and other materials relating primarily to Willcox's career as professor of economics and statistics at Cornell University (1891-1931) and as chief statistician for the 12th U.S. census (1899-1902).  Subjects include demography, divorce, hygiene, international cooperation in collecting statistics, and African American population studies.  Includes diary (1851) of and other papers relating to J.C.G. Kennedy.  Correspondents include Carl Lotus Becker, Joseph A. Hill, Herman Hollerith, Harold Joseph Laski, S.N.D. North, Stuart A. Rice, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jacob Gould Schurman, Henry Lewis Stimson, Alfred Holt Stone, F.W. Taussig, Arthur H. Vandenberg, Cressy L. Wilbur, and Carroll Davidson Wright.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition only of Stuart A. Rice correspondence, 1938-1965, available, no. 13,770.

Microfilm of originals in private hands.

Private

Gift and bequest, Walter F. Willcox, 1931-1965.

Purchase, 1967.

Statistician and professor of economics.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.