Stanley King (AC 1903) Papers, 1895-1967
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King Papers
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26 archives boxes, 1 record storage box, 1 flat box
King, Stanley, 1883-1951
Biographical History for: King Papers
Biographical Note Stanley King (AC 1903) was born in 1883 to Judge Henry Amasa (AC 1873) and Maria Lyon (Flynt) King in Troy, New York. He attended Springfield (Mass.) High School and entered Amherst College in 1900 with the Class of 1903. As an undergraduate he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa. After earning a degree from Harvard Law School (completing the course in the abnormally short space of two years), he was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1906. He held a variety of executive positions with the W. H. McElwain Company, shoe manufacturers in Boston, from 1906 to 1922. In business he demonstrated great skill at settling labor disputes. During World War I, King served first as a member of the Council of National Defense, and in October 1917 he was appointed Confidential Clerk to the Secretary of War, functioning as an advisor to Secretary of War Newton Baker on business matters. King remained in government service through mid-1919 before returning to the McElwain Company. In 1921 he became a trustee of Amherst College. From 1922 to 1927 he was Eastern Manager and Director of the International Shoe Company, Boston. In 1927 he retired from business. In 1932, after traveling extensively for several years, King was appointed the 11th President of Amherst College - the first in the institution's history to have been neither a minister nor educator. As President of Amherst, King was instrumental in developing the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., into one of the most important libraries of its kind. He was also took a great interest in the buildings and grounds of the Amherst campus: the College recovered from the destruction caused by a major hurricane in 1938 by the introduction of new landscaping and the unprecedented construction of new buildings. Under King's administration the campus saw the addition of such buildings as Alumni Gymnasium, Valentine Hall, Memorial Field, Kirby Theatre, James and Stearns dormitories, and the Mead Art Building. In the 1930s, President King led the College through the crisis of the Great Depression by achieving financial solutions that enabled Amherst to avoid annual deficits or reductions in salary. The disruptions of World War II, 1941-1945, were handled with similar effectiveness with a long-range focus on developing a "New Curriculum" for the College to meet modern post-war needs. After retiring as President in 1946, he was President Emeritus until his death in 1951. Stanley King was the author of several books: Recollections of the Folger Shakespeare Library (1950); A History of the Endowment of Amherst College (1950); and "The Consecrated Eminence": The Story of the Campus and Buildings of Amherst College (1952). Upon his death in 1951, Stanley King was survived by his wife, Mrs. Margaret Pinckney Jackson King (whom he married in 1927), a son Richard King (AC 1935), and a daughter, Gertrude King. (Stanley King's first wife, Gertrude, died in 1923.)
Scope and Contents of the Collection Correspondence, speeches, articles, scrapbooks, awards, photographs and other materials docu-menting the personal and professional life of Stanley King and his wife Margaret P. Jackson King. Correspondence includes chiefly personal letters to and from King during his business career, 1914-1929, and presidency of Amherst College, 1932-1951; also correspondence related to his work as special assistant to the Secretary of War, 1917-1919. Correspondents include Newton D. Baker, Ernest M. Hopkins, Felix Frankfurter and Frederick J. E. Woodbridge. Amherst College materials include speeches, reports and articles (many published in the Alumni Council News), and correspondence related to King's publications. Personal papers include boyhood letters; scrapbooks; diaries of travel and undergraduate years, 1896-1919; genealogical information; drawn portraits; and photographs. Notes from Gertrude Besse Toll are included as well, in Series 8, with some contextual information. Mrs. King's papers include family correspondence, an oral history interview, and records related to the Kings' private residence on Lincoln Avenue in Amherst.
Amherst College -- History -- Sources
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Amherst College -- Presidents
College presidents
World War, 1914-1918
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Baker, Newton Diehl, 1871-1937
Hopkins, Ernest Martin, 1877-1964
King, Margaret P.
Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965
Woodbridge, Frederick James Eugene, 1867-1940
Amherst College. Class of 1903. King.
Folger Shakespeare Library
United States. War Dept.
W.H. McElwain Co.
series
Section 1: CORRESPONDENCE, 1914-1967
Personal Correspondence
From Europe 1914-1916
From Africa 1928
From Asia 1929
From abroad 1928-1929
From King to friends: A-Z
To and from Felix Frankfurter
To and from Ernest M. Hopkins
To King: A-Z
Business Correspondence - Non-Amherst College
To and from Newton D. Baker and Ralph Hayes (re: Baker)
To and from War Department and Newton D. Baker
From the government containing offers to go to Washington
Correspondence - Amherst College
To and from Frederick J.E. Woodbridge
Miscellaneous
Meiklejohn honorary degree
Second Century Fund - new committee
Second Century Fund
Mead Art Building
Letters from Margaret R. Emerson
Library correspondence
Congratulatory letters on election to Presidency of Amherst College: A-B 1932
Congratulatory letters on election to Presidency of Amherst College: C-E 1932
Congratulatory letters on election to Presidency of Amherst College: F-G 1932
Congratulatory letters on election to Presidency of Amherst College: H-L 1932
Congratulatory letters on election to Presidency of Amherst College: M-O 1932
Congratulatory letters on election to Presidency of Amherst College: P-R 1932
Congratulatory letters on election to Presidency of Amherst College: S-T 1932
Congratulatory letters on election to Presidency of Amherst College: V-W 1932
Committee for a New President: A-D
Committee for a New President: E-H
Committee for a New President: K-M
Committee for a New President: N-V
Committee for a New President: W
Congratulatory letters on ten years of service to Amherst College
Congratulatory letters on speeches during administration: A-B
Congratulatory letters on speeches during administration: C-E (includes letter from Calvin Coolidge)
Congratulatory letters on speeches during administration: F-H
Congratulatory letters on speeches during administration: J-L
Congratulatory letters on speeches during administration: M-N
Congratulatory letters on speeches during administration: O-R
Congratulatory letters on speeches during administration: S-T
Congratulatory letters on speeches during administration: V-W
Letters concerning retirement: A-C
Letters concerning retirement: D-F
Letters concerning retirement: G-J
Letters concerning retirement: K-M
Letters concerning retirement: N-R
Letters concerning retirement: S-Z
Letters of condolence on death: A-K
Letters of condolence on death: L-Z
Telegrams of condolence
Letters concerning death of Mrs. King
Section 2: MANUSCRIPT SPEECHES, 1920-1951
Worksheets for various speeches
College buildings ? typescript
College life ? typescript
College administration ? typescript
Speeches 1920?1931
Speeches 1932?1934
Speeches (bound volume) 1932?1934
Speeches 1935
Speeches 1936?1937
Speeches 1938?1939
Speeches 1940?1941
Speeches 1942?1943
Speeches 1944?1945
Speeches 1946?1951
Report to Board of Trustees on Trustee Minutes
Program of American Academy of Political Science dinner 1933 Nov
Prayer and blessing often used by President King
Poem to Harry deForest Smith by President King, 1939 Sep
Report to Board of Trustees 1934 Oct 2
"Problem of Evil," undergraduate thesis for Prof. Garman
Section 3: PUBLISHED SPEECHES AND ARTICLES, 1929-1950
"Odd Chapter," Autobiographical material n.d.
Amherst Alumni Council News, Vol. II, No. 6, "Address by Stanley King" 1929 Jul
Amherst Alumni Council News, Vol. VI, No. 4, "President King's Inaugural Address" 1933 Mar
Amherst Alumni Council News, Supplement 2 to Vol. VI, No. 4, "Educating Your Son" (7 copies) 1933 Mar
Amherst Alumni Council News, Vol. VII, No. 2, "Address" 1933 Dec
Amherst Alumni Council News, Vol. VIII, No. 2, "Address" 1934 Dec
Amherst Alumni Council News, Vol. XX, No.2, "Address" 1946 Dec
"The Organization of Industry and Labor," reprint from the Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, Vol. VIII, No. 3 (4 copies) 1939 May
"Unemployment Reserves and Insurance Programs," reprint from the Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science (2 copies) 1934
"In Praise of Politicians," reprint from the American Scholar (7 copies) 1934 Jan
Report of the President to the Board of Trustees (4 complete sets) 1933?1946
Speeches and dedications of Johnson Chapel, Frank L. Babbott Room, and Harold J. Pratt Pool
Address delivered on the 40th anniversary of the pastorate of the Rev. Edwin Bradford Robinson 1942 Feb 22
"A Trustee of Amherst College" (on Dwight Morrow), pages from the Amherst Graduate's Quarterly
"Some problems of college administration" (printed pamphlet), address delivered at Williams College (6 copies) 1936 Feb 22
Amherst College Chapel Talk 1935 Oct 7
"Recollections of the Folger Shakespeare Library," (printed pamphlet), published for the Trustees of Amherst College, Cornell University Press 1950
Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science, vol. XVIII, no. 3, "The Organization of Industry and Labor for War" May 1939
Section 4: CORRESPONDENCE CONCERNING PUBLICATIONS, 1950-1955
subseries
Sub-Section A: Books by King
Consecrated Eminence ? orders
Consecrated Eminence ? correspondence
Consecrated Eminence ? correspondence concerning free distribution of book
Recollections of the Folger Shakespeare Library - correspondence
A History of the Endowment of Amherst College ? correspondence (See pamphlet box 24 for copy of book sent to Arthur Stanley Pease)
A History of the Endowment of Amherst College, Recollections of the Folger Shakespeare Library ? acknowledgements
Sub-Section B: Books about King
Stanley King of Amherst by Claude M. Fuess ? correspondence
Letters to Claude M. Fuess about King
Stanley King of Amherst ? misc. correspondence
Stanley King of Amherst ? letters about King
Stanley King of Amherst ? thank you letters to Mrs. King
Stanley King of Amherst ? correspondence
Stanley King of Amherst ? business arrangements
Stanley King of Amherst ? contracts (See pamphlet box 24 for copy of book sent to Arthur Stanley Pease)
Section 5: AMHERST LIFE, 1895-1952
Inauguration ? programs, Inaugural address, newspapers clippings, etc.
Inauguration ? Amherst Graduate's Quarterly; Amherst Alumni Council News (bound issues) 1932-1933
Newspaper clippings ? press releases from Amherst College
Newspaper clippings
Newspaper clippings about Gertrude King (S.K.'s daughter)
Scrapbook with newspaper clippings
Scrapbooks with newspaper clippings 1932-1934, n.d.
Scrapbook with newspaper clippings 1941
Notebooks and diaries ? bound volumes of handwritten poetry quotations
Notebooks and diaries: notes on trip to Pacific Coast, 1899; diary of trip to Pacific Coast and Alaska, 1899; diary of a trip to Europe, 1901; guidebook to Southern California, 1899 1899-1901
Diary of a trip to Europe, 1919; diary of trip to Washington, 1900; diary, 1896; diary, 1915; diary, 1897 1896-1919
Amherst College undergraduate years diary, 1900?1901; cash accounts ? expenses at Amherst College 1900?1903; book record (of books read); vacation notes, 1897 1897-1903
Notepad belonging to King
Scrapbook of Amherst College undergraduate years ca. 1899-1903
Passports
Family birthday lists and birth certificates
Information about family portraits
Notes on King genealogy
Two notebooks compiled by King on family genealogy
The Family by Stanley King ? bound volume about King's relatives (2 copies) 1950
Address in memory of William Norcross Flynt (relative of King) by Rev. F.S. Hatch 1895
Awards and tributes to King: honorary degrees
L.L.D. from Mass. State College: Awards and tributes to King:
Awards and tributes to King: gift from Trustees 1942
Awards and tributes to King gift from Faculty 1942
Awards and tributes to King 1942
Awards and tributes to King 1952
Charities: general
Charities: Boston Atheneum
Charities: Caney Creek Community Center
Charities: Trustees of Reservations
Charities: Trustees of Public Reservations
Clubs and Associations: Association of Owners of Lowlands and Meadows around Chilimark Pond
Clubs and Associations: Harvard Law School Alumni
Clubs and Associations: Doshisha University, Amherst Savings Bank, Monson Academy
Clubs and Associations: Delta Kappa Epsilon, Lake Placid Club, The Pilgrims, Hudson Bay Records Society
Faculty Party 1933
Faculty Party 1934
Faculty Party 1935
Faculty Party 1936
Faculty Party: Ms. of "Murder in the Kitchen" 1937
Faculty Party 1939
Faculty Party 1940
Articles about King: Amherst Alumni Council News, May 1932, "The Presidency," (5 copies); University Club News, Nov. 1932, "Alma Mater, a word portrait of Amherst's new President" 1932
Program of a meeting of the Taylor Society at which King was a speaker 1933
Program of 4th Annual Conference on Current Problems 1934
Programs of events in which King participated 1938?1945
Photographs of King, including boyhood
Photographs of King and also of his second wife, Margaret King
Photographs of King, one photograph of his first wife, Gertrude Besse King, and children
Photographs of King
Photograph album: early snapshots
Photograph album: oversize pictures concerning Amherst College
Photograph album: trips to Nile and South America; small framed photograph of King; photograph album of oversize pictures of Mr. and Mrs. King; two photograph albums of color snapshots, mostly of Kings' home (post-Amherst)
Kodacolor slides and color snapshots of Kings' summer and winter homes; Kodak slide viewer
Section 6: RESIGNATION FROM AMHERST COLLEGE AND DEATH, 1944-1951
"Minutes" of Trustees, Faculty, and Alumni on Kings resignation; copies of Student and Alumni Council News announcing resignation
Memorial tributes to King
Speech by Charles W. Cole about King at his death, Johnson Chapel (original plus 13 copies) 1951
"Stanley King" by Charles W. Cole, reprint from Amherst Alumni News (10 copies) 1951 May
"A Tribute to Stanley King" by George F. Whicher (10 copies)
"Minute adopted at Meeting of the Board of Trustees, ? 'Stanley King'" (15 copies; including one leather bound) 1951 June 9
Amherst Student Memorial Issue to King, June 9, 1951 (11 copies); Amherst Student Extra, April 28, 1951 (4 copies) 1951
Rubbings of Stanley King memorial stone on Martha's Vineyard by Charles Rogers; snapshot of memorial stone
Section 7: MRS. KING, 1922-1962
Report by Margaret King on campus planting
Correspondence re retirement
Transcript of recorded conversation between Margaret King and Horace Hewlett, secretary of the College
Report of Margaret King as Alumnae trustee of Vassar
Article by Margaret Pinckney Allen (Mrs. King) entitled "Adjectivity" in The Trend 1922 Sep
Miscellaneous correspondence to Mrs. King
Personal letters to Mrs. King 1932?1946
Correspondence with Mrs. King's family (relatives)
Correspondence concerning Mrs. King's death
King house on Lincoln Avenue, Amherst (former Joshua Crosby House, Enfield, Mass.) - Correspondence, receipts, etc. [Acc. # 79-029] 1937-1962
King House on Lincoln Avenue, Amherst - Correspondence, receipts, etc. [Acc. # 79-029] 1936-1948
King House on Lincoln Avenue, Amherst [Acc. # 79-029] 1939-1948
King House on Lincoln Avenue, Amherst [Acc. # 79-029] 1936-1954
King house on Lincoln Ave., Amherst; photograph of house
Section 8: IMAGES ca. 1880-1960
Sub-Section A: Stanley King
Framed Picture of King with Amherst Trustees 1933
Stanley King and Sister Carrie ca. 1880
Stanley King, assorted n.d
Stanley King, sitting - mounted photograph n.d
Stanley King's parents, grandfather n.d.
Stanley King, portraits n.d.
Stanley King w/ children [1922]
Sub-Section B: Gertrude Louisa Besse King
Gertrude's Children n.d
Stanley King, and Gertrude King, formal, n.d.
Gertrude, graduation
Stanley King, and Gertrude King, with dog n.d
Sub-Section C: Margaret Allen King
Assorted Materials - photograph album, mounted and loose photographs n.d.
Salt Meadows, Stanley's Boulder, and Margaret n.d.
Sub-Section D: Photograph Albums
African Honeymoon n.d.
Amherst Images n.d
Egypt and the Sudan 1929 Jan
Family photo album #1 , with items on King's appointment to the Amherst presidency ca.1927-1935
Family photo album #2 ca.1950-1960
Ivan and Boris, Sharon house, Ferry to Mt.Vernon, pets, postcards, house on Dedham - photographs, postcards n.d.
Japan, Honeymoon 1928
Kobe-Saigon, scrapbook n.d.
Out of Marseille to the Grand Canyon 1928
Salt Meadows - mounted photographs ca.1931
Salt Meadows, Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard - photographs n.d.
South Beach at Chilmark, scrapbook n.d
Stanley King, camping ca.1930
Stanley King, scrapbook ca.1925-1930
Summer at Chilmark 1928
Switzerland, honeymoon 1927
Switzerland 1927
Section 9: MISCELLANEOUS, ca. 1895-1933
Letters to King's father, Henry A. King, from school principal about Stanley's work in high school ca. 1899-1900
Class Day exercises, Springfield High School (3 copies) 1900
Three letters from King to his father 1895
Biographical material
Genealogical material: letter from SK's grandmother on the birth; genealogical chart by SK as a boy; notes entitled "The Family," written by SK 1883-1950
Correspondence concerning King's health
King's gifts to Amherst College
List of King's books in North College library
Pamphlet on Johnson's Bookstore in Springfield where King worked as a boy
Amherst Honorary degrees ? history
Massachusetts Commission for Stabilization of Employment - correspondence, preliminary report, final report
Framed picture of King and Trustees 1933
History of the Endowment of Amherst College by Stanley King. Copy sent to Arthur Stanley Pease. 1950
Stanley King of Amherst by Claude Fuess. Copy sent to Arthur Stanley Pease 1955