DR. FREDERICK MORRIS FEIKER PAPERS
The papers of Dr. Frederick Morris Felker, editor, business management
consultant, engineering society executive, Director of the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce, College Dean, and member of the National
Inventors' Council were given to the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
by Mrs. Frederick M. Felker. The papers arrived at the Library in October,
1969.
Linear feet of shelf space occupied: 11
Approximate number of items: 15,300
Literary rights in the unpublished writings of Dr. Frederick Morris Feiker
are reserved "For the use of his heirs."
Biographical Note
1881, June 14
Born at Northampton, Mass. Son of Frederick Christian and Fanny
Barnes (Thayer).
1904
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Worchester, Mass. Polytechnic Institute.
1906, October 6
Married Elizabeth Baker Campbell.
1906-07
Technical Journalist, General Electric Company.
1907-09
Editor of Factory magazine, Chicago.
1912-15
Chairman of the Editorial Board for Systems and Factory magazines.
1915-18
Editor of Electrical World, New York.
1920-23
Vice-President and Editorial Director of McGraw-Hill Company, Inc.,
publishers of technical and industrial trade journals.
1921
Granted leave absence by McGraw-Hill to assist Secretary of
Commerce Hoover in organizing the commodity divisions of
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
1922-26
Expert consultant to the Department of Commerce and operating
Vice-President of the Society for Electrical Development
(since 1923).
1926 December -- 1931
Managing Director of Associated Business Papers, Inc.
1930
Chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Census of
Distribution conducted by the Department of Commerce.
1931, July -- 1933, June 30
Director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
U.S. Department of Commerce.
1933, June 20
Appointed to direct survey into personnel needs and educational
facilities for the textile industry by the Textile Foundation.
1934
Elected Executive Secretary of the American Engineering
Council, Washington, D.C.
1936--
Educational Consultant for the Textile Foundation.
1938
Honorary E.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
1939, December
Dean, School of Engineering, George Washington University.
1940--c. 1961
Member of the National Inventors' Council, Department
of Commerce. Chairman of its Division of Industry and
Engineering Research, 1946-48 and active on the Council
until c. 1960-61.
1952
Dean Emeritus, School of Engineering, George Washington University.
1953
M.S. in Textile Technology (honorary), Lowell Textile Institute.
1967, January 13
Died at Williamsburg, Mass. Buried at Northampton, Mass.
Children:
Elizabeth Stuart (Mrs. Carl S. Weist)
Capt. Frederick Christian (died in action, 1945)
Gretchen
Barbara Jean (Mrs. H. Franklin Barrus, Jr.)
George Campbell
William Gordon
Janet (Mrs. Robert J. Delaney)
Organizations:
Fellow of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Society for the Advancement of Management (Taylor Society)
American Society for Engineering Education
Washington Society of Engineers
A.A.A.S. Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Sigma Xi Sigma Tau
Theta Tau Phi Psi
Omicron Delta Kappa
Republican
Congregationalist
Clubs:
Engineers (New York City)
Rotary (Washington, D.C.--Honorary)
Cosmos (Washington, D.C.)
Series Description
Box Series
1-23
Subject File 1910-52 and undated. 23 containers.
Clippings, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, photo-
graphs , reports, and statistics. Typescript and
printed copies of articles, editorials, and speeches
by Dr. Feiker, Copies of Factory magazine and mis-
cellaneous printed materials. Arranged by subjects
alphabetically.
24-26
Correspondence 1915-55. 3 containers., Letters
received and carbon copies of letters sent. Arranged
in three chronological subseries: general correspondence,
1915-55, congratulatory correspondence, 1921-40 and
letters of condolence, 1935.
Subject File
Box Contents
1
Academy of Management
Advisory Committee on Statistics., 1924-25 (3 folders)
American Association for Advancement of Science, 1941,45,54
American Engineering Council., 1934-36
American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 1952
American Institute of Consulting Engineers., 1952
American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 1952
American Institute of Industrial Engineers
American Institute of Mining and Metalurgical Engineers
American Society for Engineering Education
Committee on FOA Cooperation., 1952-55
Committee on International Relations, 1953
Correspondence, 1952-54
Printed Matter
American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, 1952
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1953-55
American Society of Refrigerating Engineers, 1950
2
American Standards Association, 1944-47; 53
American Trade Association Executives
Associated Business Papers, Inc. (2folders)
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
1932-34
Circulars and Index
Bureau of Personnel Administration Conferences
1930
1931
3
Conferences., 1932
Business and Professional Leaders, Lists of
Census of Distribution
Christmas List, 1930-32
Clippings
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1929 May - November and Undated
1929 May -- November
1931 May-June
1931 July
1931August -- December
1932
1933
1939-40
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
4
1946
1947-49
1951
1952
1953
1955
Undated c. 1920-33
Undated c. 1940-43
Coca Cola Training Film
Conservation of Manpower in War Industries., National Com mittee for, 1943
Consumers and Producers Foundation of America
Co-Operative Promotional Activities of Various Industries, 1928
Cotton Drawing and Roving, 1935
Cotton Opening and Picking, 1933
Criticism of Department of Commerce
Council for International Progress in Management, Inc.
Davis Brothers Drug Co. 1932
Department of Commerce, 1931
Department of Commerce Building, 1931-32
Department of Commerce Manual of Instructions for Department's
Foreign Representatives, 1920
Election of 1928
Employee Orientation, 1 941
Engineering Index, Inc. 1953-55
5
Engineers' Council for Professional Development, 1953
Engineers' Joint Council, 1951-55
Factory Magazines
1910
January -- May
June -- September
October-November
1911
1912
1913
January, April, May
June-August
6
September-December
1914
January-April
May-August
1915
February, May
Advertising
Federated American Engineering Societies, 1920
Feiker Family
Frederick Christian Feiker 1930; 1943-46
Frederick Morris Feiker
George Campbell Feiker, 1936-41
First Congregational Church, Mt. Vernon, N.Y., 1925-26; 29
Flow of Goods
Food Industry.Trade Publications
Foremen and Supervisors
7
Future Commercial Development of Latin America, Co-Operation
of the U.S. in, 1941
Hoover Administration
Hoover's Nomination Acceptance Speech, 1932
Housing Industry Revival., 1932
"How to Get More Production" 1941
Industrial Publishing, Course in, Units
1-3, 1921
4-6, 1921
7-9, 1921
13-15, 1921
Institute of Business Policy, 1933
Institute of International Education, 1953
Institute of Management Policy, 1940
8
Institute of Management Policy, 1940-41
Institute of Traffic Engineers, 1952
Interparliamentary Union,, 1953
International Cooperation Administration
International Training Administration, 1945
Inter-University Contact (IUC)
Correspondence, 1952-55
Berenschot
Schairer, 1954
Zimmerman
1951-53
1954-55
re: Automation Man for Europe, 1955
re: Personnel for Wholesale Team, 1955
Aims and Purposes
Conferences---'.
Amsterdam, 1955
Birmingham, 1953-- Pre Conference
Birmingham, 1953-- Conference Program
Birmingham, 1953-- Follow-Up
9
Brussels., 1952
Delft., 1952--
Conference Program
Declaration of
Distribution of Dr. Feiker's Speech
Post Conference
Pre Conference
Reports
Speeches
Holland., 1951
Paris, 1955
Correspondence
Speech by Dean Feiker
Speech by Professor Folts on "History of IUC"
Follow Up
Organization and Program
Travel
Photographs
Printed Matter
10
Constitution
Executive Committee Agenda, 1955
Membership, 1953
Memoranda and Reports
Projects and Surveys
MSA-IUC-ECA Traveling Teams, 1953
Lectures and Course Materials
George Washington University
1932
1941
1944
1950
1952
12
1952
Unidentified
Little Fortunes Inc.
McGraw-Hill
Correspondence and Memoranda
Editorial Policies Planning
Electrical World Plans and Policies
Hoover Interim,, 1920-21
Suggestions, 1920-22 and Undated
13
Management Education
Catalogs and Announcements
Conference, 1945
Reports and Speeches
"Marketing Radio Apparatus" 1924
Mutual Security Agency
Contracts and Financial
Productivity Technical Assitance Division, 1953
National Christmas Tree
National Institute for Commercial and Trade Organization Executives,