LAWRENCE WILKERSON WALLACE PAPERS
Biographical Note
1881
Born, August 59 in Webberville, Texas, son of William
Davis and Caledonia Clementine (Fowler) Wallace.
1903
\ B.S., Texas A & M College
1903-1906
Special apprentice-Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe at
Cleburne, Texas
1906-1913
Assistant Professor-Railroad and Industrial Management,
Purdue University
1907
M. K. T. RR Co., Parsons, Kansas
1910
A. T. and Santa Fe RR - test department, Topeka, Kansas
1910-1911
American Steel Foundry, Granite City, Illinois
1913-1917
Professor - Railroad and Industrial management - Purdue University
1917-1919
Assistant General Manager - Diamond Chain and Manufacturing
Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
1919-1921
Director, Red Cross Institute for the Blind (training men
blinded in World War 1), Baltimore, Maryland
1921-1934
Executive Secretary, American Engineering Council, Washington,
D. C. (served on Committees and largely responsible
for reports issued by Council)
1932
Honorary degree - Engineering - Purdue University
1934
2nd marriage, to Lulu M. Arey
1934
Vice President, W. S. Lee Engineering Corporation, Washington, D. C.
1935-1937
Director of Engineering Research, Association of American
Railroads, Chicago
1937-1941
Director of Engineering and Research Division, Crane
Company, Chicago.
1941-1947
Vice President - Trundle Engineering Company, Cleveland, Ohio
1943
Honorary degree - Engineering - Texas A. & M.
1947-1949
President - Wallace, Wright & Van Fossen, Inc.
1949-1953
Owner, Lawrence W. Wallace Associates [Cincinnati, Ohio?]
1952
Conference leader - Top Management Seminar, Ordinance
Management, Engineering Training Agency, Rock Island Arsenal
Children:
Ouida Kathryn
Marjorie Louise (Mrs. Carder Welles)
Decorations:
Cross of Knight of Order of White Lion (Czechoslovakia)
Organizations:
Purdue Research Foundation (Director)
National Councilor, Texas A. & M. Research Foundation
Division of Engineering and Industrial Research,
National Research Council
Indiana State Council Defense, World War I
Indianapolis War Chest
Chairman of Board, Eyesight Conservation Council of America, 1920-1930
Secretary and member, Advisory Committee on Patent
Office Procedure, 1925 - appointed by Secretary of Interior
Member, Advisory Committee, Washington Branch, International Labor
Offices 1925
Fellow, American Institute Industrial Engineers
Member, American Society Public Administration
Member, Academy of Organizational Science
Member, American Academy of Political and Social Science
Member, Society for Promotion of Engineering Education
Society for Advancement of Management (president, Cleveland chapter,
1941-1942)
Industrial Research Institute (chairman, 1941)
Pi Tau Sigma
Acacia
Tau Beta Pi
Honorary member, Masaryk Academy of Work, Prague
Institute of Scientific Management, Poland
Methodist church
Member of planning committee, Division of Simplified
Practice, Department of Commerce (1925-1931)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (vice president 1938-1939)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
A.F. & A.M. (past master, Lafayette Lodge)
Masonic Lodge of Indiana (past grand lecturer)
Raaba Shrine
32nd degree, Mason
Society of Industrial Engineers (representative, 1921)
Indiana Engineering Society
Washington Society of Engineers
Engineers' Club of Philadelphia
Washington Academy of Science
Clubs:
Cosmos (Washington, D. C.)
Bannockburn
Author:
Car Design, 1913
Fire Losses-Locomotive Sparks, 1923
Editor of various reports of American Engineering Council
Steel Freight Car Design
Chapter on Engineering and Government in Toward Civilization
Co-author of section in Managements handbook
Contributed numberous articles on railway and industrial engineering
problems in procedures and transactions of professional societies.
Address:
413 E. 15 Street, Davenport, Iowa (home)
Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois (office)
Folder List Correspondence File
Box Contents
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Frederick, William G. (1958-1963)
Goddard, Mrs. Robert H. (1958-1960)
Hoover, Herbert C. (1925-1960)
Lewis, Eugenia (1970)
Oliphant, A. C. (1970)
Richey, Lawrence (1928-1929)
Subject File
Box Contents
1 (Cont.)
American Engineering Council: An Experiment in
American Engineering Council Minutes,
Executive Board, March 23, 1923
American Engineering Council Roster of
Members, 1921-1930
"A Birthday Letter to Herbert Hoover,"
Lewis Strauss, Reader's Digest, August 10, 1961
Book Review of Eugene Lyon's Herbert Hoover
"The Crisis and the Political Parties," Herbert Hoover
Atlantic Monthly, August 1937
"The Ex-President Looks On."
The Christian Science Monitor, May 16, 1934
"Fellow of AIIE," (Herbert Hoover)
Journal of Industrial Engineering, Sept., Oct. 1961
Herbert Clark Hoover,
National Cyclopedia of American Biography
Hoover Gold Medal for 1936:
Ambrose Swasey Recipient
"Herbert Hoover in his Own Words,"
Davenport Times-Democrat, August 21, 1964
"Herbert Hoover as I Know Him" by Vernon Kellogg and
"The Young Hoovers" by Charlotte Kellogg
"The Hoover Business League"
Pamphlet, n.d.
"Hoover's Chances"
The Literary Digest, February 4, 1928
"Hoover . . . Felicitations of Congress,"
San Angelo Standard-Times, October 9, 1964
"Hoover-For-President"
Business Paper Editorial Advisory Committee
"Hoover-For-President"
Engineer's Committee
"Hoover Off the Record," Theodore Joslin
Redbook, September 1934
"Hoover's Service to Miners"
The Engineer and Scientist, October 3, 1949
Hoover Speeches
4/15/21, "The Economic Administration During the Armistice"
9/29/24, "Government Ownership"
1/14/25, "A Problem of Distribution"
5/21/25, "Reduction of Waste in Government"
10/2/26, "The Organization of Democracy"
4/9/27, "A Remedy for Disappearing Game Fish"
4/30/27, "An Appeal to the American People for Support of
the Mississippi Flood Sufferers"
2/12/36, "The Confused State of the Union"
8/10/49, Palo Alto Birthday Speech
9/28/59, Extract from "The Uncommon Man"
"Hoover's Thoughts on America Today"
San Francisco Call Bulletin, 8/l0/64
International Committee of Scientific Management
". . . Iowa Birthplace Homecoming,"
New York Times, August 8, 1948
"L. P. Alford and the American Engineering Council"
notes by L. W. Wallace
National Electric Manufacturers Association
Hoover letter to Francis Nagle recommending Wallace
"New and Unfinished Business"
The Saturday Evening Post, February 16, 1929
"T. G. Masaryk and Technics," by
Vasil Skarch
"The New Hoover" by William Hard
Review of Reviews, November, 1928
Patent Office
Special References to Herbert Hoover compiled by
L. W. Wallace
Republican National Committee
Invitation to attend formal notification of Mr.
Hoover's Nomination, 11 August, 1932
"Wanted More Millionaires" by
Dean Russell
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Book: Mortimer Elwyn Cooley: His Poetry, Christmas 1936
Notes on Herbert Hoover by Mr. Wallace
Scrapbook, Cartoons and a few clippings