Robert R. McCormick. Cantigny Farm correspondence
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Scope and Contents
Correspondence, clippings and other material concerning Cantigny Farm near Wheaton, Illinois, and the farm on the Fox River west of Yorkville in Kendall County, Illinois (sometimes called the "experimental farm"), both owned by Col. Robert R. McCormick (owner and editor of the Chicago tribune). The correspondence is chiefly between McCormick on the one hand and Homer Neisz, Gail W. Compton or Richard T. Orr on the other. (Neisz, Compton and Orr were, successively, farm editors at the Tribune, and wrote the "Day by day on the farm" column; their duties appear to have included regular visits to Cantigny. Some correspondence is between them and third parties.) The McCormick correspondence is chiefly concerned with details of running the farms, coupled with suggestions for related newspaper columns.
Dates
- 1939 - 1954
Creator
- McCormick, Robert R. (Robert Rutherford), 1880-1955 (Person)
- Compton, Gail, 1915-1996 (Person)
- Neisz, Homer (Person)
- Orr, Richard T., 1915-1998 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on use of the materials in the department for research; all patrons must comply with federal copyright regulations. This collection is stored off-site and requires two business days advance notice for retrieval. Please contact the McCormick Library at specialcollections@northwestern.edu or 847-491-3635 for more information or to schedule an appointment to view the collection.
Biographical / Historical
Homer Neisz was the Tribune's farm editor, 1939-1940. Gail W. Compton (born 1915-03-01, Chicago, Ill.) was the farm editor, 1940-1949. (He starred in the WGN-TV program "The pet shop" from 1951-1953.) Richard T. Orr (born 1915-02-15, Springfield, Ill.) became the farm editor on 1949-05-09.
Extent
1 Boxes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Correspondence, clippings and other material concerning Cantigny Farm near Wheaton, Illinois, and the farm on the Fox River west of Yorkville in Kendall County, Illinois (sometimes called the "experimental farm"), both owned by Col. Robert R. McCormick (owner and editor of the Chicago tribune). The correspondence is chiefly between McCormick on the one hand and Homer Neisz, Gail W. Compton or Richard T. Orr on the other. (Neisz, Compton and Orr were, successively, farm editors at the Tribune, and wrote the "Day by day on the farm" column; their duties appear to have included regular visits to Cantigny. Some correspondence is between them and third parties.) The McCormick correspondence is chiefly concerned with details of running the farms, coupled with suggestions for related newspaper columns.
Arrangement
Arranged in broad chronological groups, identified as found in the original folder captions. The periods covered by some groups overlap. Some groups contain a very few scattered items outside the dates indicated.
Custodial History
Gift of Martha Bayless (professor, University of Oregon, Eugene), a family friend of Richard Orr
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Received from the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, Chicago Tribune Company, and Nexstar Media Group on January 10, 2020, accession #SPEC-2020-1.
Processing Information
Formerly assigned the temporary identifier XI-357
- Title
- Guide to the Robert R. McCormick. Cantigny Farm correspondence
- Author
- Gary L. Strawn
- Date
- 2021-08-17
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Library Details
Part of the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections Repository
Deering Library, Level 3
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston IL 60208-2300 US
847-491-3635
specialcollections@northwestern.edu