Arthur H. Estabrook papers,
- Author:
- Estabrook, Arthur H. (Arthur Howard), 1885-1973.
- Call Number:
- MSS APAP-069 local
- Abstract:
- Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, and typescripts from his sociological research on eugenics, public health, and housing. Includes genealogical charts, photographs, research notes, maps, clippings, and correspondence from the Jukes family study, 1916-33; typescripts of reports on public housing in Buffalo, New York, 1943-47; interview forms, clippings, letters, memos, and typescripts from a study of crippled children in Buffalo, 1936-47; clippings, letters, memos, research notes, and typescripts from an anti-VD campaign in New York City, 1920-36; and correspondence, court briefs, and photographs from the Carrie Buck trial in Virginia, a case of sterilization of the feeble-minded, 1924-27.
- Historical Note:
- Sociologist. Dr. Arthur Howard Estabrook was born on May 9, 1885, to Arthur Francis and Susan Rebecca (Breck) in Leicester, Massachusetts. Estabrook earned the A.B. degree in 1905 and the A.M. in 1906 from Clark College in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was a fellow and assistant in zoology at Clark in 1906-1907. Estabrook received his Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins in 1910 and was a student at the School of Philanthropy in New York in 1914. Estabrook married Jessie C. McCubbin on October 25, 1911, and married Anne Ruth Medcalf on July 8, 1931, after his first wife's death. He worked in the Eugenics Record Office of Carnegie Institution of Washington (1910-1929) and served as a special investigator for the Indiana State Commission on Mental Defectives (1916-1918). Estabrook traveled to Virginia on behalf of the Eugenics Record Office to study the issues and people involved in the Virginia sterilization case of Carrie Buck. Estabrook served in the U.S. Army in 1918-1920 as a Captain in the Sanitary Corps. He began working for the American Society for the Control of Cancer in 1929 and served as president of the Eugenics Research Association in 1925-1926. Estabrook died on December 6, 1973, in Chatham Center, New York.
- Physical Description:
- 1.2 cu. ft
- Access Terms:
- Access to the collection is unrestricted.
- Custodial History:
- Gift of Arthur H. Estabrook.
- Notes:
- Part of the Business, Literary, and Miscellany Collection. local
- Subjects:
- Involuntary sterilization Virginia, Miscegenation, Heredity, Human, Public health, Housing New York (State) Buffalo, Children with disabilities New York (State) Buffalo, Public welfare, Sociology, Eugenics, Sexually transmitted diseases, Children with disabilities, Eugenics, Heredity, Human, Housing, Involuntary sterilization, Miscegenation, Public health, Public welfare, Sexually transmitted diseases, and Sociology
- Genres/Forms:
- Correspondence. aat and Bibliography. aat
- Names:
- Estabrook, Arthur H. (Arthur Howard), 1885-1973, Juke family, Buck, Carrie, 1906-1983, Buck, Carrie, 1906-1983, Estabrook, Arthur H. (Arthur Howard), 1885-1973, and Juke family
- Geographic Terms:
- New York (State) Buffalo and Virginia
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