Edmund D. McGarry papers
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, lecture notes, typescripts and reprints of Edmund D. McGarry's speeches and articles, newspaper clippings, publications of the National Association of Teachers of Marketing and Advertising (NATMA), and printed materials concerning marketing and business research.
Materials from McGarry's career before coming to the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1927 include lecture notes from courses in business administration (West Virginia University, 1914, and Columbia University, 1927), publications and newspaper clippings concerning McGarry's work with the Extension Committee of West Virginia University in the 1920s, and correspondence relating to his dissertation. The bulk of the papers date from ca. 1930 to 1955 and document McGarry's career at the State University of New York at Buffalo. They include lecture notes, correspondence, speeches and committee papers.
Materials of particular interest for the State University of New York at Buffalo include a file on communism that contains documents relating to the University's policy on communists and ex-communists on the faculty as well as testimony before investigating bodies in 1953. McGarry was a member of an ad hoc committee appointed by University of Buffalo Chancellor T.R. McConnell in March 1953 to formulate the University's policy. This ad hoc committee drafted a policy statement which was discussed by the Faculty Advisory Committee in March and April, and submitted to the University Council's Committee on General Administration on April 13. The policy was announced to the faculty by Chancellor McConnell in a statement dated May 8, 1953. Additional materials of historic interest include speeches on the history of the School of Business Administration and a memoir of his co-worker in the School of Business Administration and the Bureau of Business and Social Research, Robert Riegel (1890-1970).
McGarry's research in marketing, particularly in the problems of small retail and chain stores, can be found in VI: Marketing, Retailing in Chain Stores, including files on Buffalo, New York firms such as the S.M. Flickinger Company and the Larkin Soap Company.
Professional affiliations are documented by correspondence and printed items from the National Association of Teachers of Marketing and Advertising (NATMA) and related organizations. The papers also include a typescript draft of an unpublished book, How we get along: a sketch of economics, as well as typescripts and reprints of published articles. McGarry's speeches cover a variety of topics in addition to marketing, including his experiences in Great Britain during World War I when he was suspected of being an Irish terrorist, his trips to Africa in the 1960s, and fishing.
Dates
- 1914-1970
Creator
- McGarry, Edmund D. (Edmund Daniels) (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English.
Terms of Access
The bulk of the Edmund D. McGarry Papers are open for research.
Copyright
Copyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the University Archives before publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise specified.
Chronology
- 1891
- Born, Shenandoah Junction, West Virginia
- 1914
- A.B., West Virginia University
- 1914-1915
- History teacher, Hillsboro High School, Hillsboro, West Virginia
- 1917-1918
- Office Manager, Morris Beef Company, London, England
- 1918
- 2nd Lieutenant, United States Army, Field Artillery
- 1919-1920
- Traveling Accountant, United States Income Tax Unit
- 1921
- M.B.A, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration
- 1921-1927
- Assistant to the Associate Professor of Economics, West Virginia University
- 1927-1930
- Assistant Professor of Marketing and Economics, State University of New York at Buffalo
- 1927-1942
- Bureau of Business and Social Research, State University of New York at Buffalo
- 1930-1961
- Professor, Marketing and Economics, State University of New York at Buffalo
- 1931
- Ph.D., Columbia University
- 1932-1956
- Chairman, Marketing Department, State University of New York at Buffalo
- 1933
- President, National Association of Teachers of Marketing and Advertising (predecessor of American Marketing Association)
- 1950-1953
- Faculty Advisory Committee, State University of New York at Buffalo (Chairman, 1951-1953)
- 1952
- Visiting Professor, University of Washington
- 1955-1956
- Fulbright Professor, University of Edinburgh
- 1958-1959
- Visiting Professor of Economics, University of Arizona
- 1961
- Visiting Professor of Marketing, Graduate School of Business Administration, Turin, Italy
- Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Buffalo
- 1964
- Visiting Professor, Inter American University, Puerto Rico
- 1973
- Died, Buffalo, New York
Extent
3 Linear Feet (2 cartons)
Abstract
This collection includes correspondence, lecture notes, typescripts and reprints of Edmund D. McGarry's speeches and articles, newspaper clippings, publications of the National Association of Teachers of Marketing and Advertising (NATMA), and printed materials concerning marketing and business research.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into seven series:
- Education and Early Career
- State University of New York at Buffalo
- Visiting Professorships
- Speeches, Articles, and Books
- Professional Organizations
- Marketing, Retailing, and Chain Stores
- Bureaus of Business Research
Acquisition Information
This collection was donated by Mrs. Edmund McGarry, June 14, 1978.
Accruals and Additions
No further accruals are expected to this collection.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Archives staff in the 1980s.
- Business -- Research Subject Source: Lcnaf
- Clippings (information artifacts) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Communism -- New York (State) -- Buffalo Subject Source: Local sources
- Journals (periodicals) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Lecture notes Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Marketing research Subject Source: Lcnaf
- McGarry, Edmund D. (Edmund Daniels) -- Archives
- National Association of Marketing Teachers
- Reprints Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Speeches (documents) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Teaching, Freedom of -- New York (State) -- Buffalo Subject Source: Local sources
- Typescripts Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- University of Buffalo -- History
- West Virginia University. Extension Committee
Source
- University Archives (Repository, Organization)
- Title
- Finding Aid for Edmund D. McGarry papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Archives staff.
- Date
- 2006
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives Repository
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