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Childs, (Mrs.) William Oscar Manuscript Collection

Coverage: 
1926–1956
Source: 
Papers, .66 foot

Description
Philanthropist. Correspondence (1926–1955) concerning the Childs family’s move to Oklahoma in the 1920s and William O. Childs’s subsequent involvement in the Oklahoma oil industry, as well as his membership in the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, his death in 1936, and Mrs. Childs’s memorial gifts of chime carillons to the Scottish Rite Temple, Guthrie, Oklahoma, and to the University of Oklahoma in 1955. Included are the acceptance speech (1956) at the University of Oklahoma’s dedication of the chimes and an original purchase agreement (1955) for one of the three chimes Mrs. Childs donated.