Archives West Finding Aid

Scope and Content: Part I includes biographical materials, correspondence, speeches, financial and legal documents, and campaign materials. The correspondence includes 96 folders of American Legion correspondence dating from 1920 to 1946. Seattle Civil War Commission and United Service Organization Council correspondence includes materials regarding Chadwick's participation in war activities in Seattle. The campaign materials include items related to Chadwick's runs for the U.S. House and Senate in 1926 and 1932, respectively. Materials on the Civilian Military Training Camps consist largely of correspondence, including letters between Chadwick and the state representatives of the Civilian Military Training camps whom he supervised, as well as correspondence with army officers at the base camps and from the U.S. Army 9th Corps Area headquarters in San Francisco.

Scope and Content: Some items containing biographical information have been pulled from the correspondence series; others may still be found in the correspondence series, under "Outgoing Correspondence" as follows:

1926 July 6 and August 9	S. Driver
1926 August 5	Joseph K. Carson, Jr.
1926 August 30	George H. Christianson; David Knott
1926 October 1	J.R. Justice
1926 November 18	Al Smith
1927 January 27	H.S. Smith
1927 February 7	Bitzer F. Chadwick
1927 October 10	A. Scott Bullitt
1927 December	Bitzer F. Chadwick
1928 January 25	William Todd; James Geraghty
1928 February 7	William Todd
1928 April 3	Editor of Colfax Examiner
1928 April 16	Bitzer F. Chadwick
1928 May 12	Hugh H. Wallace
1928 June 4 and 5	Stephen James Chadwick
1928 June 5	James Geraghty
1928 December 8	F.D. Roosevelt
1932 September 27	John A. Rea

Scope and Content: American Legion materials are arranged chronologically with no distinction made for individual departments. The following are all included in the American Legion correspondence: National headquarters; all state departments as well as individual posts; National Rehabilitation Committee; Americanism Commission; the Law and Order Committee; the Auxiliary; and the American Legion magazine. The only organization which has been separated from the main body of American Legion papers is the Société des quarante hommes et huit chevaux, which is part of the legion but functions as a separate unit with its own organization. Letters to Chadwick from American Legion agents are filed under the American Legion entry. Those which are from individuals in the legion but which concern personal matters are filed under the personal name. In some cases, both the legion and the individual's files should be examined. Such is the case, for example, with William J. Coniff of Port Angeles, who played a major part in the Chadwick campaign for the position of national commander. The correspondence related to this is filed under Coniff's name because it is essentially personal although dealing with legion affairs. See American Legion, 1937, below, for a complete list of department commander and adjutants, and national committeemen, 1919-1937. American Legion commanders from 1920-1947:

1929

Paul V. McNutt

1930-1931

O.L. Brodenhamer

1931-1932

Henry L. Stevens

1932-1933

Louis A. Johnson

1933-1934

Edward A. Hayes

1934-1935

Frank N. Belgrano

1935-1936

Ray Murphy

1936-1937

Harry Colmery

1937-1938

Daniel Doherty

1938-1939

Stephen F. Chadwick

1939-1940

Raymond J. Kelly

1940-1941

Milo J. Warner

1941-1942

Lynn U. Stambough

1942-1943

Roane Waring

1943-1944

Warren H. Atherton

1944-1945

Edward N. Scheiberling

1945-1946

John Stelle

1946-1947

Paul H. Griffith

National adjutants:

• James F. Barton
• Frank Samuels
• Donald G. Glascoff

Others corresponding with Chadwick as representative of the American Legion:

• Denny, George E.
• Drain, Jesse W.
• Ellis, Clyde R.
• Frasier, Clark W.
• Halligan, Bert L.
• Kibler, Herbert
• Kraabel, T. O.
• Lougaris, I. A.
• McDade, D. M.
• McGrail, Edward
• Moser, Carl R.
• Mundt, William C.
• Newman, Lee L.
• Owen, Thomas M.
• Phillips, Harold
• Powell, Charles L.
• Puschner, Emma C.
• Silver, Max A.
• Snider, Claude C.
• Swale, Thomas N.
• Weingarten, Harry
• Wilson, C. M.
• Wise, Henry A.

Scope and Content: Folder 2/13 contains a complete list of state commanders, adjutants, and national committeemen, 1919-1937.

Scope and Content: The war activities in Seattle, and Chadwick's participation in them, are seen in the files of the Seattle Civilian War Commission and its various subcommittees. One of these is the U.S.O. Council (officially called the Council on Services to the Armed Forces and the U.S.O. Council), of which Chadwick was chairman. This material has been filed under United Service Organizations Council to bring all the United Service Organizations material together and to correspond to the references used throughout the correspondence.

Scope and Content: The war activities in Seattle, and Chadwick's participation in them, are seen it the files of the Seattle Civilian War Commission and its various subcommittees. One of these is the United Service Organizations Council (also called the Council on Services to the Armed Forces), of which Chadwick was chairman. This material has been filed under United Service Organizations Council to bring all the United Service Organizations material together and to correspond to the references used throughout the correspondence.

Scope and Content: Contains agreements, certificates, etc.

Scope and Content: Form letters, financial miscellany, publicity releases, etc.

Scope and Content: Chadwick was not a candidate in 1928, but there are 10 items concerning the Democratic Party.

Scope and Content: The bulk of the material is correspondence, all pertaining to individual camps held in the state of Washington. Chadwick was the state chairman for the Military Training Camps Association of the United States. His immediate supervisor was the Military Training Camps Association chief civilian aide for the 9th Corps Area, Mark L. Geistle, and he, in turn, was supervised by the Civilian Military Training Camps of the United States. Tom R. Wyles and Charles Burrall were the chief aides to the secretary of war from the organization, as each headed the Military Training Camps Association and served as liaison between the Military Training Camps Association and the United States War Department. The camps in the state of Washington were held primarily at Forts Worden, George Wright, and Lewis. Army officers from these bases are well represented in the correspondence. There is much correspondence from the United States Army 9th Corps Area headquarters in San Francisco. There is also material from the United States War Department, the Civilian Military Education Fund, and one 1938 letter from John M. Coffee. Chadwick supervised the state representatives of the C.M.T.C., so these agents are all represented in the collection. The names included are:

• Adams, Hugh H.
• Anderson, J. Harold
• Ankeny, Levi
• Astel, George
• Baldwin, Jack M
• Bennett, Bruce
• Brooks, Z. O.
• Brown, E. K.
• Buck, Sam R.
• Caples, D. Elwood
• Carter, Lee
• Colvin, Ewing D.
• Conniff, Wm. J.
• Deamer, Charles
• Dohm, Edw. C.
• Donley, L. B.
• Frost, Jack
• Johnson, Chas. A.
• Knoebel, E. C.
• Langenback, John
• McCallum, J. D.
• Malloy, Frank B.
• Gakshott, Thomas I.
• O'Connell, L. J.
• Ott, Richard B.
• Powell, Charles L.
• Smith, B. H.
• Starrett, E. Morris
• Strout, E. A.
• Talbott, Walter S.
• Whitman, A. R.
• Wilson, Edw. S.

Scope and Content: The fifteen items included are primarily reports and minutes from the conference.

Scope and Content: The part consists largely of correspondence, financial and legal records, speeches, court papers, and other materials from 1933-1940, with the bulk from 1940.

Scope and Content: One item per name unless otherwise indicated.

Scope and Content: Fred McGree Loyalty Bond Case.

Scope and Content: Includes material on state resources, national defense, and the national program to aid the mineral industry.