| LC control no. | nr 92006435 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Stetson, John B., Jr. (John Batterson), 1884-1952 |
| Variant(s) | Stetson, John B. (John Batterson), 1884-1952 Stetson, John Batterson, Jr. 1884-1952 |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1884-10-14 |
| Death date | 1952-11-15 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Elkins Park (Pa.) |
| Field of activity | Business enterprises History Learning and scholarship Rare books |
| Affiliation | John B. Stetson Hat Company Anderson Galleries, Inc. John B. Stetson University Florida State Historical Society American Antiquarian Society Bucknell University Harvard University New York Stock Exchange United States. Army |
| Profession or occupation | Businessmen Historians Scholars Book collectors Diplomats lcsh |
| Found in | Keats, J. ALS to Fanny Brawne, 1820 July 5 (former owner; name not given) RLIN database, 2/18/92 (hdg.: Stetson, John Batterson, 1884- ; usage: John B. Stetson, Jr.) Dict. Am. bk. collectors (Stetson, John B.; b. 10/11/1884, Philadelphia; d. 11/15/1952, Elkins Park, Pa.; mfgr., bk. collector, partner Anderson Galleries, N.Y., envoy extraordinary to Poland) PPRF files (hdg.: Stetson, John B., Jr., 1884-1952) Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, April 1953, via American Antiquarian Society, website, July 18, 2017 (obituary, signed C.K.S.: John Batterson Stetson Jr.; John B. Stetson, born in Philadelphia, October 14, 1884, a son of John B., the hat manufacturer; B.A. Harvard, 1907; took father's place as a director of the John B. Stetson Company; for fifteen years, had a business interest in the Anderson Galleries; published translation of Pero de Magalhaes' Histories of Brazil; chairman of the Committee on Publication of the the Florida State Historical Society; elected to the American Antiquarian Society in 1923; minister to Poland for 6 years beginning in 1925; succeeded his father as president of the Board of Trustees of John B. Stetson University; trustee of Bucknell University and curator of Portugese literature at Harvard; bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1930 and with Daniel S. Blackman formed the brokerage firm of Stetson and Blackman; expelled from the Exchange, 1933; his collection of rare books sold at the American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, 1935; served in army in both World Wars; died at his home in Elkins Park on November 15, 1952) |
| Associated language | eng |
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