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Frederic Adrian Delano COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM R e g i s t e r of Papers Processed* MA Dctel 10/26/55 FREDERIC ADRIAN DELAHQ (1863 - 1953) The papers o f Frederic Adrian Delano, railroad p r e s i d e n t , aeaber o f the f i r s t Federal Reserve Board, Colonel o f Engineers i n Vorld War I , Class C Director o f the Federal Reserve Bank o f Richmond and Cfoairaan o f the Board, Chairaen of the Rational Resources Planning Board, are deposited i n three l i b r a r i e s . Those a t Princeton r e l a t e chiefly to Mr. Delano's activities in city planning. Those in the Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park are sore generel and may contain Federal Reserve material* Those in the national Archives at Washington include his vork vith the National Resources Planning Board, of vhich he was for nine years chairman. Prlncetoni Linear feet of shelf spaae occupied* Approximate number of iternsI Hyde Park! Linear feet of shelf space occupied* Approximate number of items: Both collections ere open to qualified students* See Preliminary List of Published md Unpublished Reports of the Rational Resources Planning Board, 1934-43, published by the latioaal Archive** Frederic Adrian Delano II * I «• Biographical Mote 1363, Sept. 10 1385 Born Hong Kong* China A.B., Harvard University iaaa, Nov. 22 Married M&tilde A. Peaseley (2 children) 1885-19U Railroad career, surveyor and apprentice machinist to President C.I. & L. RR. 19U-1S Member, Federal Reserve Board 1918-19 Colonel, Engineer Corps, U.S. Army (World Ver I) 1921-36 Class C Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 1936 Ch&irman and Federal Reserve Agent, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. 1934-43 Chairmen, National Resources Planning Board 1953, Mar. 23 Died c See Who's Who in America, 1950/5l| vol # 26, Marquis Fr«derlo Adrian Delano in - 3 Description of Series A l e t t e r from Mrs. Junes L, Houghteling, daughter of Mr« Frederic Delano, describes a r t e r i a l given to the libraries &t Princeton and Hyde P&rk es follows! *The pepers viiich I have given to Princeton University to planning affairs only, &ad are in point of fact more panphlets and books from the early deys of City Planning* I here tjiven to the Roosevelt Library only tvo fields thus fer f papers relating to my father 1 a Receivership of the Oil fields in dispute between Texas find Oklahomaj and the Mission carried out for the I#eague of Hations to Persia, to study other crops e t c . then opiuas. But before my father 1 s death, his Secretary wes instructed to study end reduce the t o t a l f i l e s , v,nd to offer papers relating to any field vhere the Agencies Eight be interested in requiring the papers to thet agency, I should imagine that some Federal Reserve Ite&s must have gone to the&| find I elso iit&gine thet less important items have been destroyed^ •There i s no invantory of the pepers, but I sh^H §*% out everything related to this subject as soon es possible, &nd then if someone in Washington vsnted to look i t over, they certainly could do so. I have been sdvised by the library of Congress against dispersing the papers, and I hed honestly thought of giving everything remaining to the Roosevelt Library* The items given to Princeton are j u s t one specific
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