Stanley Pargellis

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Stanley McCrory Pargellis (born June 25, 1898 in Toledo , Ohio , † January 6, 1968 in Chicago ) was an American historian and librarian. As a historian, he mainly published on the military history of the American colonial era. 1942–1962 he was director of the Newberry Library in Chicago.

biography

Pargellis studied at the University of Nevada (BA 1918), Harvard Law School and, as a Rhodes scholar, at Exeter College at the University of Oxford (BA 1922; MA 1929). He began his teaching career as a lecturer in history and English at the California Institute of Technology (1923–1925). From 1926 to 1942 he taught at Yale University , where he received his Ph.D. in 1929 with a thesis on Lord Loudoun. PhD. As a historian, he mainly published on the military history of the American colonial era. In 1936 he published a source edition of documents relevant to military history from the archives of the Duke of Cumberland in Windsor Castle .

In 1942 he moved to the Newberry Library in Chicago , one of the world's largest independent research libraries, as senior librarian . Here he pursued a rather selective policy when it came to acquiring new books, but he made some contribution to opening up and expanding the archive holdings. He made a particular contribution to archiving documents from American economic and corporate history; so he secured the entire business archive of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad for the Newberry Library . He also underlined the importance of archives for American corporate history in two lectures to the Newcomen Society ( The Judgment of History on American Business 1943 and The Corporation and the Historian 1944). Literary studies were also close to his heart, so in the difficult 1940s he provided the magazine Poetry with grants from the library. An in-house periodical, The Newberry Library Bulletin (from 1944) , was also launched under his aegis . In 1962 he retired.

Works (selection)

For a complete listing of Pargelli's publications, see DW Krummel: The Writings of Stanley Pargellis . In: Heinz Bluhm (Ed.): Essays in History and Literature Presented by Fellows of the Newberry Library to Stanley Pargellis. Newberry Library, Chicago 1965. pp. 221-231.

Monographs

  • Lord Loudoun in North America . Yale University Press, New Haven 1933; Reprint: Archon Books, Hamden CT 1968.
  • Father Gabriel Richard . Wayne University Press, Detroit 1950.

Articles and lectures (selection)

  • The Four Independent Companies of New York . In: Essays in Colonial History Presented to Charles McLean Andrews by His Students . Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1931.
  • Braddock's Defeat . In: American Historical Review 41: 2, 1936. pp. 253-69.
  • The Judgment of History on American Business (A Newcomen Address) . Princeton University Press 1943.
  • The Corporation and the Historian (A Newcomen Address) . Princeton University Press 1943.
  • Building a Research Library. In: College and Research Libraries 5, March 1944. pp. 110-114.
  • On Being a Librarian . In: The American Oxonian 40, Jan. 1953. pp. 3-8.

Editing

  • Military Affairs in North America, 1748-1765: Selected Documents from the Cumberland Papers in Windsor Castle . D. Appleton-Century Co., New York and London 1936. Reprint: Archon Books, Hamden CT 1969.
  • with Ruth Lapham Butler: Nathaniel Fish Moore: Diary: A Trip from New York to the Falls of St. Anthony in 1845 . University of Chicago Press 1946.
  • with Lloyd Lewis: Granger Country: A Pictorial Social History of the Burlington Railroad . Little, Brown, Boston 1949.
  • with DJ Medley: Bibliography of British History: The Eighteenth Century, 1714-1789 . Rowman and Littlefield, Totowa NJ 1977.

Secondary literature

  • Heinz Bluhm (Ed.): Essays in History and Literature Presented by Fellows of the Newberry Library to Stanley Pargellis. Newberry Library, Chicago 1965 (commemorative publication).
  • DW Krummel: Pargellis, Stanley. In: Dictionary of American Library Biography . Libraries Unlimited, Littleton CO 1978, pp. 389-391.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information based on the article by DW Krummel: Pargellis, Stanley in the Dictionary of American Library Biography .
personal data
SURNAME Pargellis, Stanley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pargellis, Stanley M .; Pargellis, Stanley McCrory
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Toledo, Ohio
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1968
Place of death Chicago