Francis Patrick Garvan
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Francis Patrick Garvan was an American lawyer, government official, and long-time president of the Chemical Foundation, Inc. The Chemical Foundation was established to administer in the public interes
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Garvan with other Alien Property Custodian officials and directors (back row, far right)
The mausoleum of Francis Patrick Garvan in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY
The Office of Alien Property Custodian was an office within the government of the United States during World War I and again during World War II, serving as a custodian to property that belonged to US
Francis Patrick Garvan
…administer in the public interest 4,500 German patents associated with production of synthetic organic chemicals and related pharmaceuticals seized by the Office of Alien Property Custodian after the US entered World War I. Garvan was born June 13, 1875, in East Hartford, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale University in 1897 (A.B.) and…
President Wilson with Mitchell Palmer, the first Alien Property Custodian
Alien Property Custodian sale ad
Alien Property Custodian sale of the plant of A. W. Faber Pencil Co., Newark, N.J.