Morehead Patterson scrapbook

1908-1920

Morehead Patterson (1897-1962) was an American industrialist whose father, Rufus L. Patterson, invented the first automated cigarette manufacturing machine. He later became an ambassador to the United Nations Committee on Disarmament and to the International Atomic Energy Agency Negotiations, as well as chairman of the board of the Brookings Institute. His scrapbook contains letters, clippings, and other memorabilia relating to his attendance at the Groton School and Yale University, 1908-1920, including letters from Endicott Peabody (1857-1944), headmaster at the Groton School