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Title: O. J. (Oliver Julian) Todd Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1899-1973
Collection number: 73087
Creator:
Todd, O. J. (Oliver Julian)
Collection Size:
74 manuscript boxes, 7 oversize boxes, memorabilia
(31.2 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Diaries, speeches and writings, correspondence, reports, memoranda, and photographs, relating to engineering projects in China,
especially river engineering and flood
control; famines and relief work in China; and social, economic and political conditions in China.
Language:
English.
Microfilm use only.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives
[Identification of item], Oliver Julian Todd Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
Also available on microfilm (82 reels).
China International Famine Relief Commission.
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration.
Engineering--China.
International relief.
Reconstruction (1939-1951)--China.
China.
Yellow River (China)
Famines--China.
River engineering--China.
Flood control--China.
United States--Foreign relations.
Engineers.
| 1880 Nov. 1 | Born in Colon, Michigan |
| 1908 | B.S. degree in Civil Engineering, University of Michigan |
| 1909-1917 | Field Assistant, Chief Hydrographer, and Assistant Engineer for the City of San Francisco; worked on the Hetch Hetchy water supply system and the Twin Peaks Tunnel |
| 1917-1919 | Captain in the Engineering Corps, U.S. Army |
| 1919-1921 | Principal Assistant Engineer for the Chinese government's Grand Canal Improvement Board |
| 1921 | Field Manager and Chief Engineer for American National Red Cross in Shantung (4 months) |
| 1921-1923 | Chief Engineer for the Asia Development Company |
| 1923-1935 | Chief Engineer for the China International Famine Relief Commission |
| 1927 | Married Dr. Lois Pendelton |
| 1935-1938 | Consulting Engineer to the China International Famine Relief Commission, to the American Advisory Board of Shanghai, to the Shantung Government on the Yellow River, to the Yellow River Commission, and to the Friendship Fund of New York City |
| 1938 April | Returned to the United States and settled in Palo Alto, California |
| 1940-1942 | Engineer for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |
| 1942-1945 | Regional Engineer, Area Engineer and Senior Engineer with the United States Army Engineers in Arizona |
| 1945-1947 | Advisor to the Yellow River Project of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in China |
| 1948 | Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress in the 8th District |
| 1949-1951 | Chief of the Irrigation Engineering Division of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction in China |
| 1973 | Author, The China That I Knew |
| 1974 Jan. 13 | Died, Palo Alto, California |