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Is there a dictionary of American biography or even a Who's Who for the 1940-50s available on line? I'm trying to find info on a Henry A. Moe who was a trustee of the Guggenheim Foundation during that period. Neither Google or Wikipedia were much help.
 
Well, I put in "Henry A. Moe" Guggenheim, and came up with quite a bit, including a photo at LIFE - Google Books

Henry A. Moe -- Head of Guggenheim Foundation, director of Assoc. Amer. Rhodes Scholars, CFR, trustee of Pilgrim's secretly affiliated kindergarten the American Academy in Rome, Italy Bloodlines of the Illuminati -- liite 1


Also, Google "Henry Allen Moe" for even more.

Here is a bio at Executive Committee The Trouble With My Head

Henry Allen Moe.
Henry Allen Moe (1894-1975) served as trustee, officer, and committee member over thirty private foundations, including the American Trust for Oxford University; Clark Foundation; Ditson Fund for Music; Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation; John Simon Guggenheim Foundation; Lalor Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities (for which he served as its the first director); Rockefeller Foundation; Oberlaender Trust; Scriven Foundation; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation; Allen Tucker Memorial; Vetlesen Foundation; and the Maude E. Warwick Fund for Orphans of WW II. / As the first Secretary, then Administrator, and finally President of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation (ca. 1925-1963), Moe made contact with the influential and the aspiring in the worlds of banking, finance, the arts, and sciences. / Principal administrator of the Simon Guggenheim Foundation from its inception through his 1963 retirement as well. “Keen interest” in Latin America, much of it generated through Moe’s oversight of the Guggenheim’s Latin America Fund…agriculture in the region, Peruvian archaeology, correspondence and grant reports from artists, writers, and politicians of South and Central America.
He served as a member or trustee of numerous institutions, organizations, and foundations, including the American Philosophical Society (elected 1943, also served as president); the New York State Historical Association (president and board chair); Farmers’ Museum (president); Leatherstocking Corporation, Cooperstown, NY; Maude E. Warwick Fund (trustee, vice-president); Wesleyan University (trustee emeritus); Scriven Foundation (trustee, consultant); Clark Foundation (trustee, consultant); Museum of Modern Art (vice-chair, trustees); Institute of Modern Art (chair trustees); American Academy in Rome (president, chair); Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital (president, chair trustees); Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (trustee); New York State Council on Arts (honorary vice chair); National Endowment for the Humanities (chair 1965-1966);
His vast correspondence, too extensive to describe in full, includes many correspondents of interest in banking, finance, the arts, and the sciences. http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/mole/m/moe.htm
 
Thanks, Barb, it sure didn't come up when I tried Google or Wikipedia. That's just the information I've been looking for. His summer place was just down the road from where I lived.
 
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