Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

RS 21/7/44
E. Howard Hill (1908-2002)
Papers, 1923-2001, n.d.

Descriptive summary

creator:	Hill, E. Howard (1908-2002)
title:	Papers
dates:	1923-2001, n.d.
extent:	8.22 linear ft. (16 document boxes and 1 oversized box)
collection number:	RS 21/7/44
repository:	University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

Administrative information

access:	Open for research
publication rights:	Consult Head, Special Collections Department
preferred citation:	E. Howard Hill Papers, RS 21/7/44, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

Biographical note

Edwin Howard Hill was born in Minburn (Dallas County), Iowa, May 11, 1908. He graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S. (1930) in animal husbandry. During the summer of 1930, he traveled to Europe with his brother Clarence to visit farms, agricultural colleges, and livestock shows before returning to Iowa to farm.

Back in Iowa, Hill became a successful farmer and an active member of his community. From 1931-1947, Hill served continuously as a member of the Washington Township Consolidated school board. For ten years, he was vice president of the Minburn Cooperative Elevator. In 1941, he was one of a commission of five sent to South America to study agricultural conditions and returned to Chile in 1962 as a member of a mission on agricultural reforms. Hill was agricultural representative in the Iowa Development Commission and the Iowa Civil Defense Committee. He was a member of the National Livestock Meat Board, the board of trustees of the Iowa 4-H Club Foundation, the board of directors of the Iowa State University Foundation, the board of directors of F.S. Inc., the board of trustees of the Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, the Agriculture Committee of the greater Des Moines Chamber of Commerce, and a trustee of the Minburn Methodist Church. Additionally, Hill served in the American Good Government Society, on the Iowa Committee on Resettlement of Displaced Persons, on the Humane Slaughter Committee, and with the Iowa Institute of Cooperation. Hill was also one of the founders of both Living History Farms in Urbandale, Iowa, and F.S. Inc., a regional farm-supply cooperative affiliated with the Farm Bureau.

Hill served on the board of directors for the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation and became its vice president in 1943. The Federation named him president in 1947, and he served in this office until retiring in 1963. Following his retirement, Hill devoted his time to farming, specializing in cattle and hogs.

Throughout his lifetime, Howard Hill was the recipient of several distinguished awards. The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation named him Master Swine Producer in 1945 and Master Farmer in 1946. He also received the 4-H Leadership Recognition Award, an achievement award from the Iowa Soil Conservation Society, and the Honorary Iowa Farmer Degree from the Iowa Future Farmers of America in 1964.

E. Howard Hill and his wife Lorraine Wells, whom he married in 1930, raised three daughters: Marjorie, Marilyn, and Margaret Hill. On May 4, 2002, he passed away at the age of 93 in Minburn, Iowa.

Collection description

The E. Howard Hill Papers (1923-2001, n.d.) contain biographical information, correspondence, approximately 400 speech manuscripts, files on the history and activities of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation, files relating to agricultural missions to South America (1962) and Eastern Asia (1963), clippings, and photographs. The bulk of the material is Hill's correspondence as President of the Iowa Farm Bureau. Letters of interest include those from Secretaries of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan and Ezra T. Benson; U.S. Senators Allen J. Ellender, Guy M. Gillette, Bourke Hickenlooper, and Jack Miller; and U.S. Representatives James E. Bromwell, Paul Cunnningham, James I. Dolliver, H. R. Gross, Ben F. Jensen, John Kyl, Fred Schwengel, and Leonard G. Wolf. Other correspondents include Allan B. Kline and Charles B. Shuman. Hill's reaction to an editorial in Wallace's Farmer related to the performance of Shuman is also in the collection. Most of these letters related to farm policy supported or opposed by the American Farm Bureau Federation and the Iowa Farm Bureau. Particular issues include price controls, soil conservation, interstate roads, the Jensen-Mundt Alcohol Fuel bill, and the Animal Disease Research Lab located in Ames.

Hill's annual addresses to the State Convention of the Iowa Farm Bureau, 1948-1963, are a major portion of the collection. The topics of these speeches often include the promotion of agriculture, international trade, price controls, and reapportionment. Transcripts of speeches by Hill to civic groups and other organizations on the reapportionment of the Iowa Legislature are in the collection. There are also photographs and papers related to the Farm Bureau's agricultural missions to South America in 1962 and Asia in 1963. The collection contains transcripts of Hill's testimony before Senate and House Committees of Agriculture. These include House testimony on the Granger Farm Bill in 1950, and price controls in 1951. The testimony for the Senate is related to a farm policy bill and land adjustment in 1961, sponsored by Senator Bourke Hickenlooper.

Papers related to Hill's work on the American Good Government Committee, Humane Slaughter Committee (1958-1962), Iowa Committee on the resettlement of Displaced Persons, Iowa Institute of Cooperation (1947-1951), and the Iowa Development Commission (1954-1960) are present as well. At the state level, Hill concerned himself with the issues of reapportionment, daylight savings time in Des Moines, and the promotion of agricultural products, with significant correspondence to Representative L. O. Weston and Ray Cunningham. The largest amount of personal correspondence is with William W. Waymack of Dallas County, Iowa. Particular issues include a trip to Waymack's farm by Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, which never materialized, and the Atomic Energy Commission on which Waymack served. Other personal correspondence of note is with V. B. Hamilton of Hampton, Iowa. See Appendix I for a list of other correspondents.

The collection also includes a scrapbook created by Hill's daughter, Marjorie Joslin, and documents both his personal and professional life.

For additional information related to E. Howard Hill see also the Hill Family Papers, RS 21/8/5, and Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Records, MS 105.

Organization

The collection is sorted alphabetically.

Container list

Box	Folder	Title	Dates
15	1	American Good Government Society: Committee on Electoral College Reform	1961-1962
12	3	Communications: statements	1951-1957, n.d.
12	5	Communications: Wallace's Farmer, includes correspondence, editorials, and articles	1959-1962, n.d.
12	4	Communications: writings	1954-1955, n.d.
1	1	Correspondence: incoming A	1947-1963
1	2	Correspondence: incoming B	1942-1963
1	3	Correspondence: incoming C	1947-1964
1	4	Correspondence: incoming D	1947-1963
1	5	Correspondence: incoming E	1947-1963
2	1	Correspondence: incoming F	1947-1957
2	2	Correspondence: incoming G	1954-1964
2	3	Correspondence: incoming H	1949-1958
2	4	Correspondence: incoming H	1947-1957
2	5	Correspondence: incoming H	1947-1963
3	1	Correspondence: incoming I	1954-1959
3	2	Correspondence: incoming J	1954-1960
3	3	Correspondence: incoming K	1949-1962
3	4	Correspondence: incoming L	1954-1960
3	7	Correspondence: incoming M	1954-1962
3	5	Correspondence: incoming Mc	1952-1957
3	6	Correspondence: incoming McLain, M.	1953-1963
4	1	Correspondence: incoming N	1954-1963
4	2	Correspondence: incoming O	1948-1963
4	3	Correspondence: incoming P	1954-1957
4	4	Correspondence: incoming Q	1956-1963
4	5	Correspondence: incoming R	1951-1964
4	6	Correspondence: incoming S	1954-1964
4	7	Correspondence: incoming St	1950-1960
5	1	Correspondence: incoming T	1950-1957
5	2	Correspondence: incoming U	1949-1963
5	3	Correspondence: incoming V	1954-1958
5	5	Correspondence: incoming W	1954-1963
5	4	Correspondence: incoming Waymack	1947-1957
5	6	Correspondence: incoming Y	1956-1957
5	7	Correspondence: incoming Z	1947-1954
6	1	Correspondence: outgoing	1947
6	2	Correspondence: outgoing	1948
6	3	Correspondence: outgoing	1949
6	4	Correspondence: outgoing	1950
6	5	Correspondence: outgoing	1951
6	6	Correspondence: outgoing	1952
6	7	Correspondence: outgoing	1953
6	8	Correspondence: outgoing	1954
6	9	Correspondence: outgoing	1954
6	10	Correspondence: outgoing	1955
7	1	Correspondence: outgoing	1956
7	2	Correspondence: outgoing	1957
7	3	Correspondence: outgoing	1958
8	1	Correspondence: outgoing	1959
8	2	Correspondence: outgoing	1960
8	3	Correspondence: outgoing	1961
8	4	Correspondence: outgoing	1962
8	5	Correspondence: outgoing	1963
8	6	Correspondence: outgoing	1964
15	5	Humane Slaughter Committee	1955-1958
15	6	Humane Slaughter Committee	1960-1962
15	4	Iowa Committee on Resettlement of Displaced Persons in Europe after WWII; Governor's Commission on Economic and Social Trends in Iowa	1947-1948
15	3	Iowa Development Commission: correspondence, reports, articles, and summaries	1954-1958, n.d.
15	2	Iowa Development Commission: meeting minutes, Report and Recommendations for Citizens Committee for Industrial Growth of Iowa	1950-1962
13	6	Iowa Farm Bureau Federation: 2nd annual report from F.S. Services, Inc.	1963
13	3	Iowa Farm Bureau Federation: annual reports, constitution amendments and resolutions, salary schedules, plans for Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Company	1923-1963
14	4	Iowa Farm Bureau Federation: articles of incorporation, by-laws, addresses by Roger Fleming, Charles B. Sherman, and Henry C. Wallace, policies, annual reports, article regarding Allan B. Kline	1920-1963, n.d.
14	3	Iowa Farm Bureau Federation: information from special interest groups to Iowa Farm Bureau	1954-1963
13	4	Iowa Farm Bureau Federation: memoranda	1949-1963
13	5	Iowa Farm Bureau Federation: memos regarding merger of Farm Bureau Service Company and F.S. Service Company	1960-1963
13	8	Iowa Farm Bureau Federation: newspapers clippings	1954-1963
13	1	Iowa Farm Bureau Federation: notebook, includes agreements, management contracts, outlines, maps, officers and leaders, articles and by-laws	1943
13	7	Iowa Farm Bureau Federation: press releases	1951-1960, n.d.
14	1	Iowa Farm Bureau Federation: speeches from Iowa Farm Bureau meetings	1948-1963
14	2	Iowa Farm Bureau Federation: speeches given at National Farm Institutes	1950
13	2	Iowa Farm Bureau Federation: Twenty Years of Progress, meeting minutes, history of Farm Bureau, and annual reports	1949-1963
15	7	Iowa Institute of Cooperation; regarding farm cooperatives	1949-1954, n.d.
16	1	Personal: biographical data	1953-1968, n.d.
16	2	Personal: church affairs	1949-1950
16	5	Personal: newspaper clippings	1949-1972, n.d.
16	4	Personal: pamphlets	1950-1963, n.d.
16	3	Personal: pictures	1960
17		Scrapbook created by Marjorie Joslin (daughter) documenting E. Howard Hill's career and family	2001 ca.
9	1	Speeches: annual Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Convention addresses	1948-1963
9	2	Speeches: general	1948-1963, n.d.
9	3	Speeches: general	1948-1963, n.d.
12	2	Speeches: radio speeches	1949-1954, n.d.
12	1	Speeches: speech material and notes	1959, n.d.
12	8	Trip to Eastern Asia: data	1963 ca.
12	6	Trip to Eastern Asia: incoming correspondence	1963
12	7	Trip to Eastern Asia: outgoing correspondence	1963 ca.
12	9	Trip to Eastern Asia: pictures	1963 ca.

Appendix I: Select List of Correspondents

Anderson, J. Merrill	Kline, Allan B.
Anderson, Marvin	Kyl, John
Andre, Floyd	LeCompte, Karl M.
Aurand, Calvin W.	LeMay, Curtis E.
Barkley, Alben W.	Leopold, Alice K.
Beardsley, William S.	Liddy, L. B., Ligutti, L. G.
Benson, Ezra T.	Lodwick, William G.
Bliss, R. K.	Loveless, Herschel C.
Brannon, Charles F.	Lynes, J. Kendall
Brenton, W. Harold	McDonald, Murl
Bromwell, James E.	McLain, Marvin L.
Butz, Earl L.	Martin, Thos. E.
Coad, Merwin	Maytag, Fred, II
Cunningham, Paul	Mendell, Frank H.
Dancer, David	Miller, Jack
Davis, True, Jr.	Mitchell, James T.
Dillon, Douglas	Molison, Wilbur C.
Dolliver, James I.	Monroney, A. S. Mike
Eisenhower, Dwight D.	Moody, Clarence W.
Elijah, Earl	More, Jake
Ellender, Allen J.	Murphy, Donald R.
Ely, John M., Jr.	Myers, C. W.
Ensley, Francis Gerald	Nixon, Richard
Erbe, Norman A.	Nolan, D. C.
Fitch, C. L.	Nye, Frank T.
Fleming, Roger	Olmsted, George
Ford, Henry, II	O'Malley, George E.
Foster, Ralph L.	Ormsby-Gore, David
Fox, Kirk	Plambeck, Herbert
Garst, Roswell	Plock, Richard H.
Gifford, Claude	Prentis, X.T.
Gillette, Guy M.	Pritchard, H. Wayne
Goeppinger, Walter W.	Randolph, Walter L.
Goodwin, Robert K.	Reed, Robert H.
Gross, H. R.	Rider, Dwight G.
Hall, Earl	Russell, J. S.
Hamilton, Carl	Schramm, Dorothy
Hamilton, V. B.	Schwengel, Fred
Hancher, Virgil	Shuman, Chas. B.
Harmon, Henry G.	Soth, Lauren K.
Hays, Brooks	Sparkman, John
Henry, John M.	Spry, Clyde
Herring, Clyde	Stephens, Richard
Hickenlooper, Bourke	Summerfield, Arthur E.
Hilton, James H.	Swegle, Wayne E.
Hoegh, Leo	Talle, Henry O.
Hoeven, Charles B.	Thatcher, Kenneth
Hubbell, Frederick W.	Thornburg, Mark G.
Hubbel, James W.	Uhlenhopp, Harvey
Hughes, Harold E.	Wallace, H. A.
Jensen, Ben F.	Waymack, W. W.
Judd, Walter H.	Whitfield, Allen
Kildee, H. H.	Wolf, Leonard G.