Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931

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William Keeney Bixby was born in Adrian, Michigan, in 1857. His career in the railroad industry began with a job as baggageman and concluded with his position as president and chairman of the board of the American Car and Foundry Co. He retired from that company in 1905 at the age of 48. After retirement he pursued his interests in traveling and in collecting first editions, original manuscripts, and works of art. He continued to be active in the community as board member and officer of a number of companies, organizations, and institutions. He was the first president of the Board of Control of the City Art Museum, serving from 1909 until his death in 1931. In 1920, following a trip to Asia, Bixby made a bequest to the Art Museum which established a fund for the purchase of Oriental art. This fund continues to be a source for many of the musuem's Asian art acquisitions.

From the description of William K. Bixby Collection: primarily correspondence collected by Bixby for signatures of artists and other individuals 1899-1917. (Saint Louis Art Museum). WorldCat record id: 81410047

American industrialist and collector.

From the description of Typed letter signed : St. Louis, Mo., to H.I. Miller, Dec. 16, 1902. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 728642748

From the description of Papers, 1678-1931. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 26089210
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creatorOf Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820. ALS : to James Backus, 1789 Aug. 18. Rosenbach Museum & Library
creatorOf Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931. Typed letter signed : St. Louis, Mo., to H.I. Miller, Dec. 16, 1902. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. Commonplace book, [ca. 1805-1808]. Rosenbach Museum & Library
creatorOf Fiske, John, 1842-1901. The discovery and Spanish conquest of America : Cambridge, Mass. : autograph manuscript signed, 1891 Oct. 25. Pierpont Morgan Library.
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creatorOf Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. Thomas Jefferson letters, 1810-1814 Washington University in St. Louis, Bernard Becker Medical Library
creatorOf Burns, Robert, 1759-1796. Collection, 1779-[ca. 1885] (bulk 1785-1796). Rosenbach Museum & Library
creatorOf Field, Eugene, 1850-1895. Autograph of Eugene Field : proof sheets of his The old man, Bill the lokil editor, The little yaller baby, The cyclopeedy, Dock Stebbins, The fairies of Pesth. University of Missouri -- Columbia, MU Libraries; University of Missouri; MU; Ellis Library; University of Missouri Columbia
creatorOf Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863. The Virginians : autograph manuscript. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn Tudor and Stuart Club collection, 1896-1956. Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library
creatorOf Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931. Letter, 1915, Dec. 28, St. Louis, to Harry Lyman Koopman. Brown University Archives, John Hay Library
referencedIn Adler, Elmer, 1884-1962. Letter, 1915. Harold B. Lee Library
creatorOf B.F. Stevens & Brown, Ltd. Typed letter signed : London, to W.K. Bixby, 1901, Oct. 16. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Widener, Harry Elkins, 1885-1912,. Letters to Harry Elkins Widener : manuscript, 1911-1912. HCL Technical Services, Harvard College Library
creatorOf Hamilton, Alexander, 1712-1756. Itinerarium, 1744, May 30 -- Sept. 27. Autograph manuscript. Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
creatorOf Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836. ALS : to Benjamin Edwards, [1779 or 80] Aug. 5. Rosenbach Museum & Library
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creatorOf Lemaire, Etienne, d. 1817. Market accounts of Etienne Lemaire, 1805-1809. Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
creatorOf Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891. ALS : Camp, Walnut Hills, Miss., to David D. Porter, 1863 June 18. Rosenbach Museum & Library
creatorOf Thompson, Slason, 1849-1935. Letters, 1889-1905, Chicago. Brown University Archives, John Hay Library
referencedIn Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836. Diary of Aaron Burr, 1809-1812 Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
creatorOf Washington (George) Collection Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
creatorOf Proceedings of a Court of Enquiry held at West Point, the second day of November 1780 in Pursuance of an Order from His Excellency General Washington, Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America to Major General Heath. 1780, Nov. 19, after. Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
creatorOf Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. Robert Louis Stevenson collection of papers, [1873]-[1944] bulk (1881-1917). New York Public Library System, NYPL
creatorOf Widener, Eleanor Elkins,. Letters to Eleanor Elkins Widener from collectors and libraries : manuscript, 1914-1915. HCL Technical Services, Harvard College Library
creatorOf Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931. Letter : St. Louis, Mo., to B.H. Ticknor, Boston, Mass., 1906 22 Jan. Brown University, Brown University Library
referencedIn Letters : to Dr. Barr, [ca. 1919]. Ohio State University Libraries
creatorOf André, John, 1751-1780. Journal of John André, 1777, June -- 1778, November. Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
creatorOf Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931. Papers, 1678-1931. Washington University in St. Louis, .
creatorOf Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. Washington's monument, February, 1885 : autograph manuscript drafts of the poem, [ca. 1885]. Pierpont Morgan Library.
creatorOf Widener, Harry Elkins, 1885-1912,. Letters to Harry Elkins Widener from collectors and libraries : manuscript, 1911-1912. HCL Technical Services, Harvard College Library
creatorOf Burroughs, John, 1837-1921. Bird enemies : manuscript, 1883-1886 / John Burroughs. Princeton University Library
creatorOf Burroughs, John, 1837-1921. Bird enemies : manuscript / John Burroughs. Princeton University Library
creatorOf Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931. William K. Bixby Collection: primarily correspondence collected by Bixby for signatures of artists and other individuals 1899-1917. Saint Louis Art Museum, Richardson Memorial Library
creatorOf Bixby, William K. (William Keeney), 1857-1931. Journal, 1921-1922. Massachusetts Historical Society
creatorOf Dryden, John, 1631-1700. The state of innocence [manuscript], ca. 1677. Folger Shakespeare Library
referencedIn Birge, Julius. William Keeney Bixby : octopus of book collectors. Harvard University Archives.
creatorOf Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. Charles Lamb collection of papers, 1797-1934 bulk (1797-1836). New York Public Library System, NYPL
creatorOf Charles Lang Freer selected papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Kennerley, Mitchell, 1878-1950. Mitchell Kennerley papers, 1902-1940. University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries
creatorOf Bankhead, Ada Pyne. ALS : Memphis, Tenn., to William K. Bixby, 1915 June 9. Rosenbach Museum & Library
creatorOf United States. Navy Dept. Telegram : ms. : Washington, D.C., to J.B. Montgomery, 1865 Apr. 15. Rosenbach Museum & Library
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creatorOf Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to [William] Heineman, undated [ca. 1898]. Pierpont Morgan Library.
referencedIn Century Company records New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
referencedIn Robert Louis Stevenson collection of papers, 1873]-[1944, 1881-1917 The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
creatorOf William Keeney Bixby list of manuscripts, undated New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
referencedIn Charles Lamb collection of papers, 1797-1934, 1797-1836 The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
referencedIn Fred A. Rosenstock autograph collection L. Tom Perry Special Collections
referencedIn Charles Lang Freer Papers, 1876-1931 National Museum of Asian Art Archives
referencedIn Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D Houghton Library
referencedIn Amy Lowell correspondence, 1883-1927 (inclusive), 1910-1925 (bulk). Houghton Library
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