F. LEROY HILL PAPERS

Finding Aid

NOTE: Collection stored in off-site facility. Contact Special Collections regarding retrieval.

Size: 60 linear feet

Literary rights:
Literary rights were granted to Wichita State University. When permission is granted to examine the manuscripts, it is not an authorization to publish them. Manuscripts cannot be used for publication without regard to common law literary rights, copyright laws, and the laws of libel. It is the responsibility of the researcher and/or his publisher to obtain permission to publish. Scholars and students who eventually plan to have their work published are urged to make inquiry regarding overall restriction on publications before initial research.

Restrictions: None

Content note:
Dating from 1907 to 1981, this collection of F. Leroy Hill's papers traces his career as an engineer, businessman, entrepreneur, and civic leader. Diaries, correspondence, business documents, scrapbooks, personal papers, artifacts, photographs and blueprints comprise the collection. Hill was affiliated with Air Associates, an aviation sales, parts and manufacturing concern until his refusal to sign a union contract, causing the plant to be seized by the U.S. government in 1941. He went on to involve himself either financially or managerially in over 60 companies from 1941 to 1981, ranging from tool-and-die shops to aviation parts to cosmetics to real estate.

To read a biographical note about F. Leroy Hill, click here. To read a chronological business biography of Hill, click here.

Acquisition: Gift of Ellen Hill

Processed by: SKH, 4-21-1995; JEF, 10-25-1999