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Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Rufus J. Wysor Papers, Ms1968-008, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
The Rufus J. Wysor Papers were donated to Special Collections prior to 1968.
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Rufus J. Wysor Papers commenced and was completed prior to 1968. Additional description was completed in May 2009.
Rufus Johnston Wysor was born to Henry C. and Mary E. (Shipp) Wysor on December 8, 1885, in Dublin, Virginia. He attended VPI from 1902 to 1906, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry. Between 1910 and 1917, he married Elizabeth Mary McFate (b.1895). They had two daughters and a son. In 1961, Wysor wrote
After graduation, Wysor worked for a series of steel companies with increasing responsibility: Carnegie Steel in 1906, Bethlehem Steel Company in 1912, James & Laughlin Steel Corporation in 1925, and Republic Steel Corporation in 1930. He served as President of the Republic Steel Corporation in Youngstown, Ohio, from 1937 to 1945. He retired in order to consult on the rebuilding of the German steel industry following World War II. He went on to consult for private companies and government agencies in the United States, Canada, Japan, Greece, and Turkey. Wysor died in Sea Island, Georgia, on June 11, 1967.
The Rufus J. Wysor Papers includes two letters from Wysor's father, Henry C., written in 1889 and 1904, as well as two forms from the VPI Military Department, dated 1905 and signed by Rufus J. Wysor. The first letter is on letterhead from Henry C. Wysor's life insurance business to "Dear Little Johnston," dated November 1, 1889. The letter includes an invitaion for Wysor to join his father on a trip to Pulaski, Virginia, as well as a request for some items from home. The second letter was written on June 4, 1904, while Wysor was a student at VPI. It contains news from home. The collection also contains two sheets of "VPI Military Department" absentee forms. Both leaves list Company E cadets absent from duty on February 11, 1905, and both are signed by "RJ Wysor, First Sergeant."
The collection is arranged chronologically.
Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives maintains several related Wysor family papers:
James M. Wysor Letter, Ms2013-035
Henry Wysor Family Papers, Ms2015-026
Henry C. Wysor Family Papers, Ms2023-012
Samuel D. Jones Letter to Henry C. Wysor, Ms2024-051
F. P. Miles Letter to Henry C. Wysor, Ms2024-052
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