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Thomas Nesbit Mathers papers, 1926-1972

A Guide to his Papers at the Indiana University Archives

Finding aid prepared by Rachel E. Hancock

Summary Information

Repository
Indiana University Archives
1320 East Tenth Street
Herman B Wells Library E460
Bloomington, IN 47405-7000
Phone: 812-855-1127
Email: archives@indiana.edu
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/archives

Creator
Mathers, Thomas Nesbit, 1914-2007

Title
Thomas Nesbit Mathers papers, 1926-1972

Collection No.
C505

Extent
10 cubic feet (10 boxes)

Language
Materials are in English

Abstract
Thomas Nesbit Mathers was the son of Frank Curry Mathers, a distinguished Chemistry Professor at Indiana University, and Maud (Bowser) Mathers. Thomas attended Bloomington High School in the late 1920s-early 1930s before entering Indiana University where he graduated in 1936. Mathers went on to receive his law degree from Indiana University in 1939 and Master of Business Administration from Harvard University in 1941. He worked as an investment analyst throughout his career in the finance industry. The collection consists of Thomas Mathers’ education related documents, notebooks, textbooks, and various coursework completed both at Bloomington High School, Indiana University, and at Harvard. This collection also contains a few journals kept by Mathers in 1931 as well as correspondence.

Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research. Advance notice required.

Biographical Note

Thomas Nesbit Mathers was born on April 22, 1914 to Frank Curry Mathers, a distinguished Chemistry Professor at Indiana University, and Maud (Bowser) Mathers. Thomas Mathers attended Bloomington High School in the late 1920s-early 1930s before entering Indiana University, earning his bachelor’s in 1936. Mathers went on to receive his law degree from Indiana University in 1939 and a Master in Business Administration from Harvard University in 1941.

Mathers married Helen N. Curtis on October 23, 1943 and entered the finance industry as an investment analyst. He was described as a “counselor of high integrity, and a leader in the movement to bring professionalism to the field of investments. Establishing the Mathers Fund, he quickly gained the admiration and respect of this peers, in additions to the individuals and organizations it served.” He was an active member of the Union League Foundation for the Boys Club and the IU Alumni Club of Chicago. In 1979 he was the recipient of the IU Distinguished Alumni Service Award. Thomas N. Mathers passed away on April 10, 2007. He was survived by his two daughters Mary Mathers Petelik and Abigail Mathers Wodock.

Arrangement

Collection is organized into three series: Biographical, Education and Correspondence. The Education series is further organized into three sub-series: Bloomington High School, Indiana University, and Harvard. Series and folders are filed alphabetically by folder title; within the folders, items are arranged chronologically.

Scope and Content Note

This collection is organized into three series: Biographical, Education and Correspondence. The Biographical series (1927-1972) includes items related to Thomas Mathers’ childhood Boy Scout Troop, high school varsity letter, and a wood carving done by Mathers in 1931. Also included are several journals he kept as a teen and young adult which detail his studies at Bloomington High School and Indiana University, local basketball games, his participation on the IU swim team, dates, and family travels.

The Education series (1926-1953) consists of textbooks, notes on loose-leaf paper and bound journals, course syllabi, papers, and various assignments, exams, and compositions. It is further organized into three sub-series: Bloomington High School, Indiana University, and Harvard; when possible, the coursework was separated by subject matter and/or course title.

The final series, Correspondence (1928-1972), is arranged in most cases chronologically and includes Tom’s exchanges with his parents regarding Bloomington events and the current financial state of affairs in the United States (often Tom offers them advice on the state of the stock market); extensive correspondence with his soon-to-be wife Helen Curtis, and with former classmates such as Cecilia Hendricks Wahl (A.B. 1938).

Related Material

For personal papers: Additional publications and research materials may be accessed in IUScholarworks.

Related photographs may be available in the University Archives Photographs Database .

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Accession 0951 and 0916
Usage Restrictions
The donor(s) of this collection have transferred their copyrights for the materials to the Trustees of Indiana University through a Deed of Gift. For more information, please contact the Indiana University Archives staff.

The Indiana University Archives respects the intellectual property rights of others and does not claim any copyrights for non-university records, materials in the public domain, or materials for which we do not hold a Deed of Gift. Responsibility for the determination of the copyright status of these materials rests with those persons wishing to reuse the materials. Researchers are responsible for securing permission from copyright owners and any other rights holders for any reuse of these materials that extends beyond fair use or other statutory limitations.

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Preferred Citation
[Item], Thomas Nesbit Mathers papers, Collection C505, Indiana University Archives, Bloomington.
Provenance
Given to I.U. Archives by Thomas N. Mathers on July 01, 2002.
Processing Information
Processed by Rachel E. Hancock.

Completed in 2015

Container List


Series: Box 1 Biographical, 1927-1972 

Boy Scout Materials, 1927  [image]View item(s)

Campbell Club, December 1940 

Family Business – Mathers Company Investment Counsel, 1936-1972 

High School Letter, 1930’s 

Journal,

January 1931-April 1931 

1931-1932 

1935 

Travelling through Tennessee, undated 

Magazines, 1939-1958 

Warranty deed – Thomas N. Mathers and William H. Mathers, 1936 

Wood Carving by Tom Mathers, March 11, 1931  

Young Men’s Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.) of the University of Wisconsin, 1907-1935 

Series: Box 1 Education, 1926-1953 

Subseries: Box 1 Bloomington High School, 1926-1932 

Absence Slips and P.E. Info, 1932 

Notes – Math, 1931 

Notes & Reports, 1926-1932 

Report on birds, 1928 

School Work, undated 

School Work & Report Cards, 1930-1931 

Subseries: Box 1 Harvard, 1936-1953 

Business School,

1939 

1941 

Business Statistics Exam, January 1940 

Clippings, 1940 

Correspondence, 1936-1953 

Examinations, 1939-1940 

Industrial Management – Exam, 1940 

The Fireside Club, 1939-1940 

Law Club, 1936 

Law School, 1937-1942 

Marketing Exam, 1940 

Misc. Notes & Lectures, 1940 

Misc. Pamphlets & Newsletters, 1940’s 

Publications – “The Law Student” and “Case and Comment”, 1936-1937 

Registration Information & Room Selections, 1940’s 

Reports & Papers,

Bank Management, June 1941 

Business School Work, April 1938 

First Year, 2nd Semester Reports, 1940 

Manufacturing Groups, November 1940 

Second Year Reports, 1940’s 

Statistics Lab, 1939 

Selective Service, October 1940 

Box 2 Textbooks & Notes,

1st Term Marketing Problems, September 1939 

(2 folders)


Accounting,

General, June 1940 

Laboratory Problems in Accounting, June 1940 

Accounting Lab, 1939 

Administrative Accounting, 1940 

Administrative Accounting Readings, September 1940 

Administrative Law, undated 

Advanced Business Law, 1935-1936 

Advanced Economics, 1935-1936 

Bank Management, January 1941 

Bound pamphlets for Charles E. Wright Company, Petitioner vs. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Respondent, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ames Circuit, January 1937 

BP II/Invest II, 1940 

B.P. II, 1940 

Business Economics, 1940 

(3 folders)


Business & Government I, February 1940 

(2 folders)


Business & Government I, June 1940 

Business & Government, undated 

Business Problem Analysis,

1937-1939 

October 1939 

Business Statistics, September 1939 

(2 folders)


Codes, 1939 

Criminal Law, 1940 

Economic Problems of National Defense, September 1940 

Economic Statistics, 1935-1936 

Equity, undated 

Evidence Summary, undated 

Finance, 1939 

(2 folders)


Industrial Management Vol. I, September 1939 

Industrial Management, 1939-1940 

Invest R, 1940 

Investment Management, Vol. I, September 1940 

(2 folders)


Box 4 Investment Management, Vol. II, February 1941 

(3 folders)


Laboratory Manual of Physical Chemistry, undated 

Questions and Exercises in Economics, undated 

Speaking Effectively, undated 

Stock Tabulations, 1941 

(2 folders)


Stocks & Private Investments, 1941 

Taxes, 1938 

Torts, 1939 

Torts II Summary, undated 

Trusts, undated undated 

U.S. Civil Service Commission, 1936-1941 

Subseries: Box 4 Indiana University, 1928-1941 

Charles A. Geiss-Amateur Radio Report, 1932 

Examinations, 1934-1936 

Notes,

General,

Undated 

(3 folders)


1935-1936 

Chemistry, 1935-1936 

(2 folders)


Creditor’s Rights (cases), 1930's 

Criminal Law, 1936-1937 

Box 5 Economics, 1935 

English, 1931 

Finance, undated 

Freshman Composition, 1935 

German, 1932-1933 

Government notes & compositions, 1933-1934 

Historical Geology, 1935 

Insurance, 1939 

Latin, 1928 

Law,

Business Organization I, 1937-1938 

Business Organization II,

1937-1938 

Undated 

Conflicts of Law, 1937-1938 

Contracts,

KI Cases, undated 

1937-1938 

Contracts II, 1937-1938 

Criminal Law, 1937-1938 

Equity, 1937-1938 

Evidence, undated 

Future Interests, 1939 

Indiana Law School, 1939-1941 

Law Memorandum, Summer 1940 

Notes (bound),

1935 

1937 

(2 folders)


Box 6 Undated 

(2 folders)


Notes,

1939-1941 

(3 folders)


Personal Property, undated 

Property I,

Undated 

(2 folders)


1937-1938 

Sales, 1937-1938 

School of Law, 1939 

(2 folders)


Torts I,

Undated 

1937 

1937-1938 

Vendor & Purchaser, undated 

Vendor & Purchaser (Cases), 1937-1938 

Notes & Exams, 1936-1938 

Marketing, 1930-1931 

Misc. Correspondence and School Information, 1939-1941 

Misc. Notes and Pamphlets, 1930's 

Misc. Pamphlets & Newsletters, 1930's 

N.I.L., undated 

Public Finance, 1933-1936 

Public Speaking, 1934 

(2 folders)


Box 7 Physics, undated 

Pictures & Negatives, 1941 

(Transferred to Photograph collection)


Reports & Papers, 1932 

Science, undated 

Securities, 1938 

Textbooks – Constitutional Law, 1930's 

Textbooks & Notes,

General, undated 

Accounting, 1932 

Series: Box 7 Correspondence, 1928-1972 

General

1928-1932 

1933 

1934-1935 

1936 

1937 

1938 

(2 folders)


1939 

(5 folders)


1940 

(4 folders)


Box 8 1940 

(5 folders)


1941 

(9 folders)


1942 

(2 folders)


Box 9 1942 

(6 folders)


1943 

(9 folders)


Box 10 1943 

(5 folders)


1944 

(4 folders)


1946 

1947 

(3 folders)


1948 

(2 folders)


1972 

1976-1978 

Undated 

(2 folders)


Education, undated 

Family Correspondence, 1939-1962 

Ideas, Patents, etc, 1938 

Marriage announcement and land contracts, 1941 

Securities & Stock share receipts, 1941 

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