OSS Kilgour, Frederick Gridley

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Kilgour ​

• FORENAME

Frederick Gridley ​

• UNIT

USNR OSS ​

• RANK

Lieutenant,junior grade ​

• NUMBER

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• AWARD

Legion of Merit ​

• PLACE

WW2 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

born 6.1.1914 Springfield,Massachusetts​

son of Edward Francis and Lilian Piper Kilgour​

graduated Harvard College 1935​

Assist to the Director,Harvard University Library 1935-42​

USNR 1942-45​

Executive Secretary and Acting Chairman,Interdepartmental Committee for the Acquisition of Foreign Publications,Washington,D.C. (OSS)​

US State Department (Office of Intelligence and Dissemination) 1946-48​

Librarian,Yale Medical Library 1948-65​

Associate Librarian for Research and Development,Yale University Library 1967​

President,Ohio College Library Center 1967-80​

Research Professor,University of North Carolina,Chapel Hill 1990​

married Eleanor Margaret Beach 1940 (3 daughters)​

died 31.7.2006 Chapel Hill,North Carolina ​

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