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W ILLIAM CAMERON FORBES enjoyed the distinction of having had as grandfathers two of the most famous men in nineteenth-century America: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Boston's financial prince and railroad developer, John Murray Forbes. A young man of thirty-five when first sent to the Philippines, he was in his own right a powerful financier and an aristocratic member of Boston society, with ...
The Philippine Islands, Volume 2. William Cameron Forbes. Houghton Mifflin, 1928 - History - 644 pages. "... During his nearly ten years of service with the Philippine government [the author] made a practice of preserving significant clippings and having copies made of the most important documents that reached his eye, and these, classified ...
Forbes, W. Cameron (William Cameron), 1870-1959, collector. W. Cameron Forbes collection of family and historical documents, circa 1680-1900: Guide. Author Houghton Library, Harvard College Library Description rules dacs Language of description und EAD ID hou01652
Wood–Forbes Mission, (1921), fact-finding commission sent to the Philippines by newly elected U.S. president Warren Harding in March 1921, which concluded that Filipinos were not yet ready for independence from the United States. In 1913 Woodrow Wilson had appointed the liberal Francis B. Harrison.
PAUL MONROE TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. The Philippine Islands. By W. CAMERON FORBES. Boston. and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928. 2 vols.-xiv, 620; vii, 636 pp. $12.50. The author of these two interesting volumes served an apprentice-.
The papers of William Cameron Forbes (1870-1959) span the years 1904-1946. The collection consists of typewritten transcripts of journals documenting Forbes's activities in the civil government of the Philippines as secretary of commerce, W. Cameron Forbes Papers 3
William Cameron Forbes 291. not propose to tread gently or cautiously where something needed doing. In order to make the Philippine government responsive both to his policies and to his temperament, Forbes was compelled to effect a major change in the balance of political power in the islands.
