00400 DOROTHY HORTON McGEE: An Inventory of the McGee Family Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society Finding aid prepared by Kit Smemo Minnesota Historical Society

St. Paul MN.

Manuscripts Collection

Finding aid encoded by Dennis Meissner June 30, 2005 Finding aid written inEnglish September 2011 Additions, Meagan Kellom and Alex Kent August 2008 Converted from EAD Version 1.0 to Version 2002 by Monica Manny Ralston, Daniel Sher, and Joyce Chapman. OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society McGee, Dorothy Horton, 1913-2003. McGee family papers. 1882-2006. Family correspondence, genealogical and family history files, and papers documenting the military careers of Hugh Henry McGee (1905-1919) and John Hugh McGee (1970s). 1.1 cubic feet (2 boxes). See Detailed Description for shelf locations. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Dorothy Horton McGee was a local historian for the Long Island, New York communities of Oyster Bay, Roslyn, and Matinecock until her death in 2003. McGee's interest in history extended to preserving her family's legacy. The papers compiled by McGee encompass a period longer than a century, highlighting the family's involvement in a variety of pursuits, especially army service.

Dorothy McGee was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1913. Her father, Hugh Henry McGee (1885-1947), was a graduate of West Point and was briefly an instructor before serving overseas, first in the Philippines and then France during the First World War. After retiring from the army (1919) as a lieutenant colonel, Hugh McGee began a successful career in banking and became president of Bankers Trust in New York. Dorothy McGee made her home across a variety of hamlets on Long Island before settling in Locust Valley.

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

The papers appear to be largely Dorothy McGee's efforts to document her family, especially her father Hugh who graduated from West Point and served in the Philippines and in France during WWI. There is also much on the career and communist containment views of her cousin John, a brigadier general in the infantry who served in the Philippines during World War II, including internment in a Japanese P.O.W. camp.

ARRANGEMENT

These documents are organized into the following sections:

Hugh Henry McGee Papers Family Correspondence John Hugh McGee Papers McGee Family History Materials CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics: Communist strategy. World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France. World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Philippines. World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Philippines. Retired military personnel -- Texas. Persons: McGee, Hugh Henry, 1885-1944. McGee, John Hugh, 1908- . McGee family. Organizations: United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 135th. Occupations: Soldiers. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Dorothy Horton McGee Family Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples

Accession Information:

Accession number: 16,057; 16,310

Processing Information:

Processed by: Kit Smemo, June 2005; Meagan Kellom, September 2011.

Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Catalog ID number: 003697525

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hugh Henry McGee Papers

These papers focus almost exclusively on Hugh McGee's early life, especially his military career. The earliest document is a composition notebook kept by McGee during his time as a student at St. Paul Central High School (1904). Following a year at the University of Notre Dame, McGee was accepted into the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1905. During the course of his study at West Point McGee corresponded regularly with his parents, John Franklin and Elizabeth McGee. These letters and telegrams offer a detailed and insightful look at the life of a cadet in the early 1900s (1905-1909). In 1980 Dorothy compiled her father's West Point records including transcripts and yearbooks (1909). McGee documented his military career (1905-1919) with an extensive scrapbook covering his service in the Philippines during the U.S. administration of the islands, and in France during the First World War. Also included are a host of portraits of McGee as a cadet and officer as well as his burial papers.

129.E.2.10F 1 McGee's Central High School notebook, 1904. Portraits of Hugh McGee, 1897-[circa 1918]. 12 mounted black and white prints. Telegrams from Hugh McGee to John and Elizabeth McGee, 1905-1909. Letters from Hugh McGee to John Franklin McGee, June 21, 1905-June 20, 1909. 3 folders. Hugh McGee's West Point papers, 1905-1909, 1912-1913. Burial papers for Hugh McGee, 1947-1950. 142.G.15.1B-1 2 Hugh McGee scrapbook, 1905-1919. Family Correspondence

The family correspondence consists of the wealth of letters written and received by McGee family members over nearly a century. This includes the correspondence of George A. McGee, Marguerite McGee and Dorothy Brown, and the letters to Dorothy McGee from Marguerite McGee and John Hugh McGee. Additionally there are a number of letters from the family to military officials attempting to learn of the whereabouts of John Hugh McGee after the fall of the Philippines in the Second World War (1942).

129.E.2.10F 1 Family records and correspondence, 1891-1923. Miscellaneous family correspondence, undated. George A. McGee correspondence, 1914-1935. Letters concerning whereabouts of John Hugh McGee, 1942. Letters to Marguerite E. McGee and Dorothy Brown, 1959-1965. Letters to Dorothy Horton McGee from Marguerite E. McGee, 1961-1967. Letters to Dorothy Horton McGee from John Hugh McGee, December 20, 1976-August 22, 1985. John Hugh McGee Papers

John Hugh McGee Papers collect the writings of Dorothy McGee's cousin John on his army experiences and thoughts on Cold War strategy. Following his retirement from the U.S. Army, John Hugh McGee wrote voluminously on political and military topics. His manuscripts and essays address a variety of contemporary and historic issues: the World War II Battle of the Coral Sea, the 1977 Panama Canal Zone Treaty, and how to combat Marxism-Leninism.

129.E.2.10F 1 Copyright and associated memos for "Rice and Salt," 1963-1978. "The Battle of the Coral Sea," undated. "A Politico-Military Message to American Catholic Bishops from a Conquered Defender of American Territory," and "A Conquest Concerned Reply to a Pastoral Letter on War and Peace," 1982, 1983. John Hugh McGee letters to publishers, July 8, 1978-February 4, 1980. John Hugh McGee letter to Senator Lloyd Bentsen, September 6, 1977. John Hugh McGee letters to Representative Norman Lent, undated, March 6-10, 1979. From Along the Wire:

Includes drafts, revisions, and final manuscript of John Hugh McGee's treatise on America's need for a "politico-military education" of its citizens to stem Marxism-Leninism.

First draft, 1975. Revisions, 1978. 3 folders. Second draft, 1978. Final manuscript, 1979. 266 pages, typed. McGee Family History Materials

McGee family history materials compiles the considerable effort family members undertook to explore their lineage. George McGee did a great deal of work in contacting parishes in the McGees' home county in Ireland, and in conducting interviews with his father and mother, Hugh and Margaret McGee (1922). Family trees, birth certificates, baptismal records, and other such family documents also are included. A set of undated photographs from a trip to Ireland further express the McGee family's efforts to trace their roots.

129.E.2.10F 1 Genealogical records and correspondence, undated, 1922-1935. Handwritten. Genealogical records (typed), undated, 1922. Genealogical records and family documents, 1881-1954. Photocopies. Genealogical records and family documents, 1923, 2004-2006. Photographs of trip to Ireland, undated. 11 black and white prints. Miscellaneous clippings and documents, 1882-1991.