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Irvin Gordon Wyllie (3 January 1920WEB,www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1370468:3147, Irvin Gordon Wyllie in the Pennsylvania, U.S., Veteran Compensation Application Files, WWII, 1950-1966, ancestry.com, WEB,www.fold3.com/record/21594959/irvin-wyllie-social-security-death-index, Irvin Wyllie in the Social Security Death Index, fold3.com, - 25 October 1974) was an American historian and professor. Wyllie studied at Westminster College, Oberlin, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he received his PhD in 1949. He taught at the University of Maryland and University of Missouri (where he was an American Association of University Professors chapter president), before returning to the University of Wisconsin, where he was the first Gordon E. Fox Professor of American Institutions, and chairman of the history department. He was a Ford fellow at Cornell, and a Fulbright lecturer at Gothenburg and Lund.JOURNAL, Recent Deaths, The American Historical Review, 80, 2, April 1975, 553, 1850749, In 1966 he was appointed as the first chancellor of the newly-created University of Wisconsin-Parkside (which at that time did not even have an official name),WEB,search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AYL76KXZWLSEVL9E, Chancellor Irvin G. Wyllie - UWDC - UW-Madison Libraries, search.library.wisc.edu, WEB,www.kenoshanews.com/irwin-g-wyllie/image_42ca375f-0ae1-52d1-9518-ca1b90d5ceee.html, irwin g. wyllie, Kenosha News, and served in that capacity until his 1974 death from a heart attack at the age of 54. The school’s Wyllie Hall is named for him,WEB,www.camosy.com/projects/uw-parkside-wyllie-hall-project/, UW-PARKSIDE WYLLIE HALL PROJECT, and the Wyllie Society for Planned Giving was established at the University in his memory.WEB,www.uwp.edu/giving/planned-giving.cfm, Planned Giving, UW-Parkside, 2022-02-26,

Personal life

Born in Pittsburgh, Wyllie married Harriet Fairley, a fellow Westminster alumnus, in 1945; she worked in Madison’s public library to help him get his Ph.D., and followed him as he moved from institution to institution.NEWS,www.newspapers.com/clip/96410140/, Harriet F. Wyllie, 1922-2011, Kenosha News, April 3, 2011, 6, He died October 25, 1974, at the age of 54 in his Kenosha County home of a heart attack, having been hospitalized the prior May from a previous attack. He was survived by his wife Harriett and three children;NEWS,www.newspapers.com/clip/96408142/obituary-for-irvin-g-wyllie-aged-54/, UW-Parkside Chancellor Irvin G. Wyllie, 54, Dies, Sheboygan Press, October 25, 1974, 8, she died in 2011.

Selected bibliography

• BOOK, The Self-Made Man in America: The Myth of Rags to Riches, 248341, 1954, Rutgers University Press, Wyllie, Irvin G.,

• BOOK, Social Darwinism and the Businessman, Wyllie, Irvin G., 1959, Bobbs-Merrill, 4611514,

References

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