Marion Musser (Mrs. Glen) Lloyd
and Lloyd Family papers
Finding Aid
One five-linear-inch Hollinger box of non-book materials was received incidental to the donation of the library of Marion Musser (Mrs. Glen A.) Lloyd (1910-2005), from her estate, August 2005. This group of items was assembled from small parcels in and with Lloyd library volumes. Working with Lloyd residence staff and daughter Mary Lloyd Estrin of Los Angeles, CA, the gift also included a large, 1975 charcoal sketch and water color by Lake Forest artist Franklin McMahon, entitled “After the Symphony, Paris,” apparently showing Mrs. Lloyd in the foreground, with the Paris Opera behind. This sketch/water color currently is on loan to the office of the President.
This small bundle, though, particularly in three of the folders, shows quite succinctly the evolution--within a network of elite Chicago and North Shore friends--from gathering together for sports, in this case skiing, and for a reading club, in this case the University of Chicago’s Great Books course, to founding the Aspen [Colorado] Institute. Folder 3 deals with the Cary Hills Sky Club, 1936-38, and including a membership list. Folder 7 includes Mrs. Lloyd’s notes on the 1946-47 Great Books course, again with a class membership list. Folder 8, then, includes some of the talks from the first, “pilot” summer program at Aspen, the Goethe Bicentennial celebration; this event led to the formal organization the next year of the Aspen Institute, by some of these same individuals.
Marion Musser was born in Iowa and graduated from Vassar College in 1932. In 1940 she married attorney Glen A. Lloyd (1895-1975) and soon they acquired over a hundred acres of wooded land near the Des Plaines River and also to Adlai Stevenson’s farm. The Lloyds built a Prairie School house (architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill; landscape attributed to Erle Blair of Simonds West & Blair) on St. Mary’s Road, Mettawa (west of Lake Forest). There they lived the rest of their lives--in addition to their two ranches, in Colorado and in New Mexico, and their apartment in Chicago. The St. Mary’s Road property has been given to the Lake County Forest Preserve District, joining in public trust the adjacent Stevenson farm. The Lloyds had three children—Margaret, Mary Jones (Estrin) of Los Angeles, and John Musser (deceased).
Glen A. Lloyd (1895-1975; GAL below) was born in Whiterocks, Utah "where his father [H.B. Lloyd] was a doctor on the Uintah Indian Reservation," according to the Lone Mountain Cattle Company website, with information presumably from Lloyd's daughter Mary Lloyd Estrin. Lloyd graduated from Maryville College (Maryville, Tennessee), 1918, and from the University of Chicago Law School, LLD, 1923. After his 1924 admittance to the Illinois bar, he practiced and eventually became a partner in Bell, Boyd, Marshall & Lloyd, Chicago. By the time of his 1963 Who’s Who biography, he was a director of several major corporations. His clients included Chicagoan Walter Paepcke, chair of Container Corporation of America and a founder of Aspen, CO and of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies (Mr. Lloyd served as vice president of the organization). That the Lloyds also skied is evidenced here by the records of the locally-based Cary Hill Ski Club, 1936-38, which GAL chaired. Lloyd was a founding member of the Supreme Court Historical Society in the 1970s and received presentation slip opinions, etc. from Chief Justice Warren Burger (including Nixon v. U.S., July 1974), cataloged and shelved separately in Special Collections. Mr. Lloyd’s papers are in Special Collections, University of Chicago Library--Mr. Lloyd having served as chair of the Board of Trustees of the institution (he also was a trustee of Maryville Academy and of Lake Forest Academy).
Marion Musser Lloyd (1910-2005; MML below) survived her spouse by three active decades. Already in 1975 she was the first woman to head Ravinia’s Board. The program for the Ravinia concert celebration of her life on July 21, 2005 observed that “In 1971” she “became the first woman to head a major arts institution in Chicago when she accepted the chairmanship of Ravinia Festival.” Participating widely in Chicago and other philanthropic and reform organizations, Marion Lloyd especially enjoyed music and the Chicago Symphony. She also served on the board of the General Service Foundation and of the University of Chicago, having previously served on the board of Vassar College. She was an active member and frequent participant in services at the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest. For three decades she contributed unusual ephemera relating to her philanthropic and Chicago educational reform interests to the College library. In 2003-04 she contributed, in honor of Suzanne and Eugene Hotchkiss, to the fund for the expansion and renovation of the Donnelley and Lee Library.
In 2004 Mrs. Lloyd appeared on the Chicago-filmed segment of the Antiques Roadshow television series, for having brought in a painting by her fellow Iowan, Thomas Hart Benton, which she had acquired in the 1930s for a “few hundred dollars.” It had appreciated in value.
Glen and Marion Lloyd are pictured in front of their Mettawa home in one of the photographs by their daughter Mary Lloyd Estrin, published in her 1979 book of Lake Forest area portraits, To the Manor Born.
LLOYD FAMILY PAPERS (Glen A., Marion M., and Margaret)
Folder 1. Biographical Information File. Photocopies of Who’s Who articles, Vassar College reunion booklets,
1970s-1990s, print-outs from web-sites relating to the Aspen Institute, etc.
Following in chronological order, having been assembled from various locations
among (and in) books throughout Mrs. Lloyd’s Mettawa home, and following review by the family, are:
Folder 2. “Scrapbook” of “G.A.L.” John E. and Jane Fortune Nolan;
securities law issues, etc., clippings ca. 1930-35.
Folder 3. Cary Hills Ski Club records (minutes, charter, by-laws,
membership list, etc.), 1936-38. [GAL was chair; the Edgar Stantons,
members, in the 1940s were notable founders of Aspen, CO.]
Folder 4. Miss Sarah Appleton, Santa Fe, NM, wedding clipping (1940).
Folder 5. Books I Have Read printed blank book: 21 books profiled briefly in
manuscript by MML, starting Sept. 1940.
Folder 6. Garden records (MML), 1942 (3 leaves).
Folder 7. Great Books course notes (MML) and membership list (1946-47),
- [The Great Books membership overlaps with the Ski Club (Mrs. E.K. Welles, Nolans)
Folder 8. Goethe convocation, 1949, Aspen, CO. [Paepcke, inspired by the Great
Books program of Mortimer Adler, convened this twenty-day conference
attended by 2,000.] The file includes the text of speeches for the
occasion by Robert M. Hutchins (19 pp. typescript), Albert Schweitzer
(16 pp. mimeo), Ortega y Gasset (12 pp. mimeo and 2 pp. of typscript).
[The next summer the Aspen Institute was organized.]
Folder 9. GAL: Honorary degree (1951), Westminster Coll., Salt Lake, UT.
Certificate and Event Program. {Lloyd taught there briefly in the 1920s.]
Folder 10. Mortimer Adler letter and draft (Promote the General Welfare),
1959.
Folder 11. Galileo, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences (Natural
Sci. I), 56 pp., mimeo.
Folder 12. Lake Forest Academy 1857-1957…carbon copy. [GAL was
trustee.]
Folder 13. Entertaining records (MML), ca. 1972-78 – 6 events on 6 sheets
(guest lists, menus).
Folder 14. Lloyd, Peggy [Margaret]. Lost Chance (story), 22 pp. typed, LF
Day School, 1956.
Folder 15. Lone Mountain Ranch (northern New Mexico) views (cattle, a plant in flower), 6 in all, Polaroid
color photographs, ca. 1980s.
Folder 16: Ute Indian Reservation And Related Lloyd Family Photos, early 1900s
All photos are black and white. They are also numbered on the back as they appear on the list. The words in direct quotations are written on the back of each image. Scene descriptions also appear below for each photo, but these descriptions are not written on the backs of the photos. Print (not image) size measurements are noted after the scene descriptions; standard and metric measurements are both noted. Print sizes vary irregularly and some taper.
Envelope 1: Whiterocks, Uintah County, Utah Photographs
Whiterocks is a small town located in Uintah County, in the northeastern part of the state. In 1868 it was the first European-American town in northeastern Utah, though today its popultion is mostly Native American. (See the photocopied map of Utah for the specific location of the town.)
- Scene: Two young boys holding fish
Size: 3 ¾’’ by 5 ¼’’ or 9.4 cm by 13 cm
Writing on back: “Sam Smith, Carl Lloyd, about 1905”
2. Scene: Children standing outside schoolhouse
Size: 5’’ by 4’’ or 12.8 cm by 10.1 cm
Writing on back: “Whiterocks School: Claire Blaire, Rose, Eva, Edith, Carl [Lloyd], Harold Mitchell, Ralph [Waldo Lloyd], Rebekah Miller, Corless-not sure about the tall boy, maybe Vincent Miller”
3. Scene: Two young women and one young man standing with saddled horses.
Size 4 7/8’’ by 3 ½’’ or 12.3 cm by 8.8 cm
Writing on back: “Ralph [Waldo Lloyd], Rose, Edith Marimon”
4. Scene: Two men with rifles and hens
Size: 3 ½’’ by 5 ¾’’ or 14.8 cm by 8.9 cm
Writing on back: “After a sage hen hunt”
5. Scene: Landscape with mountain, log cabin in foreground
Size: 5 14/16’’ by 3 ½’’ or 14.8 cm by 8.9 cm
Writing on back: “Whiterocks”
6. Scene: Street with houses, telephone pole, trees, people on horseback
Size: 5 13/16’’ by 3 ½’’ or 14.8 by 8.9 cm
Writing on back: “Main Street”
7. Scene: People congregating in street, horse and wagon, people sitting on sidewalk
Size: 6’’ by 3 ¾’’ or 15.3 cm by 9.4 cm
Writing on back: “RWL” [Ralph Waldo Lloyd]
8. Scene: school building, fence, two people riding horses in street
Size: 5 13/16’’ by 3 7/16’’ or 14.7 cm by 8.8 cm
Writing on back: “Indian School”
9. Scene: Men in front of wagon with rifles and hens
Size: 5 13/16’’ by 3 ½’’ or 14.7 by 8.9 cm
Writing on back: “1. Richardson 2. R.P. Bonin (standing) 3. Frank Davis 4. Sanders (School supp) 5.—6. Russ Forsythe 7.—Maw”
Envelope 2: Native Americans: Ute (portraits and/or group views) Photographs
The Ute currently reside in Northern Utah, Southern Utah, and Colorado. Before European contact, the Ute lived in a very large territory encompassing Colorado and Utah. The Ute were primarily hunters and gatherers, and also conducted raids on nearby tribes. Beginning in the nineteenth century, the Ute began to lose their lands to white settlers, particularly to Mormons and miners. In the 1880s, the Ute were forced onto reservations. The town of Whiterocks is located within the current Uintah/Ouray reservation, and its population consists primarily of Native Americans. As of 2000, its population was 350.
Source: The Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, volume II, ed. Sharon Malinowski. Anna Sheets, Jeffrey Lehman and Melissa Walsh Doig, s.v. “Ute,” pp. 38-39.
10. Scene: elderly Native American man holding a walking stick, bag, and can
Size: 3 ½’’ by 5 14/16’’ or 8.9cm by 14.8 cm
Writing on back: “Old Sioux”
11. Scene: Native Americans standing in front of a teepee
Size: 3 ½’’ by 6’’ or 9.5 cm by 14.6 cm
Writing on back: “RWL” [Ralph Waldo Lloyd]
12. Scene: Man sitting inside a small teepee
Size: 3 ½’’ by 5 13/16’’ or 8.9 cm by 14.6 cm
Writing on back: “Inipigeuh (crazy)”
13. Scene: Native American man in cloak and hat standing in front of US flag
Size: 3 ½’’ by 5 ¾’’ or 8.9 cm by 14.6 cm
Writing on back: “Charley Mack”
14. Scene: Young Native American man and woman standing together
Writing on back: “Milton la Rose and Stella Chapoose”
15. Scene: Native American man and woman, the woman is wearing a large belt
Writing on back: “Sam Comar and Mary Chapoose”
16. Scene: Native American man in police uniform
Size: 3 9/16’’ by 5 ¾’’ or 9 cm by 14.6 cm
Writing on back: “Captain Bob Ridgly of Indian Police”
17. Scene: Native American man standing in front of US flag
Size: 3 9/16’’ by 5 ¾’’ or 9 cm by 14.6 cm
Writing on back: “Columbus Little Doctor”
18. Scene: Four Native American men standing on sidewalk
Size: 5 13/16’’ by 3 ½’’ or 14.8 cm by 8.9 cm
Writing on back: “1.---- 2. Sapinese 3. Eli Cuch 4. Chaucey Sapinese”
Envelope Three: Activities Photographs
While several different kinds of activities are depicted within this folder, the two dominant activities are the Bear Dance and the Sun Dance.
The Bear Dance occurs in the spring, and is intended to strengthen the spiritual bond between bears and humans before the Ute’s annual hunt. Bears are believed to have great spiritual power. The performance of the dance originally coincided with the conclusion of the bears’ hibernation, and was intended to help awaken the bears.
Source: The Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, volume II, ed. Sharon Malinowski. Anna Sheets, Jeffrey Lehman and Melissa Walsh Doig, s.v. “Ute,” p. 43.
The Sun Dance was created after the Ute were forced onto reservations as a spiritual reaction to the oppression of the United States government. It was initially developed among the Shoshone, and was probably first performed among the Ute after 1890. The dance is performed during the summer, and involves several men dancing around a pole for three days and three nights without food or water. Twelve poles covered with branches surrounded this central pole, closing off the dancers from the rest of the village Spectators watch the dancers through these branches and encourage them. On the third day, dancers often collapse from exhaustion, and it is during this period that they are believed to experience visions and acquire spiritual power. The dance is intended to bring spiritual power to the dancers as well as the community, and is particularly aimed at healing the sick.
The following photos of the Sun Dance were likely taken after 1910, probably around 1914. This is because the Ute did not allow photography to be taken of their dances, particularly the interior with the dancers themselves, until approximately 1911.
Source: The Sun Dance Religion: Power for the Powerless by Joseph Jorgenson (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1972), pp. 17-26, 89-90, 178-201.
19. Scene: houses, men on horseback, dogs, man walking down sidewalk
Size: 5 13/16’’ by 3 9/16’’ or 14.8 cm by 8.95 cm
Writing on back: “Ute Issue Day E.O. Green – Indian agent, on sidewalk”
20. Scene: Four men standing in front of trading post
Size: 5 13/16’’ by 3 9/16’’ or 14.8 by 8.95 cm
Writing on back: “R.L. Marimon Trading Post: E.L. Marimon, Russ Forsythe"
21. Scene: Ute with umbrellas around trees/shrubberies/teepee frame
Size: 5 13/16’’ by 3 ½’’ or 14.8 cm by 8.9 cm
Writing on back: “Sun dance”
22. Scene: (further back than previous shot) Ute with umbrellas around trees/teepee
Size: 5 13/16’’ by 3 ½’’ or 14.8 by 8.9 cm
Writing on back: “Sun dance”
23. Scene: Ute inside the tree circle, standing around teepee frame
Size: 5 13/16’’ by 3 ½’’ or 14.8 by 8.9 cm
Writing on back: “Sun Dance”
24. Scene: Two Ute Children in ceremonial garb
Size: 3 ½’’ by 5 14/16’’ or 8.9 by 14.85 cm
Writing on back: “Bear Dance – 1914”
25. Scene: Ute dancing together (men and women), backs to viewer
Size: 5 13/16’’ by 3 9/16’’ or 14.8 by 8.95 cm
Writing on back: “Bear Dance”
26. Scene: Ute dancing together (men)
Size: 5 13/16’’ by 3 ½’’ or 4.8 by 8.9 cm
Writing on back: “Bear Dance”
27. Scene: Ute musicians sitting with several flutes
Size: 5’’ by 4’’ or 12.8 cm by 10.1 cm
Writing on back: “Musicians at the Bear Dance”
28. Scene: Men lassoing a bull
Size: 5 ¾’’ by 3 ½’’ or 14.6 cm by 8.8 cm
Writing on back: “Left to right: Jim Randlett on horse, Russ Forsythe, Bishop Horrocks (Myton Bishop sitting), Ralph Marimon"
29. Scene: crowd of Ute, women in Western dress, dogs
Size: 5 1/16’’ by 4’’ or 12.8cm by 10.1 cm
Writing of back: “A gambling game back of the store taken by Mother with her old Cox [London, UK, maker] camera. Do you recognize Mr. John Marroy?”
Prepared by
Steven Fletcher ’06,
and Arthur H. Miller,
Archivist and Librarian
for Special Collections
September 6, 2005;
Folder 16 prepared by
Sara Woodbury ’08
December 12, 2005;
prepared for the web by
AHM, October 23, 2009