Frederick Greenwood papers, 1907-1925

Frederick Greenwood attended the University of Montana in Missoula from 1905 to 1909, graduating with his B.A. in 1909. His senior year he was the editor of the school newspaper, the Montana Kaimin, the editor of the 1909 Sentinel yearbook, the manager of the football team, and the president of A.S.U.M. He went on to the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance for his Master's degree which he completed in 1910 with his thesis entitled "Underwriting and Underwriting Syndicates." In 1911 he moved to Oregon to search for a job and in 1917 he became the manager of the newly opened Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Portland Branch. In that position he gave several speeches to Rotary and Kiwanis clubs on global markets, finance, whether to stay on the gold standard or not, and how the Federal Reserve Bank system works. He also wrote several articles on these subjects.