Reminiscences of Hokan Bjornstrom Steffanson, 1960

Biographical Note

Financier, executive

Scope and Contents

Early life, education, business experiences in Sweden; travel to United States, 1909; business ventures, United States and Canada; Kraft pulp, paper mills, oil, investments; business and finance during World War I and Depression; Swedish-American cultural and educational activities; New York, N.Y. society and social life; experiences on TITANIC, 1912; Metropolitan Club, Newport and Carlsbad; comments on Wall Street, investments and investing, estate management, Prohibition, antenuptial agreements; Pinchots and United States aid to Finland, 1940; imnpressions of Ivar Kreuger, Oskar Froding, Hjalmar Branting; the Eno family; Mary Eno Steffanson, Carl Milles, George McDonald, Ignace Paderewski, Axel Wenner-Gren, Edward R. Finch

Subjects

• Ackerman, Carl W. (Carl William), 1890-1970, interviewer.
• Björnström-Steffansson, Mauritz Håkon, 1883-1962--Interviews.
• Business enterprises--United States--20th century.
• Capitalists and financiers--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Shipwrecks.
• Swedish Americans.
• United States--Foreign relations--1933-1945.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1980