C Brookfield, Dutton (1917-1979), Papers, 1844-1979 2732 72.4 linear feet and 5 audio cassettes This collection is available at The State Historical Society of Missouri. If you would like more information, please contact us at
[email protected]. INTRODUCTION The papers of Dutton Brookfield contain the business, political and personal papers and photographs of a Kansas City, MO, community leader. Brookfield was President of Unitog Company (1953-1979), a mayoral candidate (1963, 1971), and on boards of numerous corporations and educational and civic organizations. Family papers include letters from the Civil War, World War I and II, and Vietnam. DONOR INFORMATION The papers were donated to the University of Missouri by Arthur D. Brookfield II on 4 December 1979 (Accession No. WUNP4260). BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Dutton Brookfield, son of Arthur Dutton and Elizabeth Blish Brookfield, was born 31 December 1917, in Kansas City, Missouri. A graduate of Pembroke Country Day School, Brookfield received his B.A. degree from the University of Missouri in 1939 and married Betty Grace Bell, daughter of C. Jasper and Grace Smith Bell. They had four children: Karen Ann, Arthur Dutton II, Charles Rhodes, and Betty Bell (Bebe). Also in 1939, Dutton joined his father's uniform manufacturing and sales company, Unitog. During World War II he served as an army officer in France, and Unitog produced army uni-forms. Following the war Dutton returned to Unitog. He became company president in 1953, upon his father's retirement. In addition to a wide range of business connections, Brookfield was active in civic, social, and political organizations.