Glenhill Farm: The History of a Family Estate, as Revealed in the Correspondence Between Brognard Okie and Ernst and Mary Behrend

By 1930, having developed a highly successful business, the innovative paper manufacturer Ernst Behrend and his wife Mary purchased a number of existing houses and farms to give them sufficient acreage to create a large estate. In 1948 this property became a campus of Penn State University. Known as Penn State Behrend, to this day it retains the original buildings at the historic center of the campus.

Based on archival materials, including copious letters between the Behrends and their Phila...