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Tenney, Horace A. (Horace Addison), 1820-1906. Papers, 1797-1929.

Title: Papers, 1797-1929.

Papers, primarily correspondence touching upon many aspects of Horace A. Tenney's career as editor, member of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, assistant state geologist, and political leader in Wisconsin. Among the topics discussed are the development of the state constitution in 1847, the Barstow-Bashford controversy, the selection of saline lands for the University in the 1850s, the formation of the Republican Party, the Liberal Republican and Greenback movements in the 1870s; and local politics, particularly in Madison and Milwaukee. Letters from Leonard J. Farwell describe his business operations in Chicago and Missouri after his removal from Wisconsin. Letters from other pioneer newspaper men, especially Josiah A. Noonan, Horace Rublee, and Stephen D. Carpenter, show the influence of newspaper writers upon the shaping of state events. A small group of letters written by George D. Kellogg during the Civil War describe military operations in the lower Mississippi River Valley, and some routine correspondence relates to Tenney's service as paymaster of the army after 1862. After his appointment as federal inspector of post offices at the close of the war he received a number of letters from Michigan and Wisconsin regarding appointments and postal routes and expressing dissatisfaction with the mail service. Other correspondents are Edward P. Allis, Ezra S. Carr, Paul Chadbourne, Amasa B. Cobb, Edward Daniels, Cushman K. Davis, Henry Dodge, James R. Doolittle, Timothy O. Howe, Levi Hubbell, George Hyer, Solomon Juneau, Byron Kilbourn, Rufus King, Azel P. Ladd, Increase Lapham, William P. Lyon, John G. McMynn, Morgan L. Martin, O. T. Maxon, Josiah Packard, George H. Paul, John Fox Potter, Alexander Randall, Edward G. Ryan, Carl Schurz, Marshall Strong, Moses M. Strong, John Tweedy, and C. C. Washburn. The collection also includes a few letters written by Tenney to his wife in the 1870s, letters from his parents, and other family members' correspondence extending through three generations. There are typewritten copies of letters, 1797-1832, written by Cornelius Cadle, a merchant of New York City, on business and family matters, and a record of the Cadle family in England and America. Other papers include a memorandum book that Tenney kept while selecting saline lands in Pierce County in 1853; a volume of names of members of the first State Republican Central Committee in 1857 with names of voters by counties; a collection of records acquired while he was paymaster during the Civil War; a volume of reminiscences of his war experiences, written in 1874; notes on speeches and articles; and genealogical data. The few photographs were made about 1900 and show the Tenney family homestead(s?) at Bradford (now Groveland), Mass. and tombstones of family members, 1748-1803, in the Bradford churchyard.

ArchivalResource: 1.4 c.f. (5 archives boxes and 2 volumes) and8 photographs (1 folder)

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Jackson, Alice F. (Alice Fanny), b. 1877. Jackson-Stevens-Morris family papers, 1795-1968.

Title: Jackson-Stevens-Morris family papers, 1795-1968.

Papers, 1795-1968, of several Madison, Wisconsin families related by marriage: the Hobbins, Jackson, Morris, and Stevens families. The Hobbins and Jacksons were prominent physicians; William A. Pringle Morris and Breese J. Stevens were prominent attorneys. The title of the collection is based on the marriage of Helen Elizabeth Stevens, a daughter of Breese Stevens, to Dr. Reginald H. Jackson Sr. and the marriage of Julia Morris, a daughter of W.A.P. Morris to Joseph W. Jackson Sr., the brother of Reginald Sr. The papers include extensive correspondence between family and friends, business records and personal financial papers, subject files, and photographs. The Farmer, Grannis, and Wright families are also well documented. The papers cover a wide range of subjects, not only documenting family life in Madison, but also in western New York and Williston, North Dakota. Other topics range from aviation history to military service to financial investing, musky fishing, the practice of medicine, and Madison's Frank Lloyd Wright-designed auditorium. Papers regarding military history concern the Revolutionary War service of General Michael Jackson, the Civil War service of Charles and Martin Grannis, and the World War I service of Victor Morris and Colonel Joseph W. Jackson, Sr., in the Army Remount Service. The military papers of Dr. Reginald Jackson, Jr., concern the Wisconsin Wing of the Civil Air Patrol after World War II. The photographs include portraits, snapshots, albums, negatives, and lantern slides that generally parallel the manuscript collection in content and arrangement. The majority consists of family portraits and snapshots of activities, particularly travel to Europe and Alaska; interests in aviation and Madison architecture; home life in Madison, North Dakota, and New York; and the military service of Joseph W. Jackson and Victor Morris during World War I.

ArchivalResource: 54.0 c.f. (48 record center cartons, 8 archives boxes, 3 flat boxes, and 5 card boxes),2 reels of microfilm (35 mm), and4.4 c.f. of photographs and negatives (2 record center cartons, 2 archives boxes, 8 card boxes, 1 flat box, and 1 roll); plusadditions of 35 films.

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Ryan, Edward G. (Edward George), 1810-1880. Papers, 1815-1902.

Title: Papers, 1815-1902.

Papers of Judge Edward G. Ryan, chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, 1874-1880, including certificates and appointments, some drafts of his letters and a small amount of correspondence, poems, religious articles, and addresses.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)

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Baker, Charles Minton, 1804-1872. Papers, 1823-1900.

Title: Papers, 1823-1900.

Papers of Baker, a Lake Geneva, Wis., lawyer, member of the first state constitutional convention, railroad director, and Civil War draft commissioner, consisting primarily of letters and other papers, 1823-1879, relating to his collection agency and general law practice, local history materials, and biographical materials.

ArchivalResource: 6.0 c.f. (15 archives boxes) and.206 photographs (1 archives box and 3 albums)

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Fox, Arthur O., 1855-1939. Reminiscences [microform], 1936.

Title: Reminiscences [microform], 1936.

Reminiscences entitled "Memories of Happenings Among the Pioneers of Southern Wisconsin," written by a Dane County resident, recounting his own experiences and those of his father, William H. Fox, who settled in Wisconsin in 1842. Numerous anecdotes concern pioneer living conditions as well as wildlife, relations with the Indians, and friendships with well-known Wisconsin contemporaries, including George W. Peck, Edward G. Ryan, and William F. Vilas.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122449163 View