Michael B. Olbrich papers, 1906-1932.

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Michael B. Olbrich papers, 1906-1932.

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Personal and business papers of Michael B. Olbrich, a Madison, Wisconsin attorney and civic leader. In politics a Progressive Republican, Olbrich was deputy attorney general for Wisconsin, 1919-1921, special counsel for the state, 1921-1926, and a regent of the University of Wisconsin, 1925-1929. General correspondence relates primarily to Olbrich's political interests prior to 1920, to legal cases which he handled for the state, and to University affairs during his years as regent. In his political correspondence are letters written by or exchanged with Robert M. La Follette (1912-16), John J. Blaine (1912), and Emanuel L. Philipp (1914). As regent Olbrich was a close friend of Glenn Frank during Frank's presidency of the University; and he initiated the movement to acquire land for the University Arboretum on Lake Wingra. Other correspondents include Joseph E. Davies, Edward Filene, Herman Ekern, James A. Frear, Zona Gale, Robert R. McCormick, and Francis E. McGovern. Olbrich's legal correspondence is supplemented by memoranda on legislative bills which he prepared for Governor John J. Blaine and by a box of notes on several of the state cases in which he participated. An extensive file of Olbrich's speeches is present as is one folder on research he did on Wisconsin's first governor, Henry Dodge. More than half of the collection comprises correspondence, financial records, and court papers pertaining to the land and sheep-ranch speculations in Montana in which Olbrich engaged from 1909 until his death. Most of these records relate to the Judith Basin Land Company, the Home Ranch Land Company, and the Flat Willow Land Company.

5.8 c.f. (16 archives boxes)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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