Frederick Merk papers, circa 1961-1971.

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Frederick Merk papers, circa 1961-1971.

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Miscellaneous items by Merk, 1961, 1971 and undated, a one-time University of Wisconsin professor, including an essay about Joshua Glover, a runaway slave living in Wisconsin in 1853, and his capture by armed men and subsequent release by Sherman M. Booth; an article on Governor Louis P. Harvey, describing the conditions of Wisconsin soldiers in the Civil War in 1862 and Harvey's response and his death; an address to the University of Wisconsin Honors Convocation in 1971, including recollections of outstanding faculty and students from the class of 1911; and notes of an interview with Mrs. John M. Parkinson about her grandfather, Moses M. Strong.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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