Charles Henry Crownhart family papers, 1853-1943.

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Crownhart family. Charles Henry Crownhart family papers, 1853-1943.

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Charles Henry Crownhart family papers, 1853-1943.

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Papers documenting the personal and professional lives of four Wisconsinites prominent in legal, political, medical, and educational circles. The papers consist of the records of Charles Henry and Jessie Evans Crownhart and their sons, Jesse George and Charles H. Crownhart Jr. Personal correspondence among the family members comprises most of the collection. Included are the correspondence and political and legal files of Charles H. Crownhart, a lawyer, regent of the Superior Normal School, Reviser of Statutes for the State of Wisconsin, first director of the Wisconsin Industrial Commission, and justice on the state Supreme Court. He was also a close personal friend and advisor to Robert M. La Follette and managed La Follette's 1910 and 1916 senatorial campaigns. Information is present on state and national political campaigns, the workers' compensation program, implementation and the constitutional challenge of the Wisconsin Soldiers' Bonus Act after World War I, the work of the Industrial Commission, legal cases while in private practice, and other topics. The records of Jessie Evans Crownhart, his wife, document the family life of the Crownharts as well as her career as an educator during the 1880s and 1890s, as Douglas County Superintendent of Schools (1897-1901), and as a regent of the normal schools in Wisconsin during the Depression. Her papers include letters describing family life and the financial crisis facing the normal schools during the 1930s, as well as files containing certification tests for teachers in the late nineteenth century. Also included is correspondence of Jesse G. Evans, Jessie Crownhart's father, which deals in part with his service in the Wisconsin 7th Light Artillery Battery during the early part of the Civil War. The records of J. George Crownhart consist of correspondence from his childhood and teenage years plus later records which provide perspective on the workings of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin. Crownhart served as executive secretary of the society and managing editor of its journal from 1923 until his death in 1941. Charles Crownhart Jr.'s records contain information on his personal, legal, and political activities. Also particularly noteworthy are the files on the John J. Blaine United States senatorial re-election campaign in 1932 and the Fred M. Wylie campaign for attorney general of Wisconsin in 1934; Crownhart served as campaign manager for both. The papers provide substantial documentation of the Crownhart relationship with the Progressive wing of the Wisconsin Republican Party during the early years of the twentieth century. Correspondents include Joseph D. Beck, John J. Blaine, C.E. Broughton, Edward J. Dempsey, Edger G. Doudna, James A. Frear, John J. Hannan, Fred L. Holmes, Jim Dan Hill, Joseph Kidder, Frank W. Kuehl, several members of the La Follette family, Irvine L. Lenroot, Hubert H. Peavey, John W. Reynolds, Gilbert E. Roe, Asa M. Royce, Fred M. Wylie, and Theodora Youmans. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1862-1943, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date 1853-circa 1943 and are described below.

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11.6 c.f. (29 archives boxes); plus.additions of 10.0 c.f. and.130 photographs.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6925071

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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The basic powers and framework of Wisconsin's court system is laid out in Article VII of the state constitution. Judicial power was vested in a Supreme Court, circuit courts, courts of probate, and justices of the peace. According to the 1848 constitution, the state was divided into 5 judicial circuit districts and the five judges presiding over these circuits were to meet at least once a year at Madison as a Supreme Court until the legislature could establish the Supreme Court as a...

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Crownhart, Charles H., 1905-1974.

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Charles Henry Crownhart family papers, 1853-1943.

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