Papers, 1845-1956.

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Papers, 1845-1956.

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Personal papers of Marvin Rosenberry, a Wausau and Madison, Wis., attorney who was appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1916 and served as its chief justice, 1929-1950. Contains Rosenberry's correspondence, mainly on family matters and his personal interests; letters relating to the circulation of nominating papers for his election campaigns in 1918, 1919, 1929, and 1939; and letters concerning his civic interests, including the Boy Scouts, the Young Men's Christian Association, the Community Union movement in Madison in the 1920s and 1930s, and the Wisconsin Conference of Social Work, of which he was president in 1926. Among the very few letters discussing political or legal matters is one written in 1946 concerning Joseph R. McCarthy's qualifications for seeking the United States senatorship from Wisconsin. The collection also contains a manuscript autobiography, several boxes of speeches and articles written by Rosenberry, briefs and legal notes, and biographical, historical, and genealogical materials relating to the Kimball, Landfair, and Rosenberry families. One volume contains proceedings during 1936 of the Wisconsin Citizens Committee on Public Welfare, of which Rosenberry was chairman.

13.6 c.f. (35 archives boxes); plusadditions of 73 photographs and1 poster.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Citizens Committee on Public Welfare.

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Rosenberry, Marvin B., 1868-1958.

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Wisconsin. Supreme Court

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Kimball family.

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Madison Community Union (Wis.)

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Landfair family.

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Wisconsin Conference of Social Work

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