Joseph H. Osborn papers, 1855-1890, circa 1951.

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Joseph H. Osborn papers, 1855-1890, circa 1951.

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Papers of Joseph H. Osborn, a Winnebago County, Wisconsin, pioneer, pertaining to cooperatives, railroad regulation, and the Granger movement. In the correspondence are letters on railway rate determination, the legislative program of the Grange for 1874, and letters from R. H. Ferguson of the Cheap Transportation Association; John Samuel and Frederick Turner of the Knights of Labor; George H. Paul of the Railroad Commission and chairman of the People's Reform Committee; and the Sovereigns of Industry. A letter book, 1876-1877, kept while Osborn was master of the Wisconsin Grange and an active member of the state railroad commission, relates to Grange matters and railway regulation. Scattered business papers pertain to the organization of the Workmen's Co-operative Society, of which Osborn was secretary, and to the cooperative store which the society operated at Oshkosh, 1886-1890. There are applications for stock and a volume of minutes, 1877-1879, for the Winnebago County Industrial and Provident Society. The photographs were made circa 1951 and show exterior views of the family home on Osborn Ave. in Oshkosh, originally built in 1844.

0.4 c.f. (1 archives box including 5 volumes),2 reels of microfilm (35 mm), and6 photographs (1 folder)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6926128

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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