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Summary Information
Eleanor Marsh Papers 1902-1998
UWM Manuscript Collection 162
1.8 cubic ft. (5 boxes)
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)
The collection contains the papers of Eleanor Marsh who was
raised on and ran a farm with her husband Elwin for over forty years. The personal journals
detail her daily life as a farm wife in rural Winnebago County, Wisconsin. The early
journals were sporadically kept and contain mostly farm and household accounts. The
collection also contains school composition books used by Marsh and an older sister, a few
letters from family and friends written after she was no longer running the farm, and
newspaper clippings from her 100th and 102nd birthdays. English
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