Summary Information

Title: Fritz William Rasmussen Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1834-1942

Creator:

• Rasmussen, Fritz William, 1833-

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 4; PH Green Bay Mss 4

Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (9 archives boxes) and 9 photographs

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of Rasmussen, a Danish immigrant to Wisconsin in 1847, who settled in the Town of New Denmark in Brown County and served in Company G, 14th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry in 1864-65. The bulk of the collection is composed of Rasmussen's diaries, 1857-1911. Entries describe his farming activities, Civil War service, and local community events. The collection also includes some of his personal financial accounts, 1856-1876, manuscript histories of the Town of New Denmark and its Scandinavian settlers, minutes of the Evangelical Christian Society of New Denmark, 1871-1897, and minutes of the New Denmark Home Guard, 1876-1883.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gb0004

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