Summary Information

Title: Alexander Ahab Arnold Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1855-1940

Creator:

• Alexander Ahab Arnold, 1833-1915

Call Number: La Crosse Mss M; La Crosse Mss AK; La Crosse Mss BM

Quantity: 3.2 c.f. (8 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the Special Collections & Area Research Center, Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse; 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-La Crosse Murphy Library / La Crosse Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of a Galesville, Wisconsin, farmer-politician and members of his family: Mary Douglas Arnold, his wife; Gerald C. and Archibald H. Arnold, his sons; and Beulah Arnold Wiley, his daughter. Alexander Arnold's papers consist of brief-entry diaries, correspondence, and financial records pertaining to his law practice in Ohio, his work as a surveyor for the Town of Gale, and his farm and livestock breeding service. There are also detailed records kept as captain of the Thirtieth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. Mary Douglas Arnold's files, also consisting of diaries and correspondence, document her involvement in various organizations such as the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the women's suffrage movement. Gerald D. and Archibald H. files contain miscellaneous papers on the livestock breeding service inherited from their father and on various patents which they held on farm machinery. Beulah Arnold Wiley's papers focus on her education at Rockford College and her career as a teacher.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-lx000m

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