Summary Information

Title: Thomas Lloyd Jones Diaries
Inclusive Dates: 1856-1893

Creator:

• Jones, Thomas Lloyd, 1830-1894

Call Number: M2003-119

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Diaries (1863-1893) of Thomas Lloyd Jones, son of Welsh emigrants Richard Lloyd Jones (1799-1885) and Mary Thomas (1808-1870), an uncle of Frank Lloyd Wright, and resident of Helena, Iowa County, Wisconsin. The diaries provide detailed, day-to-day accounts of life and work on the Jones farm in the latter half of the nineteenth century and include information about the Lloyd Jones family, noting deaths, births, illnesses, dates of travel to nearby Madison, Chicago, and Milwaukee, and financial accounts. One folder of loose material (1856-1884) consists of receipts, financial accounts, and a mechanics manual.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2003119

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