Summary Information

Title: Walter Henry Bender Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1913-1966

Creator:

• Bender, Walter Henry, 1879-1966

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss EA

Quantity: 5.0 c.f. (13 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee 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-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of Bender, a Milwaukee lawyer and civic leader, dating primarily 1942-1964. Most relates to the Milwaukee County Park Commission, of which Bender was president (1948-1965). Included are files on the building of expressways on county park lands, the development of park programs, the reorganization of the commission in the 1950s, and contracts with the Milwaukee Braves baseball team. Other files pertain to the Metropolitan Study Commission; the Marquette University School of Medicine's board of directors and the board of trustees of Milwaukee-Downer College, of which he was a member; the development of Metropolitan War Memorial; the Milwaukee Society for Suppression of Commercial Vice (1914-1922); several World War II relief agencies; and Bender's legal career and his family.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil000ea

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