Summary Information

Title: Peter L. Scanlan Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1884-1954

Creator:

• Scanlan, Peter L., 1862-1956

Call Number: Platteville Mss D

Quantity: 4.4 c.f. (11 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the Southwest Wisconsin Room and Area Research Center, Ullsvik Hall, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; 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-Platteville Southwest Wisconsin Room / Platteville Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of Scanlan, a medical doctor and local historian of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Included are some personal papers and extensive research correspondence, copies of documents, and notes on the history of Prairie du Chien and of Crawford County. Information is present on the biography of Nicolas Boilvin; the history of Bridgeport, Cassville, Milwaukee, and Irish Ridge (Grant County); Fort Crawford; World War II in Crawford County; area churches; the genealogies of area families including the Boilvin, Brisbois, Campbell, Cardinal, and Giard families; and the genealogies of Robert Dickson, Solomon Juneau, and (Jean) Joseph Rolette. Personal papers include World War I correspondence received from his family while Scanlan served in the medical corps in World War I; school class notes; his brother Charles' diary; and brief papers of his daughter Marian who taught high school English at several Wisconsin schools, wrote magazine articles and other materials, and assisted her father in his research.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-pltv000d

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