Summary Information

Title: William Toole Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1836-1930

Creator:

• Toole, William, 1841-1926

Call Number: Wis Mss IE

Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 2 oversize volumes)

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:

Papers of Toole, a Baraboo, Wisconsin horticulturist, consisting mainly of his correspondence as state secretary of the Wisconsin Farmers' Alliance, 1891-1893. There are letters from national, state, and local officers, concerning plans for the organization, the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, secret work, the Peoples' Party, and the role of the organization in politics; some financial reports; and minutes of annual meetings. With these are later letters concerning horticultural experiments, the Skillet Creek Farmers' Club, and the movement for rural social centers, with copies of Toole's addresses. There are also records, 1919-1927, of the Sauk County Utilities Company, a cooperative association for furnishing electric current to farmers, with William A. Toole, Jr., as president.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000ie

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