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Summary Information
Edward Daniels Papers
1834-1900
Wis Mss QC; Micro 918
1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 5 reels of microfilm (35mm)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Edward Daniels, a participant in political and social reform movements who was also the first state geologist of Wisconsin and colonel of the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry during the Civil War. The pre-war correspondence contains information on his lectures on geology and on his work for the Wisconsin Geological Survey, 1853-1861. A few letters touch upon his military career, 1861-1862, and some concern his partnership with Joseph Medill and Horace White in a speculative venture into coal mining in Illinois. After the war, Daniels moved to Virginia and the post-war correspondence is largely concerned with Virginia politics, a newspaper enterprise in Richmond, Daniels' attempt to establish a cooperative industrial school on his estate, and a cooperative land colonization project in Mexico in which he was interested. Sixteen diaries, containing brief entries for the period 1862-1894, accompany the correspondence. The collection also includes field notes taken for the Wisconsin Geological Survey and drafts of lectures advocating cooperatives.
English
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