Summary Information

Title: Napoleon Boardman Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1843-1905

Creator:

• Boardman, Napoleon, 1825-1899

Call Number: Wis Mss RA

Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (1 archives box and 2 flat 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:

Papers of Napoleon Boardman, a civil engineer from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin who served during the Civil War as an officer in the 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry and 2nd Missouri Light Artillery, primarily in Missouri and Arkansas. The collection includes his brief diaries, 1856, 1861-1863, 1875-1888; topographical sketches and plans for dams at Neenah and Menasha, Wisconsin; surveys for the Wisconsin Midland Railroad and for the Homer and Manchester Railway in Michigan; contracts (1851) of the Rock River Valley Railroad Company; and personal financial records, including an account book (1905) kept by his son, Charles R. Boardman.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000ra

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