Title: Truman Saunders Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1836-1893

Creator:

• Saunders, Truman, d. 1894

Call Number: Whitewater Mss G

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the University Archives & Area Research Center, Harold Andersen Library, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Correspondence, a family genealogy, and family business papers of Saunders, a farmer and merchant in West Hallick, Illinois and Milton, Wisconsin. Included are letters from his fiancee, Phoebe Wilcox, 1836-1850s; to others from Saunders on the subject of land, 1850s; and from his children, Ellen and Truman W. Saunders, written while they were students at Milton Academy, 1864-1866.

Language: English

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Truman Saunders, the son of Charles and Polly Saunders, married Phoebe Wilcox in 1844. Saunders taught school in Shiloh, New Jersey for two years, and in 1846 was ordained a deacon by the Baptist church of Berlin, New York. Besides being a deacon and teacher, Saunders was also a merchant and a farmer. In 1854 he moved his family to West Halleck, Illinois. In 1879 he moved his family again, this time to Milton, Wisconsin. Truman Saunders remained in Milton until his death in 1894.

Truman and Phoebe Saunders had six children; Ellen, Truman W., Charles, Edward, John, and Haldane.

Processing Information

Processed by L.R.H., November 10, 1965.

Box   1	Correspondence, 1836, Dec. - 1892, Jan.
Box   1	Business Papers, 1836, Dec. - 1893, March
Box   1	Genealogy
Box   1	Ephemera
Box   1	Account book, 1848-1851