Title: Wendell A. Anderson Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1855-1922

Creator:

• Anderson, Wendell A. (Wendell Abraham), 1840-1929

Call Number: Wis Mss GS

Quantity: 4.6 c.f. (14 archives boxes 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, mainly 1875-1912, of Wendell Abraham Anderson, a La Crosse, Wisconsin physician, state Democratic Party leader, and United States consul in Montreal. The majority of the collection consists of correspondence received, 1875-1876, as chairman of the State Central Committee during the 1876 Presidential campaign. There are few papers from his second term as chairman, 1881-1885. Prominent political correspondents include Edward S. Bragg, Ammi R. R. Butler, George W. Cate, Nelson Dewey, James R. Doolittle, Conrad Krez, Alexander Mitchell, George H. Paul, George W. Peck, George B. Smith, William F. Vilas, E. C. Wall, and others. Other party records include statewide lists of supporters which are primarily undated. The only medical papers consist of reports prepared, 1862-1865, as surgeon for the 3rd Maryland Infantry. The earlier of these include names of individual soldiers, diagnoses, and the disposition of each case. Anderson was United States consul general at Montreal, 1885-1889 and 1893-1897, and this part of the collection contains some incoming correspondence and copies of personal letters sent, accounts of fees collected and personal expenses, some reports, and miscellaneous information on Canadian agriculture and industry. After 1906 there are minutes, correspondence, and mailings pertaining to the Upper Mississippi River Improvement Association of which Anderson, then mayor of La Crosse, was a vice-president. Also present is correspondence, 1886-1889, to and from his son, John Wendell Anderson while a member of Chi Psi fraternity at Cornell University and the University of Michigan.

Note:

The shelf list card indicates that Volume 18 is missing.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000gs

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Acquisition Information

Presented by the heirs of Dr. W. A. Anderson, La Crosse, Wis., 1929.

Processing Information

Reprocessed by Carolyn Mattern, 2008.

	Correspondence Received
Box   1 Folder   1-4	1875, January-October
Box   2 Folder   1-4	1875, November-1876, March
Box   3 Folder   1-4	1876, April-July
Box   4 Folder   1-4	1876, August-September 19
Box   5 Folder   1-4	1876, September 20-October 25
Box   6 Folder   1-4	1876, October 26-1877, July 10
Box   7 Folder   1-4	1877, July 11-1885
Box   8 Folder   1-5	1886-1889, June
Box   9 Folder   1-5	1889, July-1912; undated
Box   10 Folder   1-6	John Wendell Anderson correspondence, 1885-1889
	Subject Files
	3rd Maryland Volunteer Regiment
Box   11 Folder   1-2	Patient registers, 1862-1865 (Vols. 19-20)
Box   11 Folder   3	Hospital morning reports, 1863 (Vol. 21)
Box   16 Folder   1	Reports and sample forms
	Consul at Montreal
Box   11 Folder   4	Dispatch letterbook, 1879-1886 (Vol. 16)
Box   11 Folder   5	Brief dispatches, 1886-1889
Box   16 Folder   2	Letterbook, loose pages, 1893-1894
Box   11 Folder   6	Letterbook, loose pages, 1895-1897
Box   11 Folder   7	Checks and check stubs, 1885-1888
	Fees register
Box   11	1885-1886, July (Vol. 1)
Box   12 Folder   1-3	1886, August-1889, July (Vols. 2-4)
Box   12 Folder   4	Fees, 1887 (and Cornell paper)
Box   12 Folder   5	Tariff & fees notebook, 1886 (Vol. 17)
	Democratic Party records
Box   12 Folder   6	Form letters from WAA and E. C. Wall, 1876-1877, 1890-1901
Box   12 Folder   7	Language reports, 1876
Box   12 Folder   8	Accounts of literature issued, 1876 (Vol. 7)
	Lists
Box   12 Folder   9	Assembly district lists, 1882-1884
Box   13 Folder   1-4	County and miscellaneous lists, 1875, 1886, 1888, 1890s (Vols. 10-11)
Box   13 Folder   5-8	County and town lists, undated (Vols. 5-6, 8-9, 14)
Box   15	County and town list, undated (Vol. 12)
Box   14 Folder   1	Literature issued
	Miscellany
Box   14 Folder   2	Gorham Academy composition book, 1855
Box   16 Folder   3	Certificates
Box   14 Folder   3	New Richmond relief fund, 1899
Box   14 Folder   4-8	Upper Mississippi River Improvement Association, 1907-1912