Title: Oren Ernest Frazee Papers
Date: circa 1920-1958

Creator:

• Frazee, Oren Ernest, 1880

Unique Identifier: MSS H

Quantity: 4.6 cubic feet

Physical Description: 11 archives boxes, 1 card box

Repository:

La Crosse Public Library
Contact Information

Archival Location:

La Crosse Public Library (Map)

Abstract:

Genealogical files of Oren Ernest Frazee, a professor of biology and avid genealogist, who lived from 1880-1960. The collection is categorized into family records, state records, and Frazee family records. An index to over 90 family surnames is included in the register. Besides the Frazee surname lines, the Devol family lines are also represented. The collection offers a fascinating view into how genealogy research tools and methods evolved up to the mid 20th century.

Language: English

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41359852

Donated by Alice Frazee Ginn before 1970

(Accession No. x.027)

Materials in this collection are available for patron use.

[Identification of item], Oren Ernest Frazee Papers, MSS H, La Crosse Public Library Archives, La Crosse, WI

Processed by Bill Petersen, August 1984; Nancy Steinhoff, October 1989; and Christine Stolz, March 2004

Arranged in three series:

Series 1: Family Records

Series 2: State Records

Series 3: Frazee Records

The materials in the Frazee genealogical collection are a compilation of information representing the histories of over 90 different families collected by Frazee during his years of genealogical research. The collection has been divided into three categories: family records, state records, and Frazee records. Materials in these categories are arranged by family name, state name, or Frazee first name. The collection offers a fascinating view into how genealogy research tools and methods evolved up to the mid 20th century.

Materials in the state records include information taken from census records of the particular state, excerpts from state and local histories, cemetery records and state and county records. There are also some state records in the Frazee files.

The information found in the family and Frazee records consist mainly of correspondence dealing with genealogical inquiries, hand-drawn family charts, newspaper clippings pertaining to the family genealogy, and some photographs of family members. Only a few of the files contain photographs, but most of these photographs include the names of the people in them and the dates that they were taken. There are also some greeting cards, church announcements and announcements of family events (births, reunions, weddings, etc.) in the collection.

Other Frazee records contain correspondence, materials from a genealogy presentation presented by Oren Frazee, and Frazee’s membership materials from the American Institute of Genealogy. There are also three notebooks, titled Record Books , which are a compilation of research and correspondence of the Frazee family. Individual analysis cards, which provide information on individuals within the extended Frazee family, are included here. Numbered composition books which include various notes are also among the materials. Composition book four is either missing or is one of the two unnumbered composition books.

A card file, made up of 3 x 5 cards, contains a mixture of notes about individuals and clippings. Cards are alphabetized by last name with the exception of individuals whose surname is Frazee. Those individuals are alphabetized by their first names.

Oren Ernest Frazee, professor of biology and avid genealogist, was born March 10, 1880, in Wabash County, Indiana. He attended the Indiana State Normal School in Terre Haute, Indiana, and later received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Indiana in 1909. In 1912, Frazee earned his Master of Arts degree, also at the University of Indiana. Other formal education included graduate work at Harvard in 1928. Frazee taught at elementary and secondary schools in Indiana and Illinois from 1906 to 1915. In 1915 he became head of the biology department at the Minnesota State Teacher’s College in St. Cloud, Minnesota. In 1920 Frazee came to La Crosse to accept a position as head of the biological sciences department at what was then called the La Crosse Normal School. He remained at that position until his retirement in 1950.

Frazee was a member of the American Association of University Professors, the Association of Wisconsin State College Faculties and the Presbyterian Church. Upon his retirement in 1950, the Board of Regents of the State Colleges bestowed upon him the title of professor emeritus. In 1956 the La Crosse State College established an award named after Frazee that was given to students who excelled in the sciences.

With his keen interest in genealogy, Frazee collected information and wrote manuscripts on several related families. Fifteen of these manuscripts are on file with the Institute of American Genealogy in Chicago. Frazee was a member of the Institution of American Genealogy and had received that organization’s Award of Merit. Frazee collaborated in the publication of the Genealogy of Doniphan-Frazee-Hamilton Lines published in 1929. The La Crosse Public Library has a copy of this genealogy in the book collection.

Frazee married the former Alice B. Devol in 1912. They had one daughter, Mrs. Alice Ginn. Frazee died March 22, 1960.

La Crosse Mss AY (University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Area Research Center)

Oren Ernest and Alice Devol Frazee Papers

• Duvall family
• Frazee family
• Genealogists--Wisconsin--La Crosse

(Series 1)	Series: Family Records
Box 1   Folder 1	Adamson
Box 1   Folder 2	Albrecht
Box 1   Folder 3-9	Arnold
Box 2   Folder 2-3	Atcheson
Box 2   Folder 1-3	Badgley
Box 2   Folder 4	Ball
Box 2   Folder 5	Beldon
Box 7   Folder 15-18	Benedict
Box 2   Folder 6	Bignell
Box 2   Folder 6	Blanck
Box 2   Folder 7	Bradt
Box 2   Folder 8	Breedlove
Box 2   Folder 5 Box 3   Folder 17	Brooks
Box 2   Folder 9-10	Burdick
Box 2   Folder 5	Burt
Box 8   Folder 17	Cappleman
Box 5   Folder 5	Carter
Box 2   Folder 11	Chafee
Box 2   Folder 12	Coleman
Box 2   Folder 13	Cook
Box 2   Folder 14-16	Cowger
Box 2   Folder 17-18	Cox
Box 3   Folder 1	Curran
Box 3   Folder 2	Cushman
Box 8   Folder 15	Dague
Box 3   Folder 3	Davidson
Box 3   Folder 4	Dean
Box 3   Folder 5	DeCamp
Box 3   Folder 6-14	Devol
Box 3   Folder 15	Dickinson
Box 8   Folder 15	Dickson
Box 3   Folder 16 Box 8   Folder 16	Doniphan
Box 7   Folder 14	Dorsey
Box 3   Folder 17	Dudley
Box 3   Folder 18-21 Box 4   Folder 1-9	Dye
Box 5   Folder 1	Fanny
Box 4   Folder 10	Finch
Box 4   Folder 11	Fletcher
Box 4   Folder 12-13	Flory
Box 2   Folder 5	Foote
Box 2   Folder 4 Box 3   Folder 3 Box 5   Folder 1 Box 6   Folder 2	Frazee
Box 5   Folder 5	French
Box 4   Folder 14	Gershom
Box 4   Folder 15-16	Griesel
Box 4   Folder 17	Griffith
Box 4   Folder 18-19	Griswold
Box 5   Folder 1	Hamilton
Box 5   Folder 2	Hanscome
Box 5   Folder 3	Hoff
Box 5   Folder 4	Hoye
Box 4   Folder 18-19	Hubbel
Box 5   Folder 5	Isbell
Box 5   Folder 6-9	Jennings
Box 8   Folder 15	Johnston
Box 5   Folder 10-11	King
Box 2   Folder 17-18	Kinnan
Box 5   Folder 12	Langdon
Box 5   Folder 13	Looker
Box 5   Folder 14-16	Lord
Box 5   Folder 17	Marsh
Box 4   Folder 15-16	Mashofsky
Box 5   Folder 18	Matteson
Box 5   Folder 19	Mech
Box 4   Folder 18-19	Meigs
Box 4   Folder 9	Mettler
Box 8   Folder 15	Metz
Box 5   Folder 20	Micklejohn
Box 5   Folder 21	Mills
Box 8   Folder 15	Moniger
Box 5   Folder 22-23	Montgomery
Box 6   Folder 1 Box 8   Folder 15,17	Morris
Box 6   Folder 2	Moses
Box 6   Folder 3	Ogle
Box 7   Folder 15-18	Olmstock
Box 6   Folder 4	Parker
Box 6   Folder 5	Phillips
Box 6   Folder 6	Pierce
Box 6   Folder 7	Potter
Box 5   Folder 22-23 Box 6   Folder 8-9	Pulliam
Box 8   Folder 16	Rogers
Box 6   Folder 10	Scott
Box 8   Folder 16	Shipman
Box 6   Folder 11	Smith
Box 6   Folder 12 Box 3   Folder 13-14	Soule
Box 8   Folder 15	Sprinkle
Box 5   Folder 22-23	Sproul
Box 4   Folder 18-19	Stevens
Box 7   Folder 12-13	Stockton
Box 8   Folder 15 Box 6   Folder 13-14	Sutton
Box 8   Folder 16	Test
Box 6   Folder 15	Tolley
Box 2   Folder 2-3 Box 6   Folder 16	Valentine
Box 6   Folder 17	Vine
Box 6   Folder 18	Waller
Box 6   Folder 19	Weeks
Box 6   Folder 20-23 Box 7   Folder 1-13	Whiteside
Box 7   Folder 15-18 Box 3   Folder 17	Whitlock
Box 7   Folder 14	Wilderman
Box 7   Folder 15-18	Wilson
Box 5   Folder 12	Winter
Box 8   Folder 10, 15-17 Box 9   Folder 28 Box 10   Folder 1	Other family names
(Series 2)	Series: State Records	⇧
Box 8   Folder 1	Illinois
Box 8   Folder 1	Indiana
Box 8   Folder 1	Iowa
Box 8   Folder 2	Kentucky
Box 8   Folder 3	Maryland
Box 8   Folder 4, 12 Box 9   Folder 7	New Jersey
Box 8   Folder 4	New York
Box 8   Folder 5-6	Ohio
Box 8   Folder 7, 19	Pennsylvania
Box 8   Folder 8	Virginia
Box 8   Folder 8	West Virginia
Box 10   Folder 3 Box 12	Miscellaneous wills, marriages, cemeteries, etc.
(Series 3)	Series: Frazee Records	⇧
(Subseries 3.1)	Subseries: Family Genealogy
Box 9   Folder 16-17 Box 8   Folder 9	History of family name
Box 8   Folder 18	Anna
Box 8   Folder 15	Asa
Box 8   Folder 11	Benoni
Box 8   Folder 19-20	Charles
Box 8   Folder 21	Daniel Day
Box 8   Folder 22	David
Box 8   Folder 9	Edward
Box 8   Folder 9	Eliphalet
Box 8   Folder 9 Box 9   Folder 1	Elisha
Box 9   Folder 2 Box 8   Folder 10	Ephraim
Box 10   Folder 1 Box 8   Folder 10, 17 Box 9   Folder 3-4	Ephraim's family
Box 8   Folder 9, 14	Gershom
Box 9   Folder 5	Hannah
Box 9   Folder 6-7	Harry W.
Box 9   Folder 8	Henry
Box 9   Folder 9	Hezekiah
Box 8   Folder 12 Box 9   Folder 10	Hiram
Box 9   Folder 11	Hollis E.
Box 9   Folder 12	Irving
Box 8   Folder 9, 17 Box 9   Folder 13	Isaac
Box 9   Folder 14 Box 8   Folder 11, 15	Jacob
Box 9   Folder 15 Box 8   Folder 10, 12, 15	James
Box 8   Folder 9, 16 Box 9   Folder 16	John
Box 8   Folder 11	Jonas
Box 8   Folder 9, 13, 16 Box 9   Folder 17	Joseph
Box 8   Folder 16	Joseph's descendants (chart)
Box 9   Folder 18 Box 8   Folder 17	Joshua
Box 8   Folder 11, 16 Box 9   Folder 19	Lewis
Box 9   Folder 20	Lora
Box 8   Folder 9	Martha
Box 8   Folder 9	Mary
Box 8   Folder 11	Morris
Box 8   Folder 11	Moses
Box 9   Folder 21-22	Oren
Box 9   Folder 23	Orrin
Box 9   Folder 24	P. C.
Box 9   Folder 25 Box 8   Folder 15	Phineas
Box 8   Folder 11	Randolph
Box 9   Folder 26 Box 8   Folder 11	Reuben
Box 8   Folder 16	Richard Thomas
Box 8   Folder 16	Sarah
Box 9   Folder 27 Box 8   Folder 11, 16	Samuel
Box 9   Folder 28 Box 8   Folder 11, 15	Stephen
Box 9   Folder 28	Stephen's descendants
Box 9   Folder 29	Timothy
Box 10   Folder 1	Will M.
Box 10   Folder 2 Box 8   Folder 9, 11-12, 15	William
(Subseries 3.2)	Subseries: Other Frazee Family Records	⇧
Box 10   Folder 3	Correspondence
Box 8   Folder 9-15	Frazee record books I and II
Box 8   Folder 16-17	Frazee record book III: Appendices
Box 10   Folder 4	Genealogy presentation
Box 11   Folder 1-5 Box 10   Folder 5-15	Individual analysis cards
Box 11   Folder 6	Institute of American Genealogy
Box 11   Folder 7	Miscellaneous notes
Box 11   Folder 8-13	Notebooks
Box 12	Card file