Title: Polish National Alliance of the United States of North America. Lodge 14: Records
Inclusive Dates: 1937-1974

Creator:

• Polish National Alliance of North America. Lodge 14 (Milwaukee, Wis.)

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 57

Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Minute books (1937-1974) of Lodge 14, the Polish Patriotic Society, the oldest Milwaukee lodge of the PNA, a fraternal and mutual benefit organization for Polish Americans. Also included is a folder with Lodge 14 correspondence and financial records; and a minute book (1943-1966) of Lodge 3009, the General Joseph Haller Society, which merged with Lodge 14 sometime after 1967. Most of the records are in Polish.

Language: Polish, English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil00057

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The Polish Patriotic Society (Tow. Patriotyczne Polskie) was organized October 28, 1880, by members of the Kosciuszko Guard, including Ignace Wendzinski, Frank Choinski and J. Biedrzycki; it is the oldest Milwaukee affiliate of the Polish National Alliance (Zwiazek Narodowy Polski). The group has been active in war relief work and fundraising and its members have served in the Spanish-American War, and in World Wars I and II. The Society also sells life insurance to members and provides sick benefits and funeral expenses. Prior to World War II, the Society helped organize the PNA's Alliance Sick Chest (Zwiazkowa Kasa Chorych) and contributed to the purchase of the Alliance Home of Council 8.

Sometime after 1967, Lodge 14 incorporated the members of the General Joseph Haller Society (Tow. Generala Josefa Hallera), Lodge 3009. This group had been formed April 11, 1943 by Polish war veterans and friends.

The collection consists of minute books of both Lodges, with a few fragmentary items also included. There are two minute books of the Polish Patriotic Society, July 1937-June 1965, and July 1965-October 1974. Also included is a 1969-1970 audit report, a 1965 newsclipping, and a few letters and miscellany. The minute volume from the General Haller Society dates from the group's first meeting in April 1943 to January 1966; there are also a few loose pages of minutes (1966-1967) in a separate folder.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Lorraine Czechorski, St. Francis, Wisconsin, 1980. Accession Number: M81-15

Processing Information

Processed by Menzi Behrnd-Klodt, November 1981.

Box   1 Volume   1	Minute Book of Lodge 14, July 1937-June 1965
Box   1 Volume   2	Minute Book of Lodge 14, July 1965-October 1974
Box   1 Volume   3	Minute Book of Lodge 3009, April 1943-January 1966
Box   1 Folder   1	Minutes of Lodge 3009, 1966-1967
Box   1 Folder   1	Miscellany of Lodge 14, 1961-1965, 1969-1970