Title: Milton Trautmann Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1932-1963

Creator:

• Trautmann, Milton, 1900-1963

Call Number: Mss 289

Quantity: 2.8 c.f. (7 archives 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 Milton Trautmann, a Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin physician, including record books showing each day's appointments, charges levied and treatment administered, summaries of receipts and expenditures, lists of inoculations and obstetrical cases, and records of narcotic drugs dispensed; plus one folder of miscellaneous financial information.

Language: English

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Milton Trautmann, a long-time physician in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, was born in Lomira, Wisconsin in 1900. His father, John Trautmann, who emigrated from Germany in the 1860's, was a circuit-riding evangelical minister. His mother was also a German immigrant. The younger Trautmann received a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1924 and a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1926. After an internship in Milwaukee he entered practice in Brooklyn, New York with his brother Henry. In 1931 he married Esther Trachte; they became the parents of five children.

Trautmann left Brooklyn for Prairie du Sac in 1934 after the depression had ruined his once lucrative practice. In 1937 he attended Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health on a grant from the State Board of Health of Wisconsin. For several years thereafter he worked in the Board's Division of Communicable Diseases while maintaining his Prairie du Sac practice on a part-time basis. About 1946 Trautmann left the State Board of Health to resume a full-time medical practice in Prairie du Sac, which he continued until his death in September 1963.

Dr. Trautmann's papers consist primarily of his daily record books for the years 1932, 1935, 1936, and 1948-1963. All these annual volumes pertain to his private practice except for 1956 and 1959 when there are separate records for Trautmann's private practice and for his partnership with another doctor. The daily record books show each day's appointments, the charges levied, and, in many cases, the treatment administered. In addition most volumes contain monthly summaries of receipts; lists of expenditures for drugs, medical provisions, and office supplies; lists of inoculations administered; records of narcotic drugs dispensed; and annual lists of obstetrical cases. Also with the collection is one folder of miscellaneous financial records (1949-1959) including some income tax information and additional records of daily receipts.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Esther F. Trautmann, December 1973. Accession Number: M73-483

Processing Information

Processed by Harry Miller, March 1974.

	Daily Record Books
Box   1 Folder   1	1932
Box   1 Folder   2	1935
Box   1 Folder   3	1936
Box   1 Folder   4	1948
Box   2 Folder   1	1949
Box   2 Folder   2	1950
Box   2 Folder   3	1951
Box   3 Folder   1	1952
Box   3 Folder   2	1953
Box   3 Folder   3	1954
Box   4 Folder   1	1955
Box   4 Folder   2	1955, Drs. Trautmann and Zauft
Box   4 Folder   3	1956
Box   5 Folder   1	1957
Box   5 Folder   2	1958
Box   5 Folder   3	1959
Box   6 Folder   1	1959, Drs. Trautmann and Roemhild
Box   6 Folder   2	1960
Box   6 Folder   3	1961
Box   7 Folder   1	1962
Box   7 Folder   2	1963
Box   7 Folder   3	Miscellaneous Financial Records, 1949-1959