Title: Glen H. Orr Diaries
Inclusive Dates: 1921-1969

Creator:

• Orr, Glen H.

Call Number: Mss 715

Quantity: 3.0 c.f. (8 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:

Diaries, 1921-1969, of Glen H. Orr, a 1915 graduate of the University of Wisconsin's School of Agriculture, who lived in Blooming Grove, near rural south Madison. Orr kept detailed accounts of his farm activities, his home life, the weather, local weddings, births and deaths, buildings, and other daily activities and news. In addition to Orr's farm activities, he worked various odd jobs around Madison, including census enumerating in Stoughton, outdoor landscaping in and around Madison with Wallace Conlin, and a job at the license bureau (Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department) in downtown Madison. In 1959, he retired and lived in Jasper and Harrison, Arkansas, and after this time the diaries concern his life there.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00715

Acquisition Information

Presented by Annabelle Orr, 1970-1972, Harrison, Arkansas. Accession Number: M70-341, M72-039, M72-049

Processing Information

Processed by Carolyn Mattern, July 1987.

Mss 715	Diaries
Box   1 Folder   1-4	1921-1939
Box   2 Folder   1-5	1940-1948 Note: Around 1941, Orr begins working at the license bureau.
Box   3 Folder   1-5	1949-1953
Box   4 Folder   1-4	1954-1957
Box   5 Folder   1-6	1958-1960 Note: In 1959, Orr retires and moves to Arkansas.
Box   6 Folder   1-6	1961-1963
Box   7 Folder   1-8	1964-1967
Box   8 Folder   1-2	1968-1969