Title: Dunn County Historical Society Records
Inclusive Dates: 1951-1967

Creator:

• Dunn County Historical Society (Wis.)

Call Number: Stout Mss F

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Housed at the University Archives and Area Research Center, Library Learning Center, University of Wisconsin-Stout; 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-Stout Library Learning Ctr. / Stout Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Correspondence, scattered minutes, clippings on Dunn County events and people, biographical sketches, and other materials. Biographical sketch subjects include John Holly Knapp, William Wilson, Andrew Tainter, Michael Griffin, John J. Jenkins, Stephen S. McCann, George Bullen Shaw, Charles D. Parker, and James H. Stout.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-stou000f

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The Dunn County Historical Society was organized in 1949 for the purpose of preserving and strengthening the consciousness of our heritage. It is governed by officers elected by the board of directors who in turn are elected by the membership. Activities include annual summer tours of historical points of interest, operation of museums in what were the Tainter Family playhouse and the Hilkrest School, research projects, collecting of manuscripts, artifacts, and library materials, and others.

The records in this collection reveal only a partial picture of the activities of the Dunn County Historical Society. They include a variety of materials--correspondence, clippings, minutes, questionnaires, a membership list, bylaws, etc.--but the files are all very fragmentary. For example, minutes are present only for 1962 and a membership list only for 1958.

A list of folder titles follows this description, but special mention should be made of the items filed under Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography. This folder contains correspondence of Dwight L. Agnew, a Stout University history professor and an officer of the Dunn County Historical Society, concerning biographical sketches of Dunn County people that he and his students prepared for the Dictionary. Included are notes and sketches on Michael Griffin, John J. Jenkins, John Holly Knapp, Stephen S. McCann, Charles D. Parker, George Bullen Shaw, James Huff Stout, Andrew Tainter, and William Wilson.

Accessioning records which originally comprised the contents of Box 1 were returned to the Dunn County Historical Society in 1979.

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Dunn County Historical Society, Menomonie, Wisconsin, 1971. Accession Number: M71-226

Processing Information

Processed by Karen Baumann, August 31, 1971.

Box   2 Folder   1	Bylaws, Minutes, Membership List, 1958, 1962, undated
	Clippings
Box   2 Folder   2	re: Dunn County Historical Society, 1956, 1962-1963
Box   2 Folder   3	re: Early Dunn County
Box   2 Folder   4	re: mid-20th Century Dunn County
Box   2 Folder   5	Dictionary of Wisconsin Biography, 1951-1957
Box   2 Folder   6	History Tours, 1957-1965
Box   2 Folder   7	Miscellaneous Correspondence and Notes, 1951-1957; 1962; undated
Box   2 Folder   8	Photo Negatives - General Listing
Box   2 Folder   9	Questionnaires of Members, 1951
Box   2 Folder   10	Rural Schoolhouse Preservation, 1962
Box   2 Folder   11	State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1952-1964
Box   2 Folder   12	Wakanda Park Indian Mounds, 1956-1957
Box   2 Folder   13	Wisconsin Council for Local History, 1962, 1965-1966