Summary Information

Title: John E. Olson Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1941-1974

Creator:

• Olson, John E., 1892-

Call Number: Stout Mss L

Quantity: 6.8 c.f.(17 boxes)

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:

Business records of eight cooperatives in which Olson was an active member: Dairyland Power Cooperative, Wisconsin Electric Cooperative, Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Association, Wisconsin Association of Cooperatives, Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives, Insurance Cooperative Agency, Badger Electric Cooperative, and Barron Electric Cooperative, spanning thirty-three years of cooperative development in Wisconsin. The records were collected by Olson during his term as an officer or director of the several cooperatives and consist mainly of board of director's minutes, committee minutes and reports, engineering reports, financial statements and annual and district meeting material. The records of Dairyland Power Cooperative dominate the collection with varying amounts of material from the other cooperatives and a very few biographical items primarily referring to Olson's successful 1949 campaign for the Wisconsin State Senate as a Democrat representing Barron, Polk and Dunn counties.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-stou000l

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