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Summary Information
Oral History Interview with Milo K. Swanton 1975-1976
- Swanton, Milo K., 1894-1993
Tape 550A
11 tape recordings
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Interview conducted by Dale Treleven of the Historical Society staff with Swanton, long-time executive secretary of the Wisconsin Council of Agricultural Cooperatives; concerning rural life as Swanton knew it in his youth in the Town of Blooming Grove, Dane County, Wisconsin; education in a one-room school, at the Wisconsin Academy, and at the University of Wisconsin; his farming experiences from World War I to 1966, the formation and development of many farm cooperatives, the Wisconsin Employment Peace Act of 1939, the National Farmers Organization, and other topics.
Part of the Wisconsin Agriculturalists Oral History Project.
English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-tape00550a
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