Summary Information
Henry Esch Papers
1848-1863, 1909
Wis Mss O
0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Diaries in German of Henry Esch, an Evangelical Church itinerant missionary in Sauk County, Wisconsin and elsewhere in southern Wisconsin and Iowa. A list of sermon texts, correspondence, a summary of his work in the mission at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and biographical accounts are also present.
German and
English
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Biography/History
Henry Esch was born in Schala, Germany, in 1826. He was brought to the United States by his family in 1842, and settled south of Milwaukee in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. After experiencing a conversion at the age of 19, he decided to enter the ministry and in 1848 he was received as a candidate into the Illinois Conference of the Evangelical Church. He became an itinerant missionary, sometimes covering as much as 400 to 500 miles in a single month, over areas of southern Wisconsin and Iowa.
Administrative/Restriction Information
“Life and Ministry of the Rev. Henry Esch” and digest of Volume 3 presented by the Rev. Herman A. Block, 1936. “Life History of Henry Esch” presented by Albert Hart Sanford, 1940. Volumes 3-4 deposited by Mrs. Theodore R. Faville and transferred to a gift in 1945. Volumes 1-2 and 5-7, and miscellaneous other papers presented by Mark Esch, La Crosse, Wisconsin, August, 1962.
Processed by Emily Al-Khazraji, February 21, 1965.
Contents List
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Miscellaneous Papers, 1856-1860s, 1909
: Correspondence, fragments in German, and obituary notices; “Life History of Henry Esch,” by Gustave Fritsche (translated by Esch's son, former Congressman John J. Esch); “Life and Ministry of the Rev. Henry Esch,” by Herman A. Block.
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Diaries, 1848-1855, 1862-1863 (in German)
: Volume 3 also contains a typewritten digest in English of that volume's contents, prepared by the Rev. Herman A. Block.
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Box
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6-7
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Notebooks
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