Title: Turner Family Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1862-2000 (bulk 1863-1938)

Creator:

• Turner, Frederick Jackson, 1861-1932

Call Number: Wis Mss AL; Micro 31; Micro 32; Micro 364; SC-O 29; M2010-062

Quantity: 11.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes, 10 record center cartons, and 1 oversize folder) and 3 reels of microfilm (35 mm); plus additions of 1.0 c.f. and 34 photographs

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:

Selected papers, 1862-2000 (bulk 1863-1938), of the noted historian Frederick Jackson Turner and his father Andrew Jackson Turner, editor of the Portage State Register, along with the library assembled by members of the Turner and Main families. The bulk of the collection is comprised of the published materials from the family's library. Also included are microfilm copies of Frederick Jackson Turner papers at other institutions.

Note:

There is a restriction on use of this material; see the Administrative/Restriction Information portion of this finding aid for details.

Language: English, German, Spanish, Russian

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000al

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This collection was received in multiple parts from the donor(s) and is organized into 2 major parts. These materials have not been physically interfiled and researchers might need to consult more than one part to locate similar materials.

• Part 1 (Wis Mss AL): Original Collection, 1863-1986
• Part 2 (M2010-062): Additions, 1862-2000

Andrew Jackson Turner genealogical papers (Mss 858)

Frederick Jackson Turner photographs (PH 259)

Frederick Jackson Turner Collection at the Huntington Library

Frederick Jackson Turner Papers and Frederick Jackson Turner correspondence, Harvard University Archives

Frederick Jackson Turner correspondence in the Carl Becker Papers, #14-17-132. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library

Use Restrictions

Micro 31: Originals at Cornell University; contact for permission to publish.

Micro 32: Originals at Washington State College at Pullman; contact for permission to publish.

Micro 364: Originals at Huntington Library; contact for permission to publish.

Acquisition Information

Wis Mss AL: Most items presented at various dates by Andrew J. and Frederick Jackson Turner; other items presented by various individuals including Mrs. Robert S. Fletcher, Oberlin, Ohio, 1961; Halvor L. Skavlem; Herbert A. Kellar; Edward T. Hartman, October 24, 1933; John Still, Dearborn, Michigan, April 23, 1963; Mrs. Kenneth S. Templeton, Indianapolis, Indiana, February 3, 1964; Mrs. Lucien M. Hanks, Madison, Wisconsin, March 12, 1952; Frederick Merk, 1976; Everett E. Edwards, March 31, 1942; items purchased from Charles Apfelbaum, Watchung, New Jersey, 1999; and books donated by Gloria Main, Boulder, Colorado, 2006-2007. Wis Mss AL now includes SC 354 and M2008-005.

SC 354: Presented to Professor Merle Curti by Selma L. Schubring in 1957 and transferred to the Historical Society in 1961.

Micro 364: Presented by Fulmer Mood, Austin, Texas, March 31, 1952.

Accession Number: M61-090, M63-068, M76-285, M2000-029, M2008-005, M2010-062

Wis Mss AL	Part 1 (Wis Mss AL): Original Collection, 1863-1986 Physical Description: 11.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes, 10 record center cartons, and 1 oversize folder) and 3 reels of microfilm (35 mm)  Scope and Content Note The family papers document Andrew Jackson Turner and his son Frederick Jackson Turner's professional and personal activities only incidentally. The bulk of the collection is published materials, mostly in the form of books, from the Turner family's libraries and the library of Frederick Jackson Turner's son-in-law, John S. Main. The Andrew J. Turner papers include memoranda, correspondence, and notes used in connection with his articles on Fort Winnebago, the organization of Portage and Columbia counties, and the origins of the Republican Party. In his general correspondence there are letters from Matthew H. Carpenter and Horace Rublee about the 1869 senatorial campaign, letters explaining the use of the word “Shanghai” in reference to the Republican Party; and letters about local history. There is also a volume of letters on the Wisconsin gerrymander case, 1891-1892, written by Charles E. Estabrook, John C. Spooner, and others. Turner's published history of Columbia County is also included. Among the Frederick Jackson Turner papers are reports and correspondence exchanged with J. Franklin Jameson and other historians as a member of the Committee on Documentary Historical Publications, 1908-1910; clippings and correspondence concerning the University of Wisconsin football team, 1906-1907; letters to Charles H. Haskins, 1909-1926, including one in which Turner informed Haskins of his intent to leave the University of Wisconsin; and scattered original letters from Turner to various historians. Teaching materials include Harvard lecture notes, 1911-1912 and 1922-1923 (only on microfilm) and a syllabus for the “History of the West,” a University of Wisconsin class. The latter course is also documented by a transcription from a student's shorthand notes, 1903-1904. From Turner's years as a student at the University of Wisconsin there is information from Andrew J. Vieau and John T. de la Ronde used for his early thesis on the fur trade; notes, 1882-1883, some pertaining to classes taken with William Francis Allen; and his University of Wisconsin graduation diploma. Additions from the Main Family include published works by and about Turner as well as some volumes from the family's general library. Many of the books contain marginal notes, inscriptions, and correspondence; loose items in the books have been removed to the manuscript papers. The Frontier in American History is represented by four foreign-language translations. Of special interest among the library titles belonging to John S. Main, Turner's son-in-law, are several presented by Aldo Leopold including a detailed, unpublished 1929 report on Wisconsin game by Leopold for the Game Restoration Committee of the Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturer's Institute.
	Andrew Jackson Turner Papers
	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   1	General, 1863-1904
Box   1 Folder   2	Carpenter and Rublee Senate election, 1868
Box   1 Folder   3-4	Gerrymander case, 1891-1892
Box   1 Folder   5	Shanghai name usage, 1880
Box   1 Folder   6	Fort Winnebago and Portage history research
Box   1 Folder   7	Republican Party origins
Box   1 Folder   8	Family Tree of Columbia County, Wisconsin, 1904
	Frederick Jackson Turner Papers
Box   1 Folder   9	Biographical clippings
	Biographical writings about F.J. Turner
Box   1 Folder   10	Curti, Merle. Historiadores de America: Frederick Jackson Turner
Box   1 Folder   10	Farrand, Max. “Frederick Jackson Turner at the Huntington Library.” Huntington Library Bulletin, no. 3, 1933 February
Box   1 Folder   10	Howe, M.A. De Wolfe. “Memoir of Frederick Jackson Turner.” Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, volume 28, 1935
Box   2 Folder   1	Jacobs, Wilbur R.
Box   2 Folder   1	Frederick Jackson Turner's Legacy, 1965
Box   2 Folder   2	“Frederick Jackson Turner's Notes on the Westward Movement, California, and the Far West.” Southern California Quarterly, 1964
Box   2 Folder   2	The Historical World of Frederick Jackson Turner, 1968
Box   2 Folder   2	“The Many-Sided Frederick Jackson Turner.” Western Historical Quarterly, volume I, no. 4, 1970
Box   2 Folder   2	“Turner's Methodology: Multiple Working Hypotheses or Ruling Theory.” Journal of American History, volume 14, no. 4, 1968
Box   2 Folder   2A	Skinner, Constance L. “Turner's Autobiographical Letter.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1935
	Correspondence
Box   2 Folder   3	General, 1889-1929
Micro 364	Selections from F.J. Turner Papers Note: Originals at Huntington Library.
Wis Mss AL Box   2 Folder   4	Athletics at University of Wisconsin, 1906-1907
Micro 31	Becker, Carl L., selected papers, 1896-1932 Note: Originals at Cornell University.
Wis Mss AL Box   2 Folder   5-6	Committee on Documentary Historical Publications, 1908-1910
	Family Library
Box   3 Folder   1	F.J. Turner's own library inventories
Box   3 Folder   2	Inventory of books donated by Main Family
Box   3 Folder   3	Loose papers from the Main Family library
	Books donated by Main Family
Box   5	A-Channing
Box   6	Collections-Dale
Box   7	Donaldson-Hart, volume 3
Box   8	Hart, volume 4-26
Box   9	Hart, volume 27-Leopold
Box   10	Leopold (continued)-Milton
Box   11	Nevins-Prescott
Box   12	Prescott (continued)-Webb
Box   13	White-Winsor, volume VI
Box   14	Winsor, volume VII-Wisconsin
Box   3 Folder   4	Notes, miscellaneous
	Research notes
Box   3 Folder   5	Early Wisconsin, A.J. Vieau, circa 1888
Box   3 Folder   6	Fort Loudon, Tennessee
Box   3 Folder   7-9	Student notebooks, 1882-1883
	Teaching materials
	“History of the West”
Box   3 Folder   10	Syllabus, undated
Box   4 Folder   1-3	Transcribed shorthand notes, 1903-1904 Note: Formerly SC 354.
Box   3 Folder   11	Lecture notes (Harvard), 1922-1923
Micro 32	Lecture notes (Harvard) / by George P. Ettenheim, 1911-1912 Note: Originals at Washington State College at Pullman.
SC-O 29	University of Wisconsin diploma
Wis Mss AL	Writings
Box   3 Folder   12	Short works by F.J. Turner, transcriptions, 1887-1938
	Published works by F.J. Turner
Box   14	The Early Writings of Frederick Jackson Turner, 1938 Physical Description: Inscribed: To our Grandson JTM CMST
Box   14	The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin: A Study of the Trading Post as an Institution, 1977, 1938
	The Frontier in American History
Box   14	Holt, 1921
Box   14	German translation, 1947
Box   14	Spanish translation, 1960?
Box   14	Indian edition, undated
Box   14	Paperback edition, introduction by Ray Allen Billington, 1962
Box   14	Russian translation, 1978
Box   14	Paperback edition, introduction by Wilbur R. Jacobs, 1986
Box   14	Limited edition, Franklin Library, 1977
Box   14	“New England, 1830-1850,” Huntington Library Bulletin, number 1, 1931
Box   14	The Significance of Sections in American History, 1933
Box   14	“The Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History.” Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1909-1910
Box   14	The United States, 1830-1850: The Nation and Its Sections, 1935
Box   14	Reuben Gold Thwaites: A Memorial Address, 1914
Box   14	Rise of the New West, 1906 Scope and Content Note: Volume 14 of Hart's The American Nation series.
Box   14	“Sections and Nation.” Yale Review, 1922
Box   14	“The West and American Ideals.” Washington Historical Quarterly, volume V, number 4, 1914
M2010-062	Part 2 (M2010-062): Additions, 1862-2000 Physical Description: 1.0 c.f. (1 record center carton) and 34 photographs  Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1862-2000 (bulk 1901-1940), consisting primarily of genealogical notes and family histories that trace the ancestry of Andrew J. and Frederick Jackson Turner. Also included are photographs, writings by Frederick Jackson Turner, and the diaries of John S. Main, a descendant of the Turners, which date from the early 1930s to early 1940s and reveal his fascination with nature.	⇧