Elisha Morrow Correspondence, 1840-1943
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Summary Information

Title: Elisha Morrow Correspondence
Inclusive Dates: 1840-1943

Creator:
  • Morrow, Elisha, b. 1819
Call Number: Green Bay Mss 179

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

Repository:
Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; 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-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:
Papers of Elisha Morrow, an early resident of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and receiver for the U.S. Land Office, consisting of correspondence between Morrow and Maria Bemis (whom he eventually married), Sarah Stevens, and other miscellaneous correspondence. Also included is a letter by John Mills Smith, who traveled with Elisha Morrow, detailing his first impressions of Wisconsin (1854) and a letter from Eleazer Holmes Ellis to Morrow seeking housing for several French travelers (1856). Later correspondence consists of letters of condolence to Elisha's daughter Helen after his death (1898) and other miscellaneous family correspondence, principally to Helen.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gb0179
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