Summary Information

Title: Eli Hooker Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1846-1889

Creator:

• Hooker, Eli, 1820-1889?

Call Number: Oshkosh Mss AG; Micro 239

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:

Housed at the Archives & Area Research Center, Polk Library, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh; 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-Oshkosh Polk Library / Oshkosh Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of Hooker, a Waupun, Wisconsin, attorney, land owner, and businessman. Fourteen diaries, 1846-1889, comprise the bulk of the collection and tersely record Hooker's day-to-day activities. Two of the volumes contain material relating to an oil company in which he held an interest. An expense book, 1867-1888, lists daily household expenditures. There is also one volume on the family's genealogy.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-osh00ag

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