Title: Mary K. Killough Research Files
Inclusive Dates: 1813-2004

Creator:

• Killough, Mary K.

Call Number: Green Bay Mss 178

Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

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:

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Mary K. Killough research files, 1813-2004, for a series of articles written on the Norwegian Moravian missionary, Otto Tank. Born March 11, 1800 near Halden, Norway, Tank spent much of his life in missionary service throughout Europe and in the South American country of Suriname. Tank eventually settled in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he dealt mostly in real estate.

Language: English, Dutch, German, Norwegian

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gb0178

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Included in the collection are copies of three of Killough's published articles; her correspondence with individuals in Germany, Norway, Suriname, the UK, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin; and annotated research materials, the bulk of which document Tank's years in Suriname. Additionally, there are newsletters from Heritage Hill State Park in Green Bay, the site of the Tank Cottage; Tank's correspondence with family members, his citizenship papers, and other official documents such as warrants of attorney; many of these documents are in German, Dutch, or Norwegian with some translations by Killough. Images of Tank's gravesite and residence in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, as well as renderings of the Tank Cottage in Green Bay are also included.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Mary K. Killough, Black Mountain, North Carolina. Accession Number: M2009-076

Green Bay Mss 178	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   1	Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
Box   1 Folder   2	Deutsche Democratic Republic
Box   1 Folder   3	Heritage Hill
	Moravian Archives
Box   1 Folder   4	Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Box   1 Folder   5	United Kingdom
Box   1 Folder   6	Utrecht
Box   1 Folder   7	State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Box   1 Folder   8	Suriname article
Box   1 Folder   9	Heritage Hill newsletters
	Image File
Box   1 Folder   10	Tank Cottage rendering
Box   1 Folder   11	Tank gravesite and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania residence
Box   1 Folder   12	Killough articles
	Research File
Box   2 Folder   1-2	Annotated articles and research notes
Box   1 Folder   13	Deutsche Democratic Republic
Box   1 Folder   14	German and Norwegian Brochures
	Moravian Archives
Box   1 Folder   15	Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Box   1 Folder   16	Utrecht
Box   1 Folder   17-18	Otto Tank, general research
Box   1 Folder   19-20	Otto Tank correspondence with translations
Box   2 Folder   3	Otto Tank correspondence with translations (continued)
Box   1 Folder   21-22	Suriname, general research
Box   1 Folder   23	Suriname Mission diary copy and translations
Box   1 Folder   24	Tank Neighborhood Association