Summary Information
Family Welfare Association (Fond du Lac, Wis.) Records
1910-1961
- Family Welfare Association (Fond du Lac, Wis.)
Oshkosh Mss AC
0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)
UW-Oshkosh Polk Library / Oshkosh Area Research Ctr. (Map)
Minutes of meetings, supplemented by some related correspondence, and reports, of an organization formed to coordinate the welfare activities of churches and other charitable agencies in Fond du Lac. Founded in 1910 as the Associated Charities of Fond du Lac, the name was changed to Public Welfare Association in 1921, and to Family Welfare Association in 1938.
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Biography/History
On April 27, 1910, the Associated Charities of Fond du Lac was founded and incorporated by the Reverence B. Talbot Rogers and Anna Giffin Sweet. The association was the result of a general effort to co-ordinate the various churches and charitable agencies in the city to contront realistically some of the more obvious social problems and to give these efforts the organizational framework within which to function effectively. In July 1921 the name of the organization was changed to the Public Welfare Association, and in 1938 to the Family Welfare Association of Fond du Lac.
Scope and Content Note
The records consist primarily of the minutes and records of that organization. Included are various reports and correspondence. Arrangment is chronological, except in the case of some correspondence and reports which have been filed with the meetings to which they are relevant.
Administrative/Restriction Information
Presented by Eugene Gordon McLane, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, November 1962.
Processed by Steve L. Hensen, May 1, 1967.
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