Title: Wisconsin Phalanx Records
Inclusive Dates: 1844-1971

Creator:

• Wisconsin Phalanx (Ripon, Wis.)

Call Number: Oshkosh Mss CY; Oshkosh Micro 23; Micro 571

Quantity: 3.4 c.f. (4 archives boxes, 2 flat boxes, and 3 card boxes) and 5 reels of microfilm (35 mm)

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:

UW-Oshkosh Polk Library / Oshkosh Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Records, mainly 1844-1857, of the Fourierite community established at Ceresco (Ripon) in 1844 and disbanded by vote of its members in 1849. The collection includes articles of incorporation, a constitution, and by-laws, 1845; minutes of meetings of the association and of its council, 1844-1857; lists of stockholders and stock transfers; copies of deeds, land transfers, and mortgages; and miscellaneous financial records kept by the association's treasurer, general agent, blacksmith, and nurseryman. In 1906 recollections of several surviving members of the Phalanx were collected and they are included. During the 1960s the collection was intensively studied by a history class at the University of Wisconsin. As a result, the collection also includes bibliographies and instructional materials, biographical data and analyses about individual members of the community, student papers, scattered transcripts from this collection and from the collection of S.M. Pedrick at the Ripon College Library, writings of Warren Chase, and photocopies of original documents in the possession of G.W. Lambert. At the same time most of the collection was microfilmed for student convenience along with a diary from the Michael Frank Papers (Wis Mss DM), the letters of William Stillwell (Oshkosh SC 96), and extracts from the A.J. MacDonald Collection of Utopian materials at Yale University.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-osh00cy

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Acquisition Information

Presented by the Ripon Historical Society, 1953; portions presented by copying by G.W. Lambert of Ripon, 1956. Also included are unaccessioned materials probably collected by F. Gerald Ham.

Oshkosh Mss CY	Series: Original Records
Box/folder   1/1 Reel/segment   1/1	Minutes, constitution, and by-laws, 1844-1847 (Vol. 3)
Box/folder   1/2 Reel/segment   1/2	Minutes, 1847-1857 (Vol. 12)
Box/folder   none Reel/segment   2/2-3	Transcript of volumes 3 and 12
Box/folder   1/3 Reel/segment   3/1	Membership record book (Vol. 13)
Box/folder   2/1 Reel/segment   3/2	Stock book (Vol. 2)
Box/folder   2/2 Reel/segment   3/3	Stock book, 1845-1850 (Vol. 1)
Box/folder   2/3 Reel/segment   3/4	Duplicate deed book, stock transfers, and mortgages, 1844-1848 (Vol. 4)
Box   5 Reel/segment   3/5	Treasurer's account ledger, 1846-1852 (Vol. 5)
Box/folder   3/1 Reel/segment   3/6	General agent's financial ledger, 1848-1851 (Vol. 7)
Box/folder   3/2-3 Reel/segment   3/7	Treasurer's daybook of receipts and disbursements, 1848-1854 and monthly reports, , 1849 (Vol. 6)
	Woodruff, J., Blacksmithing accounts
Box/folder   3/4 Reel/segment   3/8	Daybook, 1849-1852 (Vol. 9)
Box/folder   3/5 Reel/segment   none	, 1852-1855 (Vol. 10)
Box/folder   6/1 Reel/segment   3/9	Horticultural account book, 1851-1870
Box/folder   6/2 Reel/segment   none	Unidentified daybook, 1847-1854
Box/folder   6/3 Reel/segment   3/10	Deeds
Box/folder   none Reel/segment   3/11	Miscellaneous records (Stock record), 1849-? Note: Original missing, 2002.
	Series: Collected Records	⇧
Box/folder   3/6 Reel/segment   4/1	Kidder, S.T., collected recollections, 1906 (Vol. 11)
Box/folder   3/7 Reel/segment   none	Instructional materials, circa 1960s
	Notecards regarding individual members
	Group I
Box   7 Reel/segment   none	Adkins-King
Box   8 Reel/segment   none	Lane-Strong, Nathan
Box/folder   9/1 Reel/segment   none	Strong, Phoebe-Yates
Box/folder   9/2 Reel/segment   none	Group II
Box/folder   4/1 Reel/segment   none	Notes
Box/folder   4/2 Reel/segment   none	Research data
Box/folder   4/3 Reel/segment   none	Newspaper transcripts and bibliography
Box/folder   4/4-5 Reel/segment   none	Student papers, 1966-1971, undated
Box/folder   4/6 Reel/segment   none	Bestor, Arthur, bibliography with notes
Box/folder   none Reel/segment   2/1	Brisbane, Arthur, Concise Exposition of the Doctrine of Association, 1844
Box/folder   none Reel/segment   4/2	Frank, Michael, diary, 1843-1844 Note: Original in Wis Mss DM.
Box/folder   4/8 Reel/segment   4/6	Lambert, G.W. Collection: photostat copies of Alex Postin, N.H. Strong, O.H. Capron, Hiram DeSilva, and A. Holmes, 1845-1846
Box/folder   none Reel   5	MacDonald, A.J., “Communities of the United States,” manuscript, circa 1851 Note: Original at Yale University.
	Pedrick, S.M. Collection Note: Original at Ripon Historical Society.
Box/folder   4/7 Reel/segment   none	Biographical notes
Box/folder   4/12 Reel/segment   none	“Six years of communal life” / by Francis Mason Alensworth
Box/folder   none Reel/segment   4/3	Reference articles, clippings
Box/folder   none Reel/segment   4/4	Stillwell, William H., 1846 Note: Original is Oshkosh SC 96.
	Transcripts
Box/folder   4/9 Reel/segment   none	Warren Chase articles
Box/folder   4/10 Reel/segment   none	Cutting Marsh journal Note: Original in Wis Mss AU.
Box/folder   4/11 Reel/segment   none	Miscellany