Title: Arunah A. Parker Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1843-1853
Inclusive Dates: 1871

Creator:

• Parker, Arunah A., 1824-1854

Call Number: Platteville Mss O

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box including 5 volumes)

Repository:

Housed at the Southwest Wisconsin Room and Area Research Center, Ullsvik Hall, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; 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-Platteville Southwest Wisconsin Room / Platteville Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Three diaries, 1846-1849, letters to his family in Vermont, and a letterbook kept in Pennsylvania by Parker, a Lancaster, Wis. attorney, recounting his experiences as a surveyor in Wisconsin and giving information on the social and political life of Lancaster and his interest in copper mining in Pennsylvania. Parker's surveying work was done between the Black and Trempealeau rivers under James E. Freeman, U.S. deputy surveyor.

Language: English

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Acquisition Information

Presented by Mrs. Parker Keller, and her sister, Mrs. Elwood Ingersoll, 1949.

Box   1 Folder   1	Correspondence, 1843-1853, 1871, undated
Box   1 Folder   2	Deed to H.L. Dousman to lands in Grant County, 1848, Dec. 11
Box   1 Volume   1-3	Diaries, 1846, Nov. 1 - 1849, March 11
Box   1 Volume   4	Typed copies of diaries in Vols. 1-3, made by the State Historical Society from the originals
Box   1 Volume   5	Letter book, 1851, Sept. 3 - 1852, May 19 Note: Kept while Arunah Parker was in Pennsylvania, where he was interested in copper mining.