Title: Herbert Battles Tanner Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1739-1865, 1878-1933

Creator:

• Tanner, Herbert Battles, 1859-1933

Call Number: Wis Mss DJ

Quantity: 6.0 c.f. (27 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Papers of Dr. Herbert Tanner of Kaukauna, Wisconsin, documenting his work as Kaukauna's first health officer; as secretary of the Fox River Valley Medical Association; as a physician, with emphasis on his services as local representative of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad and other corporations; as mayor of Kaukauna, 1888-1896; as an investor in the Kaukauna Electric Light Company; as an active member of the South Kaukauna Congregational Church; of his candidacy for Congress in 1900; and of his work on local history, particularly the career of Captain Hendrick Aupaumut, his own genealogy, and the Stockbridge and Menominee Indians.

Language: English

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The papers consist of local history materials, records of business affairs in Wisconsin and Mexico, correspondence while state supervisor of illuminating oils, 1894-1900; and monthly reports of subordinate district oil inspectors, 1895-1897. The latter correspondence concerns appointments of these inspectors, and the gubernatorial campaigns of 1894 through 1900, and throws light on the relations between Tanner's office and the Standard Oil Company. There is correspondence and printed material, 1901-1908, concerning the management of the Rio Tamasopo Sugar Company in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, a company in which Tanner and a brother were financially interested, and correspondence, bills, and receipts, 1899-1903, connected with Tanner's operation of a Kaukauna drug store. Filed with the papers is a box containing documents from the office of a notary public near Mexico City dealing with lawsuits, 1739-1865; registers of electors in Kaukauna in 1896; and a ledger, 1894-1897, of a firm of Kaukauna druggists.

Wis Mss DJ	Correspondence of Herbert B. Tanner, 1826-1933, dealing with Kaukauna local history and Stockbridge and Menominee Indians and Captain Hendrick Aupaumut
Box   1	1826-1894, April
Box   2	1894, May-December
Box   3	1895, January
Box   4	1895, February-May
Box   5	1895, June-1896, February
Box   6	1896, March-August
Box   7	1896, September-1897 February
Box   8	1897, March-October
Box   9	1897, November-1898 June
Box   10	1898, July-December
Box   10	1899
Box   12	1900, January-July
Box   13	1900, August-1901, December
Box   14	1902, June-July 15
Box   15	1902, July 16-December
Box   16	1903-1934
Box   17	Undated
Box   18	Undated
	Rio Tamasopo Sugar Company, 1903-1908
Box   19	Correspondence
Box   20	Printed Material
Box   21	Miscellaneous
Box   22	Legal documents from the office of a Notary Public in the City of Mexico, 1679, 1739-1858
Box   22	Papers in lawsuit between heirs of Don Miguel Palouzie, Dona Guadalupe Valdez and Dona Isabel Navarette, circa 1863
Box   18	Kaukauna Underwriters' Union Rate Book, 1891
Box   18	Kaukauna Fire Agents' Association Rate Book, 1897, 1903 Physical Description: 5 volumes (3 copies)
Box   18	Poll book, Republican election, Kaukauna, November 8, 1892 Physical Description: 1 volume
	Register of Wisconsin elections, 1896 Physical Description: 3 volumes
Box   18	Third ward, October
Box   18	Fourth ward, March 10-31, April 1
Box   18	Fifth ward
	Monthly reports of oil inspectors
Box   23	1895
Box   24	1896, January-June
Box   25	1896, July-December
Box   26	1897, January-September
Box   27	Ledger of the firm of Kamps, Sacksteder & Hilfert, druggists of South Kaukauna, 1894-1897