Title: William Toole Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1836-1930

Creator:

• Toole, William, 1841-1926

Call Number: Wis Mss IE

Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 2 oversize volumes)

Repository:

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

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Papers of Toole, a Baraboo, Wisconsin horticulturist, consisting mainly of his correspondence as state secretary of the Wisconsin Farmers' Alliance, 1891-1893. There are letters from national, state, and local officers, concerning plans for the organization, the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, secret work, the Peoples' Party, and the role of the organization in politics; some financial reports; and minutes of annual meetings. With these are later letters concerning horticultural experiments, the Skillet Creek Farmers' Club, and the movement for rural social centers, with copies of Toole's addresses. There are also records, 1919-1927, of the Sauk County Utilities Company, a cooperative association for furnishing electric current to farmers, with William A. Toole, Jr., as president.

Language: English

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Acquisition Information

Presented by W. A. Toole, March 24, 1917 and October, 1934.

Box   1 Folder   1-2	General Correspondence, 1836, 1881-1926, undated Scope and Content Note: Included are letters from various horticultural societies, such as New York Botanical Garden, Minnesota State Horticultural Department, University of Wisconsin College of Agriculture, and University of Wisconsin Horticultural Department; some material on the Sauk County Country Life Association (programs, 1913-1922) and Sauk County Horticultural Society; papers by Toole presented at meetings of Sauk County Country Life Association and Skillet Creek Farmers Club; and newspaper clippings on the Skillet Creek Farmers Club. The correspondence contains letters from Robert M. and Belle Case La Follette, and from Merlin Hull as secretary of state.
Box   1 Folder   3	Farmers' Alliance Correspondence, 1891-1916
Box   1	Farmers' Alliance Proceedings, 1895, as printed in The Western Rural and American Stockman
Box   1	Notebooks Physical Description: 3 volumes  Scope and Content Note: Pocket-size volumes containing names and addresses, notes from an 1887 meeting, a few diary entries, and other notes.
Box   1	Photographs Scope and Content Note: Envelope containing 8 unidentified photographs.
	Sauk County Utilities Company
Box   2 Folder   1-2	Correspondence, 1919-1930
Box   2 Folder   3	Annual Reports, 1922-1925, to Department of State and the Railroad Commission
Box   2 Folder   4	Minutes, 1920-1923; cash book records, , 1919-1921 Note: These pages were removed from the original record books.
Box   2 Folder   4	Blueprint of Contacts on Poles of the Wisconsin Power and Light Company near Baraboo
Box   2 Folder   5	Income Tax Returns, 1920-1926
Box   2	Bank Books, 1919-1929 Physical Description: 3 small volumes
Volume   1	Service Cash Book, 1920-1927
Volume   2	Stock Certificate Book, 1919-1920