Title: Halbert L. Hoard Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1872-1933

Creator:

• Hoard, Halbert L., 1861-1933

Call Number: Wis Mss QK; PH 6998

Quantity: 3.6 cubic feet (11 archives boxes) and 1 poster (oversize folder)

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 Halbert L. Hoard, a Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin newspaper editor-publisher, inventor, and composer. Included is correspondence with national and state figures; letters and documents concerning his inventions; manuscripts and printed songs he composed; some papers of his father, William D. Hoard, a Wisconsin governor; and collected autographs.

Language: English

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As editor of the Jefferson County Union, Hoard carried on a correspondence covering a wide range of topics: with Margaret Sanger on the birth control movement of the early 1900s, with William Jennings Bryan, 1921-1923, on the famous controversy over the theory of evolution, with Colonel William Mitchell in 1925 on the establishment of the Air Force as a separate branch of the armed services, and with Will H. Hays in 1930 on movie censorship. Numerous letters, 1921-1933, from the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, the Anti-Saloon League of America, and other leaders of forces for and against Prohibition discuss the operation of the Eighteenth Amendment and its ultimate repeal. A number of letters from the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tide Water Association discuss the proposed inland waterway.

Among the subjects of particular Wisconsin interest discussed in the correspondence are highway improvement, protection and conservation of wildlife, and taxation policies. Political correspondents in the state include John J. Blaine, Fred R. Zimmerman, Walter J. Kohler, and Solomon Levitan.

Between 1898 and 1900 Hoard wrote the words and music of a number of songs, several of which were published. Manuscripts and printed versions are in the collection.

As an inventor Hoard devised an improved steering gear for sleds (1908) and a curative posture chair (1913). Letters and documents concerning these and other experimental devices are included. The papers also contain some personal financial records, 1885-1899, and a letterbook of the Fort Atkinson Canning Company, 1901-1903.

Hoard's father, William D. Hoard, founder of the Jefferson County Union, editor of Hoard's Dairyman, and governor of Wisconsin, is represented in the collection by scattered letters addressed principally to his family, 1888-1917, a few articles and addresses, two volumes of accounts, 1860-1866, and scrapbook materials. The manuscript of a University of Wisconsin bachelor's thesis (1923) on Hoard's Dairyman written by Halbert Wenham Hoard, son of H.L. Hoard, is also in the collection. Two folders of autograph letters collected by Hoard are in Box 9.

Collection includes W.D. Hoard & Sons letter and poster to advertisers, 1923: the letter promotes Hoard's Dairyman's newly launched Woman's Department; the poster features an illustration of a dairy farm, Hoard's Dairy John, and statistics of dairy farms owned by Hoard's Dairyman subscribers.

William Dempster Hoard Papers (Wis Mss UP)

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Halbert Hoard family, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, 1954.

Wis Mss QK Box   1-6	Correspondence, 1872-1933
Box   7	Certificates of copyright and publication of songs; printed songs, 1898-1900, undated; manuscript and multigraphed songs; press releases
	Miscellaneous
Box   8	Speeches and articles
Box   8	Biographical data regarding W.D. and H.L. Hoard
Box   8	Mounted clippings taken from volume 1 of W.D.'s journal
Box   8	Legal documents
Box   8	Thesis, “A Historical Survey of Hoard's Dairyman,” by Halbert Wenham Hoard, 1923
Box   9	Printed material, regarding Wisconsin Press Association, Great Lakes-St.Lawrence Tidewater Association, and Prohibition
Box   9	Autograph letters Note: See Appendix.
	Newspaper clippings
Box   10	Regarding the Press Association
Box   10	Regarding family
Box   10	Regarding songs and poems
Box   10	From the Jefferson County Union and Hoard's Dairyman
Box   11 Volume   1	Accounts, circa 1860-1866
Box   11 Volume   1 (continued)	W.D. Hoard copy and scrapbook, circa 1867-1876
Box   11 Volume   2	Scrapbook, W.D. Hoard, circa 1874-1885
Box   11 Volume   3	Accounts and health notes, 1885, 1886, 1891
Box   11 Volume   4	Account book, circa 1891-1892 and 1898-1899
Box   11 Volume   5	Accounts, H.L. Hoard, 1891-1899
Box   11 Volume   6	Letter book, Fort Atkinson Canning Company, 1901-1903
PH 6998 OP Box   12 Oversize Folder	Hoard's Dairy John poster and letter

• Allsopp, Fred W.
• Andrews, L.C.
• Arbuckle, Roscoe C.
• Atwell, William H.
• Barton, Bruce
• Baruch, Bernard M.
• Bingham, Hiram
• Birge, Edward Asahel
• Blaine, John J.
• Bolles, Stephen
• Bonbright, John M.
• Boote, Charles W.
• Borah, William E.
• Brand, Charles
• Brisbane, Albert
• Britten, Fred A.
• Brosseau, Mrs. Alfred (Grace)
• Brun, C.
• Buckner, Emory R.
• Burns, William J.
• Butler, Nicholas Murray
• Capper, Arthur
• Clay, Green
• Cochran, John J.
• Cockran, W. Bourke
• Conant, W.H.
• Coolidge, Calvin
• Crowe, Eugene B.
• Crownhart, J.G.
• Crowther, Samuel
• Crume, A.I.
• Cunningham, Edwin S.
• Curran, Henry H.
• Darrow, Clarence
• Davies, D.C.
• Dawes, Charles G.
• Dempsey, S. Wallace
• Denby, Edwin
• Dennis, Charles H.
• Dowell, Cassius C.
• Doze, J.B.
• Duffy, F. Ryan
• Duggan, D.M.
• Duncan, Thomas M.
• Duque, Antonio Gyan
• Edison, Thomas A.
• Emery, J.Q.
• Emery, John G.
• Enright, R.E.
• Evjue, William T.
• Farley, James A.
• Fields, William J.
• Finley William G.
• Finnegan, James E.
• Foch, Le Marechal
• Forbush, Edward Howe
• Fox, Austen G.
• Frank, Glenn
• Fuller, Alvan Tufts
• Gallivan, James A.
• Garman, Harvey E.
• Garner, John Nance
• Gary, Elbert Henry
• Gillett, ?
• Gilliom, Arthur L.
• Gompers, Samuel
• Gore, Howard M.
• Green, Fred W.
• Green, William
• Hamilton, William Peter
• Hart, William S.
• Haugen, Gilbert N.
• Hays, Will H.
• Harding, Florence Kling
• Hewes, Thomas
• Hill, John Philip
• Hobart, Mrs. Lowell Fletcher
• Hoover, Herbert
• Hopkins, Andrew W.
• Hull, Merlin
• Hull, William E.
• Johnson, Royal C.
• Kading, Charles A.
• Kahn, Julius
• Kavanaugh, Marcus
• Kelleter, Paul D.
• Kellogg, John Harvey,
• Kerwin, H.L.
• Kohler, Walter J.
• La Follette, Philip F.
• La Follette, Robert M., Jr.
• LaGarce, John Oliver
• Landis, Kenesaw M.
• Lane, William Arbuthnot
• Lasker, A.D.
• Lassiter, William
• Leacock, Stephen
• Lenroot, Irvine L.
• Levitan, Solomon
• [Lifivre], Louis F.
• Lodge, Henry Cabot
• Long, Huey P.
• McAdams, Thomas B.
• McCormick, Robert R.
• McKellar, Kenneth
• Malone, Dudley Field
• Mason, Max
• Maxim, Hudson
• Mayo, C.H.
• Mayo, Dr. William J.
• Meany, George W.
• Mellon, A.W.
• Mencken, H.L.
• Mitchel, William
• Morehauser, Joseph
• [Morton], J.M.
• Mosburg, Earl R.
• Moskowitz, Henry
• O'Neil, Ralph T.
• Paine, Gustavus S.
• Palmer, Loren
• Parker, John Milliken
• Patrick, Mason M.
• Pearson, T. Gilbert
• Pershing, John J.
• Philipp, Emanuel
• Pickett,, H.G.
• Pickford, Mary
• Pinchot, Gifford
• Quinn, William J.
• O'Reilly, M.M.
• Rainey, Henry T.
• Ransdell, Joseph E.
• Reed, James A.
• Reynolds, John W.
• Roberts, George E.
• Rockefeller, John D., Jr.
• Roosevelt, A.B.
• Roosevelt, Franklin D.
• Roosevelt, Theodore
• Root, Elihu
• Ross, E.A.
• Richardson, Guy
• Ritchie, Albert C.
• Russell, William F.
• Ryan, Thomas J.F.
• Sanger, Margaret
• Savage, Howard P.
• Schafer, John C.
• Schewpp, N.A.
• Schmedeman, A.G.
• Schwab, Charles M.
• Seelman, J.J.
• Shepherd, William G.
• Sloan, Alfred P., Jr.
• Smith, Alfred E.
• Smith, James E.
• Smoot, Reed
• Stayton, W.H.
• Steele, John S.
• Sterling, Thomas
• Stewart, Robert W.
• Stone, James C.
• Sullivan Denis E.
• Summerall, Charles P.
• Taft, William Howard
• Thompson, Floyd E.
• Thompson William Hale
• Tinkham, George Holden
• Wadsworth, James W., Jr.
• Wallace, Henry C.
• Weeks, John W.
• White, Edward M.
• White, Frank Edson
• White, George
• Wilbur, Curtis Dwight
• Wilbur, Ray Lyman
• Willebrandt, Mabel Walker
• Willis, Frank B.
• Winston, Garrard E.
• Wise, Stephen S.
• Wood, Louise E. (Mrs. Leander)
• Wood, Will
• Woodcock, A.W.W.
• Zimmerman, Fred R.