Title: E. H. Farrington Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1887-1936

Creator:

• Farrington, E. H. (Edward Holyoke), 1860-1934

Call Number: Wis Mss WG

Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 39 transparencies (1 box)

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 Edward H. Farrington, a professor of dairy science at the University of Wisconsin, including correspondence, materials on the dairy industry, and family papers. The correspondence includes both personal and business correspondence with his brothers, Oliver C. Farrington, curator and geologist of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, and Wallace R. Farrington, governor of Hawaii (1921-1929), as well as with others. The materials concerning the dairy industry include articles, speeches, annotated manuscripts, clippings, documents relating to his patent for a butter tester, and lantern slides of equipment. The family papers include family photographs and ephemera. The collection also contains a scrapbook relating to the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893, and a copy of the will of Stephen M. Babcock, University of Wisconsin agricultural chemist.

Note:

Transparencies: 3.25 x 4 inch lantern slides, briefly captioned.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000wg

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Edward H. Farrington, son of Joseph R. and Ellen Holyoke Farrington, was born at Eastport, Maine, December 20, 1860, and died on March 22, 1934. He graduated from the University of Maine (B.S., 1881; M.S., 1885) and Yale University (M.S., 1882). In 1894, Farrington was appointed professor of dairy husbandry at the University of Wisconsin, after serving in similar positions in Connecticut and Illinois. He continued in this position until his retirement in 1927. Farrington wrote extensively on the science and chemistry of dairying and developed methods of testing milk, butter, and other dairy products.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Mrs. John Richards, Seattle, Washington, unknown date; by L.C. Thomsen, 1976; and with the M.E. Diemer collection, 1957.

Processing Information

Processed by Jack T. Erickson, April 23, 1964; additions added in 2014.

Wis Mss WG Box   1 Folder   1-4	Correspondence, 1887-1936
Box   2 Folder   1	Articles, speeches, and annotated manuscripts
Box   2 Folder   2	Patent material relating to a butter tester
Box   2 Folder   3	Miscellaneous unsorted clippings
Box   2 Folder   4	Will of Stephen M. Babcock, 1929 July 10
Box   2 Folder   5-7	Ephemera and photographs relating to the Farrington family
Box   3 Folder   1-2	Book on the butter industry: annotated typescript draft
Box   3 Folder   3	Essay on milking machines: annotated manuscript draft
Box   3 Folder   4	“Scrapbook relating to the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893”
PH 1490	Lantern slides of dairying equipment