Title: Daniel S. MacArthur Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1852-1940

Creator:

• MacArthur, Daniel S., 1859-1941

Call Number: Wis Mss 8PB

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

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 Daniel S. MacArthur, a La Crosse, Wisconsin, physician and surgeon and other members of his family. MacArthur's correspondence contains information on his work as an insurance company examiner, his service in the medical corps during World War I, and his membership in Masonic and medical organizations. The collection includes two account books kept during the years 1868-1889 by his father, Dr. P. S. MacArthur, who also practiced medicine in La Crosse. Several Civil War letters are present written by P. Fox Cook, Co. A, 31st Regiment Wisconsin Infantry.

Language: English

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Dr. P. S. MacArthur, father of Daniel S. MacArthur, was born in Holland, New York. In 1847 he graduated from Buffalo Medical College, returning to Holland, and later Caledonia, to practice medicine before marrying Miss Mary L. Dean, and moving west to La Crosse, Wisconsin in 1855. There, four years later, Daniel S. MacArthur was born. After an elementary education in the La Crosse public schools, following in his father's lead, young MacArthur graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1881, and three years later he was valedictorian at the Rush Medical College commencement.

The MacArthur Papers contain personal and professional correspondence of the father and son as doctors, and also those letters received by Daniel's sister, Julia, and her husband, Frank P. Cook. The Cook letters make up a sizeable portion of the early correspondence.

Some of the first letters of this collection are those from 2nd Lt. A. Fox Cook, Company A, 31st Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, to his brother, Frank P. Cook and James J. Hogan of the La Crosse mercantile firm of Hogan and Cook.

There is also a short series of official Orders and letters having to do with Major Daniel MacArthur's participation in the Wisconsin National Guard, and letters to him from Major R. H. Gray who was in France during the First World War.

The last thirty years of correspondence are sprinkled with personal letters of Helen and Louise MacArthur, Daniel's two daughters. Throughout the entire collection are to be found numerous scrolls, diplomas, certificates of membership, etc. pertaining to the medical profession.

	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   1	1852-1888
Box   1 Folder   2	1889-1900
Box   1 Folder   3	1901-1914
Box   2 Folder   1	1915-1926
Box   2 Folder   2	1927-1940
	P. S. MacArthur Account Books
Box   2 Volume   1	1868-1872
Box   2 Volume   2	1873-1879
Box   2 Volume   3	1880-1889
	Daniel S. MacArthur
Box   2 Volume   4	Cash Book, 1884-1889
Box   2 Volume   5	Diary, 1878
Box   2 Volume   6	Memo Book
Box   2 Volume   7	German Exercise Book
Box   2 Volume   8	German Lectures, undated
	Helen MacArthur
Box   2 Volume   9	Cash Book, 1875
Box   2 Volume   10	Diary, 1906