Title: Timothy A. Hardgrove Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1930-1953

Creator:

• Hardgrove, Timothy A., 1874-1953

Call Number: Wis Mss 47PB

Quantity: 4.0 c.f. (9 archives boxes and 1 flat 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 Timothy A. Hardgrove, a Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, dentist, relating largely to the campaign for fluoridation of public water supplies. Included is correspondence with other dentists interested in fluoridation, including John Frisch of Madison, Wis., and Frederick McKay of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and with officers of the American Dental Association and the Wisconsin State Dental Association; minutes of meetings of the fluoridation study committee of the State Dental Association of which Hardgrove was chairman; and materials relating to his research on the relationship between dental abnormality and tic douloureux (muscular twitching of the face).

Language: English

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The T. A. Hardgrove Collection is organized into two groups. The first group (boxes 1-6) contains general correspondence, arranged chronologically. The second group (boxes 6-9) contains incomplete and undated correspondence, case histories, miscellaneous personal notes, articles, speeches and speech notes, press releases, miscellaneous professional memoranda, committee reports, convention reports and agendas, printed material, newspaper clippings, and two volumes of questions which were circulated among state dentists. Also present is one scrapbook which is largely duplicated by material within the boxes, but which were retained because of its value as a capsule on the fluorine movement.

Tic Douloureux letters are predominately correspondence with other doctors, mostly general practitioners and dentists, and also with sufferers of the disease who are seeking aid or advice. Tic Douloureux is a disease which afflicts middle age and older people who have had typhoid fever or have a family history of the disease. It is extremely painful and affects the cheeks and face. No deformation is involved. An Oct. 16, 1939 letter from Hardgrove to Cutter outlines treatment, consisting of several intravenous injections of typhoid vaccine of increasing amounts up to a practical maximum. The treatment was to be repeated quarterly for about a year at the end of which time both the pain and the tic should be gone permanently. Previous treatments included Vitamin B injection, alcohol injection, and the extreme--an operation. None except the latter had proved satisfactory.

The collection's correspondence is, as a rule, repetitious. The two sections labeled Articles and Committee Reports would appear to be of much more consequence to the serious researcher in either of the two fields which Dr. Hardgrove was prominent. The committee reports regarding the Fluorine Committee in particular are of interest because they are quite complete. The step-by-step program of the fluoridation movement can be traced for Wisconsin and, to some extent, other states as well.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Timoth A. Hardgrove, Dec., 1953 and 1956.

	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   1	1930-1932, July
Box   1 Folder   2	1932, Aug.-1938
Box   1 Folder   3	1939, Jan.-July
Box   1 Folder   4	1939, Aug.
Box   1 Folder   5	1939, Sept.-Oct.
Box   2 Folder   1	1939, Nov.-Dec.
Box   2 Folder   2	1940, Jan.-July
Box   2 Folder   3	1940, Aug.-1941, Nov.
Box   2 Folder   4	1941, Dec.-1942, June
Box   2 Folder   5	1942, July-Oct.
Box   3 Folder   1	1942, Nov.-1943, March
Box   3 Folder   2	1943, April-Sept.
Box   3 Folder   3	1943, Oct.-1944, June
Box   3 Folder   4	1944, July-Dec.
Box   4 Folder   1	1945, Jan.-June
Box   4 Folder   2	1945, July-Dec.
Box   4 Folder   3	1946, Jan.-Aug.
Box   4 Folder   4	1946, Sept.-1947, Jan.
Box   4 Folder   5	1947, Feb.-Nov.
Box   5 Folder   1	1947, Dec.-1948, Sept.
Box   5 Folder   2	1948, Oct.-1949, Aug.
Box   5 Folder   3	1949, Sept.-1950, July
Box   5 Folder   4	1950, Aug.-1951, April
Box   6 Folder   1	1951, May-Oct.
Box   6 Folder   2	1951, Nov.-1952, April
Box   6 Folder   3	1952, May-1953, Oct.
Box   6 Folder   4	Incomplete and undated
Box   6 Folder   5	Case histories
Box   6 Folder   6	Miscellaneous notes, etc. (personal)
Box   7 Folder   1	Speeches and speech notes, 1927-1951, undated
Box   7 Folder   2	Articles, complete and incomplete, 1937-1950, undated
Box   7 Folder   3	Articles, 1936-1949, undated
Box   7 Folder   4	Press releases, 1945-1949
Box   7 Folder   5	Miscellaneous memorandums (professional), 1931-1953
Box   8 Folder   1-3	Committee reports, 1934-1952
Box   8 Folder   4	Committee reports and agendas, 1931-1952
Box   9 Folder   1	Printed material, 1938-1951
Box   9 Folder   2	Newspaper clippings
	Replies to fluorine questionnaire
Box   9 Volume   1	1945
Box   9 Volume   2	1946
Box   10	Fluorine publicity scrapbook, 1936-1950