Summary Information

Title: Norval Ellefson Oral History Interview and Related Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1900-1976

Creators:

• Ellefson, Norval, 1906-1994, interviewee
• Treleven, Dale, interviewer

Call Number: Audio 551A; SC 1113; PH 4287

Quantity: 6 tape recordings, 0.1 cubic feet (1 folder), and 6 photographs

Repository:

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

Archival Locations:

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

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Abstract:

Interview conducted by Dale Treleven of the Historical Society staff, in 19756, with Norval Clarence Ellefson, long-time Dunn County, Wisconsin, farmer and chairman of the board of the Farmers Union Central Exchange, Inc. (CENEX). Oral history includes information on changes in farming over the previous six decades, farmers' difficulties during the 1930s depression, on community affairs and his experiences on the Dunn County Board of Supervisors, and on the growth of and directions taken by CENEX. Also includes photocopies of related papers, 1962-1976, including clippings, a statement by Ellefson, and two brief histories of CENEX; and photographs of the Louis Ellefson farm in Dallas, Barron County, Wisconsin, 1900-1920, including exterior views of the farm fields, buildings, horses, a tractor and thresher, and individuals.

Note:

Forms part of the Wisconsin Agriculturalists Oral History Project.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-audi00551a

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