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Summary Information
Fred G. Dickerson Papers
1847-1922
- Dickerson, Fred G., 1868-1922
Green Bay Mss 171
1.0 c.f. (2 archives boxes and 1 flat box)
UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)
Miscellaneous papers of Dickerson, a Chicago inventor, manufacturer, and trustee of Lawrence College, who was born and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. Fragmentary documentation about his inventions consists of advertising, a printed and a draft catalog for the Dickerson Milk Filler, engineering drawings, and a notebook about an inclined stair climber. Limited correspondence hints at development difficulties with his invention of the first practical method of canning evaporated milk, his most successful invention. Additional correspondence includes letters and legal documents about a partnership with J.M. Patterson of the Illinois-Georgia Pecan Company, and brochures, newspaper articles, and correspondence concern his advocacy of labor management cooperation, the “Chicago Way” to avoid strikes, in 1915. The career of Dickerson's father, Henry J. Dickerson of Appleton, also an inventor, is documented by broadsides about his process for welding steel patented in 1868, correspondence with individuals who leased the process, diaries about his later career, and agreements with William Johnson of Milwaukee to manufacture the “Dickerson shutter worker.” The collection includes plans for the family cottage at Three Lakes, Wisconsin, additional correspondence about the Dickerson and Porter families, and an assortment of high quality paper ephemera concerning Appleton, its churches and schools, and Lawrence College and its musical organizations.
English
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