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Summary Information
Horace J. Mellum Papers
1882-1961
Parkside Mss 13; PH Parkside Mss 13 (3); Parkside Tape 4; Audio 948A
0.6 cubic feet (2 archives boxes), 1 tape recording, and 0.1 cubic feet of photographs (1 oversize folder)
UW-Parkside Library / Parkside Area Research Ctr. (Map)Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Horace J. Mellum, secretary and general attorney of the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation, Kenosha, Wisconsin. Consisting primarily of correspondence, speeches, and autobiographical writings, the collection best documents Mellum's youth in Chicago, his military service, and his professional and civic activities. Also included is a tape-recorded 1961 interview about his life, a scrapbook commemorating his 75th birthday in 1951, and photographs from his career. The collection includes information on the Morgan Park Military Academy, Chicago, from which Mellum graduated in 1892 and whose alumni association he later headed; his service in the Santiago campaign in Cuba in 1898; organization of the Kenosha Provisional Battalion (First Separate Battalion, Wisconsin State Guard Reserve) which he served as Major, 1917-1920, and his subsequent years in the Wisconsin National Guard; activities on behalf of vocational rehabilitation including serving as president of the Wisconsin Association for the Disabled, 1926-1931; membership on the Wisconsin advisory committees on workmen's compensation and unemployment compensation, 1920-1951; and numerous speeches delivered for the National Association of Manufacturers, Kenosha organizations, and other groups.
English
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