Summary Information

Title: Arunah A. Parker Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1843-1853
Inclusive Dates: 1871

Creator:

• Parker, Arunah A., 1824-1854

Call Number: Platteville Mss O

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box including 5 volumes)

Repository:

Housed at the Southwest Wisconsin Room and Area Research Center, Ullsvik Hall, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; owned by the 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.

UW-Platteville Southwest Wisconsin Room / Platteville Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Three diaries, 1846-1849, letters to his family in Vermont, and a letterbook kept in Pennsylvania by Parker, a Lancaster, Wis. attorney, recounting his experiences as a surveyor in Wisconsin and giving information on the social and political life of Lancaster and his interest in copper mining in Pennsylvania. Parker's surveying work was done between the Black and Trempealeau rivers under James E. Freeman, U.S. deputy surveyor.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-pltv000o

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