Summary Information

Title: George Henry Johnson Diaries
Inclusive Dates: 1875-1917

Creator:

• Johnson, George Henry, 1832-1917

Call Number: Whitewater Mss CH

Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the University Archives & Area Research Center, Harold Andersen Library, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; 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-Whitewater Library / Whitewater Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Diaries of Johnson relating to his farming activities in the Cold Springs area of Jefferson County, Wis. The diaries contain daily weather observations; remarks on farm life, family activities, and his retirement to Whitewater, Wis. in 1899; and records of visiting relatives in New York and Minnesota and traveling to California, England, France, and the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Johnson also recorded his observations of world and regional events such as Queen Victoria's death, President McKinley's assassination, local centennial parades, and the 1891 fire at Whitewater Normal School. Johnson's accounts of attendance at Old Settlers meetings in Palmyra, Wis., recorded in the diaries, document the lives of early settlers in Jefferson County. Also included are two diaries by Johnson's children, his daughter, Minnie (Johnson) Steel (1899), and his son, Clarence B. Johnson (1907).

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-whit00ch

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