Summary Information

Title: Joseph H. Osborn Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1855-1890, circa 1951

Creator:

• Osborn, Joseph H. (Joseph Horatio), 1822-1892

Call Number: Wis Mss FF; Micro 303; PH 416

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box including 5 volumes), 2 reels of microfilm (35 mm), and 6 photographs (1 folder)

Repository:

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

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Papers, 1855-1890 and circa 1951, of Joseph H. Osborn, a Winnebago County, Wisconsin, pioneer, pertaining to cooperatives, railroad regulation, and the Granger movement. In the correspondence are letters on railway rate determination, the legislative program of the Grange for 1874, and letters from R.H. Ferguson of the Cheap Transportation Association; John Samuel and Frederick Turner of the Knights of Labor; George H. Paul of the Railroad Commission and chairman of the People's Reform Committee; and the Sovereigns of Industry. A letter book, 1876-1877, kept while Osborn was master of the Wisconsin Grange and an active member of the state railroad commission, relates to Grange matters and railway regulation.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000ff

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