Summary Information

Title: William J. Patterson Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1894-1954

Creator:

• Patterson, William J. (William James), 1880-1955

Call Number: Wis Mss SO

Quantity: 2.0 c.f. (6 archives boxes)

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:

Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, and speeches of William J. Patterson, a railroad man who served in the Interstate Commerce Commission's United States Bureau of Safety and as commissioner of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), 1939-1953. Diaries describe his work on the railroads in the Dakotas and the southwestern United States (1901-1913), and his travels around the country as a railroad safety inspector, director of the Bureau of Safety, and ICC commissioner. Personal correspondence includes discussions of railroading with others interested in transportation problems. Professional correspondence deals largely with the ICC and includes letters from General Carl R. Gray, director of the Military Railway Service in Europe, 1944-1945. In the collection are also some papers from the files of W. P. Borland, who preceded Patterson at the ICC, including some correspondence, 1903-1912, and speeches, memoranda, and opinions on the Safety Appliance Act, 1903.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000so

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