Herman L. Ekern Papers, 1888-1954

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Acquisition Information

Primarily presented by Herman L. Ekern, Madison, Wisconsin, 1953, and by Dorothy Ekern, Madison, Wisconsin, 1964. In May, 1962, the Society received a large folder of Ekern's correspondence that once had been loaned by the family to Dr. Walter Polner, Madison, for use in writing his Ph.D. thesis. This correspondence, December, 1937 to August, 1942, concerned the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937. It is interfiled in chronological order in the Original Collection.


Processing Information

Additions processed by Emilie Al-Khazraji, December 8, 1964.