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7%^ Stote Historical Society of Wisconsin Vol. 79, No. 4 • Summer, 1996 the STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY of WISCONSIN '11 r x kk^K^ AZINE ^/^^^ 'imoB^ \ ^r • \ i W . ,^ ' ——rTi. «.*- Y}7 1^ '^ EMfl tf%. WJ • 1 ^' ^k^8^9r •* ""•••'tS^Bd^ I --*C»^- ^^|_^ ^^^^^^^^^ 7%^ Stote Historical Society of Wisconsin Vol. 79, No. 4 • Summer, 1996 THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN H. NICHOLAS MULLER III, Director Officers GiKNN R. CoATF.ES, President RicHARii H. Hoi.scHER, TreastireT GERALD D. VLSTE, First Vice-President H. NICHOLAS MULLER III, Secretary PATRICIA A. BOCE, Second Vice-President The State Historical Society of Wisconsin is both a state agency and a private membership organization. Founded in 1846—two years before statehood—and chartered in 1853, it is the oldest American historical society to receive continuous public funding. By statiUe, it is charged with collecting, advancing, and disseminating knowledge of Wisconsin and of the trans-Allegheny West. The Society serves as the archive of the State of Wisconsin; it collects all manner of books, periodicals, maps, manuscripts, relics, newspapers, and aural and graphic materials as they relate to North America; it maintains a museum, library, and research facility in Madison as well as a statewide system of historic sites, school services, area research centers, and affiliated local societies; it administers a broad program of historic preservation; and publishes a wide variety of historical materials, both scholarly and popular. Membership in the Society is open to the public. Individual membership (one person) is $27.50. Senior Citizen Individualmeraher^hip if, %22.bQ. Family m.emhenh\Yi is $32.50. Senior Citizen Family mevaherf,\\i\i is $27.50. SM/»/)ortmg'membership is $100. Switommg'membership is $250. A Patron contributes $500 or more. Lz/i? membership (one person) is $1,000. Membership in the Friends of the SHSW is open to the public. /wrfiwirfMa/membership (one person) is $20. Family membership is $30. The Society is governed by a Board of Curators which includes twenty-four elected members, the Governor or designee, three appointees of the Governor, a legislator from the majority and minority from each house, and ex officio, the President of the University of Wisconsin System, the President of the Friends of the State Historical Society, the President of the Wisconsin History Foundation, Inc., and the President of the Administrative Committee of the Wisconsin Council for Local History. A complete listing of the Curators appears inside the back cover. The Society is headquartered at 816 State Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1488, at the juncture of Langdon and Park streets on the University of Wisconsin campus. The State Historical Museum is located at 30 North Carroll Street. A partial listing of phone numbers (Area Code 608) follows: General Administration 264-6400 Hours of operation 264-6588 Affiliated local societies 264-6583 Institutional advancement 264-6585 Archives reading room 264-6460 Library Circulation desk 264-6534 Contribution of manuscript materials 264-6477 Maps 264-6458 Development 264-6589 Membership 264-6587 Editorial offices 264-6461 Microforms reading room 264-6536 Fax 264-6404 Museum tours 264-6555 Film collections 264-6470 Newspaper reference 264-6531 Genealogical and general reference inquiries 264-6535 Picture and sound collections 264-6470 Government publications and reference 264-6525 Public information office 264-6.586 Historic preservation 264-6500 School services 264-6579 Historic sites 264-6586 Archives Division http://www.wisc.edu/shs-archives ON THE COVER: Photograph of Historical Society Staff taken April 18, 1996, by Jay Salvo, Senior Media Specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Extension Photographic Media Center. Volume 79, Number 4 / Summer, 1996 WISCONSIN MAGAZINE OF HISTORY Published quarterly by the Slate Historical Society of Wisconsin, 816 State Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1488. The Society at One Hundred Fift}'Years 2,59 Distributed to members as part of their dues. Individual membership, $27.50; senior citi/en individual, $22.50; family, $32.50; Lma Appel and the Art of Copyediting: senior citizen family, $27.50; supporting, $100; sustaining, $250; A Personal Memoir 364 patron, $500 or more; life (one person), $1,000. Single numbers from Volume 57 fonvard are $5 Francis Paul I-'rucfia plus postage. Microfilmed copies available through University Microfilms, 300 North Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106. Commimications should be addressed to the editor. The Society does not assume responsibility for statements made by contributors. Second-class postage paid at Madison, Wisconsin. I'O.STMASTER: Send address changes to Wisconsin Magazine of History, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1488. Copyright© 1996 by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Magazine of Itis/oiy is indexed annually by the editors; cumulative indexes are assembled decennially. In addition, articles are abstracted and indexed in America: History and Life, Historical Abstracts, Index to Literature on the American Indian, and the Combined. Editor Retrospective Index to Journals in PAUL H. HASS Histoyy, 1838-1974.' Associate J^ditors Photographs identified with WHi negative ntnnbers are from the WILLIAM C. MARTEN Historical Society's collections. JOHN O. HOI.ZHUEIKR \VIIi(X3).-)04fB The familiar sight of a researcher at work in the slacks of the Society library, warmed by the glow from above and below, with well-worn volumes on either side.. 258 The Society at One Hundred Fifty Years F the many milestones in the long active, how useful, how great a historical O history of the State Historical Soci­ society the people of the state—and this ety of Wisconsin, perhaps none was more as I see it means you—want. Only with noteworthy than that marking the dedica­ that support can we move ahead. But with tion of the neoclassical headquarters that support, there are no ultimate visible building on October 19, 1900. A host of limits as to where we can go. ." luminaries, including Governor Edward Now we have gone another fifty years, Scofield, University of Wisconsin presi­ and the Society is celebrating its sesqui- dent Charles Kendall Adams, and Charles centennial: without doubt, a remarkable Francis Adams—civic leader, historian, milestone. But anniveraries, like obituar­ and grandson of John Quincy Adams— ies, are tricky business. The vocabulary of extolled the founders and the grand commemoration is dense with invocations democratic vision of this new-style west­ of a splendid past and golden future. ern historical society. Reuben Gold What can we add to what has already Thwaites, second director of the Society, been said? recounted what he termed the "small be­ This issue of the Magazine is our at­ ginnings" of the historical society in 1846 tempt to mark the Society's sesquicenten- and its several reorganizations prior to nial in some permanent way with a mini­ the advent in 1853 of its savior and first mum of self-congratulatory rhetoric. To superintendent, Lyman Draper. Thwaites that end, we invited several hundred eulogized Draper as a diffident but inde­ "alumni" to recall their days or years within fatigable man, "full of vigor and push," the circle of the Society. These included whose energy and unconquerable persis­ former staff members and administrators, tence had set the institution's founda­ students and professors, historians, re­ tions broad and deep. Concluding, he searchers, and writers of all kinds, folklor- predicted that "to those who, succeeding ists and genealogists, ex-members of the us, shall celebrate its centennial within Board of Curators—in short, anyone who these walls, the first half-century will seem knew the Society or had used its varied to have indeed been a time of modest resources and whose address we could accomplishment. We are but oh the find. (No current staff membei"s or cura­ threshold of our possibilities." tors were included; they will have to wait One such threshold was crossed forty- for another anniversary.) six years later, on the occasion of the We wanted to learn how the Society Society's hundredth anniversary. Clifford looked from different perspectives, how L. Lord, newly appointed director, ob­ it worked, how it changed over time, how served that it had taken "vision and sheer it resonated in people's personal and pro­ gambling instinct to dare to start a Wis­ fessional lives. Our aim was to compile a consin-wide historical society when most kind of family album that would convey, of the ten-year-old Territory was still un­ to luembers and readers, something of settled, when communications were diffi­ the Society's history and inner workings cult, and when our citizenry was of neces­ over the past eighty years. (Astonishingly, sity far more interested in making history that is how far back our contributors' than in recording it." Great things had hindsight extends.) Collectively, our re­ been achieved; even greater ones lay just spondents created just such an intimate ahead, on the eve of the state's centen­ family portrait, warts and all. The person­ nial. "How far we can go," declared Lord alities of various directors, the changing in 1946, "depends on just how good, how roles of women, the office politics, the 259 (Copyright © 1996 h\' Ihf Stale Hislotical Sdricty ofWisconsin Ail lights oi reproduction in Any ibiiii reseiTed. WISCONSIN \L\C;,\ZIXK OF ULSrORV SUMMER, 1996 richness and diversity of programs and We are grateful to Delores C. Ducklow collections, the changes in style and scale and Carolyn J. Matney for their generous as the Society grew and evolved—all were assistance in every phase of this sesqui- recalled with a clear-eyed fondness bor­ centennial undertaking, and to Bill Mar­ dering on passion. ten for his prodigious photo research. To Our selections from the many letters all those who responded to our call, and we received, lightly edited and arranged especially to those whose contributions in roughly chronological order, comprise appear in these pages: the bulk of this special commemorative Ihanfis.
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