Pedrick Collection Guide
(The Pedrick Collection is now housed at the Ripon Historical Society)
The Pedrick Collection was compiled by Sam Pedrick, a lawyer in
Ripon, who was interested in the history of the area. He
indexed much of his material, which was usually handwritten or
typed and then pasted into books he no longer needed. The
focus was the city of Ripon and surrounding area. Because there was no historical society in place while he lived, he willed his collection of historical papers to Ripon College, from which he graduated in 1891. During 1999 his papers will be rehoused in a climate controlled area of the Ripon Historical Society.
The collection contains a variety of materials, including the following:
- Business records from the Ripon area
- Cemetary records of Ripon and vicinity
- Civil War genealogy of Ripon families
- Materials and events relating to Ripon and area
- Miscellaneous subjects in Pedrick scrapbooks
- Necrology--1857-1962
- Organizations and associations
- Pedrick correspondence
- Pedrick Family: Members
- Pedrick Family: Samuel Marcellus Pedrick
- Pedrick genealogy
- Pedrick letters to family and friends
- Pedrick library books
- Pedrick newspaper articles
- Pedrick scrapbooks from 1882-1915
- Pedrick Supreme Court cases
- Proceedings of Ripon Common Council
- War: World War I and II
- Wisconsin Phalanx
