MsC 261

 

Manuscript Register

 

PAPERS OF HAROLD E. WOLFE

 

Collection Dates: 1929 -- 1970

2 linear ft.

 

This document describes a collection of materials held by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
Fax: 319-335-5900
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu

 

Posted to Internet: August 2002

 

 

Acquisition Note: These papers were donated to the University of Iowa Libraries by Mrs. Harold E. Wolfe in 1972.

 

Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research.

 

Photographs: Box 3

 

Ephemera: Box 4

 

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Biographical Note

Harold E. Wolfe was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on January 2, 1900. He attended schools in Cedar Rapids and Mason City before his family moved to Canada. He graduated from high school in Medicine Hat, Canada, before his family returned to Mason City, Iowa. He worked there in the foundry business for a time. In 1920 Wolfe joined the Mason City Police Department. He retired from the force thirty-one years later having spent the previous sixteen years as the chief of police.

Governor William S. Beardsley appointed Wolfe to a six year term on the Iowa Liquor Control Commission in 1951. He acted as chairman of the Commission from 1951 to 1957. Finally, he served as a Republican member of the Iowa House of Representatives from Cerro Gordo County from 1967 to 1970. Mr. Wolfe died on November 29, 1971.

Scope and Contents

The papers of Harold E. Wolfe consist of manuscripts organized by series relating to his career: 1) Chief of police of Mason City, Iowa (1929 -- 1951); 2) Chairman of the Iowa Liquor Control Commission (1951 -- 1957), and; 3) State legislator (1967 -- 1970). The first grouping is made up primarily of correspondence and newspaper clippings concerning the Mason City police department. The next section, pertaining to his chairmanship of the Iowa Liquor Control Commission, includes documents from the Commission as well as information about the National Alcoholic Beverage Control Associations. Finally, there are two boxes of correspondence, bills, radio broadcast scripts, and campaign documents relating to his legislative career.

The correspondence which is found throughout the papers includes letters from William S. Beardsley, Fred Biermann, Robert K. Goodwin, H.R. Gross, W. Earl Hall, Bourke B. Hickenlooper, J. Edgar Hoover, George Mills, Robert D. Ray, William J. Scherle, and George A. Wilson.

Box List

Box 1

Material concerning Harold E. Wolfe as chief of police of Mason City, Iowa (1929 -- 1951)

Box 2

Material concerning Mr. Wolfe as Chairman of the Iowa Liquor Control Commission (1951 -- 1957)

Box 3

Material concerning Mr. Wolfe as a state legislator (1967 -- 1970)

Box 4

State legislator materials, cont.