C. Joseph Nuesse Papers

Fonds

Identifier: CJN

Staff Only

Scope and Content

Research files related to Nuesse's interest in rural Wisconsin parishes (though much of the data here is not religious), including offprints raw data from his studies "The Relation of Financial Assessment to Status in a Rural Prish," published in the American Catholic Sociological Review, March 1948, "Membership Trends in a Rural Parish," published in Rural Sociology, XXIII (June 1957), and "Recent Catholic Fertility in Rural Wisconsin," published in Rural Sociology, XXVIII (December 1963); with data on voting patterns in rural Wisconsin and related printed material on Wisconsin counties.

Dates

1940-1966.

Creator

Nuesse, Celestine Joseph, 1913- (Person)

Language of Materials

English.

Legal Status

Private

Background

C. Joseph Nuesse taught at the Catholic University of America and also served there as a Dean and as Provost; author of The Social Thought of American Catholics, 1634-1829 (1944) and The Sociology of the Parish (1951).

Extent

1.25 linear feet

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

C. Joseph Nuesse sent these files to Librarian Charlotte Ames in 1987; she sent them to the archives in January 1993.

Legal Status

Private

Subjects

Catholic Church -- Wisconsin Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Fertility Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Nuesse, Celestine Joseph, 1913-
Parishes -- Wisconsin Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Voting -- Wisconsin Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Wisconsin -- Rural conditions -- 20th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings