Thomas Peter Wilsted, 1943 – 2024 ARANZ first President and Life Member

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  • Stuart Strachan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/arch.10548

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Obituary, Tom Wilsted

Abstract

Of Danish settler parentage, Tom Wilsted was born in Detroit, 16 April 1943, and grew up in Greenville, small town Michigan, where his parents had a furniture store. From 1962 he attended Kalamazoo College, where he met Mary, his future wife of 57 years, before going on to the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Here in 1968, he graduated MA in history with his American Civil War thesis: Roger A. Pryor: Secessionist and Soldier, 1849-1865. So, a lifelong fascination with history and its sources was confirmed.

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Author Biography

Stuart Strachan

An original member of ARANZ and founding Editor of Archifacts, Stuart was the first archives curator at the Hocken Library, then formally trained at University College London, before becoming Senior Archivist at the National Archives. In 1985 he was appointed Hocken Librarian at the University of Otago, retiring
in 2008. A current member of the Archives Council and ARANZ Life Member, he was awarded QSO for services to archives in 2006.

Published

2024-01-01

Issue

2024

Section

Obituaries