Papers of a northwestern Wisconsin editor-publisher, local historian, and genealogist. Included are correspondence, diaries, memoranda, genealogical materials, minutes, newsclippings, and scrapbooks. Financial records for the "Hudson Star-Observer," the "Hammond News," and the Publishers Printing Service; family papers of Miller's parents and grandparents; and material relating to the Hudson, Wisconsin, area also are present.
Most prominent among the materials on Hudson history are papers concerning the Hudson Toll Bridge, 1909-1917, documents on the Hudson Housing Authority, 1967-1979, and records of the St. Croix County Historical Society, 1945-1971.
The correspondence contains exchanges with friends and relatives, business acquaintances, persons sharing genealogical information, people writing letters to the editor, and people encountered in Miller's world travels. Included are letters on St. Olaf College, letters from people in military service and from Europeans and Americans abroad during World War II, and an extensive series of letters from prison inmates, 1960-1980.
Also included are diaries written by Miller and his father Theodeus Kane Miller depicting brief descriptions of weather, friend visits and daily life, 1925-1926, 1981-1994.
The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1860-1981, and is described in the register. Additional accessions date circa 1930-1959 and are described below.
Postcard correspondence, 1930s-1950s, photographs, and miscellaneous ephemera.
Memoir, circa 1966, by Amelia Hrdina Motl describing her childhood, school and college years, all spent in the River Falls, Wis., area, and her experiences while teaching in Grantsburg and Danbury, Wis.; plus a copy of a March 1918 letter from Harold S. Johnson, a former student, in which he describes his daily routines aboard the battleship Mississippi during World War I.
Reminiscences of Myran, a Wisconsin farmer, in which he describes his father's immigration from Norway in 1841, settlement in Sand Creek, Dunn County, Wisconsin, in 1865, and subsequent events in the area.
Transcripts of oral history interviews conducted in 1973 for the Fridlay Memorial Library with several New Richmond, Wisconsinarea residents including C.S. Arnquist, John Boor, Esther Cox, Lillian Drake, Dr. O. Hoyt Epley, Mrs. Carleton A. Friday, Wilson Greaton, Dr. W.W. Irle, Joye Johnson, Belle Lundy, Margaret McNamara, Catherine McNamara, Grace and Al Shern, and Henning Soderberg.
Bulletins and broadsides, April-May, 1972, concerning a student strike of classes and other anti-Vietnam War activities on the University of Wisconsin-River Falls campus, including several items produced by the Oak Street Eagles.
Letter from O'Connell, H. and S. Co., 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st U.S. Marine Division, describing a Korean War battle in which he fought, near the 17th Parallel.
Minutes of stockholders' and board of directors' meetings and a list of the original stockholders.
The hospital, renamed the Holmes Sanitarium in 1892, was founded in 1887 by Dr. Irving D. Wiltrout. The original corporation was dissolved in 1894.
A paper by student Diana Ostness including fire company members' names, information on equipment changes, and anecdotes on interesting experiences.
Letter from Pearson, St. Paul, Minnesota, to members of the Hudson High School Class of 1911. Pearson gives brief biographies of himself and his brother Fritz, mentions details regarding the lives of classmates, and attaches copies of two letters by another classmate, Donna (Mrs. James T.) Geddes of Battle Creek, Michigan.
Autobiographical recollections written by Pearson, a farmer in Mann Valley, Town of Troy, Pierce County, Wisconsin.
Papers of Peet, a Burnett County, Wisconsin, journalist, land developer, and promoter of immigration to the cutover lands of northern Wisconsin; including records relating to the Kohler-Peet Company, Minneapolis, a firm dealing in land along the St. Croix and Clam rivers, and to Peet's other business and personal activities.
Included is a plat map of 1913 additions to Danbury, Wisconsin.
Papers of Carl Pemble of River Falls, Wisconsin, president of Save the St. Croix, Incorporated, a citizens' group opposed to construction of a Northern States Power Company generating plant on the St. Croix River at Oak Park Heights, Minnesota, because of its potential for ecological and recreational damage.
Also present are papers on the River Falls Committee for Human Survival, a group seeking nuclear disarmament and an end to nuclear testing.
Letter, March 3, 1969, from Phillips repeating stories about humorist E. W. "Bill" Nye and his brother Frank.
Letter to Phipps of Hudson, Wisconsin, from his uncle containing recollections of Clement Clarke Moore, author of "The Night Before Christmas."
The letter writer says he lived in the Chelsea area on New York City, circa 1847, and his family leased land from Moore.
Names of county clerks, treasurers, sheriffs, registers of deeds, district attorneys, county judges, superintendents of schools, coroners, and surveyors.
Clerk's record of tax certificates cancelled, showing date, name of certificate holder, number of certificate, year of tax sale, face value of certificate, accrued interest on certificate at time of payment, and total amount paid.
Supervisor of Assessments' annual reports to the County Board, printed by the County Clerk under Wis. Laws of 1905, Ch. 523, Sect. 4. Each report contains a table of amount of state, county, school, and local tax revenue, classified by type of tax; a table of total assessed valuation of each county; tables for each town of acreage and assessed valuation of lands and improvements, classified by use; tables showing assessed and recommended full value of real estate (classified by use) and personal property (classified by type) in each assessment district; and general advisory remarks.
Reports from the County Extension Agents to the County Board of Supervisors, including agricultural agents' reports, 4-H club leaders' reports, and demonstration agents' reports; and material concerning a tree planting project accompanying the George Washington bicentennial.
Index to deed and mortgage record books indicating the mortgagor or granter, mortgagee or grantee, date of contractual instrument, amount of consideration, description of the real estate involved, date when recorded, volume and page number in which the mortgage was recorded, date of satisfaction, and remarks concerning the satisfaction.
Record of reports by physicians of accidents they treated as specified in Laws of Wisconsin, 1905, chapter 416. Each report includes the name, age, race, sex, residence, marital status, occupation, and place of employment of the injured person and the cause and severity of the injury.
Poem written in honor of Johnston's 1952 retirement as principal of the River Falls, Wis., campus elementary school.
Organizational records of the Aid Society Norden, a mutual aid society constituted by Scandinavian immigrants in 1886 and devoted to providing sickness and death benefits to members. The records consist of articles of incorporation and dissolution, constitution and bylaws, financial records, membership books, and meeting minutes.
Sans titreRecords documenting the activities of a local post of the American Legion, mainly its Auxiliary, including community service projects, aid for veterans and their dependents, post building bonds, and promotion of the annual "poppy drive." The collection contains minutes, reports, correspondence, financial records, and scrapbooks including photographs and news clippings.
Records of the Polk County Red Cross, principally correspondence between chapter officers and volunteers and materials received from the national Red Cross. The records concern the making of knit garments and surgical dressings for use by the armed forces, and peacetime activities of the chapter.
Papers of a River Falls, Wis., medical doctor concerning his Civil War service as a surgeon with the 6th Wisconsin Volunteers and his later appointments as examining surgeon for pensions and as regent of state normal schools, and his election as a state senator; including his official documents and letters.
Letters written by Bakmann to his sister, Ingeborg Rognass of St. Croix Falls, Wis. The letters, all in Norwegian, are postmarked from Deer Park and "Menomonie" (Dunn County), Wisconsin.
Materials relating to Banta's military service in France during World War I as a clerk (Troop B, Headquarters Battalion, First Army, American Expeditionary Forces).
The collection includes his pay record book; French ration coupons; WWI postcards with Banta's notes; military orders; items concerning courses taken at the American E.F. University in Beaune, France including a photograph of the lumber class; and miscellaneous papers. Correspondence consists of two letters from Army buddies, and a letter sent by a class at Marcy Avenue Baptist Church (New York?) concerning Armistice celebrations. Also included are papers concerning the Armistice including notice of cease fire, conditions of Armistice, and general orders from General John Pershing commending the troops for their valor. Identified photographs pertain to Company L, 163rd Infantry while it was stationed in Shelby, Montana and an oversized map color codes troop advances by day for the Battle of Chateau-Thierry (France).
Five letters written to Bartosh, mayor of River Falls, Wisconsin, and to Mary Bartosh by two German families thanking them for sending food to help them endure the hard times following World War II.
Typewritten Civil War memoirs of Pvt. Bennett, Co. 1, 4th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, including descriptions of the siege of Vicksburg, battle for Natchez, and occupation of Baton Rouge. Some pages are missing.
A program and an historical sketch from the 75th anniversary celebration of the Bethel Lutheran Church.
Genealogical charts on the ancestors of Nels Jenson and the families of Anna Bang and Nels Tufte, compiled in 1983-1984 by Helen Bethel of Pierce County, Wisconsin.
Photocopy of sacramental records of Bethlehem Lutheran Church located in the hamlet of Esdaile, Town of Hartland, Pierce County, Wisconsin; in Norwegian and English.
Papers of Blanding, a St. Croix Falls, Wis., businessman, land speculator, and local politician. Blanding's business and political correspondence, 1847-1901, financial papers, and land records comprise the bulk of the collection. ?b Political letters relate mainly to local village and county offices held by Blanding and to his unsuccessful campaign for the state senate in 1894.
?b Among other materials in the collection are a few letters and records relating to transportation and logging on the St. Croix River; plat maps of surveyed lands around the St. Croix Valley; minutes of the St. Croix Literary Association, 1870-71; a few papers pertaining to the founding and development of the Polk County Agricultural Society, 1886-1901; manuscript articles on the temperance movement and on Indian and white traditions in the St. Croix region; genealogical data; and other family correspondence, 1901-1958.
A lengthy history of the Pilgrim family, residents of the St. Croix Valley, Wisconsin, written by Bloom.
Article by Mrs. Bock concerning early settlers in Spring Lake Township, Pierce County, Wisconsin.
Statements of real and personal property assessment and tax apportionment for each assessment district. Assessment statements show number of livestock and other items of personality, acreage, valuations, and total assessment.
Reports of real estate sales recorded in the register of deeds office, submitted to the clerk by the Wisconsin Tax Commission under Chapter 522, Laws of 1907, showing assessment district, date of sale, date the sale was recorded, volume and page where recorded, grantor, grantee, land description, acreage, consideration given in the deed, assessed valuation given on the tax roll, and totals for each assessment district and the county.
The 1911 report gives total figures on sales data and assessed valuations for each assessment district and the county, ratio of assessed to true value, and ratio of each district to the county total. With the 1911 report is the Statistical Report of the Supervisor of Assessments for 1911, which contains assessment data and a table showing the market value of real estate by towns from 1906 to 1910.
Record of accidental injuries, giving name of person injured, residence, color, sex, race, marital status, date of injury, cause and extent of injury, result and duration of injury, where attended, by whom attended, name of employer, and if an industrial injury, location of factory.
This record was required by Laws of Wisconsin, 1905, Chapter 416.
Jail register showing name and residence of prisoner, date and cause of commitment, committing authority, sentence, date of and authority for release, personal description (age, height, weight, complexion, and color of hair and eyes), and remarks.
Typewritten partial directory of the War Memorial Cemetery, Clear Lake, Wisconsin, listing the person, the war in which he participated, the year of his death, and the location of his grave.
Records of the women's club, including minutes, bylaws, membership reports and lists, correspondence, scrapbooks, scholarship and legislative files, and papers from the state and national parent organizations.
Typewritten reminiscences by Campbell, once professor of agricultural education at River Falls State College, River Falls, Wisconsin; chiefly concerning his boyhood on a Minnesota farm at the turn of the century.
Muster-in roll, 1898, April 28, and muster-out roll, 1898, October 31 - 1899, January 4, of William A. Campman's Spanish-American War unit, Co. A of the Third Wisconsin Volunteers; plus a copy of a photograph of part of the regiment.
Family historical and genealogical information, compiled by Veluga Carlson and concerning the families of her father, Emanuel Edman, and of her husband's parents Frank and Mathilda Isaacson Carlson, who lived in the Polk County, Wisconsin and Taylors Falls, Minnesota areas.
Records, 1909-1932, of the bank, including general correspondence, general ledgers and journals, daily journals, and cash balance records; plus deposit ledgers, 1899-1918, of the Bank of Ellsworth.
One volume of conditional sales records, primarily in 1930-1931, with a few entries for 1927 and 1929. The records state the name and address of buyer, name and address of seller, date of contract, description of goods, price named in contract, and date filed. Three volumes of chattel mortgage records include the name and address of mortgagor and mortgagee, date the mortgage was signed, description of property, amount of mortgage, date when mortgage was filed, and the due date.
Memoir by Cotter describing her 1910-1917 experiences during threshing times on a farm near Grange Hall, Wis. (Ono, Wis.) in Pierce County; plus a 1982 cover letter from Cotter.
Papers including genealogical information, photocopies of photographs, and biographical recollections of Charles N. Cox concerning his youth and family in the River Falls, Wisconsin, area.
Recollections by Cresswell, originally from River Falls, Wisconsin, primarily concerning her experiences teaching school in Midway, North Dakota, around 1910, and her experiences as a housekeeper-companion to a Mrs. Wright in California in the 1950's.