A history of the schools of Burnett County, Wisconsin, by Mabel Ahlstrom, County Superintendent of Schools; and two cards from her campaigns for the office.

Meeting records and programs of the MacDowell Music Club, River Falls, Wisconsin.

Reminiscences by Cronk, describing her impressions of the Depression and her experiences as a student at River Falls State Teachers College (Wis.) in 1932-1934.

Five letters to Magnusson of Dresser Junction, Polk County, Wisconsin, including two from Johan Magnusson. In Swedish and English.

A typescript by Cutting, St. Paul Office, U.S. Engineers, of an explanatory article discussing the history of measuring river water levels, gauges used, procedures, and the federal agencies involved.

Photocopied recollections, undated, entitled "In Old Mann Valley" by Oscar J. Weberg, giving information on farm life near River Falls, Wisconsin, in the 1890's; letters, 1961, to Weberg containing reminiscences by former Valley residents; a biography of Weberg written by his daughter; and photocopies of photographs of the Weberg family and home.

Partial records of a Pierce County Lutheran church founded about 1881. The records include a photocopied minute book, with minutes of church meetings, 1886-1931, and a short history of fundraising and building plans for the first church, 1881-1885 (both in Swedish); a membership roll listing members born as early as 1848; Ladies' Aid Society minutes (mainly listing newly-elected officers) and an expense book; and miscellaneous papers.

Norwegian song with translation sung by the grandmother of Margaret Anderson, a student at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls in 1973.

Papers of Marion E. Hawkins, 1939-1993, an English professor at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, containing personal correspondence; photographs; information on Grace Pilgrim Bloom, the oldest graduate ever of the university; lectures given at National Taiwan Normal University; and extensive travel journals from trips to Europe and Taiwan, 1969-1984. A 2013 addition contains her correspondence, personal diaries, travel diaries and journals, coursework and speeches, personal materials and photographs. Arranged by date and consisting primarily of letters sent to Hawkins by her friends and employers, her correspondence comprises the majority of this collection. Information in the letters reveals how Hawkins' work as a professor and additional volunteer activities influenced the university. Hawkins' home diaries record both her daily personal and professional activities including the classes she taught. Her travel diaries document her trips both abroad and in the United States and detail her personal travel experiences, description of the various locales, and contemporary news of the countries in which she is visiting. She later used these travel diaries as background material while writing her travel journals which she compiled to formally express how she experienced these foreign lands.

Research and annotated resources related to two of Wyman's publications: "The Wisconsin Frontier", published 1998 by Indiana University Press and "Kinnickinnic Country : River Falls in the forties and fifties", published in 2010 by PrintArt, with assistance from Don Richards.

Walker "Mark" Demarquis Wyman, Jr. (1939-) was born in River Falls, Wisconsin to Walker D. and Helen B. (nee ) Wyman. He attended the Ames Laboratory School on the campus of what was then called the River Falls State Teachers College (RFSTC), now known as University of Wisconsin-River Falls (UWRF), where his father served in several leadership roles.

Dr. Wyman served 35 years as a professor in the Department of History at Illinois State University and is the author of eight books and numerous essays and articles. Wyman's scholarly focus is on labor, cultural, and social history.

Records including articles of association, by-laws, minutes of annual and directors' meetings, policies issued and cancelled, and treasurer's accounts. Also included is one volume (1908-1945) containing bylaws, minutes, lists of subscribers, and expenditures and settlements with policy holders.
The mutual insurance company was organized in 1878 primarily to serve farmers in Pierce County's towns of Martell, Gilman, and Ellsworth.

Proceedings of town and board meetings, register of town and school officers, oaths of office, constables' bonds, records of chattel mortgages, apportionment of school funds, financial reports of the board, town treasurer's bonds, a record of school district boundaries, records of the superintendent of highways, registers of orders drawn on the town treasurer, election reports, burial permits, and scattered marriage, death, and birth registrations.

Record of town elections, 1869-1883 and 1900-1917, including poll lists and results of voting at township annual meetings; general election registers, 1868-1916 and 1932-1936, including poll lists and results of general elections; and unbound poll lists, 1918, 1920, 1924-1926, 1928, and 1932-1936.

Petitions, proceedings, and other records relating to the authorization, alteration, discontinuation, and maintenance of public and private highways in the Town of Martell. Also included are highway district tax lists, 1912 and 1919.

Autobiographical reminiscences by Martha Weitkamp, written between 1965 and 1969 for the edification of her descendants. She describes her childhood on farms near Neckerson, Fontonelle, Pender, and Bancroft, Nebraska, neighbors, school experiences, medical matters, her maternal relatives in the Daiss family and paternal relatives in the Blome family, and the family of her husband, Bill Weitkamp.

Biography, 1968, of John Henry Williams (1851-1930) by his granddaughter, Mary A. Williams, Los Angeles, California Williams was the proprietor of the Hudson (Wisconsin) Carriage Works, circa 1870-1887, and spent the remainder of his career as a railway mail clerk on the Chicago and Northwestern line.
The Williams family moved to Madison, Wisconsin, circa 1906. The collection also includes photographs and copies of handbills and miscellaneous family documents.

Papers of Mary Etta Hagan, a descendant of early settlers of New Richmond, Wis. (St. Croix Co.). The collection consists mainly of Hagan's genealogical research into her mother's and father's families (Donohue and Hagan, respectively) and collected family papers. Both families have roots in Ireland. Included are brief family histories and group sheets; both family correspondence and Hagan's research correspondence; clippings; photographs; copies of pages from family Bibles recording births, deaths, and marriages; and collected miscellaneous items relating to various family members. Other family names represented in the papers include Barger, Carroll, McGoldrick, McConville, Mahoney, Scott, and Martin. In addition, there is a scrapbook compiled by S. N. Hawkins containing clippings about an 1899 cyclone that devastated New Richmond, and obituaries of prominent New Richmond citizens.

Reports submitted in 1972 by teacher Mary MacLeod's ninth grade speech students, River Falls, Wisconsin, on various aspects of local history. Included are interviews with local farmers and other area residents, epitaphs copied from local cemeteries, descriptions of old houses, biographies, and information on social life, schools, and other aspects of life between 1910 and 1930.

Two letters, 1885, from Mrs. Mattie Worden to Mrs. Mattie Lamson, Roberts, Wisconsin, containing family news and details of life in northern Minnesota; plus two poems by Sarah Haseltine, Mrs. Worden's mother.

Letters, written by Maud Little Hoag of Everett, Wash. (formerly of River Falls, Wis.) to Sadie Johnson of River Falls, containing details of daily activities, punctuated with a collage of recipes, photographs, newspaper clippings, invitations, fabric swatches, and other memorabilia.

Incomplete, photocopied German-language diaries with partial translations, a notebook, and related papers, 1886-1920, kept by a Plum City, Pierce County, Wisconsin, area farmer primarily concerning agricultural activities, financial matters, and family health.
A Swiss immigrant in 1866, Staehli recorded his activities prior to and while farming near Pittsville, Wood County, 1879-1892, and then while living near Plum City, 1895-1899 and 1904-1911. Linguistically interesting is Staehli's use of conservative spelling and German script and his gradual conversion to using English.

Attendance record and monthly and term summaries showing pupils' classification numbers, sex, age, names, and attendance; record of standing and report of work accomplished; daily program; record of visitors; state reading circle record; and lists of graduates.

Minutes of meetings, 1894-1902; the society's constitution and a list of members; and a list of significant dates in the church's history, ca. 1904.

Letters from Ragsdale, a captain during the Civil War, probably with a South Carolina regiment, and a member of the Texas House of Representatives in the 1880's; plus two letters, 1863-64, from his nephew, Joseph S. Ragsdale, Jr., Co. F, 54th Regiment North Carolina Volunteers; all written to Michael's wife.

Papers of the pioneer family of John Shaw Moffat who settled at Hudson, Wis. in 1854 and of his son-in-law Thomas Hughes who joined Moffat in his law practice and business ventures.
The collection includes letters of Moffat's father Samuel on New York land speculations, the personal correspondence of his wife Nancy Bennet Moffat, 1863 letters from his daughter Mary while a teacher in St. Croix Falls, Wis., and materials on his father-in-law Phineas Bennet and early steamboat inventions. The bound volumes include the store accounts of John Moffat after he settled in Hudson; the records of his law firm; records of the Hudson Produce Company and its successor, the St. Croix Valley Produce Company; and the accounts of his brother William, who had settled at Jewett, Wisconsin. Genealogical information concerns the Moffat, Hughes, and Ingram families through 1949.

Typewritten reminiscences of River Falls State Teachers College, 1930-1934, written about 1970 by Morris Buske, a former history student who became a writer of high school textbooks.

Reprint of an article by Halvorson on the Ole Halvorson and Amund Amundson families, their 1868 immigration from Christiana, Norway to Blair, Wisconsin, and their pioneer and logging experiences in their new home.

Letter, 1968, to Mrs. Timmerman from her mother containing recollections of logging activities in the Ladysmith, Wisconsin, area; including a sketch of a logger and a 1908 postcard showing floating logs.

Typewritten account of life in post-World War II Germany and of the immigration of the Schubert family from Germany to the United States, about 1951, written by Mrs. Ines Schubert in 1961.

Article by Mrs. Bock concerning early settlers in Spring Lake Township, Pierce County, Wisconsin.

Photocopied letter, May 23, 1970, written by Mrs. L. LeRoy Cowperthwaite, wife of the head of the School of Speech, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, in which she describes events subsequent to the killing of four Kent State students by National Guardsmen during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration.

Correspondence, mainly concerning Myrta V. Whitney and her teaching experiences at the State Normal Schools at River Falls (1900) and at Platteville (1900-1905) in Wisconsin.

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1891-1915, kept by the family of Nelson, Ellsworth, Wisconsin; and printed ephemera, including three teacher's certificates for Pierce County schools, 1895-1896.

Photocopy of a letter, April 10, 1865, from Tower, Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Alfred J. Riley, Hartford, Connecticut, discussing local reactions to the surrender of Robert E. Lee's army, the draft, and family matters.

My Early Memories, a reminiscence by Younggren of her youth on a farm near River Falls, Wisconsin, and her early years teaching school in rural Minnesota, containing much personal information on life in a Swedish immigrant family.

Minutes of the Ono Grange. Ono, an unincorporated village in Pierce County, is also sometimes referred to as Grange Hall.
The processed portion of this collection is summarized above and dates 1881-1888. Additional accessions dating 1925-1931 are described below.
Additions, 1925-1931, consisting of a minutes/record book as well as scattered correspondence and resolutions.

Sheet music, some in manuscript form, composed by Reed, Wisconsin band leader and composer, including a song called "River Falls Rouser."

Genealogical chart of the Neinstadt family, 1844-1961, compiled by Johnson of Roseville, Minn.

Recollections and family history written about 1969 by Nellie Grant Skidmore, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, recalling events from her youth in Pierce County, Wisconsin (in River Falls SC 150); and a manuscript entitled "And the Scent of Roses," 1973, by Skidmore containing the reminiscences of the P. J. Grant family of El Paso, Pierce County, Wis. Also included are brief histories of the Pierce County communities of Waverly and Olivet.

Papers of Nels Jenson (born Niels Johan Jenssen) including two journals, 1874-1887, 1890 (in Norwegian with an English translation, and a corrected translation), detailing his boyhood in Norway, his immigration to the United States, and settling in Hudson, Wis., in 1888; correspondence, 1919-1934, n.d., including letters from his son Olaf in Whitefish, Montana; and writings by Jenson.

Typed copy of Fuller's Civil War diary, describing his service with the 30th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry in railroad demolition and prison and patrol duty in Kentucky and Tennessee.

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.

Autobiographical recollections written by Pearson, a farmer in Mann Valley, Town of Troy, Pierce County, Wisconsin.

Brief undated recollection by Norah Halverson Howe, Evanston, Illinois, of her experiences as a student at River Falls Normal School in the class of 1916.

A memoir by Norman Foss of River Falls, Wis. about his military service during World War II. The memoir begins with his enlistment and training as an aerial gunner in the Army Air Corps, and includes descriptions of flying decoy missions over France with the 95th Bombardment Group. Foss' flying career ended after only three missions due to a medical problem. After spending time recuperating in England, where he became close friends with an English family and played on the Red Cross golf team, he was transferred to Co. I of the 345th Infantry and was sent to the continent soon after the Battle of the Bulge. He describes being sent to do guard duty at Buchenwald concentration camp. The memoir also describes his discharge and return to River Falls, and includes copies of memorabilia and photographs.

Excerpt from a letter written by Kahl in which he describes how his brother was cured of eczema about 1929 by "Dr." Topp of Cameron, Wisconsin.

"Sketches of My Life and My Origin ..." by Hamilton, a pioneer settler in Bowman County, North Dakota, and a cattleman there; plus biographical sketches of Andrew Rosander and Fred Hanson, residents of the same area.

Field cards compiled by the assessor for appraisal of residential property, showing the assessed value of the land and dwelling. Each card includes the land description, name and address of owners and tenants, and detailed structural information about the dwelling, improvements and attachments such as style, age, living areas, heating system, construction material, and condition. Also includes penciled diagrams showing block boundaries, lot dimensions, and location. Some cards have photos attached. ?b The series includes a small folder of cards for commercial and industrial properties, a 1988 zoning map, a 1991 sub-division map (number within subdivision is lot number), and a 2005 key map which acts as index to the cards.

Very brief minutes of the North Hudson Board of Health.

"NSP Environmental Monitoring and Ecological Studies Program, 1971 Annual Report for the Allen S. King Generating Plant, Oak Park Heights, Minnesota," a plant whose construction was opposed by many because of its potential for ecological and recreational damage to the St. Croix River; plus a covering letter with attachments.