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William W. Abbott. Vietnam Moratorium Day papers, 1969.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 412
  • collection
  • 1969

Papers, collected by Abbott, concerning involvement of the River Falls, Wisconsin community and Wisconsin State University, River Falls in Vietnam Moratorium Day, October 15, 1969.

Abbott, William W. (1969)

William Sanford school notebooks, circa 1911.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 51
  • collection
  • circa 1911

Notebooks kept by William Sanford, a student and member of the football team at River Falls Normal School, River Falls, Wis., class of 1911, for classes in physics, physical geography, and chemistry.

William N. Mackin birthday recognitions, 1974.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 227
  • collection
  • 1974

A letter and a clipping concerning the 100th birthday of William N. Mackin, Madison, Wisconsin, an alumnus of River Falls Normal School.

William Munns, Dean of Students Subject Files, 1967-1990.

  • UWRF Series 130
  • collection
  • 1967-1990.

The Dean of Students was responsible for overseeing all aspects of student life on campus. Actives and services include, but are not limited to Counseling, Faculty advising, Testing services, orientation, hosting workshops and clinics, Health and physical welfare, job placement after graduation, student employment, administering financial aid, Student Government, and other student organizations, Housing, Dining, and extra-curricular activities. (1962-64 catalog)
There are 24 subseries in this collection arranged alphabetically by title. Subseries are grouped by the function that the records serve under the administrative organization.

Munns, William

William Mason Newcomb diaries, 1857-1858, 1883-1888.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 78
  • collection
  • 1883-1888

Two diaries of a physician and veterinarian from River Falls, Wisconsin. An 1857-58 volume describes his experiences in Calaveras County, California, prospecting for gold, and his return to Wisconsin. A handwritten copy of 1883-1888 entries describe his experiences working in South Dakota in the mid 1880s.

William M. Blanding. Papers, 1847-1958.

  • US ARC River Falls Mss X
  • collection
  • 1847-1958

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.

William James Goodwin. Account books, 1865-1907.

  • US ARC River Falls Mss CR
  • collection
  • 1865-1907

Account books, 1868-1907, recording personal and farm income and expenditures of William Goodwin, Town of Trenton, Pierce County, Wisconsin.
Also included are some entries made by his father James and explanatory annotations made by his daughter, Mary Gwen Owen Swanson, in 1980. Accompanying the volumes is James Goodwin's 1865 declaration of intention to become a citizen.

William J. Phillips letter, 1969.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 167
  • collection
  • 1969

Letter, March 3, 1969, from Phillips repeating stories about humorist E. W. "Bill" Nye and his brother Frank.

William Isler. Reminiscences, circa 1938.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 107
  • collection
  • circa 1938

Reminiscences by Isler, a Swiss immigrant to the United States and a Methodist minister in the Midwest and in Newark, New Jersey.

William H. Banks papers, 1902-1909, 1945.

  • US ARC River Falls Mss EU
  • collection
  • 1902-1945

Papers of William Banks, a physician in Hudson and later Baldwin, Wisconsin, in the early twentieth century, consisting primarily of letters from his mother and father in Windsor, Minnesota, and his brother, John Frazer in Milwaukee. The bulk of the letters document routine matters such as house cleaning and the weather. Subjects documented include hunting deer with his brother, the illness of his uncle in 1907 and the treatment he received from Dr. John Colvin in Minneapolis, and requests from his family to treat friends and relatives. Also included are two certificates of merit (1945) issued to Banks by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Washington Governor Monrad C. Wallgren in appreciation of his services given without compensation to the Selective Service System of the United States government during World War II.

William Cyrus Bradley. Papers, 1881-1917 and undated.

  • US ARC River Falls Mss BP
  • collection
  • undated, 1881-1917

Financial ledgers and daybooks, 1881-1917, of Bradley, a notable St. Croix County, Wisconsin, farmer involved with first wheat, then livestock production; plus genealogical information compiled by his daughter, Helen Bradley Hilton.

William B. Cairns. Papers, 1885-1891, 1898.

  • US ARC River Falls Mss Q
  • collection
  • 1885-1891, 1898

Six diaries, 1885-1891, kept by Cairns while he was a student at the University of Wisconsin interspersed with terms of teaching near Ellsworth and at Fairchild, Wis., and at an army post at Fort Grant, Arizona; plus a printed copy of Cairns' Ph. D. thesis, 1898.

William and Lynn Feyereisen. Genealogies, circa 1975.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 289
  • collection
  • circa 1975

Genealogies compiled by William and Lynn Feyereisen. The "Singleton Heritage" contains charts and biographical information on the descendants of William Singleton and Mary Donovan, 1829-1973; and of John Cashman, 1805-1963. Other charts contain information, circa 1740-1975, on the descendants of John Peter and Mariana Maus Feyereisen.

William and Jane Emmons Fedderly log home in Rock Elm Townsip, circa 1889

William and Jane Emmons Fedderly log home in Rock Elm Townsip, circa 1889

Index card states the man in the image is wearing the same suit as in the other Fedderly home photograph. William O. Fedderly was born in New York State in 1838. He came to Rock Elm in 1873 and settled on Section 11. He was a farmer by trade, but he also developed a considerable trade in buying and selling ginseng. In 1883 he reportedly purchased almost 7,000 pounds, and paid out more than $4,000. Reportedly, he was also one of the first Rock Elm farmers to raise blooded Holstein cattle. By 1895, the Pierce County Plat Book lists W.O. Fedderly as a dealer in ginseng, hides, fur and pelts. One of the people in the picture is Birdie Potter whose mother Jennie Fedderly Potter died young. Birdie was raised by her grandparents. W. O. Fedderly's wife was Jane Emmons who was born in New York in 1817 and died in 1890.

Smith, Charles Francis

William and Bridget Heffron family. Genealogy, 1983.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 316
  • collection
  • 1983

Genealogy of the descendants of William and Bridget Heffron, early settlers in Erin Prairie, St. Croix County, Wisconsin. Compiled by Alan Heffron, the genealogy, 1808-1983, includes information on these other surnames: Kane, Lumphrey, Gerrity, Burns, Martin, Newell, and Gallagher.

William A. H. Ihrig. Reminiscences and genealogy, 1974.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 231
  • collection
  • 1974

"Reminiscences of William A.H. Ihrig, Pioneer Resident of Centuria, Wisconsin, As Told to E.W. and Marion J. Erickson, March 7, 1974"; plus an Ihrig genealogical chart.

William A. Campman. Muster rolls, 1898-1899.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 205
  • collection
  • 1898-1899

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.

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