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Records from the St. Croix County Highway Department. Included are Highway Commissioner files, meeting minutes, and union/county contracts. Also included are county trunk maps, a compiled history of the department, and assorted photographs of department projects, buildings, and equipment.

Incoming and outgoing correspondence of Mayor Herman T. Hagestad concerning war and defense preparedness, utilities, licensing, and routine matters of city administration.

Financial journal of Herman Hillskotter from Town of Star Prairie, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, detailing farm expenses and income as well as dairy and grain prices, farm labor costs, and livestock records. Also included in the journal are financial records of the Town of Star Prairie, 1906-1918, when Hillskotter served as town clerk, and of School District No. 4, 1911-1916; a record of the number of feet of wood sawed per day, 1900-1903, at the B.B. Lumber Co. of Rhinelander, Wisconsin; and records, 1899-1900, from a boarding house which Hillskotter and his wife operated in Rhinelander, prior to moving to Star Prairie.

Clerk's record book, 1927-1953, which contains school board minutes, financial records, and school census information; and two school registers, 1907-1914 and 1943-1947, which list pupils, work accomplished, and visitors to the school.

Treasurer's record book, 1884-1956; Treasurer's account book, 1900-1952, noting district receipts and disbursements; and Attendance record book, 1906-1924, recording students' attendance, daily program of study, teachers' reports, and a record of visitors.

Reminiscences of Henry McCann recalling his experiences as a lumberjack in Wisconsin and Minnesota, the rivers on which he was a driver, names of the men with whom he worked, and brief sketches of the life of a river man.

Papers of Minnesota's first governor during his years as a fur trader, consisting primarily of correspondence among the various American Fur Company agents located in the Wisconsin Territory. Correspondence concerns internal company business; business with Hudson's Bay Fur Company; company agreements with the Dakota Indians; company interest in United States government treaties with the Dakota, Ojibwa, and Winnebago Indians; attempts by the company to prevent war between the Dakota and the Sauk and Fox Indians; relations with missionaries to the Indians of the region; and company disputes with Indian agents Henry R. Schoolcraft and Lawrence Taliaferro.
Correspondents prominent in the early history of Minnesota and Wisconsin include William Aitken, Frederick Ayer, Alexis Bailly, Bernard Brisbois, Ramsay Crooks, Henry Dodge, James Doty, Hercules Dousman, Jean Faribault, Alexander Faribault, Joseph Nicollet, Henry Rice, Joseph Rolette, Henry Schoolcraft, Lawrence Taliaferro, and Lyman Warren.

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.

Material related to the provision of public health services in St. Croix County, 1936-2015. The records include health committee meeting minutes (1936-1955, 1961, 1974-2015); financial records (1943-1967); a manual for nurses (circa 1952-1962); pamphlets and brochures an various public health issues (1948-1952); and a scrapbook of newspaper clippings (1972-1974).

Photocopy of a paper written by Anderson for a University of Wisconsin-River Falls geography course which studies the cultural and economic aspects of life in the settlement of New Centreville, St. Croix County, Wisconsin in the early 1900's. Included is Mrs. Selma Anderson's recollections of the buildings, people, and businesses that made up the hamlet at that time, and copies of several newspaper articles concerning the history of New Centreville.

Biographical sketches of Harvey O. Powell (1868-1944) and his wife, Elizabeth Knox Powell (1869-1954), written by Mary Elizabeth Powell Polglase.
Harvey Powell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Powell of River Falls, Wisconsin, was a banker in White Rock, S.D., and Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada, and an officer of Dominion Agricultural Credit, Regina, Canada. A native of Brewster, N.Y., Elizabeth Knox taught at the River Falls Normal School, 1890-1891; and married Harvey Powell in 1893.

Mimeographed 3-page typed letter from Preston, a storekeeper of Spring Valley, Wisconsin, to the "Spring Valley Sun," describing the early history of that town, beginning with its first settlers in 1859 and describing the influence of the Eau Galle Lumber Company (for whom Preston did some logging work), the Wilcox family, the iron business, and Preston's father, who was the community's first storekeeper and deputy postmaster.

Legislative papers of a Democratic assemblyman (1959-1978) from Luck, Wisconsin, who was noted for his wit and his advocacy of liberal political positions. The collection consists of personal and constituent correspondence, subject files, bill files, and microfilmed biographical material.
Prominent correspondents include William Osborne Hart, Hubert Humphrey, Gaylord Nelson, David Obey, Walker D. Wyman, and John Wyngaard. The subject files also include newsletters, press releases, form letters, and speeches. There is some material pertaining to reelection campaigns.
The processed portion is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional accessions are described in the catalog record separately.

Dockets kept by Justices of the Peace J. O. Lusk, William M. Howard, John Mewhorter, and Frank Howard showing complaints, summons and writs issued, evidence entered, and judgments rendered.

Register of the overseers of the highways, proceedings of the town board of supervisors, records of boundaries of road districts, highway tax list, and road district maps.

Names and addresses of mortgagor and mortgagee, description of property, amount of mortgage, filing date, and due date.

Town treasurer's accounts of receipts and disbursements for school districts and road districts showing dates, from whom received or to whom paid, for what purpose, and amounts; also town supervisors' audit reports.
Volume 1 also contains the miscellaneous financial records of a farmer, 1871-circa 1878?.

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, school district maps and a record of their boundaries, registers of the superintendent of highways, registers of orders drawn on the town treasurer, and election reports.

Clerk's copies of Town Board of Supervisors' warrants submitted to the district overseers of roads. Gives name of person taxed, description of property taxed, the value of the real estate, the total amount of the tax, and in some cases, the value of personal property and poll tax. The tax monies received were used for road and highway care in the respective districts.

Receipt journal, order register, cash and bank reconcilements, summary financial reports, and records of school taxes and apportionment.

Poll lists and statement of votes cast in town elections.

Four letters, dated Madison, Wisconsin, March 4-July 11, 1913, to Percy A. Roberts of River Falls, Wisconsin, concerning political affairs of the La Follette-McGovern faction of the Republican Party.

Photocopied recollections of Corporal (later Sergeant) Harry C. Adriance describing his experiences with the U.S. Marine Corps in the Philippines and China, 1899-1902, including the Battle of Tientsin, July 13, 1900, in which he won the Congressional Medal of Honor.

One large scrapbook, once owned by Harold Churchill, Rock Elm, Wisconsin, containing clipped obituaries, poems, recipes, sermons, photographs of theatrical personalities, and other articles of scattered dates between 1898 and 1938, primarily from Pierce County newspapers.

Mimeographed leaflet opposing passage of an equal rights for women amendment, distributed by Citizens Against the E.R.A. and H.O.W., Inc. (Happiness of Womanhood) in River Falls, Wisconsin.

Biographies by Haglund of Hans Johan Swedenburg, 1816-1900, and his wife and children. Swedenburg was a Swedish immigrant who settled in the Warrentown area of Pierce County, Wis. Included also are 1936 reminiscences by Anna Swedenburg Haglund, daughter of Hans Johan, describing the founding of the Tabor Lutheran Church in Pierce County.

Photocopy of a diary kept by Hauge, North Hudson, Wis., in which he notes events at the Omaha Railway Shops in North Hudson where he was an employee, and discusses personal and family matters.

Copy of ordinances, numbered 1-27, of the Village of Hammond, and a water resolution, all passed in May, 1909.

Genealogical scrapbook including photographs, charts, biographies, and memorabilia concerning the family of James A. Brown of River Falls, Wisconsin, his children, and his maternal relatives, the Haddows, originally from Ontario, Canada.

Copy of a letter from Montman to his parents in Germany, in which he tells of a trip up the Mississippi River from St. Louis to his new home, Hudson, Wisconsin.

Papers of a River Falls, Wisconsin, Superintendent of Schools documenting the attempt to establish a county nurse program in Pierce County with the aid of the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association and state health officials; including correspondence, public health reports, WATA press releases, miscellaneous near-print material concerning public health law and public health nursing in Wisconsin, and an essay and poem about the county nurse.

Photocopy of a letter, February 14, 1922, from Fiedler, former superintendent of the furnace of the Spring Valley Iron and Ore Company, written to this son and recounting the formation of the company in 1892 and its operation and ownership changes through 1907.

Genealogy of the Guest family, 1796-1979, compiled by John Henry Guest, ca. 1979.

Records of the association including a plat map, lists of lot owners and of perpetual care lots, burial permits, legal documents such as an 1863 property deed, and financial records.
The cemetery, also known as the Glass Valley Cemetery, is located in Pierce County, Wisconsin, Town of River Falls, which assumed responsibility for the cemetery ca. 1946.

Records of a cemetery on River Falls' north side including minute books (1876-1955), financial records, indexed records of burials and grave owners, burial permits, and plat maps.

Teacher's Registers (1944-1961) indicating the names of teachers and pupils, attendance record, remarks concerning the promotion and progress of students, books read by students, and in some cases, a visitor's register.

Papers of Granville Hurd, Town of Richmond, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, including deeds, tax receipts, and similar legal and financial records.

Town record book, including minutes of annual (1878-1889) and board (1878) meetings, registers of town (1878-1879) and school (1882) officers, oaths (1878-1881), order register (1878-1882), chattel mortgage record (1878-1884), school fund apportionment (1878-1884), board financial report (1879-1881), and treasurer's bonds (1878-1881).

Records of a cheese factory, including a letter book, 1889-1892; records of milk deliveries, cheese production, and payments, 1887-1890, 1900-1901, 1910; and a list of notes held by the company, 1886-1891.
Some records pertain to a general merchandise store also owned by the firm.

Membership and treasurer's book, 1887-1900; pages for the minutes book, 1917-1924; and miscellaneous reports of Post 238.

Records consisting of membership rolls, minutes, financial records, records of the local Woman's Relief Corps and Sons of Veterans groups, and a record of examinations by the pension surgeon.
The processed portion is summarized above and is described in the finding aid linked below.

Papers from the Governor's Task Force on Educational Financing and Property Tax Reform on which Professor Richard K. Darr, University of Wisconsin-River Falls, served.

Photocopies of letters written by Sergeant Gordon Penman to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Penman of Hudson, Wisconsin. Sergeant Penman was stationed at Fort Hood, Texas and at Camp Atterbury, Indiana.

Two collections of letters transcribed and compiled by Fouks. The first collection, "Chester B. Thatcher, 1866-1953: Memories" includes letters, 1928-1949, written by Thatcher, an early settler in the Town of Forest, St. Croix County, Wisconsin. Included also is some genealogical information. The second collection, "Fuchs letters from Germany," includes letters, 1947-1986, from members of the Fuchs families of Dortendorf, East Germany, to relatives in the United States; in English.

Prospectus of a cooperative established in 1979 to produce alcohol fuel from agricultural products, including technical information about alcohol production, business strategy, a brief history, and biographies of the board of directors.

Notebook kept by Ordemann, St. Paul, Minnesota, member of a company formed to mine gold at Knapp, Wisconsin; containing notes and sketches on techniques of mining and refining gold and silver.

Box 1 contains clerk's correspondence, 1898-1949, alphabetically arranged; and records of city resolutions and bond issues, 2 vols., 1928-1940. Box 2 contains chattel mortgage records, 1893-1901; 2 volumes listing city ordinances, 1895-1949; and the record of city licensing decisions, 1896-1905, in which the names of applicants, dates, license amounts, location, and expiration dates are recorded.