UWRF News Bureau
UWRF News Bureau
UWRF News Bureau
The River Falls Agrifallians Society was organized on January 8, 1959. Agrifallian Society was the official name given to the club, which consists of Bachelors of Science non-teaching students in agriculture. The purpose of the society is to promote fellowship and to further acquaint students with professional and vocational opportunities in the field of agriculture. -Description from Society History This collection consists mainly of meeting minutes but also contains the constitution, election records, and photographs.
University of Wisconsin--River Falls. College of Agriculture. (1921)1969 Bob and Marge in Osman Hat
correspondance, address of AID
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.
Aid Society Norden (Hudson, Wis.) (1912)Civil War letter, June 17, 1862, to David P. Saunders of River Falls, Wisconsin, from his cousin, Private Ainsworth Saunders, Co. B, 6th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, camped near Fredericksburg, Virginia.
POST CARD showing Printed on verso: Pub. by Ben's Variety Store, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin Unused.
Real-photo postcard with bird's-eye view of the Luther Point Bible Camp in the Town of Wood River, near Grantsburg, Wisconsin. The chapel, various cabins and other buildings can be seen in the foreground, and Wood Lake in the background. Unused.
Library, Rodli Commons
falconettes, meletean, 1956, page 48
Northwest
Real-photo postcard showing Frederic, Wisconsin, from the air, with a lake in the upper right. Date from postmark: Feb 12, 1915; mailed from Baldwin, Wisconsin; green 1¢ Washington stamp. Printed on EKKP paper (used 1904-1950). Unused.
Married October 5th,1884 in Dunn County, Albert B. (1863-1913) and Jennie (1862-1867) had a daughter, Bertha "Birdie" August 5th,1885. Jennie Levica Fedderly died of what was called "lung fever" in the summer of 1887 and is buried in Elmwood, Wisconsin.
Smith, Charles FrancisDiaries kept by Albert C. Stuntz, recording his work as timber agent for school and university lands in the upper St. Croix Valley, Wisconsin; surveyor on Indian reservations at Lac du Flambeau and Lac Court Oreille in 1863; state assemblyman, 1865; and county surveyor of Green County, Wisconsin, 1882. Accompanied by a transcript.
Index card states that Albert Holcomb was born in 1850 in Dodge County, Wisconsin. Holcomb and his family, including 3 brothers one of which was a twin, came to the Rock Elm area in 1868. Albert married in 1878 and had 5 children. Two died in infancy and one daughter and 2 sons survived (note 3 children, one girl and two boys). Holcomb was a farmer, and had land in sections 7 and 8 of Rock Elm Township. Family lives there as of 1980.
Smith, Charles FrancisLetter 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.
Papers of Albinus Webster and his son Frank who farmed in the Town of Kinnickinnic, St. Croix County, Wisconsin; consisting of brief daily diary entries, account books, genealogical charts, and other items.
The diaries contain information on all aspects of farm life and management, community life, agricultural trade, and prices. Frank Webster was considered a progressive farmer, known for integrating new farming methods, and his diaries include detailed descriptions of agricultural practices.
Copy of Turner's 1849 diary recording events during his family's crossing of the Atlantic while immigrating from Edinburgh, Scotland, to Dodge County, Wisconsin; plus additional biographical information.
Picture postcard with an image of a man--W.F. Mowey of Balsam Lake--standing in an alfalfa field, and another image of a stick in an alfalfa field showing 36 inches. "Big yields of this 'King of Forage Crops' on our splendid dairy and stock farms. Baker Land and Title Co., St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin." Printed on Kruxo paper (Kruxo used as divider 1911-1922). Unused.
Photocopy of a notebook, containing mainly songs and poems, kept by Anderson, a Norwegian immigrant living in Amherst, Wisconsin, in 1904.
