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The “Faculty Bulletin”, first issued by the River Falls State Teachers College administration in the fall of 1946, was designed as a communicative vehicle for faculty and administration, and included announcements and information emanating from both sources. They were published periodically throughout the school year, providing information concerning new staff and assignment changes, activity calendars, and changes in programs and school services. The “Bulletin” was discontinued during the 1973/74 school year in favor of a new publication, “This Week”.

Records of a church founded in 1890. The records consist of papers of the Women's Missionary Federation, Hudson Circuit; and congregation records including correspondence and business papers, 1935-1963; minutes of the board of trustees, 1939-1955; financial records, 1922-1963; bulletins; sermons; records of marriages, baptisms, and confirmations, 1901-1930; and minutes and financial accounts for such church-sponsored groups as the Luther League, Lutheran Mission Circle, Ezekiel Lutheran Church Ladies Aid, the Kinnickinnic Lutheran Ladies Aid, Lutheran Daughters of the Reformation, and numerous other groups.
There are also histories of some of these groups as well as numerous photographs of church buildings, pastors, and older members of the congregation. Also included are pictorial church directories from 1993 and 1997.

Annual reports from the county's extension team, consisting of the County Home Agent, the 4-H Club Agent, and the Agricultural Agent.

Recollections written in 1974 by Evalyn (Mrs. Richard) Meents of her teaching experiences at Herum School (District No. 4, Town of Martell), 1953-1957, and at Fargo School (Joint District No. 3, Towns of Martell and River Falls), 1957-1962, and a letter recommending people who might give information on other Pierce County, Wisconsin, schools.

Mimeographed copy of reminiscence by Eva George (Mrs. Charles Thompson) Ritchey, River Falls, Wisconsin; in which she reminisces about her youth in Vermont, her family's migration to North Dakota, and their early hardships and later successes there.

Papers of a history professor and president of Wisconsin State University, River Falls from 1946 to 1967. Included is correspondence, speeches, a reminiscence, manuscripts of his dissertation and his book "In the Shadow : Reflections of a State College President," clippings, academic records, and memorabilia.

Miscellaneous papers of Williams, a teacher and attorney who resided for many years in Hudson, Wisconsin, consisting primarily of correspondence concerning her purchases of fertilizer, fencing, and other gardening supplies, her Supreme Court appeal in her lawsuit against the City of Hudson about a fence, a tax dispute, and other topics.

The autobiography of Lindner recounting his youth in Wurtemberg, Germany, brief service in the French Foreign Legion, immigration to the United States in 1837, adventures in Florida, his life as a merchant, farmer, doctor, and government official in Ohio, Kansas, and Florida, his Civil War experiences in the 36th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and his experiences and belief in spiritualism.

A paper by Gullicksrud for a university class based on his diary entries describing a two-month struggle by students with the University of Wisconsin-River Falls administration over the proposed closing of the trailer court in which they were living to make room for a new physical education building.

Livestock sales records of the Equity Shipping Association; noting farmer's name, kind of animal sold, weight, price, and expenses.

Minutes of the board of directors' meetings. Organized as the Equity Elevator and Warehouse Co., the name was changed in 1922.

Family history compiled by Nelson, concerning the Smith family which settled in the Town of Eau Galle, Dunn County, Wisconsin, in an area known as Missouri Valley or "Buttermilk Coulee," circa 1885.

Newspaper clippings of a feature article on Glenn P. Junkman, professor of mathematics at Wisconsin State University at River Falls, and a typescript of his book, "Functional Thinking in Mathematics."

Plan, specifications, blueprints, and correspondence relating to city engineering projects, including bridges, sewers, sewage treatment, and other projects.

• Papers of the Engelhardt family, who owned and operated a brickyard (ca. 1889-1906) and a dairy farm (ca. 1870- )in the Farmington (Polk County), Wisconsin area; and of the Hillskotter family who farmed in the same area since ca. 1853.
• b Included are correspondence, family certificates, writings, an autobiography of Carl Engelhardt, genealogies, photographs (1870-1909), and monthly farm labor records. In both German and English.

Files are partial reproductions of business directories from R. L. Polk's Wisconsin gazetteer, including sections on Ellsworth (1877-1928); Pierce County (1922); and River Falls (1877-1928) created by Dan Geister in his research regarding communities in Pierce County, Wisconsin.

Record of receipts, noting date, from whom received, on what account, and amount; and expenditures, noting date, to whom paid, on what account, and amount.

Records of an Ellsworth, Wisconsin, women's group including constitution and by-laws, minutes, yearbooks, financial records, news clippings, and a small amount of correspondence. Activities of the group included discussion of history, civics, and literary topics; presentation of papers and original literature written by members; and charity work including sponsorship of a French World War I orphan.

Record books of the association listing for the herd of each participating farmer the individual cow's milk production, production value, butterfat content, and quantity and value of feed used; listed on forms provided by the United States Bureau of Animal Industry.

Audit reports of the creamery; missing reports for 1939, 1941, 1942, 1944, and 1954.

Scrapbook of World War II postal covers and military letterhead received by Mrs. Ella Toby from former boarders who left their studies at the River Falls State Teachers College (Wisconsin) for military service. Also included are photographs of the soldiers, news clippings, and a few letters.
The postal covers contain military addresses and Mrs. Toby made notes on post changes for many of the soldiers. Seven photographs were loose in the scrapbook and are separately housed; they are primarily posed images of individual soldiers.

Miscellaneous papers, including a seven-page biographical tribute to Taylor written by her daughter, Margaret T. Miller, beginning with her birth in 1868 to Wesley and Elizabeth (Shults) Atwater.
Ella's father was a Methodist minister and the family moved from Packwaukee (Wisconsin), to small towns near La Crosse, to River Falls, and finally to South Dakota. Wesley Taylor followed Ella to South Dakota where they married and homesteaded near Whitewood before moving back to River Falls around 1900. The tribute also includes reminiscences by others of Ella's character and Methodist faith. Three clippings on Taylor's 98th and 100th birthdays are also included.

Mimeographed copy of a biography of Taylor, a teacher, homesteader, and civic leader of River Falls, Wisconsin; written by her daughter, Margaret Taylor Miller.

Diaries, letters, and miscellaneous items of Elizabeth Garrett (Mrs. Edwin) Atwood and her daughter Elizabeth C., residents of Nelson, Portage County, Ohio, detailing their daily activities. Included in the miscellany is a printed 1864 obituary of Cornelia A. Stowe in Williams County, Ohio and an 1862 letter to Mrs. Stowe; four brief tracts by the Reverence David Jones; two advertising cards showing boys' suits, a tintype of an unidentified man; and a notebook of writings and scattered diary entries.

Includes [1] Correspondence, specification volumes, accepted bids, blueprints, and balance sheets relating to construction and expansion of the power plant, water main, and the pumping plant, and to their operation (1921-1953); and [2] Accounting system set up for the department by the state Railroad Commission in 1916, containing numerous sample forms and describing accounting procedures in detail.

Transcript of a World War I diary kept by Eldon C. Kinne of Ellsworth, Wis., describing his voyage to Europe as a soldier and his troop's movements in England and France from about August to December of 1918. Also included is a telegram announcing his death on December 28; an affidavit by his aunt, Alvina B. Davis Warren, which appears to be related to survivors' benefits; an undated tintype photograph of this aunt, Alvina B. Davis, at age 8; and a program for a memorial exercise at the American Legion Eldon C. Kinne Post No. 204 at Ellsworth. At the time of his death, Kinne was a member of Co. F, the 342nd Infantry.

Treasurer's record of town accounts.

Proceedings of the town board, 1859-1881, 1886-1931 (7 vols.) and a town highway record, 1910-1941 (1 vol.).

An account book of the El Paso General Store, located in Pierce County, Wis. and owned by the Steen family, recording individual customers' purchases and payments, 1921-1933.

Records of the El Paso Community Band which existed from the 1920's until 1934, including a ledger containing financial records and minutes of meetings for 1929, a copy of a 1926 photograph of the band with identification of band members; and a typewritten history describing the practice schedule, finances, and performances, and containing humorous anecdotes and a listing of band members and the instrument each played.

Account book kept at Hawn's sawmill at Olivet, Pierce County, Wisconsin, including notations on the kinds of wood sawed.

Papers of Private Edwin D. Levings, Company A, 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; including Civil War letters written by him and his brother Homer to their parents in Pierce County, Wis., scattered other family correspondence, and Levings' recollections of Sherman's march through Georgia.

Letters to Peterson, history professor at Wisconsin State University, River Falls, written by David Sartori and Gary E. Thorson while both served as enlisted men with the U.S. Army in Vietnam.

Two essays of Murphy's recollections and research concerning the South Fork Power and Light Cooperative (Pierce County, Wisconsin), which was established by area farmers in 1919.
The cooperative provided electricity and power to farms along Highways 29E and 35S near River Falls, Wis. Due to the increasing complexity of electrical technology, operations were taken over by the City of River Falls in 1952. One essay contains a sketched map of the area. Also includes brief notes about the first electrical and dairy cooperative in Wisconsin.

Photocopied records regarding the Civil War service of Private Edward LaMere of Somerset, Wis., in Company F, Wisconsin 25th Infantry Regiment. LaMere was taken prisoner at Decatur, Georgia, in 1864.
Also includes a 1982 cover letter regarding the documents from Richard P. Rivard, Glenwood City, 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.

Photocopy of a reminiscence by Quinlan covering the period 1871 to 1945 and concerning his growing up in Milwaukee (1871-1880) and later, in Stanton (St. Croix County), Wisconsin. The family lived on "Tory Hill" in Milwaukee, first on Eighth Street and later on Tenth between Hiberian and Hill streets. Milwaukee reminiscences include family history and anecdotes, comments on neighbors, and descriptions of buildings and businesses. After 1880 they concern the family's establishment of a general store and post office in Stanton, his father's death which left his mother with five children to care for, townspeople and businesses, recreation, baseball, education, agriculture, and family anecdotes. Quinlan also briefly discusses his adult work with the railroad from the 1890's -1941

Account books and miscellaneous farm inventories of Dombrock, a St. Croix Falls, Wis., brick manufacturer and farmer, showing manufacturing operating expenses and daily business transactions, and farm stock records, inventories, and financial transactions.

Diary of a private in Co. F, Twenty-eighth Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, describing army life and maneuvers in the lower Mississippi area and along the Yazoo River; and biographical notes.

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.

Autobiography by Ed Pudas of Oulu (Bayfield County), Wisconsin
Pudas, born of Finnish immigrants in Oulu, held a variety of jobs, including logging; working the Great Lakes ore, grain, and coal ships; dairy farming; operating a creamery; and carpentry. He lived the majority of his life in northern Wisconsin, with a short time in Brooklyn and New York City.

A manuscript by Bloom detailing the descendants of Ebenezer Ayers, a settler in Taylors Falls, Minnesota in 1850, and including copies of letters and documents pertaining to the Ayers family and to events in Wisconsin's Polk and St. Croix counties.

Essay by Thompson describing the establishment, native inhabitants, and growth of Deer Park, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, in the 1850's.

Recollections by Mr. Schultz of a house known as Grey's Castle, near Minneiska, Minnesota, built by Putnam Grey in the early 1900's; with references also to a ferris wheel built by Mr. Grey and sold to Mr. Ferris. Also included is a photo of Grey's castle.

Clipped newspaper writings by Chapin, a feature writer for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, consisting of historical articles based in 17 western Wisconsin counties as well as stories about contemporary Wisconsin people and events; comprising series organized by place, by subject, and by date.

Genealogies of the Belisle-Dufresne family and the Parent-Mars family, and histories of the early settlers at Somerset (Wisconsin) and the Apple River Settlement (Range, Polk County, Wisconsin), compiled by Earl Belisle. The first genealogy is that of Joseph Belisle (b. 1845) and his wife Celina Dufresne of Somerset, Wisconsin, their children, and their ancestors in the province of Quebec including the surnames Germain and Bouin. The Parent-Mars genealogy concerns the French-Canadian ancestors of Marie-Louise Parent (1851-1938) of Somerset, Wisconsin who, in 1872, married Joseph Maher (later Mars). Additionally, there is a history, including genealogies, of the early settlers of Somerset (Wis.), especially Louis and Joseph Parent as well as a history of the French-Canadians who settled in the Apple River Settlement, near Range (Wisconsin) with family genealogies. Included throughout are reproductions of photographs, maps, and family documents.

Information on members of the River Falls (Wis.) High School class of 1929 compiled by the 25th Reunion Committee of which Bartosh was a member; also, farm record books kept by Bartosh (1960-1962) detailing farm income and expenses.

Photocopy and transcription of a diary and account book, 1859, May 8 - November 25, kept by E.W. Day, Hudson, Wisconsin, describing his personal activities and work, apparently as a farm laborer.

Interviews with Husband, Amery, Wis., publisher of the Balsam Lake Ledger, 1907-1939, and former Wisconsin state assemblyman; two statements and a series of newspaper articles in which Husband recalls changes in the St. Croix valley area during his lifetime; and one photograph of Husband.