Business records for the flour and gristmills and the electric power plants operated on the Willow River by Christian Burkhardt (1834-1931) and his family of Burkhardt and Hudson, Wisconsin. Burkhardt, a native of Germany, built his first dam and flour mill on the Willow River in 1868. By 1894 a new mill had been erected and electric generators had been installed, and by 1900 electrical power was being supplied to the city of Hudson for street lighting and residential use. In 1907 all company operations were consolidated into the Burkhardt Milling and Electric Power Company, but because of its continued growth and diversification, the power business was separated from the milling business by the creation in 1922 of the Willow River Power Company. In 1944 all of the Burkhardt properties were purchased by Northern States Power Company.
The bulk of the collection is composed of financial and legal records. Minutes of meetings of the Burkhardt Milling and Electric Company, 1907-1947, together with cash and sales books, journals, ledgers, trial balances, and grain and shipping accounts of varied dates relate primarily to the operations of the flour and grain mills, mainly in the period after 1885. Sales records, 1901-1918, minutes of stockholders' and directors' meetings of the Willow River Power Company, 1922-1940, a few reports to state and federal agencies, and assorted legal papers relate to the production and sale of electricity. The collection also contains plat maps and correspondence concerning lands owned by the Burkhardt companies, 1900-1946, correspondence and financial records of investments held by the Burkhardts in St. Paul, Minn., 1904-1943, and a very few folders of personal family papers, 1873-1953.
Items concerning the founding of the Wisconsin Political Science Association in 1966; including a constitution and other communications.
Reminiscences by four pre-World War I River Falls Normal School students, written in response to an appeal by Arnold Kaluzny, a student in Prof. Walker Wyman's history class in 1960.
Register of justice of the peace, notaries, court commissioners, sheriffs, county judges, and other court officers. Includes name, residence, office held, and dates of appointment and termination.
Circuit Court, Burnett CountySecretary's book of the Hammond, Wis. chapter of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Wisconsin, including the group's constitution, membership list, meeting minutes, and attendance records.
Though short on description, the minutes provide evidence of the group's literature distribution projects; fund raisers; support of affiliated groups (including the Young Woman's Christian Temperance Union (YWCTU) and the Loyal Temperance Legion (LTL), a youth group); relations with other local social, religious, and charitable organizations; village-level political activities; and provision of a weekly column for The Hammond News. The chapter dissolved in 1908.
Yearbooks, 1917-1978, and miscellaneous announcements, 1928,1948, and 1977, of a women's service and study group, an affiliate of the Wisconsin Federation of Woman's Clubs.
Records of a Swedish Baptist Church in Burnett County, Wis., including congregation registers, 1869-1905, 1875-1912, and a minutebook, 1869-1890, in Swedish; and a transcription and translation of the minute book prepared by Ellen Johnson.
Johnson, EllenRecords of the Ellsworth chapter of a mutual benefit society, including minutes of meetings, 1899-1900, membership dues records, clerk's monthly reports of membership and money, and other routine financial records.
Funeral oration delivered at his father's memorial service, September 9, 1979, River Falls, Wisconsin, remembering his beliefs and the values he exemplified.
Reminiscences by Prentice of Indians and of wild life in early Polk County, Wisconsin: a collection of short sketches about bison, red oaks, wild rice harvesting, wild pigeons, cranes, Chippewa and Sioux warfare, and Indian mounds, with an introduction by E. E. Husband; accompanied by printed photographs of Mr. and Mrs. Prentice.
Records of an affiliate of the Wisconsin Extension Homemakers Council, formed to promote home and community life; including secretary's books, program materials, and miscellany (in Box 1) and a scrapbook, 1948-1986 (in Box 2).
Nine stories concerning mythical "little people" written by Yukon Delta Eskimo children and collected by Bitney, a student in folklore and an elementary teacher at Mountain Village (Alaska) Day School during the 1968-1969 school year.
Letters received by Heifner, Boyceville, Wisconsin, many of which came from women who had obtained his name from the Diamond Circle, a "lonely hearts" club; also letters to his daughter Lois.