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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.

Treasurer's records (1951-1953) showing receipts and disbursements indicating the person paid or paying, amount, date, and purpose; and teacher registers (1888-1892 and 1957-1967) indicating names of teachers and students, attendance record, remarks concerning the promotion and progress of students, and a register of visitors.

Teacher's registers indicating names of teachers and pupils, attendance record, remarks concerning the promotion and progress of students, and a register of visitors.

The district treasurer's account book, 1919-1948; a document describing an alteration in the school district boundaries, 1877; and a school census report, 1947.

Record of school attendance showing each pupil's name, attendance, grades, and teachers' reports on academic progress of each. Also contains record of visitors, schedule of daily program, and reading circle records.

School district record (Vol. 1), 1913-1950, includes minutes of the school board; annual reports to the district board; teachers' contracts; register of orders drawn; and reports of expenses and income. School register (Vol. 2), 1941-1947, contains student attendance records including the students' ages and dates of birth; curriculum followed; daily programs; record of books students read and reported on, and record of visitors.

[1] School District Records, 1902-1948, including minutes of annual meetings, board proceedings, register of officers, treasurer's bonds, teachers' contracts, clerks report and school censuses, tax statements, and financial reports of receipts and expenditures; [2] School Registers, 1877-1881, 1933-1948, showing pupils' names, ages, grades, and attendance records, daily programs, subjects studied, visitors' record, and teachers comments on pupils; and [3] Annual Reports and School Censuses, 1909, 1913-1947.

Minutes of annual and special school board and district meetings, district treasurers' bonds, teachers' contracts, register of orders drawn on the treasury, financial statements, and a census of students, 1887.

Treasurer's Records (1868-1957) showing receipts and disbursements, the name of the person paid or paying, purpose for the payment, and balance statements for the district. There are also a few miscellaneous financial papers regarding insurance, the school's deed, and school aids.

Treasurer's journal listing expenditures recording date, to whom paid, on what account, and amount.

Clerk's records (1938-1955) including minutes of annual and special school district meetings, listings of orders drawn on the treasurer's accounts, school censuses, and teachers' contracts. Treasurer's records (1917-1955) show receipts and disbursements, balance statements, and in some cases, the purpose of payment and the person paid.

[1] School District Records, 1923-1948, including minutes of annual meetings, board proceedings, order register, school censuses, teachers contracts, financial reports and statements, and detailed records of expenditures; [2] Clerk's papers, 1908-1950, containing organization papers, reports, censuses, audit reports, teachers contracts, boundary alteration papers, notices, orders, and correspondence; and [3] School Registers, 1909-1950, showing each pupil's name, sex, age, grade, and attendance record, daily programs, subjects studied, visitors' record, and teacher's comments on pupils.

Photocopy of proceedings of district board and regular meetings, district treasurer's bond, teachers' contracts, and register of orders drawn. School District No. 6, El Paso, became Joint School District No. 3 of the Towns of El Paso and Rock Elm, circa 1883.

Treasurer's records, 1868-1944, containing a record of district receipts and disbursements; and teachers' registers, 1919-1943, including students' names, report of pupils' standing and work accomplished, attendance records, daily programs, and record of visitors.

[1] Clerk's District Record Books (1868-1933) containing minutes of annual and board meetings, record of treasurer's orders, teachers' contracts, school censuses, and lists of books in the school library; [2] Clerk's Papers (1912-1960) including clerk's annual reports, school censuses, and other papers filed with the clerk; [3] School Registers (1892-1949) containing each pupil's name, age, and attendance record, names of teacher, remarks concerning the promotion and progress of students, and a register of visitors; and [4] Treasurer's Record Books (1867-1960) showing receipts and disbursements, balance statements, and reports from the district.

[1] School District Records (1886-1956) containing minutes of school board meetings, accounts of receipts and expenditures, teachers' contracts, school censuses, and clerk's financial and annual reports; [2] Treasurer's Book (1885-1957) showing receipts and expenditures; and [3] School Registers (1911-1958) including pupils' names and attendance records, daily programs, visitors' record, and state reading circle record.

Clerk's record book containing minutes of district and school board meetings, financial records, and record of school board members elected.

Proceedings of the district meetings (1868-1937), register of school officers and terms of office (1870-1883), annual school meeting (1941), district treasurer's bond (1870-1885), teachers school report and teachers contract (1868-1884), register of teachers employed (1868-1890), register of orders drawn (1868-1891), and district clerk's report and financial statements (1876-1889, 1906-1929).

Typewritten account of life in post-World War II Germany and of the immigration of the Schubert family from Germany to the United States, about 1951, written by Mrs. Ines Schubert in 1961.

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.

Photocopied records of the Association (known in recent years as the German Settlement Cemetery Association), including minutes, the constitution, financial records, and a register of burials. The cemetery, also known as the German Settlement Cemetery, is located in the Town of Troy, St. Croix County, Wisconsin.

Newsletters, memoranda, and miscellaneous other papers concerning the newly organized St. Croix Valley Interstate Group of the Sierra Club, comprised of Wisconsin and Minnesota members devoted to protection of the natural beauty of the St. Croix River Valley.

Papers concerning the families of Ira, George, and Clark Smith of Elmwood, Wisconsin; consisting of legal documents on land transactions in Pierce and Dunn counties, articles by Clark Smith on his memories of Farmhill in Rock Elm Township, Pierce County, and financial and other records.

Typewritten carbon of an autobiography by Theodore Smith, businessman and mayor of River Falls, Wisconsin; including recollections of his youth in Denmark, his immigration to the U.S. in 1883, and his many experiences in the River Falls area.

A history of Somerset, Wisconsin, and St. Croix County, prepared by the Society and presented as a pageant June 23-24, 1956.
Also included are other brief histories on moonshine in Somerset, its claim to be frog leg capital of the world, and resident John Till, "the plaster doctor."

Records of a cooperative telephone company in Pierce County, Wisconsin, including minutes of meetings, financial records, stock certificate stubs and blanks, maps, a record of pole locations, Public Service Commission documents, agreements with other phone companies, and brief correspondence.

A photocopy of the book "Statuten und Prottokoll Buch," 1884-1921; a 75th anniversary book, 1949; a statement of belief book for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, 1967; a 100th anniversary pictoral directory, 1974; and the constitution and by-laws, 1979.

Incomplete, photocopied German-language diaries with partial translations, a notebook, and related papers, 1886-1920, kept by a Plum City, Pierce County, Wisconsin, area farmer primarily concerning agricultural activities, financial matters, and family health.
A Swiss immigrant in 1866, Staehli recorded his activities prior to and while farming near Pittsville, Wood County, 1879-1892, and then while living near Plum City, 1895-1899 and 1904-1911. Linguistically interesting is Staehli's use of conservative spelling and German script and his gradual conversion to using English.

Copies of letters, 1883-1886, to Stanchfield from his fiancee, Maud who taught school in Richardson and Clear Lake, Wisconsin; and other family letters, 1896-1926, n.d., including several from Maud's cousin Annie (Mrs. George) Van Alstine of Hastings, Minnesota.

Papers of Osborn Strahl, a Clifton, Pierce County, Wisconsin, lumberman, consisting mainly of family correspondence (1860-1909), containing information on Strahl and MacDonald family genealogy. Included are letters which describe agricultural life in the Los Angeles area in 1892, early twentieth-century life in the state of Washington, the Seattle harbor, and the Oregon and Washington Indian wars. There is also material relating to school experiences of the Strahl family, including essays, speeches, and class notes (circa 1845-1858); three land certificates (1854-1855); and reminiscences by Strahl of Pierce County settlers.

Specifications for a church addition and remodeling project at the Swedish Mission Church in River Falls, Wisconsin.

Assessment rolls kept by the town clerk showing name of property owner, land description, acreage, valuations of lands and improvements fixed by the assessor and board of review, school district number, acreage and value of land in classification according to use or condition of land, number and value of livestock and other personal property, and amounts of taxes due.

Proceedings and orders of the town board of supervisors relating to highway matters.

Minutes of the meetings of the town board, the board of review, and the board of audit. Vol. 1 covers April 6, 1875-April 21, 1888; Vol. 2, May 7, 1888-December 6, 1921.

Records on the River Falls Post of the Corps including the bulletin (1953-1956), newsletter (1957), and magazine and River Falls journal articles on the post. Also included are civil defense records including an orientation card and a manual on personal survival from Kent County, Mich

A photocopied list of dates, places of meetings, officers, and programs of the Upper Midwest History Conference, an informal association of historians from campuses in the Minnesota-Wisconsin-Dakotas region.

Miscellaneous items concerning Vanasse: an article by him on the history of northeastern Pierce County, Wisconsin; a copy of a booklet written by him on Lake Superior agate; notes recording an interview with him by E. N. Peterson (these three in River Falls SC 125); a time book, 1892-1894, 1896-1899, of the Vanasse sawmill, Town of Gilman, Pierce County; historical writings by Vanasse concerning the Spring Valley area; and essays dealing with the iron ore industry in Spring Valley.

Minutes and other papers of the military veterans' club on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, describing social, charitable, and civic activities of the group.

Diary and scrapbook pages kept by Catherine Ronyak Walter while a student at River Falls, Wisconsin, Normal School.

Anecdotes by Carl E. Warn concerning his family and events in Ellsworth, Wisconsin, where he was raised; plus a narrative poem by Will Carleton entitled "The First Settler's Story."

Photocopied recollections, undated, entitled "In Old Mann Valley" by Oscar J. Weberg, giving information on farm life near River Falls, Wisconsin, in the 1890's; letters, 1961, to Weberg containing reminiscences by former Valley residents; a biography of Weberg written by his daughter; and photocopies of photographs of the Weberg family and home.

Autobiographical reminiscences by Martha Weitkamp, written between 1965 and 1969 for the edification of her descendants. She describes her childhood on farms near Neckerson, Fontonelle, Pender, and Bancroft, Nebraska, neighbors, school experiences, medical matters, her maternal relatives in the Daiss family and paternal relatives in the Blome family, and the family of her husband, Bill Weitkamp.

Copies of Civil War letters written to his mother by Wescott, Company E, 17th Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, discussing the Vicksburg campaign and Sherman's march to the sea; including an explanatory note written by Wescott in 1909.

Record of overseers of highways, proceedings of the town board in regard to highways, road district boundary records, applications for layout or discontinuation of roadways, highway orders, highway tax lists, surveys of roads, and records of damage awards to owners of lands through which roads passed.

A history of Clifton Hollow, a settlement in northwestern Pierce County, Wisconsin, 1849-1898, written by Mrs. Wheelock who was born there; mentioning lumber and grist mills, a lime kiln, and a school, church, and Templar's lodge.
Included is the 16-page original and a later 5-page revision which includes some additional information.

Papers of a one-time Maine mill worker and a speaker and writer on behalf of women's rights. A teacher in Prescott, Wisconsin, in 1861, Mrs. Whitaker then farmed with her husband in Point Douglas, Minnesota until 1904. Documenting her personal life and her opinions on women's rights, the collection consists largely of letters from family and friends in Maine, Prescott (Wisconsin), and St. Anthony (Minnesota). Also present is one 1865 letter from William Lloyd Garrison, family memorabilia, and a notebook from her lectures on women's rights.

Mainly legal, business, and political papers of two River Falls, Wis., lawyers, Ferris M. White and his son Kenneth. Correspondence of Ferris White, 1933-1940, concerns his law partnership with his son, chairmanship of the Board of Bar Examiners, participation in the League of Wisconsin Municipalities, service as city attorney of River Falls, and land and stock investments in Canada, Iowa, Texas, and Montana. Many letters and related papers concern his work, 1933-1935, as county attorney for both Pierce and St. Croix counties for the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, an agency to assist home owners enmeshed in debt during the depression. Occasional letters also relate to Ferris White's interest in Democratic politics and state political issues. Among his correspondents were Grover Broadfoot, Edward J. Dempsey, F. Ryan Duffy, and Daniel H. Grady.
Records of Kenneth White include files from his law partnership with John W. Davison, 1941-1946, as well as personal papers of Davison; military correspondence of Kenneth White from his service in World War I and World War II and his membership in the 32nd Division of the Wisconsin National Guard; and political correspondence of Republican White concerning his support for William E. Borah in 1936, his concerns as a legislator (1937-1941) with measures to improve the state college system and support the National Guard. Among White's frequent correspondents were Jim Dan Hill, Merlin Hull, Ralph Immell, Warren P. Knowles, Philip F. La Follette, Oscar Rennebohm, and Alexander Wiley. A few family papers also are in the collection.

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.

Two-page letter, November 5, 1973, from Justin Williams containing his recollections of his years as chairman of the Department of Social Sciences at River Falls State Teachers College, 1928-1942.

Record book containing five sections: (1) List of jury commissioners appointed, showing name, residence, dates of term, and sometimes remarks; arranged by date of appointment; (2) Minutes of jury commissioners' meetings, arranged by date of meeting; (3) Oaths of jury commissioners, arranged chronologically; 4) Lists of petit jurors drawn for each term of Circuit Court, showing name and residence of each juror; and (5) Lists of citizens eligible for jury duty, furnished by jury commissioners, showing each person's name and residence, date name received by commissioners, date person was drawn for jury duty if drawn, term served on jury, and sometimes miscellaneous remarks. Names were drawn from these lists for jury panels, and the lists were revised periodically. Names are listed alphabetically by first letter of surname and thereunder by date list was compiled.