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Wisconsin -- Pierce County
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Tillie Healy. Teacher of the year letters, 1961-1963.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 30
  • collection
  • 1961-1963

Letters nominating Healy, Donegal School, District 9, River Falls Township, Pierce County, Wisconsin, as "Wisconsin Rural Teacher of the Year" in 1961 and 1963, including a letter enclosing a history of the school; and a photograph of Healy with pupils.

Stella Fosmo Herum. Scrapbook, undated.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 210
  • collection
  • undated

Undated clipped articles on the history of Pierce County, Wisconsin, as published in an unidentified local newspaper.

Pierce County, Wisconsin, Circuit Court criminal and civil case files

  • US ARC Pierce Series 163
  • collection
  • circa 1866-1934, 1962

Files of primarily criminal cases in Circuit Court including complaints, summonses, warrants, motions, appeals, judgments, and orders. Cases relate to criminal offenses such as murder, assault and battery, adultery, larceny, fornication, illegal liquor sales, vandalism, and gambling. The few civil suits involve monetary transactions and personal disputes including divorce. Criminal case files include #1-366, 468-839, 925, 1403, and 1441, roughly dated from 1866-1962 (bulk 1866-1930). Civil case files include #1-100 (circa 1866-?) and #5086, #7966, #8141-8171 (1916-1939).

Oluff O. Halls. News clippings, 1908-1910, 1927.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 271
  • collection
  • 1927

Scrapbook of news clippings concerning Halls, Pierce County, Wis., sheriff, and his leadership of the successful efforts to close the saloons and the brothel located on the island between Pierce County and Red Wing, Minnesota.

Halls, Oluff O.

M. C. Holt. Reminiscences, undated.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 181
  • collection
  • undated

Reminiscences of Holt, a Pierce County farmer from 1859 on and a founder of Ono, Wisconsin.

Joint School District No. 1, Towns of El Paso and Gilman, Pierce County, Wisconsin, records, 1867-1958.

  • US ARC Pierce Series 36
  • collection
  • 1867-1958

[1] School District Records (1916-1922, 1945-1958) containing minutes of school board meetings, register of school officers, treasurers' bonds, teachers contracts, financial records, and annual reports; [2] Treasurer's Books (1867-1958) showing receipts and expenditures; [3] pupil registers (1911-1914, 1916-1922); and [4] a librarian's book (1877-1921) recording books purchased.

Hans Johan Swedenburg family. Biographies, 1936 and undated.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 360
  • collection
  • 1936 and undated

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.

Greenwood Valley Cemetery Association. Records, 1863-1946.

  • US ARC River Falls Mss CY
  • collection
  • 1863-1946

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.

Glass Valley Homemakers Club. Records, 1936-1995.

  • US ARC River Falls Mss BX
  • collection
  • 1936-1995

Records concerning activities of the club, an extension homemakers group in Pierce County (Wis.) as well as the personal activities of Dorothy Killian, club historian. Included are Secretary's minute books, 1938-1939, 1950-1952, 1963-1995; scrapbooks containing clippings, letters, programs, photographs, and other documents, 1952-1988; home demonstration project leader books, 1936-1938; and miscellany.

Ellsworth Cow Testing Association. Records, 1923-1924.

  • US ARC River Falls Mss E
  • collection
  • 1923-1924

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.

E.L. Hawn sawmill. Account book, 1884-1897.

  • US ARC River Falls Mss R
  • collection
  • 1884-1897

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

Collected Kinnickinnic histories, 1970.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 252
  • collection
  • 1970

Three student papers written in 1970 and preserved by Mrs. Harry Hass, all concerning Kinnickinnic township, Pierce County, Wis.: "Kinnickinnic Township" by Sylvia Roeske, "The History of the Kinnickinnic Congregational Church" by Margaret Hammer, and an untitled paper dealing with the Kinnickinnic Monument by Barbara Vanda.

Clifton, Pierce County, Wisconsin. Clerk. Highway records, 1857-1915.

  • US ARC Pierce Small Series 35
  • collection
  • 1857-1915

Minutes of the town board of supervisors pertaining to the laying out, altering, or vacating of town roads, giving the location of the roads, awards of damages to owners of property, and arrangement made with landowners; and petitions of town residents requesting road changes.

Clifton, Pierce County, Wisconsin. Clerk. Conditional sales and chattel mortgage records, 1858-1932.

  • US ARC Pierce Series 77
  • collection
  • 1858-1932

One volume of conditional sales records, primarily in 1930-1931, with a few entries for 1927 and 1929. The records state the name and address of buyer, name and address of seller, date of contract, description of goods, price named in contract, and date filed. Three volumes of chattel mortgage records include the name and address of mortgagor and mortgagee, date the mortgage was signed, description of property, amount of mortgage, date when mortgage was filed, and the due date.

Abbie S. Leavitt. Papers, 1859-1866.

  • US ARC River Falls SC 57
  • collection
  • 1859-1866

Teacher contracts, 1859-1863, between Abbie S. Leavitt and various school districts in the Town of Clifton, Pierce County, Wisconsin; teacher's certificates for the same period; the marriage certificate of Miss Leavitt and George W. Cairns, 1866; and ephemera.