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Wisconsin Colonization Company

 Organization

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Wisconsin Colonization Company Records, 1916-1938

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss K
Summary Papers collected by Benjamin Faast, president of the Wisconsin Colonization Company, relating to the organization's sale of “ready-made” farms in southern Sawyer County and the development of the village of Ojibwa. Included are letters to stockholders and settlers; a small amount of correspondence received by Faast; historical data on the upper Chippewa River area, the local Indian tribes, fur trade, and lumber industry; biographical data on settlers; a general ledger, 1923-1925; and two...
Dates: 1916-1938