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State Historical Society of Wisconsin

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Marshall Cousins Papers, 1837-1947

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss I
Summary Papers of Marshall Cousins, a prominent local historian in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, consisting of correspondence, diaries, historical source material he collected, extensive subject files and notebooks containing information transcribed from published and other sources, and a small collection of papers of his father, Henry Cousins, an East Troy attorney, including letters written by John Fox Potter, a Wisconsin congressman. The Potter letters, 1857-1869, contain caustic characterizations of...
Dates: 1837-1947

William King Coffin Business and Family Papers, 1832-1929

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss F
Summary Papers of William King Coffin, a prominent Eau Claire (Wis.) banker and businessman, and papers of his grandfather, Nathaniel Coffin; his father, William Coffin; and his father's father-in-law, Samuel D. Lockwood, a justice on the Illinois Supreme Court. William King Coffin founded the Eau Claire National Bank and was its president from 1905 to 1925. The collection includes an 1869 diary and both business and personal correspondence of William King Coffin including exchanges with Milo...
Dates: 1832-1929

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American newspapers -- Wisconsin 1
Business Records 1
Eau Claire (Wis.) - Commerce 1
Eau Claire (Wis.) -- Biography 1
Eau Claire (Wis.)–History 1