Papers of the family of Edgar Goff, who left Massachusetts and purchased land in the Township of Pleasant Valley in Eau Claire County in 1857. Edgar was a farmer until his death in 1894. Upon his death, Edgar’s son, Arthur W. Goff, inherited his property. Included are financial and land records, financial journals, grocery lists, genealogy, a brief history of the Goff family, a hand-drawn map of the farm, and correspondence.

Records of a Wisconsin grocery store and its predecessor firms, consisting mainly of financial records including invoices of wholesale purchases and daily customer orders. Also included is a small amount of business and personal correspondence, 1888-1920, in Danish and English; wholesaler's price lists and advertisements, 1879-1920; and “poor orders” listing the grocery orders filled for the city's poor, 1897-1909.