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Genealogies

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Barland Family Papers, 1825-2008

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AG-Eau Claire Micro 35-Eau Claire Micro 19
Summary Personal and business papers of three generations of the Barlands, a family with strong ties to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, together with papers of several related families, the Newlands, the Reads, the Schlegelmilchs, and the Wilsons. Included are personal letters, diaries, photographs, financial records, and genealogical materials. The papers document the life of Thomas Barland, a minister and inventor who emigrated from Scotland to Illinois and then to Eau Claire (1853). Barland's...
Dates: 1825-2008

Goff Family Papers, 1871-1930

 Collection
Identifier: University Historical Collection 307
Summary

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.

Dates: Goff Family Papers, 1871-1930

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

Wood Family Papers, 1865-1928, 1979, 1992

 Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss BQ
Summary Financial records, correspondence, family photographs, and diaries kept by David Wood, and by his sons, James Lincoln Wood and Ralph Winthrop Wood, residents of Trempealeau County, Wis., near Whitehall. The diaries, which span 62 years, are a daily record of farm chores, family events, accounts, weather, and community life in western Wisconsin during the settlement period. Ralph and James began keeping their diaries during childhood, with Ralph continuing his into adulthood. Also included...
Dates: 1865-1928; 1979; 1992