Albums (Books)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander A. Meggett Papers, 1839-1947
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss Q
Summary
Papers of Meggett, Eau Claire, Wisconsin's first lawyer, including correspondence, articles and speeches, biographical data, clippings, and mercantile business account books kept by him and his father, Alexander Meggett, in Chickopee Falls, Mass., in 1839. Correspondence include family letters and exchanges with Wisconsin political figures Jeremiah Rusk and Elisha Keyes. Also included is a biography of Henry Cousins of Eau Claire, and a pamphlet concerning an 1870 railroad celebration at Eau...
Dates:
1839-1947
Florence M. Larkin Papers, circa 1883-1974
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss CL
Summary
Extensive correspondence and personal papers of Florence Larkin of Eau Claire, Wis., together with smaller quantities of correspondence and papers of her husband and relatives in the Sullivan and Robertson families. The papers document Larkin's student years at Vassar College, teaching school in Wisconsin, New Jersey, and Michigan, work for the YMCA Women's Service in Europe during World War I, marriage to Edwin Larkin in her late forties, and active membership in the Eau Claire civic and...
Dates:
circa 1883-1974