Guide to the Buffalo County (Wis.). Clerk: Reports and Papers, 1853-1911
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Title: Buffalo County (Wis.). Clerk: Reports and Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1853-1911
Creator: Buffalo County (Wis.). Clerk.
Call Number: Buffalo Series 5
Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)
Repository: Housed at the Area Research Center, William D. McIntyre Library, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division
Archival Locations: UW-Eau Claire McIntyre Library / Eau Claire Area Research Ctr.
Abstract: Records including county board proceedings and papers (1854-1911); county officers annual reports (1856-1905); Soldiers Relief Commission proceedings and relief applications (1887-1893); county board communications, petitions, and legal opinions (1853-1905); jail specifications and bids (1867-1868); road and bridge papers (1854-1908); town boundary papers (1857-1903); statements of taxes and indebtedness (1902-1904); militia lists from the towns within the county (1858-1859); jury lists (1850, 1874); notices of town officers elected (1874); bonds, oaths, and appointments (1855-1898); and annual reports of the Fountain City Mutual Farmers Fire Insurance Company.
Language: English
Search Terms/Subject Terms
- County government—Wisconsin—Buffalo County
- Buffalo County (Wis.)—Militia
- Buffalo County (Wis.)—Politics and government
- Buffalo County (Wis.). Board of Supervisor
- Buffalo County (Wis.). Soldiers Relief Commission
- Fountain City Mutual Farmers Fire Insurance Company
Arrangement of the Materials
By type of record and thereunder chronological.
Contents List
Box 1
Board proceedings and papers (including orders, claims and accounts), 1854-60, 1862, 1868, 1888, 1892, 1911. Scope and Content Note: Contains 1888 petitions against the building of a $20,000 courthouse.
County officers annual reports, 1856-57, 1859, 1866, 1874-75, 1879, 1881, 1883, 1887-92, 1894-95, 1905
Box 1
Clerk, 1866
Box 1
Treasurer, 1856-57, 1859
Box 1
Schools superintendent, 1874, 1879, 1881, 1883, 188792, 1894-95
Box 1
Sheriff, 1875
Box 1
Soldiers relief commission, 1891
Box 1
Training school board, 1905
Box 1
Soldiers Relief Commission proceedings and applications, 1887-1893
Box 1
Communications, legal opinions and petitions, 1853-54, 1856, 1861, 1863, 1867, 1894, 1905
Box 1
Jail specifications, bids and contract, 1867-68
Box 1
Road and bridge papers (petitions, appointments, applications, board proceedings, committee reports and accounts), 1854-56, 1868-69, 1874, 1888, 1890-95, 1900, 1902, 1905, 1908. Also ferryman's bonds 1874, 1888, 1908 and application for license, 1868.
Box 1
Town boundary papers (petitions and remonstrances), 1857, 1867, 1883, 1887, 1903.
Box 1
Estray notices, 1869, 1874, 1877-80, 1882-83, 1886, 1888-89, 1895, 1904
Box 1
Statements of taxes and indebtedness, 1902-1904.
Box 1
Militia Lists, 1858-1859.
Box 1
Jury Lists, 1857, 1874
Box 1
Notices of town officers elected, 1874
Box 1
Bonds, oaths and appointments, 1855, 1859-61, 1887, 1898
Box 1
Lists of licensed dentists in Wisconsin, 1887, 1896, 1901
Box 1
Insurance Company Reports, 1902-03, 1910