Items

• 430 Fennema Material Addendum

  Addendum to other Fennema material in the collection. An interview exists on video tape from 07 04 2007. Lived on the farm now known as Echo Lane. Vicker or McVicker was the salesman at the Salem Ford which is now Salem Auto Service. This document also included a research paper by Andrew Fennema. In this collective was a sheet with these notes: Rachel was head nurse of the contagious ward of Kenosha Hospital, a public health nurse of the City of Kenosha and nurse of Racine County institutions. She was a very giving woman and always helped ill people especially in the trailer parks in Florida where they lived. When he passed away, the park flew its flag at half mast" Not known who is Rachel is. Fennema is related to Cook, Hartnell, Schaetten, Hilbert.
• 389 Oetting Story 1987 Bink Narratives Charts Photos

  Overview of the family, ice harvesting, ice manufacturing business in Wisconsin and in Illinois and Includes also Freudenberg, Bushing, Camp Lake, Silver Lake by George "Bink" Oetting (Patricia); William Oetting; Henry Oettting; Ferdinand Oetting; August Oetting; Frederick Oetting; Charles Oetting who lived in Trevor and at Marchuk property. The location of their Camp Lake Ice House/boarding house Thresher Sub; Herman Oetting; Diedrich Oetting.
• 084 Hartnell , Effie Cook Scrapbook

  Effie Cook Hartnell clipped newspaper articles and pasted them on an 1899 yearbook of the US Department of Agriculture. It included not only obituaries, but things that must have interested her. From the Richard Hartnell Family Collection. Here are some of the names and related pages. This is only a sampling. The researcher must physically read (or OCR Search) to find all entries. Please notice that there are pages where the print of the book is clearly displayed and may make it hard for the casual reader. Jacob Montgomery; Burgess; Castle; Curtiss; Derler; Dorsey; Hahn; Hartnell; Ice harvesting; KKK; Maguire; Patrick; Richards Schultz; Rowbottom; Runyard; Huntoon; Selby; Voltz; Richards; Winchell.
• 286 Bushing Brown Clips Obits

  The booklets in this series represent the news clips from the Arthur Brown family correspondence and papers and are now in the Fed Brown collection (FWB). The booklets are of mostly obituaries but there are some for places as well as marriages and interest stories on those of the local area and the family. The pages are in rough alphabetic order by first letter of the primary surname name or topic. There are articles herein regarding the Chicago Bears and the McCaskeys. Alii of these are under "H with the Halas information.
• 102 Breunning, Wilhelm and Clara Genealogy 3 of 4

  A personal family genealogy of the Bruenning Family which lived at the eastern curve of CTY F east of Camp Lake Road. Mr Bruenning was a superintendent for the Knickerbocker Ice Company and related companies operating on Silver Lake. The four ( 4) booklets cover images, dated materials, certificates, church related materials, correspondence, newsclips and naturalization related materials. From the Dolores Griffin Family Collection.
• 101 Breunning, Wilhelm and Clara Genealogy 2 of 4

  A personal family genealogy of the Bruenning Family which lived at the eastern curve of CTY F east of Camp Lake Road. Mr Bruenning was a superintendent for the Knickerbocker Ice Company and related companies operating on Silver Lake. The four ( 4) booklets cover images, dated materials, certificates, church related materials, correspondence, newsclips and naturalization related materials. From the Dolores Griffin Family Collection.
• 100 Breunning, Wilhelm and Clara Genealogy 1 of 4

  A personal family genealogy of the Bruenning Family which lived at the eastern curve of CTY F east of Camp Lake Road. Mr Bruenning was a superintendent for the Knickerbocker Ice Company and related companies operating on Silver Lake. The four ( 4) booklets cover images, dated materials, certificates, church related materials, correspondence, newsclips and naturalization related materials. From the Dolores Griffin Family Collection.
• 171 Brass Ball Families, Cull, Paddock, Castle, Stockwell and Hartnell

  Paddock Family History Narrative; Letters toW V Cull from Daughter while on her trip aboard the SUMS ST Paul to Europe in 1904; Excerpts of the Stock well Family History by Irene Dixon Stock well; 1626 to 1962 who settled along Hwy 50 and County K and had an extensive, and still present, family in Salem; Cull Hall on the North Side of K west of HWY 75 where the above letters were in receivership! Miscellaneous Brass Ball and Paddock Lake area - Norbert Adams, Fischbach, Fishbach, Hagen, Huntoon, Schroeder, Smith Campbell, Terry, Hartnell, Groff, Miller, Young, Cook, Wilson, Brass Ball School 1938; Christ Lutheran Church, Salem Band with Charles H Curtiss Men's Clothiers Kenosha with Krahn, Cook, Schultz, Wright, Barthel, Jarnigo, Beimer, Krueger, Dean, Badtke, Smith and one unknown man. Letter to Elizabeth Castle Burgess from her friend Elizabeth Bingham of New Milford Feb 1847 as Castle left for Jacksonville (Bristol) and Salem.
• 844 Salem Deaths Wills Brown Bushing Cull McWhinney

  There are death certificates and wills herein. Some of the other names contained are: Benham; Dorgan; Bridgewater NY; Frost; Brown; Garland; Buchanan; Guthrie; Bushing; Hatch; Calkins; Menefee; Castle; Mott; Muller; Cavangh; Onieda County NY; Culver; Orvis; Dewolf; Paris County; Parker; Pilman; Rhodes; Sheen; Smith; Swan; VanWeck; Wattles; Weiss.
• 387 Swartz, Davenport Huntoon Salem Company

  Notes and charts on Swartz; Map 1873 of the west% of Brighton Township, not Salem; Narratives and family group sheets pertaining to the subject families and the information pertaining to the "Salem Company" 200 leave for the gold fields on May 5 1850 with the names of the parties joining the group to the gold fields beginning on page 10 and the copies of the letters from S A Davenport from the fields to his wife. Davenport died in the west.
• 130 Stockwell Scrapbook and Newsclips

  Material from Stockwell Family collection, Skiba, Cleveland Ohio and includes some Westosha Reports. Stockwell Family is concentrated on STH50 and on CTH K, Salem and Brighton.
• 012 Schultz, Remembrances Elaine and Herman William Schultz

  Copies of the two remembrance booklets for the individuals noted and the visitors to their viewing or wake. From the Schultz Family Collection.
• 385 Norris, Milland and Sarah Leach Roots

  Genealogy of Milland Norris and Sarah Leach Norris as compiled by Ruth L Weigel.
• 322 Sabin Store Ledger Wilmot 1867-1868

  The store is presumed to be at the location of the Kruckman Store which existed at the 2014 Fox River Spirits location. This book is handwritten in pencil by an unknown person but presumably a Sabin or employee. The book includes records of names, services, materials and random entries.
• 674 Paddock Story Journal Diary Recollections Davenport Cutler

  This is a casual narrative about the Paddock Family beginning with Dr Francis Paddock who is buried at Union Cemetery Paddock Lake/Salem, Kenosha County. His father is buried at Liberty Corners Cemetery.
• 393 Early Families of Western Kenosha Area Correspondence and Excerpts

  Contents: 0-7 Huntoon, Thornburg, Kerley, Alpine; 8 Diana Cull Taylor 9; General Carriages; 10-11 Garrison; 12-13 Feist; 14 Conroy; 15-17 Ela Noble Vaughn Winkler Axtell Burgess; 18-18 Sorenson by Johnson; 20 Johnson; 21-22 Ruth Thompson, Bishop Smith Barrows Libery Somers; 23-24 Hardtke Renn; 25-26 DAR material Stonebreaker; 27-28 Brighton Census 1860; 29 1860 Salem Census; 20-32 Fern Bella Frost; 33-35 Mise Charts, Hartnell Kerley Stevens Squire Sceard Andreakus Nau; 36-42 undated Hess Estate; 43-52 Winnetka 1981 narrative Windes; 53-60 Gulick Swartz Edwards Rhodes Brighton Paris Nobel Brook, Woodworth Kansasville Carey Cary Messier "Lucia Bishop Gray"; 61 Alby 62-101 Excerpts from the Beers 1906 Racine and Kenosha Biographical book which is available in download in full via PDF on Google Books for Brook Simmons Rowntree, Runkel Leet Bishop Smith Hegeman Philips Moeller Curtiss Hartnell Orvis Bloss Turnock Paddock Curtiss Halloway VanAlstine
• 006 Hartnell, Verna Wicks Journal 1943

  A handwritten journal relating everyday happenings in Salem Township. From the Hartnell -Wheeler Family Collection.
• 010 Hartnell, Arthur Letters Clips 1879-1934

  Handwritten letters to Verna Wicks relating everyday happenings in Salem Township. Also included are miscellaneous clippings and notes. From the Hartnell -Wheeler Family Collection
• 499C VanAlstine Vanalstyne Family History 1974

  This is a prepared and typewritten history of the family.
• 453 Cull Farm Statements 1924-1930

  W V Cull owned several farms in the area. One was operated by and called the Miner Hartnell Farm at the Sorenson Fields of the Central High School a the southeast corner of Hwy 50 and Hwy 83. He operated his own farm on the south side of K in Salem across from his residence on K in Town of Brighton. He married a Kerley and is related to the Harnell Family. He and his early family is from Dorset, England.
• 499B VanAlstine Vanalstyne Family History 1974

  This is a prepared and typewritten history of the family.
• 499A VanAlstine Vanalstyne Family History 1974

  This is a prepared and typewritten history of the family.
• 449 Valmar Guernsey Dispersal 1957 1959 Posch Mutz Hols

  Mrs Posch operated a horse farm on the north side of HWY Cat this site. In 2014 (and earlier) this farm is owned by the Holst family on Hwy C at the intersection of 268th Avenue. Posch purchased from the Mutz Brothers in 1952 who had begun the herd in the early 1920s and had begun SHIA testing in 1928.
• 431 Rohnow Ruhnow Colander WWII material

  This material is from the D Prestay collection and has been given to the Western Kenosha County Historical Society for their use.
• 396 Bushing, Helen Brown Collection

  0-2 A handwritten poem of Tennyson King Arthur's position on Life to his Queen Guinevere by Helen Brown Bushing. 3-18 "The Earthquake in the Abruzzi" from Scribner's Magazine- 1915. 19-28 The Look of Paris from Scribner's Magazine May 1915.