Western Kenosha County Family History & Genealogy

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Western Kenosha County Family History & Genealogy
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  • 303 Bushing Clips may be duplicate
    The copies of news clips from various sources including the Burgess Hartnell scrapbook have been copied here as well as in their original location just to be sure that information is not lost.
  • 280 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).
  • 132 Funeral Books Scrapbooks Stockwell Castle Newsclips
    1. Material from Stockwell family regarding the Clara A Burgess Hartwell and the Verne Parsons Stockwell Funeral Books containing signatures of the visitors. Genealogists will appreciate this for their family members signatures. 2. Scrapbook of Mrs Nathan Burgess aka Elizabeth Castle which was created by using the pages of a bound book issued in 1861 called "Secretary of State Commercial relations of the United States with Foreign Nations". The book was in poor condition. Researchers should understand that OCR- Optical Character Recognition- may retrieve some of the support pages of the book as well as the pasted material on those pages. This type of result could prove to be a small problem but the pasted material is so valuable, that it offsets the possible false results. 3. Several issues of a letter written by Elizabeth W Bingham to Elizabeth A Castle in 184 7 upon Castle's leavetaking form New Milford February 184 7 to Wisconsin. It is very possible that they never saw each other again after this letter was written 4. Pages 97-191 Miscellaneous pages of newsclips, documents pertaining to lightning rods, Babcock House 1947, Letter of John Schmidt regarding his work ice harvesting on Hooker Lake in early 1900s, Badger 1946 excerpts, papers regarding Hartnell, Cook, Champlin, Fleming, Castle, Kerwin, Minnis, Munson, malted milk, Woodworth, Roberts, Vincent, Frank, Higgins (Geraldine Mae Higgins daughter of George and Florence Higgins of the Turkey farm 03-4-1922 to 12-4-1936.
  • 110 Mini Genealogies by Students
    Included are Wilmot student prepared genealogies. Quality is not always acceptable because the originals were often in pencil. They are duplicated here because some of the elders are of Salem Township earlier settlers. *The originals are no longer available having been returned to the authors.
  • 109 Mini Genealogies by Students
    Included are Wilmot student prepared genealogies. Quality is not always acceptable because the originals were often in pencil. They are duplicated here because some of the elders are of Salem Township earlier settlers. *The originals are no longer available having been returned to the authors.
  • 108 Mini Genealogies by students
    Included are Wilmot student prepared genealogies. Quality is not always acceptable because the originals were often in pencil. They are duplicated here because some of the elders are of Salem Township earlier settlers. *The originals are no longer available having been returned to the authors.
  • 106 Mini Genealogies by students
    Included are Wilmot student prepared genealogies. Quality is not always acceptable because the originals were often in pencil. They are duplicated here because some of the elders are of Salem Township earlier settlers. The originals are no longer available From the WKCHS Western Kenosha County Historical Society Collection.
  • 080 Walker Family Tree and Diary 1836
    The Walker Family tree in short form with some images and the transcription of a Diary Written by Aaron Walker beginning in 1836 about his journey from the State of Maine thru the Great Lakes to Wisconsin (Kenosha) Territory and westward.
  • 671 Schenning, Delores Family Materials 44
    Slades Corners Images; Mini Family Record of the Carl Schenning Strasburg family, Newman, Krahn, Nichols 1942 Teacher Contract of Florence Schenning, signed Baysinger, Lasco, Axtell; 1944 Teacher Contract of Florence Schenning signed Schwanz, Getka; 1945 Teacher Contract of Florence Schenning signed Rasch, Getka. 1946 Teacher Contract of Florence Schenning signed by Rasch, Getka, Kerkman; 1947 Teacher Contract of Florence Schenning signed by Rasch, Getka, Kerkman; THE "4Man photo with fish" Bill Steffan, Jules Steffan, August Newman, Herman Tank, 44 pike, 4 pickeral caught in 2.5 hours on Powers Lake on Jan 31,1914. 1944-4 7 era Slades Corners Public School with Mrs Florence Schenning Slades Corners Girls Team 1936: Front Row: Mary Chrast, Beatrice Barbian, Myrtle Jahns, Erma Schulz, Adela Frahus/Krahn, Back Row: Fred Getka, Delores Neuman, Marion Getka, unk, Aileen Jahns, Dick Rice. Transportation booklet for school. THE DELINEATOR NEWSPAPER from November 1886. The Chicago Daily Tribune April 23, 1849. A Gander Mountain Slip when in Wilmot. THE "3Man photo with fish" featuring Jewel Steffen (Jules), Henry Raddatz and Frank Schmidt- This Photo is at the WKCHS.
  • 140 Patrick Family Scrapbook Clips
    The Patrick Family farm place was at the north side of the JF and Highway C intersection in Trevor. The east lawn of their farm home stretched to the railroad tracks. The subdivision of most of the residential area of Trevor along the tracks was of part of the Patrick farm.
  • 9 - Verna Wicks Hartnell Journal 1948 thru 04-14-1951
    A handwritten journal relating everyday happenings in Salem Township. From the Hartnell -Wheeler Family Collection.
  • 013 - Snippets of Salem - Stoxen Poetry
    The complete unabridged book of poems by Edgar Allen Henry Wadsworth "Ray" Stoxen, Volume One and Two about the area of Salem Township.