Summary Information

Title: Davenport Family Farming and Business Records
Inclusive Dates: 1877-1945 (bulk 1890-1944)

Creator:

• Davenport family

Call Number: La Crosse Mss DH

Quantity: 1.8 cubic feet (5 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the Special Collections & Area Research Center, Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-La Crosse Murphy Library / La Crosse Area Research Ctr. (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Davenport family papers, bulk 1890-1944, consisting of Clarence and his wife, Sarah Emeline, and their son, Elijah's diaries and ledgers documenting their personal lives and the family's dairy farm business in Tunnel City, Wisconsin. Also included are Clarence and Elijah's ledgers and business records documenting their work repairing bridges and culverts near Eau Claire for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company during the late 1800s.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-lx00dh

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