McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Legal and Patent Records, 1830-1896

Container Title
M95-279
Part 2 (M95-279): Additions, circa 1848-1906
Physical Description: 12.8 cubic feet (10 records center cartons, 6 archives boxes, and 2 half-archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, circa 1948-1906, consisting of files about pensions, local churches and companies, breweries, railroads, estates, property and land matters, and various other subjects. Also included is biographical information about Decker and his family, correspondence, Civil War records, and probate records.
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Kewaunee County census, 1865
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Declarations of intention (292)
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Naturalization papers (291)
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Mrs. Laux Powell - pension (703)
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Martha A. Roberts - pension (446)
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Eliza J. Brenninger - pension (452)
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Mrs. Janet Dalziel - pension (644)
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Grist Mill (711)
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Estate of Amanda Eccles and family (309)
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Petition for removal of E.M. Thorpe (Deputy U.S. Marshal) (479)
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National Editorial Convention, 1889-1906
Note: 10 folders
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Union Church (Kewaunee) (283)
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Congregational Church (Kewaunee)
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Kewaunee Enterprise (312)
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E.A. Cannon Toy Company (200)
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Appleton Chair and Bedstead factory (6771/2)
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Casco Furniture factory (68)
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Green Bay Silver Mining Company
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Dade County Mining and Smelting Company, Greenfield, Missouri (140)
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Casco Mining and Brewing Company (391)
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Wenger and Lutz Brewery (Casco) (410)
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Ahnapee Brewery (752)
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Schmiling Brewery (752)
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Wisconsin Midland Railroad (386)
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Green Bay and Lake Pepin Railroad matters (386)
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Union Pacific Railroad
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Wisconsin Peninsula Railroad Company
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Railroads
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“Home” Insurance Company
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Little Cedar/Deer Creek Lands (Menominee Company, Michigan) (544)
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Manistique Lands (387)
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Eaton lands (Brown County) (732)
Note: 2 folders
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Oconto County lands (732)
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City of Sturgeon Bay land (813)
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State Bank of Kewaunee (816)
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Banking and Exchange Office (Kewaunee County) (816)
Note: 2 folders
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Bank of Ahnapee (816)
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Banks (816)
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Newspaper clippings (82)
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Estate of Jean Bonjean (182)
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Foot Bridge, 1866 (579)
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Coryville Bridge (540)
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Clark Bridge (575)
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C.B. Faye and Company (81)
Note: 3 folders
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C.B. Faye and Company, miscellaneous (81)
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Newspaper notices
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Ahnapee store
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Taxes, miscellaneous
Note: 2 folders
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Taxes
Note: 3 folders
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Income tax returns (714)
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Government licenses (714)
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Wyta Stransky and wife, divorce case (552)
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Stransky matters (752)
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Insurance policies (419)
Note: 4 folders
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Miscellaneous insurance policies (702)
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Bills receivable (530)
Note: 2 folders
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Chapple Publishing Company (311)
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Correspondence, J.M. Chapple (311)
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Bank of Green Bay (816)
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First National Bank (816)
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Rufus B. Kellogg and Kellogg National Bank (810, 104)
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Bank of Two Rivers (816)
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Bank of Commerce (816)
Note: 2 folders
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Bank of Luxemburg (816)
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Bank of Sturgeon Bay (816)
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Bank of Sturgeon Bay Statements (816)
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Bank of Algoma (816)
Note: 2 folders
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Tax receipts and tax matters (817), 1851-1906
Note: 10 folders
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Glenmore, Brown County (136)
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Green Bay land (732)
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City of Kewaunee land deeds
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Village of Kewaunee land deeds
Note: 3 folders
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E. Decker and Company (420)
Note: 2 folders
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Tax deeds from Door County (820)
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Door County land (316) (800)
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Geo. Daner, probate (643)
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Wenzel Hollup (Hollub), probate (143)
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Political (66)
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Political letters, 1852-1884 (66)
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Probate cases and estates (62)
Note: 2 folders
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Ahnapee Piers (5)
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Ahnapee record, receipts
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Ahnapee record
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Advocate advertising, subscriptions (815)
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Green Bay financial statement (815)
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Green Bay Advocate (815)
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Colby Mills (682)
Note: 2 folders
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G.A. Lawton (732)
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Old marriage licenses
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Biographical
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Biographical, Decker children
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Biographical, medical prescriptions
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Biographical, Mrs. Decker
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Battleship Wisconsin
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Post offices
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Kewaunee County elections and oaths of office (395)
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Kewaunee County Board (395)
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Miscellaneous correspondence regarding newspapers
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Miscellaneous correspondence regarding land
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Senator DeWayne Stebbins (154)
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School District 3, Carlton
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School Districts Pierce and Casco (266, 443)
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Casco School (443, 679)
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Miscellaneous correspondence
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Senator Philetus Sawyer (551)
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Senator Philetus Sawyer and son (551)
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Emigrants passports and travel papers
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Civil War, miscellaneous
Note: 2 folders
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Civil War, “deserters”
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Civil War, pensions
Note: 2 folders
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Civil War, bounty payments for substitutes
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Civil War, draft notices
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Civil War, exemptions
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Civil War, correspondence, Decker as Deputy Provost Marshal
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Civil War, quotas - certificates of mustering-in
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Civil War, certificates of enlistment
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Civil War, legal forms etc. (Union)
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Tax matters and sale of land for others (817), 1863-1866
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Tax certificates and deeds (600-800)
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Swamp and school lands (316)
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Abstracts of title (316)
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Suit on old land matters, Alexander Hooe and others (316)
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Stransky deeds (316)
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Furlong and Curtin, real estate (316)
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Estate of Henry Baschtars (316)
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Real estate miscellaneous matters lots (316)
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Deeds and mortgages given (316)
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Land owned by other parties, 1848-1868 (316)
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Colby property, Loyal and Clark (682)
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Descriptions of lands Acker Fellows (81)
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Lists of State lands, 1859-1861 (316)
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Statements, lists (136)
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Statements, lists, memorandums, settlements (136)
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List of McNally lands (370)
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Land and taxes, Wells Mill, “Shaws Creek”
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B.B. Sensiba, wants copy of notice of mother's marriage (306)
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J.Y. Scammom, Chicago lot (732)
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Lumber for bank building at Two Rivers
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Menasha papers (376)
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Sheboygan and Waldo Railway (386)
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Estate of C.A. Grignon
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W.H. Norris (444)
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Town of Franklin, town orders received
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Fox River lands (662)
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List of Fox River Company lands (646)
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Fox River lands, taxes of 1866 (656)
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Fox River lands, Mathias Kucera (659)
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Fox River lands, letters (661)
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Leiney, lease to Ebel (567)
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Charles Price, mortgage (568)
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Decker land
Note: 2 envelopes
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Tax receipt 1893, Antigo and counties
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S.C. Packer, wants quit claim deed executed
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State land matters, 1867-1870 (268, 676)
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Pier property, Hitchcock and Masheck (393)