The records in this collection document the correspondence of the Crooke and Mabbett
families who were connected through the marriage of Maria E. Crooke and Hiram J.
Mabbett in 1883. Members of each family served in the American Civil War and World
War I. Several of the family members lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, though others
lived in McGregor, Iowa; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and Yorkshire,
England. This collection contains correspondence, documents and ephemera. Family
correspondence, documents and ephemera spans over 60 years of collected materials by
family members. The wartime correspondence and documents, contains correspondence
and materials collected by family members during the American Civil War (1861-1865)
and World War I (1914-1918).
