Title: Elizabeth T. Baird Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1795, 1827-1899

Creator:

• Baird, Elizabeth T. (Elizabeth Thérèse), 1810-1890

Unique Identifier: Green Bay Mss 206

Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (1 archives box and 3 oversize folders)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center and the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives and Museum Collections; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Papers of Elizabeth Thérèse Fisher Baird including correspondence, land records, and newspaper articles written by Baird. The correspondence contains letters from Baird to the Waring family discussing life in and around Green Bay from 1869-1876 including a letter written after the Peshtigo Fire. The newspaper articles were from a series entitled "O-De-Jit-Wa-Win-Wing ---- Contes du Tempes Passe" published in the Green Bay State Gazette, recounting her life on Mackinac Island, Michigan and in early territorial Wisconsin. The legal records include a 1795 pension record, an indenture certificate and other legal land documents. Also includes letters in German from C.A.L. Tanks while in Fort Howard to his sister Mrs. Otto Tanks from 1875 to 1888.

Language: English and German.

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-gb0206

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For biographical information on Elizabeth T. Baird see: Wisconsin Women Making History.

Acquisition Information

Presented by the Brown County Historical society in 1982, and by Kris Olson, Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1995. Accession Number: M82-140, M95-171

Henry and Elizabeth Baird Papers (Wis Mss V).

Great Fire, Peshtigo, Wis., 1871 -- Correspondence.Green Bay (Wis.) -- History.Mackinac Island (Mich.) -- History.Waring family.Correspondence.Reminiscences.Legal documents.Manuscript collection.

Green Bay Mss 206	Series: Correspondence
	Waring family
Box   1   Folder   1	Name index, 1994 Scope and Content Note: Index created by Kris Olson, September 19, 1994.
Box   1   Folder   2-5	Transcriptions, 1981 Scope and Content Note: Transcribed in 1981 by unknown transcriber.
Box   1   Folder   6-9	Original manuscript letters, 1869-1876
Box   1   Folder   10-11	C.L.A.(?) Tanks, Fort Howard, Wisconsin, letters to sister, Mrs. Otto Tanks, 1875-1888 Language: In German.
Box   1   Folder   12	Miscellaneous letters, 1856, 1882 Scope and Content Note: Includes form letter concerning Pioneers of Wisconsin.
	Series: Legal documents	⇧
package   1	Pension certificate, 1795 September 30 Language: In German Physical Description: On parchment with intact seal.  Access Restrictions: Restricted: Needs conservation treatment. See Archives Reference Staff for access.
Oversize folder   1	J.S. Fisk property, Fort Howard 1850-1886
Oversize folder   2	Henry J. Rudy property, 1864-1871
Oversize folder   3	Marriage certificate, 1871 April 14 Language: German
Oversize folder   3	L.W. and Lois Gillespie property: quit claim deed, copy, 1948 January 10
Box   1   Folder   13	Bill to the Senate concerning estate of Eleazer Williams, 1876 March 21
	Series: Speeches	⇧
Box   1   Folder   14	"An Address Delivered at a Public Installation of the Officers of Menominie Lodger : at Green Bay, Michigan ..." / by Brother H.L. Baird, W.M." : typescript copy, 1827 December 27 Scope and Content Note: Concerns the history of the courts in the Green Bay, Wisconsin Area.
Box   1   Folder   15	"Address by Mr. W.L. Evans to the Members of the Wisconsin Bar," circa 1899
	Series: Articles	⇧
Box   1   Folder   16-17	"O-De-Jit-Wa-Win-Wing, or, Contes du Tempes Passe": scrapbook of clippings, 1886 December 4-1887 November 19 Scope and Content Note: Series of articles written by Elizabeth Baird in the Green Bay State Gazette.