Title: French Family Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1678-2000

Creator:

• French family

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss 154; PH 7142; Audio 2037A

Quantity: 20.9 cubic feet (44 archives boxes, 2 flat boxes, 3 records center cartons, and 1 oversize folder), 0.7 cubic feet of photographs, 63 glass plate negatives, and 3 audio recordings (discs); plus additions of 2607 photographs and 25 negatives (9 archives boxes and 8 flat boxes), and 9 drawings (1 oversize folder)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee 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-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee 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:

Personal and professional papers of various members of the French and Quarles families of Milwaukee, and the Thiers family of Kenosha, Wisconsin, successively collected by matriarch Louisa K. Thiers, daughter Emma Quarles, and granddaughter Ethel French. Correspondence, family memorabilia, and photographs comprise the collection's bulk and document the family life and activities of these socially prominent, well-educated Milwaukee and Kenosha families.

Language: English

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The three families of Thiers, Quarles, and French found their separate ways to Wisconsin from the eastern United States. The Thiers and Quarles families first settled in Kenosha and the Frenches in Milwaukee.

Family members were well educated, with the men receiving degrees from Harvard, M.I.T., the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin and entering professions in law, medicine, and business. The women were also well educated, with college attendance and degrees from Milwaukee Downer College, Vassar, Skidmore, and Brown University. Family members also traveled widely and European tours were not unusual. Many of the men were avid fishermen and had vacation ties to northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Both the Quarles and French families were regularly included in Milwaukee's Social Register and were financially secure, although this “social elite” status seems to have dissipated with the generation coming of age before and during World War II as the widening middle class encompassed them.

This collection contains personal and professional papers of various members of the French and Quarles families of Milwaukee; and the Thiers family of Kenosha, Wisconsin spanning five generations, successively collected by matriarch Louisa K. Thiers, daughter Emma Quarles, and granddaughter Ethel French. This line of women provides the “glue” that holds this collection together and, through the collective role of “family memory gatherer,” they accumulated papers of siblings, siblings' spouses, children, children's spouses, husband, and husband's family.

The collection includes personal and family correspondence; diaries; European trip and fishing journals; photographs; genealogical materials and notes on the Capron, Mann, Thiers, Quarles, and French families; scrapbooks; lecture notes and other educational materials and memorabilia; reminiscences; materials of various fraternal, civic, and professional organizations; and other papers. Correspondence, patent applications, patents, sketches and notes, and legal records of Louis Osborne French, patent attorney and inventor, are present. News clippings about and tributes to Louisa K. Thiers (1814-1926), credited as the oldest person to have lived in Wisconsin and the last true daughter of an American Revolutionary War soldier, also are included. The Samuel W. French files include information on the Freemasons. The Cyril Maurice Owen files include information on the Arion Musical Club in Milwaukee.

The papers of individual family members have been organized into series, arranged in alphabetical order by the last name of each individual. Type and quantity of each individual's papers vary considerably, but generally include received correspondence, newspaper clippings, materials relating to academic and social achievements at various schools and colleges, and personal sentimental items.

Received correspondence is primarily comprised of letters from family members and friends, although there is also some business correspondence. A great deal of the correspondence is between parent and child during periods of absence such as summer vacations, European tours, college years, and adult life. However, there is also quite a bit of correspondence with school chums and other childhood and college friends, and some love letters, particularly those of Louis Osborne French to his future wife, Ethel Quarles; between Cyril Owen and Eunice French Owen during both their courtship and marriage until Eunice's early death; and between Albert Emery Crispell and his future wife, Ruth Emma French, and other family members.

Diaries, European tour journals, fishing journals, scrapbooks, materials of various organizations, writings and presentations, personal financial journals, and genealogical materials are also prominent. Obituaries, sympathy letters, and eulogies regarding an individual's death are included.

To aid the researcher in understanding family relationships, family genealogical charts have been prepared and are included immediately after Additional Information on Selected Series. This information is not intended to be complete but does attempt to provide some orientation in using the collection. Bold lettering indicates those individuals who have papers included in the collection. The researcher is also referred to genealogical materials included within the papers of ETHEL QUARLES FRENCH, SAMUEL W. FRENCH, EMMA W. THIERS QUARLES, and LOUISA KIRWAN CAPRON THIERS. Copies of supplemental material compiled by Margaret Faludi (correspondence to Eunice French Owen and Cyril M. Owen, 1927-1957; the letters of Ruth Emma French Crispell, 1931-1969; and Cyril Owen's stories, circa 1980s) are also available in the case file. A more complete book version of Faludi's document will be available in both Madison and in Milwaukee.

Additional Information on Selected Series

LOUISA KIRWAN CAPRON THIERS was born in 1814, the last child of Dr. Seth and Eunice Mann Capron who were both in their fifties. Louisa attended the Emma Willard School in New York and later married David B. Thiers. In 1850, the family relocated to Kenosha, Wisconsin. The Thierses had four children: Herbert, Emma, Edward, and Louis. In 1920, at age 106, Thiers cast her first presidential vote. She received nationwide attention for her longevity and was regarded as the last true daughter of an American Revolutionary War soldier and as the oldest person to have lived in Wisconsin. Louisa Thiers died in 1926 at age 111.

Louisa's papers, 1808-1971, are comprised of received correspondence (1822-1926) from family and friends as well as from well-wishers for her continued health and life, news clippings written about Louisa and her long life, scrapbooks and a commonplace book of quotations compiled by Louisa, a Florida trip journal, genealogical information on the Capron, Mann, and Thiers families, tributes and eulogies relating to Louisa's death, and miscellaneous sentimental items.

EMMA W. THIERS QUARLES was the only daughter of Louisa K. Thiers. She married Charles B. Quarles in 1881, settling in Milwaukee. The couple had four children: Charles, Henry, Louis, and Ethel. Emma was quite involved in Milwaukee civic affairs and lived to age eighty-eight (death in 1942) at her home on North Farwell Avenue, Milwaukee.

Emma's papers, 1872-1942, include received correspondence (1881-1940); diaries (1918-1941); European tour journals (1911, 1913, 1921); genealogical materials and news clippings regarding the Quarles family; a scrapbook; scattered materials related to various civic organizations Emma was involved in, such as the Milwaukee Chapter of the D.A.R., College Women's Club, Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs, and the Woman's School Alliance; obituaries relating to Emma's death; and miscellaneous items.

ETHEL QUARLES FRENCH was born in 1889, the only daughter of Charles and Emma Quarles. Ethel attended Milwaukee Downer and Vassar colleges, graduating from Vassar in 1911. She married Louis Osborne French in 1914, and the couple settled in Milwaukee on North Farwell Avenue and had four daughters: Eunice, Ethel Barbara, Jean, and Ruth Emma. Ethel also served as the last in the line of female “family memory collectors,” and the papers were donated to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin not long after her death in 1978.

Ethel's papers, 1897-1972, include received correspondence (1897-1974); diaries and European trip journals; materials relating to her education at Milwaukee's East Division High School and Milwaukee-Downer and Vassar colleges including lecture notebooks for her classes at Downer and a scrapbook compiled at Vassar; genealogical materials and news clippings regarding the French, Quarles, Capron, and Owen families; news clippings about her immediate family, and scattered materials relating to the family camp in Republic, Michigan, financial record books, Daughters of the American Revolution, and miscellaneous sentimental items.

LOUIS OSBORNE FRENCH was born in Milwaukee in 1888, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1910 with a degree in mechanical engineering, and married Ethel Quarles in 1914. French received his law education at George Washington University and Kent College of Law. After passing his bar exam, French moved to Milwaukee where he established a law office where he specialized as a patent attorney. A “lone-gun” inventor operating without company backing, French primarily worked on internal combustion engines for automotive purposes, with particular focus on injection of liquid fuel under electrical control. He died in 1958 and was unable to see any of his many patented inventions manufactured.

The papers of Louis French are divided into two subseries, his Personal Files and his Professional Files. Personal Files, 1888-1959, are scattered, including some received correspondence, materials relating to his education, obituaries and letters regarding his death, and miscellaneous items.

The Professional Files of Louis Osborne French, 1913-1958, include some legal notes, case work, and record books relating to his work as a patent attorney, but primarily relate to his many inventions and patents. Although French's inventions included cow stanchions and fishing lures, his work with diesel internal combustion engines comprise the bulk of his creative work. His engine work includes patents and patent requests dealing with electromechanical control of fuel injection in diesel engines, rotary valve internal combustion engines, electrical motor controls, diesel engine scavenging systems, and two-cycle internal combustion engines. These materials include correspondence with a variety of companies and individuals both requesting specific parts and information and also promoting his own inventions for possible manufacture, sketches and notes, and a large number of patent case files involving both abandoned and allowed patents for the United States and several foreign countries.

Patent application case files and printed patents are organized into several categories, all of which are arranged chronologically according to criteria established by French. “Abandoned [U.S.],” “Canadian applications,” and “Foreign applications” are organized chronologically by filing date. “Foreign applications” include both approved and abandoned patent applications, and each case is separately foldered. “Patents allowed [U.S.]” are organized chronologically by date of approval. The printed patents are also divided into groups (“Canadian patents,” “Foreign patents,” and “U.S. patents”) and are organized chronologically by year of patent issuance thereunder. An index to French's patents is also found in the series.

SAMUEL W. FRENCH was the father of Louis Osborne. He arrived in Milwaukee soon after his graduation, in 1873, from Harvard Medical School. Samuel was an organizer of the Emergency Hospital, and was involved in various civic, professional, and fraternal organizations.

Samuel's papers, 1678-1918, primarily relate to the organizations he was involved with, including the Freemasons, Knights Templar, Harvard Club of Milwaukee, Alpha Mu Pi Omega Fraternity (a medical fraternity), State Medical Society of Wisconsin, and the Wa Wa Club (relating to French's hunting and fishing camp in Michigan). There is also some correspondence, including a series of letters, 1873-1874, which Samuel wrote to his parents from Europe; fishing journals; genealogical materials on the French family; French's writings and lectures; scattered materials relating to French's work with the Johnston Emergency Hospital, Wisconsin Training School for Nurses, and the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons; and miscellaneous materials.

A Kenosha, Wisconsin, native, CHARLES B. QUARLES graduated from the University of Michigan in 1868 and began his law career in 1875, originally establishing his practice in Kenosha. Marrying Emma Thiers in 1881, the family relocated to Milwaukee in 1888 where Charles helped establish a highly respected law firm, Quarles, Spence & Quarles, with brother J.V. Quarles and Thomas Spence.

Quarles was involved in several high profile legal cases, including his prosecution of the libel suit of Charles F. Pfister against the Milwaukee Free Press. A vocal member of the Republican Party, Quarles was a frequent speaker and was highly respected by the Wisconsin legal community.

The bulk of Charles's papers, 1864-1923, consist of his writings and presentations, and newspaper articles from newspapers throughout Wisconsin regarding his death. Quarles's writings and speeches cover a variety of topics, such as politics, labor unions, regulation of public service corporations, and individual duty and responsibility. Scattered correspondence, a sailing and fishing logbook, news clippings, a financial ledger, materials relating to his high school and college education, and miscellaneous items comprise the rest of his papers.

EUNICE FRENCH OWEN was the only female member of the family to have received a master's degree. An accomplished pianist and cellist, Eunice received her undergraduate degree from Vassar College, and in 1937 received her Master of Arts in Philosophy from Brown University. She married Cyril Owen in 1938 and daughter Jean was born in 1940. The family moved to Milwaukee, where Cyril tried unsuccessfully to find work as a music teacher or professor. Three more children, Thomas, Margaret ("Peg"), and Kathryn, followed. Both Eunice and Cyril became involved in various Milwaukee music organizations. Eunice died of cancer in 1949.

Eunice's papers, 1918-1950, consist of received correspondence, 1918-1949, from family, friends, and Cyril; letters, 1933-1937, written by Eunice to her family describing her college life; concert programs; materials regarding her education and concert participation at Riverside High School; the 1930 National High School Orchestra and Band Camp in Interlochen, Michigan; Vassar College; and Brown University; programs and records, 1941-1948, of the MacDowell Club (a musical club in Milwaukee); obituaries and sympathy letters concerning Eunice's death; and sentimental items, including crayoned pictures drawn by Eunice's children shortly before her death.

The CYRIL OWEN series, mostly 1933-1950, consists of papers related to his education and career as an organist and music/choir director for various churches and includes records of the Arion Musical Club in Milwaukee, with which he was involved. He also worked at Allis-Chalmers, from 1941 until his retirement. After Eunice's death, Cyril Owen married Minnie Rushton Patek, who had three children of her own: Karen, Marjorie, and David Patek. Cyril died in 2005.

The AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS series consists of audio recordings of songs by the trio of Marjorie Patek, Jean Owen, and Karen Patek; architectural drawings of a Milwaukee home owned by Charles Quarles; and photographs of French family members and gatherings, as well as some travel photos. The glass plate negatives were taken by Samuel W. French. A larger quantity of photographs and negatives has not been processed.

Thiers Family Sketch

• Seth Capron (1772-1835) married Eunice Mann (1767-1853)
  • Newton Mann Capron (1791-1858)
    • married Maria Brown
    • married Mary Snowdon
  • Bebe Mann Capron (1795-1796)
  • John Milton Capron (1797-1860)
    • married Emma Cynthia Northrop
    • married Eliza Brown
  • Seth Makepeace Capron (1799-1878)
    • married in 1826, Caroline H. Scofield
    • married in 1850, Helen Bard (Mrs. Henry Van Vliet)
  • Horace Capron (1804-1885)
    • married Louise V. Snowdon
    • married Margaret Baker
  • Louisa Kirwan Capron (1814-1926) married David Bodine Thiers (formerly Tears) (1820-1875)
    • Ella Snowden Tears (1848-1849)
    • Herbert Mann Thiers (1851-1923) married Mary Gilda (1855-1929)
    • Emma Walden Thiers (1854-1942) married 1881 Charles Quarles (See Quarles family sketch for children)
    • Edward Capron Thiers (1856-1945)
      • married in 1885, Mary Nicoll (1856-1909)
        • Helen Thiers married 1910, Roy Kimball
      • married in 1910, Jessie R. Nelson (1870-1928)
      • married in 1931, Maud M. Nelson (1881-1961) (first husband, Albin Rudolph Johnson) (1879-1926)
    • Louis Milton Thiers (1858-1950) married in 1888, Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" Lamb Stanbridge (1863-1930)
      • Natalie Elizabeth Thiers (adopted) (1891-1950) married Fred C. Hannahs Jr. (1888-1940)
        • Elizabeth Thiers Hannahs (1918-2008) married 1947, Donald A. Todd
        • Fred Charles Hannahs III (1920-2010)
          • married Casey Schmitz (1923-2008)
          • married 1932 (or 1933), Elizabeth Atherton Carroll
  Quarles Family Sketch
  • Joseph Very Quarles I (1799-1874) married in 1838 (or 1843?), Caroline Bullen (1809-1882)
    • Joseph Very Quarles II (1843-1911), United States Senator from Wisconsin, married in 1868, Caroline Adelaide Saunders (1848 or 1849?-1918)
      • William Charles Quarles (1870-1939) married in 1902 or 1903, Alice Louise Stockton (1877?-1971)
        • Caroline Stockton Quarles (1904-1989) married in 1932, Edwin Broughton Coddington (1905-1967)
        • Alice Bannard Quarles (1906-1985) married in 1927, John Thomas Pirie II (1900-1951)
      • Joseph Very Quarles III (1874-1946) married Ethel Julia Grant (1879-1973)
      • Edward Louis Quarles (1876-1941)
        • married in 1906, Anita Carroll MacTavish (1882-1914)
        • married in 1915, Katherine Frieda Onken (1888-1964)
    • Charles B. Quarles (1846-1908) married in 1881, Emma Walden Thiers (1854-1942) (See also Theirs Family Sketch)
      • Louis Quarles (1883-1972) married Inez Boardman French (1883 or 1884?-1968) (See French Family Sketch)
        • Louise Inez Quarles (1909-2001)
          • married Will Huggins
          • married David Albert Fox (1904-1956)
        • Ruth French Quarles (1913-1916)
        • Charles Samuel Quarles (1917-1976)
      • Charles Bullen Quarles (1884-1968) married in 1909, Elisabeth Douglas McKey (1884 or 1885?-1965)
        • Mary Douglas Quarles (1910-1999)
          • married in 1930, John Gerhard Kamps (1909-1965)
          • married in 1967, Michael Doyle O'Hara (1910-1978)
        • Elisabeth Ann Quarles (1914-1988)
          • married in 1938, divorced in 1963, John Everett Forester (1913-2008)
          • married second, Robert Single Hagge (1916-1983)
          • married in 1985, Norman Irving Bearse (1898-1993)
      • Henry Capron Quarles (1886-1924) married in 1910, Cosalette Elliott (married second to Herbert Lindsey) (1886-1979)
        • Lorna Lee Quarles (1912-2001) married in 1934, Philip Fox (1909-1990)
        • Henry Capron Quarles (1915-2006) married in 1940, Elizabeth Voigt
      • Ethel Quarles (1889-1978) married in 1914, Louis Osborne French (1888-1958) (See French Family Sketch for children)
    • Lydia Very Quarles (1847-1848)
  French Family Sketch
  • Samuel Lorenzo French (1813 or 1814-1879) married in 1839, Sophia B. Clark (1815-1896)
    • Samuel William French (1850-1917) married Minerva Inez "Minnie" Boardman (1850-1928)
      • William Blanchard French (1881-?)
      • Inez Boardman French (1883-1968) married in 1908, Louis Quarles (1883-1972) (See Quarles Sketch for children)
      • Louis Osborne French (1888-1958) married 1914, Ethel Quarles (1889-1978) (See Quarles Sketch)
        • Eunice French (1915-1949) married in 1938, Cyril Maurice Owen (1912-2005)
          • Jean Owen (1940-?) married in 1960, Roger Jesse Poff
          • Thomas C. Owen (1943-?) married in 1964, Sue Ann Mathews
          • Margaret Owen (1944?-?) married in 1964, John Robert Faludi
          • Kathryn Louise Owen (born before 1950-?) married in 1968, James Arthur Skoog
        • Ethel Barbara French (1916-1995) married in 1942, George McClellan Chase
          • Barbara Quarles Chase (1944-?)
        • Jean French (1918-1996) married Thomas D. Price
          • Thomas Louis Price
        • Ruth Emma "Emmy" French (1920-2008) married in 1941, Albert Emery Crispell Jr.
          • Stephen French Crispell (1943-?)
          • Carolyn Quarles Crispell (1946-1948)
          • Douglas Emery Crispell (1953-2021)
      • Samuel L. French (1892-1969) married in 1918, Mary Cecile Church

Acquisition Information

Presented by Emmy Crispell, St. Petersburg, Florida; Jean Price, Garden Grove, California; Barbara Chase, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; 1978; and anonymous, 1990. Additions presented by Margaret Faludi, Dane, Wisconsin, August 20, 2019, March 16, 2020, and March 30, 2022. Accession Number: M78-419, M90-301, M2019-085

Processing Information

Processed by Gayle Martinson, 1996. 2019-2022 additions processed by Julia Wong, 2022.

Milwaukee Mss 154	Series: Barbara Quarles Chase
Box   1 Folder   1	Miscellaneous, 1952-1972
	Series: Ethel Barbara French Chase	⇧
Box   1 Folder   2	Correspondence, 1930-1959
Box   44 Folder   1	Correspondence, 1930?-1985, undated
Box   1 Folder   3	Milwaukee-Downer College, 1934-1938
Box   1 Folder   4	Miscellaneous, 1935-1968, undated
Box   44 Folder   2-3	School projects, 1929, undated
	Series: Minnie Boardman French	⇧
Box   1 Folder   5	Correspondence, 1894, 1926
	Series: Ruth Emma French Crispell	⇧
	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   6-11	1923-1953, undated
Box   44 Folder   4	1930-1947, 1969
Box   44 Folder   5-7	College correspondence with family, 1939-1941
	Crispell, Albert Emery
Box   44 Folder   8-9	From, 1941 February 13-December 4
Box   44 Folder   10-11	From (and others), 1942 July 10-1945 December 2
Box   44 Folder   12	To, 1941 June 27-December 10
Box   2 Folder   1	Diary, 1937, 1939
	Education
Box   2 Folder   2	Maryland Avenue School, 1926-1933
Box   2 Folder   3	Riverside High School, 1933-1937
Box   2 Folder   4	English journals, 1933, undated
Box   2 Folder   5	Milwaukee-Downer College, 1937-1939
Box   2 Folder   6	Vassar College, 1939-1941
Box   2 Folder   7	Family history notes for History 260, circa 1940
Box   2 Folder   8	“Great Grandmother's Story” [Louisa K. Thiers], 1941
Box   44 Folder   13	Notes for English 250, 1940
	General
Box   2 Folder   9	Miscellaneous, 1931-1951
Box   2 Folder   10	Y.W.C.A. High School Girl Reserve, 1935-1936
	Series: Ethel Quarles French	⇧
	Correspondence
Box   2 Folder   11	1897-1908
Box   3 Folder   1-7	1909-1947
Box   44 Folder   14	1914-1959
Box   4 Folder   1-5	1948-1974, undated
Box   4 Folder   6	Friendship steamer letters, 1913 Note: European trip abroad.
	Diaries and journals
Box   4 Folder   7	Trip diary [Europe], 1906
Box   4 Folder   7	Diary, 1907-1910
Box   5 Folder   1	European tour journal, 1911 Note: See also photo album under Audiovisual Materials series.
Box   5 Folder   2	Diary, 1912-1915
	Education
Box   5 Folder   3	General, 1900-1903
	East Division High School
Box   6 Folder   1	Scrapbook, 1901-1907
Box   7 Folder   1	Memory book, 1903-1906
	Milwaukee-Downer College
Box   7 Folder   2	Freshman English compositions, 1906-1907
Box   7 Folder   3-4	Lecture notebooks, 1907-1909
Box   7 Folder   5-6	Lecture notebooks, 1908-1909
Box   7 Folder   7	Vassar College, 1906-1911, 1927-1961
Box   8 Folder   1	Scrapbook, 1909-1911
	General
Box   9 Folder   1	Camp in Republic, Michigan, 1929-1943
Box   9 Folder   2	Daughters of the American Revolution, 1911-1977
Box   9 Folder   3	Death [of Ethel], undated
Box   9 Folder   4	Financial account book, 1914-1919
Box   9 Folder   5	Financial journal, 1914-1919
Box   9 Folder   6	French family, 1918-1970, undated
Box   9 Folder   7	M.A. Overhiser, 1922-1942 Note: Piano teacher.
Box   9 Folder   8	Miscellaneous, 1889-1958
Box   9 Folder   9	National Society of the Children of the American Revolution Annual Convention, 1902
	News clippings
Box   9 Folder   10	[Generally about family], 1909-1969, undated
Box   44 Folder   15	[Generally about family], 1897-1946? Note: Includes clippings regarding Quarles, Thiers and French family members.
Box   9 Folder   11	Milwaukee-Downer College, 1949, 1963-1964
Box   9 Folder   12	Owen family, 1941-1968 Note: Daughter Eunice's children.
Box   9 Folder   13	Quarles family, 1901-1974
Box   10 Folder   1	Thiers and Capron families, 1929-1963
Box   10 Folder   2	Wedding gift book, 1914
	Series: Louis Osborne French	⇧
	Subseries: Personal Files
Box   10 Folder   3	Correspondence, 1910-1953
	Education
Box   10 Folder   4	General, 1902-1906, undated
Box   10 Folder   5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1906-1957
	General
Box   10 Folder   6	Death [of Louis], 1958-1959
Box   10 Folder   7	Miscellaneous, 1988-1958, undated
	Subseries: Professional Files	⇧
	Patent attorney case work
Box   10 Folder   8	Index cards of patent clients, 1919-1929
	Legal notes
Box   10 Folder   9	Common law pleading, 1913
Box   10 Folder   10	Patent law, circa 1913
Box   11 Folder   1	Property, circa 1913
Box   11 Folder   2	Miscellaneous, 1926, undated
Box   11 Folder   3	Patent appeal case [Line Material Co. vs. Brady Electric & Mfg. Co.], circa 1929
	Patent cases
Box   11 Folder   4	Assignment register, 1923-1932
Box   11 Folder   5	Associates book, 1935-1951
Box   11 Folder   6-8	Entry books, 1923-1953
Box   11 Folder   9	Ledger, 1923-1958
Box   11 Folder   10	Patent Law Association of Milwaukee, undated
	Inventions and patents
	Correspondence
Box   12 Folder   1	1911-1928
Box   12 Folder   2	1929-1943
Box   12 Folder   3	1944-1960, undated
Box   12 Folder   4	Northwest Engineering Company, 1924-1930
Box   12 Folder   5	Waukesha Motor Company, 1922-1935, undated
Box   12 Folder   6	Miscellaneous plates, 1935, 1952, undated
Box   12 Folder   7	Patent assignments, 1930-1939
Box   12 Folder   8	Patent searches, 1941-1942
	Patent applications
	Abandoned [U.S.], by filing date
Box   12 Folder   9-11	1920-1927
Box   13 Folder   1-7	1928-1948
Box   14 Folder   1-6	1949-1957
Box   15 Folder   1	Fishing lures, 1952-1955
	Patents allowed [U.S.], by date of approval
Box   15 Folder   2-6	1925-1928
Box   16 Folder   1-7	1929-1944
Box   17 Folder   1-6	1945-1953
Box   18 Folder   1-3	1955-1958
Box   18 Folder   4	Canadian applications, 1924-1958
	Foreign applications, by filing date
Box   18 Folder   5-6	Internal combustion engine [11 countries], 1924-1929
Box   18 Folder   7	Electro-magnetically operated control valve [Great Britain and Germany], 1927-1931
Box   18 Folder   8	Fuel injection system [Great Britain and Germany], 1928-1932
Box   19 Folder   1	Method and apparatus for feeding liquid fuel to internal combustion engines [5 countries], 1930-1931
Box   19 Folder   2	Fuel pumps [Great Britain and Germany], 1936-1939
Box   19 Folder   3	Spray nozzles [Great Britain], 1936-1942
Box   19 Folder   4	Fuel injection apparatus [Great Britain], 1943-1945
Box   19 Folder   5-7	Fuel injection apparatus [4 countries], 1946-1954
Box   19 Folder   8	Fuel injection apparatus [Great Britain and Germany], 1949-1958
Box   19 Folder   9	Fuel injector [Great Britain], 1950-1951
Box   19 Folder   10	Fuel injection apparatus [Sweden], 1951-1955
Box   20 Folder   1	Fuel injection apparatus [Great Britain], 1951-1956
Box   20 Folder   2	Duel fuel valve [Great Britain], 1952-1954
Box   20 Folder   3	Fuel injection apparatus [Great Britain], 1952-1955
Box   20 Folder   4	Fuel injection apparatus [Great Britain], 1952-1957
Box   20 Folder   5-6	Fuel injection apparatus [Germany and Denmark], 1952-1958
Box   20 Folder   7-8	Fuel injection apparatus [Germany and Denmark], 1952-1958
Box   20 Folder   9	Fuel pump [Great Britain and Germany], 1954-1956
Box   20 Folder   10	Fuel injection apparatus [Switzerland and Sweden], 1954-1958
Box   20 Folder   11	Fuel injection apparatus [Germany], 1956-1958
Box   21 Folder   1	Fuel injection apparatus [Great Britain], 1956-1958
Box   21 Folder   2	Apparatus for introducing a mixture of fuel air into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine [Germany], 1957
Box   21 Folder   3	Compression pressure operated fuel injection [Germany], 1958
Box   21 Folder   4	Fragmentary application files, 1919, circa 1940, undated
	Patents
Box   21 Folder   5	Index to patents of L.O. French, undated
Box   21 Folder   6	Canadian patents, 1925, 1958
Box   21 Folder   7-9	Foreign patents, by year issued, 1924-1957
	U.S. patents, by year issued
Box   21 Folder   10-12	1917-1929
Box   22 Folder   1-6	1930-1958
	Sketches and notes
Box   22 Folder   7	1914-1924
Box   43 Folder   1	Oversize, 1924, 1927
Box   23 Folder   1-6	1925-1958, undated
Box   23 Folder   7	Notes, 1916-1917, 1930
Box   24 Folder   1	Sketch notebook, 1918-1920
	Series: Samuel W. French	⇧
	Correspondence
Box   24 Folder   2-3	1880-1916, undated
Box   24 Folder   4	To parents, from Europe, 1873-1874
	Organizations
	Alpha Mu Pi Omega fraternity. University of Pennsylvania chapter
Box   24 Folder   5-6	1892-1908
Box   25 Folder   1	1909-1915
	Freemasons
Box   25 Folder   2	1893-circa 1909
Box   25 Folder   3	Programs, 1893-1914
Box   25 Folder   4-6	Wisconsin Consistory Valley of Milwaukee, 1887-1917
Box   25 Folder   7	Harvard Club of Milwaukee, 1910-1915
Box   25 Folder   8	Knights Templar, 1896-1908, undated
Box   25 Folder   9	Miscellaneous organizations, 1886-1916
	Scrapbooks
Box   26 Folder   1	[Largely Freemasons, Lodge No. 13, Milwaukee], 1889-1897
Box   27 Folder   1	1898-1915
Box   27 Folder   2	State Medical Society of Wisconsin, circa 1893
Box   27 Folder   3	Wa Wa Club, undated Note: Hunting and fishing camp in Michigan.
	General
Box   27 Folder   4	Death [of Samuel], 1916-1918
Box   27 Folder   5	Estate of Sophia B. French [mother], 1891-1905
Box   27 Folder   6	Finances, 1906-1911
	Fishing journal
Box   28 Folder   1	1911-1915, undated
Box   28 Folder   2	circa 1917
Box   28 Folder   3	French family, 1678-1917
Box   28 Folder   4	“Genealogy,” 1896, 1913-1915
Box   28 Folder   5	Johnston Emergency Hospital investigation, 1895
Box   28 Folder   6	Miscellaneous, 1880, undated
Box   28 Folder   7	Recipe book of Sophia French, undated
Box   28 Folder   8	Wisconsin Training School for Nurses, 1891-1902
Box   28 Folder   9	Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1902, 1908
Box   28 Folder   10	Writings and lectures, 1907, undated
	Series: Cyril Maurice Owen	⇧
	Correspondence
Box   28 Folder   11-12	1937-1950
Box   44 Folder   16-19	1937-1950, 1997-2000, undated
Box   44 Folder   20	From Albert Crispell, 1940 August 9-1941 May 28, 1948 Note: To Cyril and Eunice Owen.
	General
Box   44 Folder   21	Allis-Chalmers, 1941-1947
	Arion Musical Club [Milwaukee]
Box   29 Folder   1-4	1933-1949
Box   44 Folder   22	1941-1950 Note: Mostly programs.
Box   44 Folder   23	Baptismal record, birthday cards, 1912-1926 Note: Also includes a piece written by Cyril in 1999 regarding a childhood illness.
Box   48 Folder   14	Concert and event programs, 1949-1950
	Education
Box   44 Folder   24	Brown University, 1933-1944
Box   44 Folder   25	Harvard University, 1937-1944
Box   29 Folder   5	Job search, 1939, 1942
Box   44 Folder   26-29	Job search, 1939-1945, 1947
Box   29 Folder   6	Miscellaneous, 1939
Box   44 Folder   30	Music notebook, 1936-1943 Note: Notes on music performed at Smithfield, Plymouth, and Tabernacle churches. Earlier notes on ancient Greek and Roman literature.
Box   29 Folder   7	Original music, undated
Box   44 Folder   31	Owen children correspondence, 1947-1957
Box   44 Folder   32	Piano lessons, 1947-1948
Box   44 Folder   33-34	Plymouth Church, 1942-1950 Note: Milwaukee. Cyril Owen, music director, 1943 September-1950.
Box   45 Folder   1	Plymouth Church, 1942-1950 (continued)
Box   45 Folder   2	Smithfield Avenue Congregational Church, 1934-1938 Note: Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Cyril Owen, organist and choir director.
Box   45 Folder   3	SS Santa Paula, 1937 Note: Cyril Owen, ship pianist.
Box   45 Folder   4-6	Tabernacle Baptist Church, 1940-1943 Note: Milwaukee. Cyril Owen, choir director.
Box   45 Folder   7	Teaching license, transcripts, 1941, 1946
Box   45 Folder   8	Tilton School, 1940-1942
Box   45 Folder   9	UW-Extension, business correspondence class, 1942
Box   45 Folder   10	Yeomen of the Guard production, 1938-1939 Note: Cyril Owen, musical director.
	Series: Eunice French Owen	⇧
	Correspondence
Box   29 Folder   8-10	1918, 1926-1933
Box   45 Folder   11-12	1926-1936, undated
	From Bob Moe, 1935-1938 Note: "A friend in Bridgeport, Connecticut."
Box   45 Folder   14-24	1929-1938
Box   30 Folder   1-7	1933-1937
Box   31 Folder   1-5	1938-1949
	Eunice's college correspondence with family
Box   31 Folder   6-7	1933-1934
Box   32 Folder   1-5	1934-1937
Box   45 Folder   25-27	Greeting cards, 1920s-1950 Note: Christmas, Valentines, birthday, anniversary, baby announcements.
Box   45 Folder   28-32	Eunice French Owen and Cyril Maurice Owen, 1938 November 29-1940 May 31
Box   46 Folder   1-18	Eunice French Owen and Cyril Maurice Owen, 1940 June 2-1949 August 14
	Education
Box   46 Folder   19	Maryland Avenue School, papers, report cards, 1921-1928
Box   32 Folder   6	Riverside High School
	General, 1930-1932
Box   46 Folder   20	Papers, 1931-1932
Box   46 Folder   21	Report cards, 1928-1932
Box   46 Folder   22-23	School notes, 1930-1931 Note: Also from Barbara French.
Box   49	Yearbooks, 1928-1932
Box   46 Folder   24	National High School Orchestra and Band Camp, 1930-1932, 1941-1945
Box   46 Folder   25	Overture, The : yearbook, 1930, 1931
Box   46 Folder   26	Scherzo, 1930 July-August
Box   46 Folder   26	Voice of the Air, 1930
Box   47 Folder   1	Vassar College, 1932-1936
Box   32 Folder   7	Vassar College, 1932-1939
Box   47 Folder   2	Correspondence, 1932-1947
Box   47 Folder   3	Religion 130 notes, essays, 1934
Box   47 Folder   4	Diploma, A.B., 1936 June 8
Box   32 Folder   8	Brown University, 1936-1940
Oversize Folder   1	Diploma, A.M., 1937 June
Box   47 Folder   5	Graduate school, 1938
Box   47 Folder   6	Johns Hopkins graduate scholarship, 1936 September
	General
Box   47 Folder   7	Applications for employment, 1938
	Concert programs [music]
Box   32 Folder   9	1930-1942
Box   47 Folder   8	1932-1933 [Vassar]
Box   47 Folder   9	1931-1947
Box   33 Folder   1	1944-1949
Box   33 Folder   2-3	Death [of Eunice], 1949-1950
Box   47 Folder   10	Memorial service guest book, 1949 September 3
Box   47 Folder   11	Owen children artwork and correspondence, 1946-1949
Box   47 Folder   12	St. Mary's Hospital, 1949 February-July
Box   49 Folder   1	Diary, 1927, 1932-1936
Box   47 Folder   13	Ephemera, 1942, undated
Box   47 Folder   14	Household expenses, 1934-1944
	Jean Owen
Box   48 Folder   1	Correspondence, 1942-1959
Box   48 Folder   2	Report cards, 1944-1957
Box   33 Folder   4	Miscellaneous, 1928-1949
Box   33 Folder   5	MacDowell Club [Milwaukee], 1941-1948
Box   48 Folder   3	Yearbook, 1943-1944
Box   48 Folder   4	"My Journal and Miscellaneous," 1929-1931
Box   48 Folder   5	Personality analysis, inventory, 1932?, 1940
Box   48 Folder   6	Reading list, library inventory, 1937
Box   48 Folder   7	Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1925-1945
	Series: Jean French Price	⇧
Box   48 Folder   8	Correspondence, 1929-1949
Box   33 Folder   6	Correspondence, 1930-1953
Box   48 Folder   9-11	Jean's college correspondence with family, 1938-1940
	Education
Box   33 Folder   7	Riverside High School, 1932-1934
Box   33 Folder   8	Milwaukee Downer College, 1937-1938
Box   33 Folder   9-10	Skidmore College scrapbook, circa 1938-1940
Box   33 Folder   11	Miscellaneous, 1930-1945
Box   48 Folder   12	Household furnishings scrapbook, undated
	Series: Charles B. Quarles	⇧
Box   34 Folder   1	Correspondence, 1864-1911
	Education
Box   34 Folder   2	Kenosha High School, 1862, 1892-1923
Box   34 Folder   3	University of Michigan, 1867-1868
	General
Box   34 Folder   4-6	Death [of Charles], 1908-1909, 1923
Box   34 Folder   7	Ledger, 1890-1907
Box   34 Folder   8	“Log Book - Sloop Carrabell,” 1896-1901 Note: Sailing and fishing log book.
Box   34 Folder   9	Miscellaneous, 1888-1907
Box   34 Folder   10	News clippings, 1897-1907, undated
	Writings and presentations
Box   34 Folder   11	1861-1906
Box   35 Folder   1-3	1907, undated
	Series: Charles B. Quarles Jr.	⇧
Box   35 Folder   4	Miscellaneous, 1896-1968
	Series: Cosalette Elliott Quarles	⇧
Box   35 Folder   5	Correspondence, 1911, 1919
Box   35 Folder   6	Diary, 1907-1908
Box   35 Folder   7	Ledger, 1909-1911
Box   35 Folder   8	Miscellaneous, 1904-1912
	Series: Emma W. Thiers Quarles	⇧
	Correspondence
Box   35 Folder   9	1881-1909
Box   36 Folder   1-7	1910-1928
Box   48 Folder   13	1911-1940 Note: Includes a few news clippings.
Box   37 Folder   1	1930-1940, undated
	Diaries and journals
	European tour journals
Box   37 Folder   2	1911
Box   37 Folder   3	1913
Box   37 Folder   4	1921
Box   37 Folder   5-6	Diaries, 1918-1941
Box   38 Folder   1	Education, 1872-1903
	General
Box   38 Folder   2	Address book, undated
Box   38 Folder   3	Birthday books, 1911, undated
Box   38 Folder   4	Civic organizations, 1897-1929
Box   38 Folder   5	College Women's Club, 1922
Box   38 Folder   6	Death [of Emma], 1942
Box   38 Folder   7	Miscellaneous, 1885-1939
Box   38 Folder   8	Quarles family, 1848-1899, undated
Box   38 Folder   9	Scrapbook, 1898-1914
	Series: Henry C. Quarles	⇧
	Correspondence
Box   38 Folder   10	1904, 1911, 1913
Box   38 Folder   11	Round robin letters [of Second Ward Savings Bank during WWI], 1918
Box   38 Folder   12	Education, 1903-1909
	General
Box   38 Folder   13	Artwork, 1901
Box   38 Folder   14	Miscellaneous, 1916-1918, undated
	Series: Joseph V. Quarles	⇧
Box   38 Folder   15	Correspondence, 1903
	General
Box   38 Folder   16	Death [of Joseph], 1911
Box   38 Folder   17	Miscellaneous, 1878-1903
Box   39 Folder   1	Social Economics Club [Milwaukee], 1902-1921
	Series: Louis Quarles	⇧
Box   39 Folder   2	Correspondence, 1897-1921, 1947
Box   39 Folder   3	Education, 1901-1904, undated
	General
Box   39 Folder   4	Death [of Louis], 1972
Box   39 Folder   5	Miscellaneous, 1897-1971
	Series: Edward C. Thiers	⇧
Box   39 Folder   6	Miscellaneous, 1903-1931
	Series: Louis M. Thiers	⇧
	Correspondence
Box   39 Folder   7	1911-1923, 1940
Box   39 Folder   8-9	With family, from Europe, 1891 November-1892 August
Box   39 Folder   10	Journal, 1909
	General
Box   39 Folder   11	“Historical Sketch of the First Congregational Church of Kenosha,” by Thiers, 1912-1913, 1920
Box   39 Folder   12	“Indian Music Song,” 1932 Note: Original music by Thiers.
Box   39 Folder   13	Miscellaneous, 1895-1932
	Series: Louisa Kirwan Capron Thiers	⇧
	Correspondence
Box   39 Folder   14	1822-1897
Box   39 Folder   15-17	1902-1913
Box   40 Folder   1-11	1914-1920
Box   41 Folder   1-5	1921-1926
Box   41 Folder   6-8	Letters written to son [Louis?], 1917-1921
	General
	Capron family
Box   41 Folder   9	1808, 1831-1895
Box   41 Folder   10	1901-1959, undated
Box   42 Folder   1	Common-place book [quotations], 1830-1836
Box   42 Folder   2	Daughters of the American Revolution, 1911, 1920
Box   42 Folder   3	Death [of Louisa], 1926
Box   42 Folder   4	Florida trip journal, 1921
Box   42 Folder   5	Genealogy, 1918
Box   42 Folder   6	Mann family, 1877, 1910
Box   42 Folder   7	Miscellaneous, 1837-1926
Box   42 Folder   8-9	News clippings [about Louisa K. Thiers], 1903-1926, 1971
	Scrapbooks
Box   42 Folder   10	1828-1913
Box   42 Folder   11	1918-1920
Box   42 Folder   12	Thiers family, 1858-1909
	Series: Audiovisual Materials	⇧
	Audio recordings: Trio: Marjorie Patek, Jean Owen, Karen Patek
Audio   2037A/1 Side   [A]	1. Dona Nobis Pacem, 2. Children's Prayer, 3. A Poor and Lonely Stranger, 1951 Christmas Physical Description: Disc (8 inches; 78 rpm)
Audio   2037A/1 Side   [B]	1. Lift Thine Eyes, 2. Summer Is i-comin In
Audio   2037A/2 Side   [A]	1. Lift Thine Eyes, 2. Dona Nobis Pacem, 1951 Christmas Physical Description: Disc (8 inches; 78 rpm)
Audio   2037A/2 Side   [B]	1. Summer Is i-comin In, 2. Children's Prayer, 3. A Poor and Lonely Stranger
Audio   2037A/3 Side   [A and B]	"Ceremony of Carols" excerpts / Britten, 1954 December Physical Description: Disc (10 inches; 33 rpm)
PH 7142	Photographs Physical Description: 7 folders of prints, 8 negatives, 2 photograph albums, 1 daguerreotype, 63 glass negatives, and 2 printing plates  Scope and Content Note: Photographs of many members of the extended French family, including snapshots taken at Margaret ("Peg") Owen's wedding and at family Christmas gatherings at the home of Ethel Quarles French; Ethel Quarles' California trip photo album (1906), and grand tour album (1911); photos taken aboard the SS Santa Paula, where Cyril Owen worked as a ship pianist (1937); family snapshot albums of images taken during Eunice French Owen's illness and at the Louis Osborne French property in Republic, Michigan; and a wedding portrait album of Eunice French and Cyril Owen, November 26, 1938. Also includes a photo album with portraits of members of the Thiers, Capron, Marsh and other families, and a daguerreotype of David B. Thiers, the husband of Louisa Capron Thiers. The glass plate negatives (42 8x10-inch, 6 5x7-inch, and 15 4x5-inch) were taken by Samuel W. French; there is one corresponding print of his wife, Minnie Boardman French. The printing plates include portraits of Charles Quarles and of Louisa Kirwan Thiers on her 107th birthday.
M78-619	Photographs, 1678-1977 Physical Description: 2607 photographs and 25 negatives (9 archives boxes and 8 flat boxes)  Scope and Content Note: Comprised primarily of images of family members in various settings, including recreational pursuits in Northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Many photographs created by Louis Thiers, a professional photographer, are included in this collection. Includes tintypes.
Box   1	Quarles family
Box   2	Quarles family
Box   3	Louis Thiers, photographer
Box   4	Louis Thiers, photographer
Box   5	Thiers family
Box   6	Samuel and Louis French family
Box   7	Louis French family
Box   8	Unidentified people
Box   9	General
Box   10	Samuel French scrapbook
Box   11	Samuel French scrapbook
Box   12	Samuel French scrapbook
Box   13	Samuel French scrapbook
Box   14	Samuel French scrapbook
Box   15	Samuel French scrapbook
Box   16	Charles Quarles, University of Michigan album
Box   17	French, Thiers, and Quarles family
M90-301	Architectural drawings Physical Description: 9 drawings (1 oversize folder)  Scope and Content Note: For a home owned by Charles Quarles on Farwell Place, Milwaukee, designed by James Douglas.