Summary Information

Title: Millard-Smith Family Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1806-1921

Call Number: Stevens Point Mss C; Stevens Point Micro 30; Micro 2076; PH 557; WHi(S56)

Quantity: 1.6 c.f. (5 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder), 1 reel of microfilm (35mm), 227 photographs (1 archives box and 1 folder), and 169 negatives

Repository:

Housed at the Nelis R. Kampenga University Archives & Area Research Center, Learning Resources Center, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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

UW-Stevens Point Library / Stevens Point Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of a prominent lumber milling and medical family from Wausau, Wisconsin, including Burton Millard (d. 1862), a pioneer settler, millwright, and state legislator, who was the first member of the 5th Wisconsin Infantry to die during the Civil War; Dr. Theophilus Smith (1817-1904), who married Millard's widow; and Dr. Joseph F. Smith, (1869- ?) the son-in-law of Theophilus. Millard's papers include extensive Civil War correspondence with his family and others; a Civil War diary; financial records relating to his lumber milling business (some portions of which are available only on microfilm); and extensive papers relating to his brief tenure as justice of the peace. Also included is a blood-soaked circular removed from his body after his death during the Civil War. Although Theophilus Smith was one of the first physicians to settle in Wausau this part of his life is little documented. Instead there are papers about his administration of the local post office, correspondence of Harriet Millard Smith, whom Dr. Smith married in 1867, and letters from three sons: Theophilus M. about his work for the Wisconsin Central Railroad and William and James about their life on a cattle ranch in Wyoming. The medical career of Joseph F. Smith is also little documented, although there are papers pertaining to his education as a teacher at Northern Indiana Normal School. An avid amateur photographer, he is also represented in the collection by photographs of exceptional quality documenting family life, the Wausau area, Rush Medical School; and views of travel at the turn of the century in Chicago, Europe, and the East Coast, as well as family activities and portraits. The photographs are in the Visual Materials Archive and are also available for use on the microfilm.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-stpt000c

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