Summary Information

Title: Stevens Family Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1829-1922

Creator:

• Stevens family

Call Number: Parkside Mss 11; PH 4060(3); PH 4091

Quantity: 0.2 cubic feet (1 half-archives box), 3 certificates (1 folder), and 23 photographs, 7 ferrotypes and 1 piece of ephemera (1 folder)
Repository:

Housed at the Archives & Area Research Center, Library/Learning Center, University of Wisconsin-Parkside 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-Parkside Library / Parkside 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 members of the Stevens family, relatives of Alanson H. Stevens who migrated from Schoharie County, New York to Bristol, Kenosha County, Wisconsin, in 1844. Family correspondence, a diary (1857-1861) kept by Martha A. Stevens, records of land transactions including two Revolutionary War bounty land certificates, genealogical information, and a draft of Volume 1, No. 2 of The Literary Avalanche, a literary journal co-published by a member of the family. The correspondence includes a letter describing effects of the Peshtigo Fire. Photographs are primarily studio portraits of unidentified family members and other ephemera.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-pks0011

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