Title: Pratt, Hadley, and Pierce Family Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1847-1966, 2005

Call Number: M2006-048

Extent: 0.8 c.f. (3 archives boxes) and 203 photographs (1 archives box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

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

Abstract:

Papers documenting the Pratt, Hadley, and Pierce families of Rock and Walworth counties (Wisconsin) consisting of family trees, correspondence, journals, school papers, and photographs. The materials document family life, the teaching careers of Ella Josephine Hadley and Edith Hadley, the military service of H.L. “Leaver” Pierce during World War I, and that of Richard Pierce and Peter Pierce during World War II.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-m2006048

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Diaries kept by Sarah K. Pratt and Susannah Pratt Washburn (Whitewater Mss BP) and a Pratt family genealogy by Mabel Eliot (SC 1507) contain related information.

The Pratt family materials include letters to Betsy Pratt from her children and letters between siblings discussing Indian treaties, the Civil War, and family activities. The Hadley family materials relate to the children of Emma Dowse Hadley and Herbert Hadley and include photographs documenting Ella Josephine “Jo” Hadley’s student life at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1914-1918), her teaching position at Antigo High School (1918-1920), and her family and their farm (1910, circa 1918). Other family materials include correspondence to Beulah (Hadley) Paulson (1914-1945), her journal and school papers (1910, 1914-1919), postcards (bulk 1914-1918), and teaching contracts (1923, 1935). There are a few letters to Edith Hadley regarding her teaching career at several black colleges including some photographs, an Evansville High School graduation edition of “True Blue” with works by Edith and Jo Hadley (1909), and a diary belonging to Susan Hadley (1909-1910). Materials relating to the Pierce family include letters and postcards to H.L. “Leaver” Pierce from his parents, George and Mary, while attending the University of Wisconsin and at Spring Brook Farm (1911-1914, 1916-1918), letters to Jo Hadley from Leaver Pierce during World War I while they were courting (1917-1920), a honeymoon scrapbook put together by Jo (Hadley) Pierce (1920) and a New Year’s Eve Journal kept by Leaver (1917-1967). Additionally, there are letters from their sons, Richard and Peter Pierce, while serving in the United States Navy during World War II (1943-1948).

Acquisition Information

Presented by Linda Ellestad, McFarland, Wisconsin. Accession Number: M2006-048

M2006-048	Series: Pratt Family
Box   1 Folder   1	Family trees
Box   1 Folder   2	Land deed, miscellaneous, 1855, 1862
	Correspondence
Box   1 Folder   3	Betsy, 1847-1862
Box   1 Folder   4	Siblings, 1850-1859
	Series: Hadley Family	⇧
	Beulah (Hadley) Paulson
Box   2 Folder   1	Correspondence, 1914-1945, 1962
Box   2 Folder   2	Ephemera, circa 1920
Box   2 Folder   3	Journal, 1917, 1919
Box   2 Folder   4	Postcards, 1914-1918, 1940, 1944, 1947
Box   2 Folder   5	School papers, 1910, 1914, 1915
Box   2 Folder   6	Teaching contracts, 1923, 1935
	Edith Hadley
Box   2 Folder   7	Correspondence, 1909, 1927, 1962-1966, 1970
Box   2 Folder   8	Evansville High School graduation, “True Blue,” 1909
Box   2 Folder   9	Miscellaneous, 1956, 1965, 2005
	Susan Hadley
Box   2 Folder   10	Diaries, 1909-1910
	Other family members
Box   2 Folder   11-12	John Marshall and Norman Paulson World War II letters, 1940, 1943, 1946
Box   2 Folder   13	Robert Wildermuth letters, 1958-1960
	Series: Pierce Family	⇧
	H.L. “Leaver” Pierce
	Correspondence, incoming
	George Pierce
Box   2 Folder   14-15	Letters, 1911-1914, 1916-1920
Box   2 Folder   16	Postcards, 1909-1911
Box   2 Folder   17	Mary Pierce, 1911, 1917, 1937-1941
Box   2 Folder   18	Other, 1918-1919
Box   2 Folder   19	Spring Brook Farm, 1917-1919
	Correspondence, outgoing
	Jo Hadley
Box   2 Folder   20	Letters from Camp Grant, Illinois, 1918
Box   2 Folder   21-22	Letters from Germany and France, 1918-1919
Box   3 Folder   1	Letters from Germany and France, 1918-1919 (continued)
Box   3 Folder   2	1919-1920
Box   3 Folder   3	Postcards, 1919
Box   3 Folder   4	Miscellaneous, 1910, 1915, 1918
Box   3 Folder   5	New Year's Eve journal, 1917-1967
Box   3 Folder   6	Postcards, 1909, circa 1918
Box   3 Folder   7	Radio Instructors School diploma / program, 1943
	Jo (Hadley) Pierce
Box   3 Folder   8	Correspondence to Blue Dragons, 1940, 1965
Box   3 Folder   9	Honeymoon scrapbook, 1920
Box   3 Folder   10	Radio Instructors School program, 1943
	Peter and Richard Pierce
Box   3 Folder   11	Ephemera, 1922, 1944
Box   3 Folder   12-13	World War II letters, 1943-1948
	Series: Photographs	⇧
Box   4 Folder   1	Hadley children portrait, circa 1900
Box   4 Folder   2	Beulah Hadley, 1936, undated
Box   4 Folder   3	Edith Hadley, 1970, undated
	Ella “Jo” Hadley
Box   4 Folder   4	Antigo High School, 1918-1920
Box   4 Folder   5	Family, 1910, circa 1918
Box   4 Folder   6	University of Wisconsin-Madison, Blue Dragons, 1914-1918, 1922
Box   4 Folder   7	University of Wisconsin-Madison campus / friends, 1914-1917
Box   4 Folder   8	Radio Instructors School, 1943
Box   4 Folder   9	Spring Brook Farm, undated
Box   4 Folder   10	H.L. “Leaver” Pierce, 1909, circa 1918