Title: Otto F. Geiger Business Records
Inclusive Dates: 1854-1908

Creator:

• Geiger, Otto F., 1859-1930

Call Number: Platteville Mss L

Quantity: 1.0 c.f. (1 archives box and 9 volumes)

Repository:

Housed at the Southwest Wisconsin Room and Area Research Center, Ullsvik Hall, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; 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-Platteville Southwest Wisconsin Room / Platteville Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Primarily records of a prominent business firm owned by Otto Geiger of Cassville, Wis., which operated under various names, including Raffauf & Geiger and Klindt, Geiger & Company. There are daybooks, 1859-1865, letter books, 1856-1908 (with gaps), and a folder of miscellaneous papers, 1854-1864. The daybooks concern sales at the general store, and the letter books and miscellaneous papers relate to the sale of wheat, meat, and lard down the Mississippi; insurance of shipments; purchase of coal, seed, binder twine, flour, and other merchandise; sale of livestock and wool; employees; the local electric plant of which the later partners were part owners; the creamery; and the canning factory operated at Cassville.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-pltv000l

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The merchandising firm Raffauf & Geiger was established in Cassville, Wisconsin in 1848 by Peter Raffauf and John Geiger who had come to Cassville that same year. Raffauf & Geiger seems to have been dissolved as a partnership about 1862, when Raffauf sold his interests to Geiger who remained sole proprietor until his death in 1873. In 1874 John A. Klindt, an employee of Geiger since 1868, purchased the stock and goods of the firm, and in 1878 Gustav and Otto F. Geiger became members of the firm under the new name of Klindt, Geiger & Company.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Otto F. Geiger, place and date unknown.

	Daybooks
Volume   4-8	, 1859-1862 (Raffauf & Geiger Co.)
Volume   9-12	, 1862-1865 (John Geiger)
	Letterbooks
Box   1 Volume   1	, 1856-1862 (Raffauf & Geiger Co.)
Box   1 Volume   1	, 1862-1866 (John Geiger)
Box   1 Volume   2	, 1874-1878 (John A. Klindt)
Box   1 Volume   2	1878-1897 (Klindt, Geiger & Co.)
Box   1 Volume   3	1903-1907 (Klindt, Geiger & Co.)
Box   1 Volume   3	, 1907-1908 (John A. Klindt)
Box   1 Folder   1	Business Letters, 1854, 1862-1864 (Raffauf & Geiger Co.)