Title: James C. Howard Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1813-1886, 1925

Creator:

• Howard, James C., d. 1880

Call Number: Wis Mss FV

Quantity: 1.8 c.f. (8 archives boxes)

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:

Correspondence of numerous members of the James C. Howard family from several sections of the United States. Howard came from Rossie, New York, in 1836, to settle on a large farm in Milwaukee County. There are letters from his brother, Dean S. Howard, a building contractor who invented a new type of dredging machine and who worked on harbors and canals in Upper Canada, the Middle West, Corpus Christi, Texas, and Nicaragua; from his wife, Sophronia Porter; from his children and their families in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and California; and from other relatives. The letters touch on the various activities of the correspondents, their health, their financial concerns, their religious beliefs, their cultural interests, some local politics, financial panics, the California gold rush, educational facilities, scientific farming, fruitgrowing, wood conservation, spiritualism, and the final settlement of the estate.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000fv

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Joseph Schafer's “Epic of a Plain Yankee Family,” in the Wisconsin Magazine of History, 9:140-156, 285-309 (December 1925 - March 1926), is based on these papers.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Leon Howard, and by Royal M. Vanderberg, Sacramento, California, 1977. Accession Number: M77-96, M77-164

	Series: Correspondence
	General
Box   1 Folder   1-7	1813-1845
Box   2 Folder   1-5	1846-1855
Box   3 Folder   1-6	1856-1864
Box   4 Folder   1-4	1865-1867
Box   5 Folder   1-6	1868-1873
Box   6 Folder   1-6	1874-1886; undated
	Specific
Box   6 Folder   7	William S. Hawkins letters; report concerning the bankruptcy of John C. Jackson, 1842, 1847
Box   6 Folder   8	Letters between Volney Homer Porter and Adelia Elizabeth Jackson during their courtship, 1853-1855
	Series: Subject File	⇧
	Biographical and Genealogical Data
Box   7 Folder   1	General, 1851-1852, undated
Box   7 Folder   2	Divorce, 1871, November 17 - 1872, June 14
	Financial
Box   7 Folder   3-7	1833-1869
Box   8 Folder   1	1870-1880; undated
Box   8 Folder   2	Wood Business, 1873-1874
Box   8 Folder   3	Legal, 1839-1858
Box   8 Folder   4	School District #5 (Center District), Town of Lake, Milwaukee County: Annual Meeting Minutes, 1846-1848
Box   8 Folder   5	“Dr. [Joseph] Schafer's Notes on Howard Papers,” circa 1925
Box   8 Folder   6	Writings, undated
Box   8 Folder   7	Miscellany, 1840s-1860s, undated