Summary Information

Title: Henry I. Bliss Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1851-1897

Creator:

• Bliss, Henry I., 1831?-1896

Call Number: La Crosse Mss P

Quantity: 9.2 cubic feet (19 archives boxes, 6 card boxes, 1 flat box, and 3 oversize volumes)

Repository:

Housed at the Special Collections & Area Research Center, Murphy Library, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

UW-La Crosse Murphy Library / La Crosse Area Research Ctr. (Map)

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

Abstract:

Business papers of Henry I. Bliss, a La Crosse, Wisconsin, civil engineer, surveyor, and land agent. Correspondence deals with payment of taxes, rentals, collections, and western Wisconsin and southern Minnesota real estate transactions, with occasional reference to Bliss's position as city engineer. There are letters from Cadwallader C. Washburn, Levi Burnell, and Samuel D. Hastings concerning business affairs, and from Senator Angus Cameron in regard to the La Crosse post office building. In addition to the correspondence, there are bound and unbound deeds, abstracts, land plats, surveyors' field notes, office accounts, and other similar papers accumulated or produced by Bliss and his associates in their various business enterprises.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-lx000p

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