Series: Brothers and Sisters of Stephen Martindale III. Papers, 1837-1957
Biography/History: Stephen Martindale III had one brother and four or five sisters: Cephas, Lucinda, Huldah, Angeline, and Caroline are represented in the collection. A fifth sister, Hattie, is listed on a family tree which Stephen III probably constructed and she is also mentioned in a letter from Isabelle Martindale, but there is no other evidence of her. Cephas Kent Martindale was born 20 October 1825 and died 18 September 1870. He attended Middlebury College for three years but was graduated from either Hamilton or Williams College in 1848. He then studied medicine in Wallingford, Vermont with Dr. William C. Fox whose daughter, Harriet, he married in 1856. In 1851 he received a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Geneva Medical College, Geneva, New York and began a practice in Salem, New York. By 1856, however, he was in La Crosse where he bought a lot just west of a duplex which the Stephen III Martindale's shared with Stephen III's business associate's family, the Pettibones. Cephas built an American Gothic cottage and lived there until his death. In 1860 he purchased half interest in the George Howard drug store in La Crosse and from 1860 until his death ran “C. K. Martindale Druggist and Apothecary.” Lucinda Martindale was born in 1820 and died in 1906. She married Israel Munson Hill, co-owner of the Durand and Hill Company for which Stephen III worked, and lived in Beloit, Wisconsin for most of her life. Huldah Martindale was born in 1817 and died in 1905. Never marrying, she apparently lived with or near different family members, especially Lucinda, during her life. Angeline Martindale was born in 1814. Her date of death is uncertain, but she was quite ill in 1885. She married Charles R. Mattoon, a minister, college president, and farmer, and they lived in different areas of the Midwest. Caroline Martindale was born 22 June 1811 and died 29 June 1886. She married Daniel Roberts, a member of a prominent Vermont family of lawyers and politicians. Because her papers are so few, they are filed with the Roberts' family papers (see below).
Scope and Content Note: The papers of Stephen Martindale III's brothers and sisters are predominately correspondence and business papers. The correspondence, which is usually to Stephen III and his family, concerns everyday family matters and family business interests such as land sales and estate settlements. Some correspondence, especially that of Charles Mattoon and Cephas K. Martindale, occasionally reflects social and political events and attitudes of the times. The business papers include quit-claims, mortgages, land deeds, tax receipts, bills, estate papers, and other records. Of special interest are the papers of the Durand and Hill Company, an early Racine/La Crosse firm with interests in property, real estate, and wholesale groceries and domestic goods. The articles of partnership are among the papers.

Cephas Kent Martindale and family

Cephas Kent Martindale

Correspondence, 1841-1869

Business and estate papers, 1854-1875

Miscellany

Harriet “Hattie” Fox Martindale Emerson (wife)

Correspondence, 1856-1923

Isabelle “Belle” Martindale (daughter)

Correspondence, 1933-1957

Lucinda Martindale Hill and Family

Lucinda Martindale Hill

Correspondence, 1861-1906

Business papers, 1862-1905

Israel Munson Hill (husband)

Correspondence, 1856-1866

Business papers

General, 1847-1863

Durand and Hill Company, 1847-1873

Isaac B. Munson (nephew of I. M. Hill?)

Correspondence and land grants, 1854-1875

Edward “Ned” Hill (son)

Correspondence, 1872-1937

Huldah Martindale

Correspondence, 1841-1904

Business papers, 1862-1884

Angeline Martindale Mattoon and family

Angeline Martindale Mattoon

Correspondence, 1856-1880

Charles Nash Mattoon (husband)

Correspondence, 1837-1885

Angeline Mattoon Caldwell (daughter)

Correspondence, 1900-1908

Francis C. Mattoon Rauch (daughter) and family

Correspondence, 1864-1924

Caroline Martindale Roberts (see Roberts family papers, Miscellaneous Roberts)