Summary Information

Title: Joseph Montfort Street Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1806-1898

Creator:

• Street, Joseph Montfort, 1782-1840

Call Number: Wis Mss AD

Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (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:

Transcripts and original papers of Joseph Montfort Street, a United States Indian agent at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Rock Island, Illinois, and on the Des Moines River, 1827-1840. Letters received and drafts of letters sent deal with controversies with traders and the Indian Office; with establishment of the Winnebago school at MacGregor, Iowa, by the Reverend David Lowry; with claims presented at the Treaty of Rock Island in 1832 for expenses of the Black Hawk War; and with family affairs. Included are letters from missionary Cutting Marsh and Judge Charles Dunn.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000ad