Finding aids provide further information for each of MGC’s archival collections. Each will include the following elements:
Collection Summary
Collection Inventory
Rights and Access to each archival collection
Name and folder indexes are available for some of MGC’s archival collections. Name indexes display first, maiden, middle, and last names as well as any notes that may help identify individuals. Folder indexes display the folder title and additional information.
This collection contains journals, a treasurer’s book, and a leather envelope. The journals begin during Sewell’s time in Wisconsin. The journals were primarily written by Sewell until 1917 when Sewell’s wife took over. Annie continued to write until a short time before her death in 1927. The treasurer’s book contains records of accounts and payments. The envelope holds ephemera of the Richardson family.
This collection include photographs of the grounds and buildings, alumni, employees and trustees. Other materials contained in the collection are records of trustees, newspaper clippings, alumni correspondence, 4-H records and historical background on Andrew Drumm. Other items in this collection were part of a display at the Midwest Genealogy Center. Items include books, vintage cookware, photographs, school memorabilia, and other artifacts. Items in the collection range from the 1930s through the 2000s.
This collection consists of genealogy and family history complied by Ralph Preston. Major surnames found within this collection are Preston, Crichton, Wells, Bryant, and Smith. Other surnames can be found in the index of surnames in Series I. In addition there are many pieces of artwork consisting of coats of arms for various surnames.
This collection contains the family history and genealogy compiled by Elizabeth Lee “Betty” Twitchel Chastain. The information contained within the collection pertains to the Twitchell and other related families. Included are pension files, land records, photographs, and research.
This collection consists of administrative and personal papers of Alice K. Houts as well as business correspondence. Items range in date from 1952 to 1970 and mostly cover the sale and creation of her book Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Missouri. There is also a photograph of Alice taken in the 1940s.
This collection consists of a manuscript for the Papers of William Ross Cooper. The manuscript is separated into two books. The material in these books was accumulated by Cooper during his time as Registrar General for the Order of the Three Crusades 1096-1192.
This collection consists of scrapbooks and photographs that document the American Ex-Prisoners of War-Heart of America Chapter‘s activities. Also included in this collection is a manuscript for the book Former American Prisoners of War Tell Their Stories and a history of Stalag IVB, Muhlberg, Germany.
This collection contains items relating to the history of Cler-Mont Elementary School and its Parents as Teacher Association (P.T.A.). These items cover a range of P.T.A. activities such as board meetings and events. Also contained within this collection are photographs documenting various Cler-Mont Elementary classes, faculty, activities, and events.
The collection includes research done in 1940s and 1950s by Margaret Hubbard Countryman on both her family, the Hubbard line, and her husband’s family, the Countryman line. The collection includes unique family items some dated from the nineteenth century. The oldest item in the collection is a pension request for Godfrey Young dated 1806. Some other interesting items include a calling card from Paulina Hubbard circa 1830, Alonzo Hamlin’s bank notes from the 1850s and 1860s, a Palmer family reunion invitation from 1881, and a Thanksgiving dinner menu and guest list from 1907. The collection contains some old correspondence including a not dated 1832, a letter dated 1853, a telegram from Ralph Countryman from Nicaragua in 1933 that stated he was “back from the jungle,” and a letter typed in 1956 on war surplus paper that was for “unimportant letters (those that need not be kept long).” Also included are photographs of several family members including a tintype of James Alonzo Countryman, a member of the Illinois state legislature.
This collection is completely digitalized and available on the Midwest Genealogy Center’s digital archival collections webpage. The collection contains correspondence between Square Holt and family members during his Civil War service while he served with the 26th Michigan Infantry (Union). Also included is a journal written by Melville Titus (brother-in-law of Square Holt), photographs of various Titus and Holt family members, and ephemera created by the both the Titus and Holt families.
This collection consists of administrative and personal papers of Alice K. Houts as well as business correspondence. Items range in date from 1952 to 1970 and mostly cover the sale and creation of her book Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in Missouri. There is also a photograph of Alice taken in the 1940s.
