Scope and Contents From the Series: The Gysbert van Steenwyk, Sr. Materials contain correspondence, financial records, C.C. Washburn estate, organizations, and legal documents. The correspondence includes business as well as personal correspondence particularly from van Steenwyk's nephew Ernest F. C. Klokke. The business correspondence dates from 1863-1902 and includes letters to and from van Steenwyk. Among the people with whom van Steenwyk corresponded are U. S. Congressman Jeremiah M. Rusk and Wisconsin governors Edward...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Gysbert van Steenwyk, Sr. Materials contain correspondence, financial records, C.C. Washburn estate, organizations, and legal documents. The correspondence includes business as well as personal correspondence particularly from van Steenwyk's nephew Ernest F. C. Klokke. The business correspondence dates from 1863-1902 and includes letters to and from van Steenwyk. Among the people with whom van Steenwyk corresponded are U. S. Congressman Jeremiah M. Rusk and Wisconsin governors Edward...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Mariette (Nichols) van Steenwyk series contain genealogy, correspondence, financial records, and records of the Home for the Friendless. The genealogy materials trace Mariette van Steenwyk's ancestors back to the Revolutionary War. The primary families involved are Averill, Nichols, and Whittlesey. There are also materials that relate specifically to Matilda Averill Nichols, Mariette van Steenwyk's mother, and to Chester Averill. The correspondence is almost entirely personal in nature....

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Gysbert van Steenwyk, Jr. series relates almost entirely to his many business interests, in the form of correspondence; education; business interests; financial records; and miscellaneous. Correspondence has been divided into business correspondence, dating from 1909-1958, and personal correspondence, from 1895-1925. Personal correspondence consists mainly of letters from his mother Mariette van Steenwyk and from his college friends. The education subseries consists exclusively of class...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Gysbert van Steenwyk, Jr. series relates almost entirely to his many business interests, in the form of correspondence; education; business interests; financial records; and miscellaneous. Correspondence has been divided into business correspondence, dating from 1909-1958, and personal correspondence, from 1895-1925. Personal correspondence consists mainly of letters from his mother Mariette van Steenwyk and from his college friends. The education subseries consists exclusively of class...

Scope and Contents From the Series: The majority of the Grace (Pettingill) Hogan van Steenwyk series consists of a correspondence file that dates from 1922-1972. The letters are almost entirely personal. The bulk of the correspondence dates from 1922-1925, and consists of letters from her first husband, James C. Hogan. Included with them are letters and segments of letters by Grace in response which may have been drafts of her letters.Other materials relating to Grace van Steenwyk include two account books dating...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The van Steenwyk family papers follow the business interests and personal lives of an early La Crosse banker and mayor, and his family. The papers are categorized into six series, each corresponding to an individual family member: Gysbert van Steenwyk, Sr., his wife Mariette (Nichols) van Steenwyk, their son Gysbert van Steenwyk, Jr. and his wife Grace (Pettingill) Hogan van Steenwyk, and Ella May (van Steenwyk) Cassels, daughter of Gysbert, Sr. and Mariette van Steenwyk. A few miscellaneous...