River Falls ARC Biographical Index The biographical index contains thousands of names of people who have lived in the four-county area (Burnett, Pierce, Polk and St. Croix). This index contains births, deaths, marriages, graduations, and other important life events found primarily in newspapers but other sources as well. The index covers the 1850’s through roughly 1900-1910, depending on the source, although Falcon Features, the UWRF Alumni magazine, is indexed through the present. The cards in the index contain the name of the person, the particular event or category, the name of the source in which to find it, the date the information appeared in the source and/or a page number in the source. The River Falls center also holds a microfilmed biographical index compiled by Willis Miller, former editor and co-owner of the Hudson Star-Observer. This index (RF Micro 34) records births, deaths, marriages, graduations, and biographical information taken primarily from the Hudson Star Observer from 1850-1980. Since the index was microfilmed in 1980, Miller has added thousands of entries. The entire index is maintained at the Star-Observer office in Hudson. Please complete a Research Request Form to request a Biographical file look-up.

Newspaper Titles Included in Biographical Index: Amery Echo: 1889, June – 1891, July Baldwin Bulletin: Earliest – 1901 Baldwin Independent: 1879 – 1881 Burnett County Sentinel: 1892, June 10 – 1910, January 27 Citizen’s Reporter: 1862, January 24 issue Glenwood City Tribune: Earliest – 1909 Hammond Independent: 1875 – 1877 Hammond News Earliest: – 1900, January Hudson Star Times Earliest: – 1900 Journal of Burnett County: 1895 – 1901 North Star (Hudson): Earliest – 1860, November 28 Pierce County Herald: 1901, May 16 – 1910, December 29 Pierce County News: 1887, 1889 Pierce County Plaindealer: 1875 – 1893 Polk County Ledger: 1898 – 1910 Prescott Clarion: 1874, April – 1875, June Prescott Journal: 1863 – 1871 Prescott Tribune: Earliest – 1900 Republican Voice (St. Croix): Earliest 1899 River Falls Advance: 1874 – 1876 River Falls Journal: Earliest – 1900 River Falls Press: Earliest – 1883, February 1 River Falls Times: 1896 – 1899 St. Croix Republican: 1870 – 1899 Spring Valley Sun: 1905 – 1910 Weekly Press – Maiden Rock: 1892, 1895, 1897

Other Materials Included in Biographical Index: Alumni Bulletin (UWRF): 1935-1958 Falcon Features (UWRF): Earliest – Current Fifty Years in the Northwest: with an introduction and appendix containing reminiscences, incidents, and notes. W.H C. Folsom. 1999, 1888. Taylors Falls Historical Society. History of Northern Wisconsin. 1881. Chicago: Western Historical Company. History of the St. Croix Valley. Augustus B. Easton. 1909. Chicago: H.C. Cooper, Jr., & Co. Manuscripts: River Falls Small Collections (Small Collections = 1 folder only) Meletean (UWRF yearbook): 1912-1969 (only graduates indexed) Miscellaneous Genealogical Documents: ancestral charts, diplomas, family histories, pedigree charts, etc. Dates vary. Pierce County Naturalizations: ca. 1850-1963 UWRF Series 151: Faculty and Alumni Biographical File