Title: Berquist, Goodwin Papers Call Number: Mss-2796 Inclusive Dates: 1968 – 2000 Bulk: 9.51 cu. ft. Location: WH, Sh. D193-194 OS LG “B” (6 items) OS SM “B” (2 items) OS XLG (1 item) LM, Sh. 026 (2 pages of slides) Abstract: Goodwin Berquist spent over thirty years researching and writing about James Kilbourne and his son Byron Kilbourn, one of the early founders of Milwaukee. In 1983, as a professor in the Department of Communications at Ohio State University, he collaborated with Professor Paul Bowers of OSU’s History Department on a biography of James Kilbourne, entitled The New Eden: James Kilbourne and the Development of Ohio. Thereafter, Berquist and Bowers, until his death in 1998, worked on a biography of Byron Kilbourn, which was published by the Milwaukee County Historical Society. Scope and Content: The collection consists of research materials (i.e., notes and xerox copies) pertaining to the Kilbourn Family, rough drafts of both biographies, articles, and other miscellaneous materials. Administrative Note: The collection was processed in July 2000 by Kevin Abing. Material was added to box 10 on Nov. 2, 2001 and was processed by Kevin Abing. Arrangement: Research Material Box # Folder # Analysis of the Litchfield Letters Collection, J. Kilbourne Letters (Bowers) 1 1 Anson W. Buttles – Diaries and Papers (SHSW) 1 2 Anson W. Buttles Papers (SHSW), Correspondence, 1851-1857 1 3 Application for SRA, Sp. Qtr. 1987 – plus CV (Bowers) 1 4 Archives & Historical Societies 1 5 Area Research Center – UW Green Bay (See M.L. Martin Papers Info) 1 5A Arora Buttles-Orange Johnson House (Dr. R.W. McCormick Investigation), 1 6 Byron Kilbourn Mss Assembly/Senate Joint Resolution to Investigate Alleged Legislative Fraud 1 7 (1858 Session) Austin, H. Russell, The Milwaukee Story: The Making of an American City 1 8 Baird, James: “Frugality and the American Revolution…” 1 9 Barber: Documentary History Simsbury (Extracts) 1 10 Barber Papers – Simsbury Historical Society 1 11 Barnum, Richard, “The Politics of Public Aid” 1 12 Barstow & the 1855 Attempt to Steal an Election 1 13 Bernd, John M., “The LaCrosse and Milwaukee Railroad Land Grant, 1856″ 1 14 WMH, Dec. 1946 Berquist Correspondence (primarily with Paul Bowers) 1 15 Berquist-Goerke Interview re Ohio Freemasonry 1 16 Berquist Material-Madison (SHSW) Research Trip, June 1990 1 17 Berquist – Notes on Bowers’ Notes on Ohio Newspapers 1 18 Berquist Notes: 2nd Wisconsin Research Trip, March 1985 1 19 B. Franklin: The Uncommon Man (1976-Jim Baker) 1 20 Bibliography References – J.K. (Bowers) 1 21 Bibliography References – J.K. (Bowers) 1 22 Biographical Dictionary Sketch of B. Kilbourn (1877) 1 23 Blue, Free Soilers 1 24 Bowers – Material From P.K. Yonge Library 1 25 Bowers Research Trip to Wisconsin – Accounts 1 26 Brief Summary of Folder No. 3 of Field Notes for Biographical 1 27 Sketch of Byron Kilbourn [Dec. 1984 trip] Bridge War of 1845 (Koss) 1 28 Brister: Centennial History of Newark, vol. I 1 29 Brown, K. – History of Buckeye Lake 1 30 Bruce, W.G., ed., History of Milwaukee City and County 1 31 Buck, James S., History of Milwaukee (4 vols.) 1 32 Buck, James S., Pioneer History 1 33 Bucyrus Song, 1822 1 34 Burr, H.G.: “The Settlement of Worthington” ONGS 1 35 Burr Letters, 1820-1827 1 36 Burt – Early Survey of Milwaukee River 1 37 Business Incorporations in the U.S., 1800-1943 1 38 Buttles Diary and Genealogy 1 39 Buttles Family Papers (OHS) 1 40 Buttles Family Papers, McCormick Photocopies, Excerpts 1 41 Buttles Family Papers, Typescript Copies of Letters 1 42 (McCormick to G.B. & P.C.B.) Byron Kilbourn and Alanson Sweet (Koss) 1 43 Byron Kilbourn-Barber Papers, Simsbury Historical Society 1 44 Byron Kilbourn – Berquist (Misc.) 1 45 Byron Kilbourn Biographical Data (DWB & 1881 Hist. Of Milwaukee) 1 46 Byron Kilbourn to Cicero Comstock, July 7, 1837 (From Comstock Papers, 1 47 Mil. Public Library) Byron Kilbourn & City Support of the Milwaukee & Mississippi RR (Buck) 1 48 Byron Kilbourn Contests Title to Land at Walker’s Point 1 49 Byron Kilbourn – Court Cases (MCHS) 1 50 Byron Kilbourn & the Depression of 1857 (Current) 1 51 Byron Kilbourn vs. Doty, Territorial Delegate Race, 1839 1 52 Byron Kilbourn & Early Milwaukee: A German Lutheran View 1 53 Byron Kilbourn & Early RR Construction (Current) 1 54 Byron Kilbourn, 1844 Broadside re: Milw. & RR Canal 1 55 Byron Kilbourn & 1839 Milwaukee Land Sale 1 56 Byron Kilbourn, 1839-47 (Wisc. Terr. Papers, SHSW) 1 57 Byron Kilbourn Endorsement of Lapham’s Map of Wisc.,1849 1 58 Byron Kilbourn Entries, Wis. Mag. Of History & Wis. Hist. Soc. Collections 1 59 Byron Kilbourn & Ethics in RR Era 1 60 Byron Kilbourn: Flanders Fraud Case: Milw.-LaCrosse RR, Jan. 11, 1853 1 61 Byron Kilbourn & German Settlement in Kilbourntown (Conzen) 1 62 Byron Kilbourn & Grand Kaukaulin Project 1 63 Byron Kilbourn, Increase Lapham, & Milwaukee Land Sales (Hawks) 1 64 Byron Kilbourn & Iron Ridge, Dodge County 1 65 Byron Kilbourn to Isaac Bronson, 1839 Election for Terr. 1 66 Delegate; Predicts Recovery from 1837 Depression (MCHS) Byron Kilbourn (?): James Kilbourn’s Obituary – Milwaukee Sentinel, May 7, 1 67 1850 Byron Kilbourn & Jt. Select Committee Report on 1856 Land Grant 1 68 (Northwestern Route) Byron Kilbourn, Juneau, & Early Milwaukee Development (Bleyer Papers) 1 69 Byron Kilbourn & Lapham’s Decision to Emigrate to Wisc. 1 70 Byron Kilbourn Letter re Gov. Doty 1 71 Byron Kilbourn Letter to M.L. Martin re: Martin’s Position on Milwaukee & 1 72 Rock River Canal, Dec. 22, 1845 Byron Kilbourn Letter to Whittlesey (WRHS) [Berquist Letter, June 1992] 1 73 Byron Kilbourn Letters – Detroit Public Library 1 74 Byron Kilbourn to Louis Linn, Jan. 29, 1836, re: Milwaukee Harbor 1 75 Byron Kilbourn Marriage to Mary Cowles & Other Kilbourn Marriages 1 76 Byron Kilbourn Materials – Fla. Trip (P. Bowers, Dec. 1987) 1 77 Byron Kilbourn – Micajah T. Williams Correspondence (OHS Microfilm) 1 78 Byron Kilbourn to Micajah T. Williams, 1834 (Michigan Terr. Papers) 1 79 Byron Kilbourn – Micajah T. Williams Letters 1 80 Byron Kilbourn – Micajah T. Williams Letters, SHSW 1 81 Byron Kilbourn to Micajah T. Williams, Sept. 19, 1834 (Letter on Surveying) 1 82 Byron Kilbourn as Milwaukee Alderman, 1846 1 83 Byron Kilbourn & Milwaukee Internal Improvements 1 84 Byron Kilbourn and Milw. & Mississippi Railroad 1 85 Byron Kilbourn & the Milwaukee Road (1848), Derleth 1 86 Byron Kilbourn and Milwaukee & Rock River Canal (Conard, History of 1 87 Milw.) Byron Kilbourn & Milwaukee’s First “Public School” 1 88 Byron Kilbourn to Morgan Martin re: Contested rts. Of Pierre Juneau in 1 89 Milwaukee Byron Kilbourn Obituary & “Milwaukee’s First Railway” 1 90 Byron Kilbourn & Ohio Canal – Miscellaneous Notes 1 90A Byron Kilbourn & Ohio Canal – Miscellaneous Notes 1 90B Byron Kilbourn, Ohio Monitor, 1836: Letter to Lewis Linn 2 91 Byron Kilbourn & Original Milwaukee Land Purchase (Still) 2 92 Byron Kilbourn & Parks 2 93 Byron Kilbourn – PCB Questions re GB Materials, I.A. Lapham, Pss, OHS, & 2 94 Other OHS Material, & Notecards on 1st Wisc. Trip Materials Byron Kilbourn Profile (Buck) 2 95 “Byron Kilbourn: Promoter” by Mildred Schroeder (WHS-1932) 2 96 Byron Kilbourn & RR Scandal, 1856-1858 (Titus, History of Fox River Valley, 2 97 v. 1, 324-335) Byron Kilbourn, Railroads, and a Line to the Mississippi 2 98 Byron Kilbourn as Real Estate Salesman 2 99 Byron Kilbourn Refuses to Accept Bank Notes, 1836 2 100 Byron Kilbourn: Research Notes & Leads 2 101 Byron Kilbourn: Review of Committee of Investigation on Land Grant to La 2 102 Crosse Railroad Byron Kilbourn & 2nd Const. Convention (state boundaries) 2 103 Byron Kilbourn & Ship Building 2 104 Byron Kilbourn, Sketch – Dict. of Wisc. Biography 2 105 Byron Kilbourn Speech to Family Genealogical Society, 1854 2 106 Byron Kilbourn Supports “War Democrats,” 1863 2 107 Byron Kilbourn as Surveyor in Ohio 2 108 Byron Kilbourn: Tallahassee Material, Dec. 1987 Trip 2 109 Byron Kilbourn Visuals 2 110 Byron Kilbourn & “West Ward” Bonds 2 111 Byron Kilbourn & Wisc. First Locomotives 2 112 Byron Kilbourn & Wisc. First Locomotives (Walter Phelps Letter, ca. 1908) 2 113 Byron Kilbourn & Wisc.’s Two Constitutions, 1846, 1848 2 114 Byron Kilbourn’s Address to Kilbourne Society, 1854 2 115 Byron Kilbourn’s Advice to A. Lincoln 2 116 Byron Kilbourn’s Canal Essays (1837) 2 117 Byron Kilbourn’s Engineering Skills (Frk. Cty. Hist. Soc. Bulletin, 1953) 2 118 Byron Kilbourn’s General Land Agency 2 119 Byron Kilbourn’s Land in Florida 2 120 Byron Kilbourn’s Letter to Whitfield Cowles Asking For Mary’s Hand in 2 121 Marriage Byron Kilbourn’s Letters to His Sisters 2 122 Byron Kilbourn’s Railroad Land Grant 2 123 Byron Kilbourn’s Remains Returned to Milwaukee 2 124 Byron Kilbourn’s Role in Wisconsin Railways (Seville) 2 125 Byron Kilbourn Cowles Papers, SHSW 2 126 Canal Commissioners Correspondence, OHS, Reels 1-4 2 127 Canal Commissioners Correspondence, OHS, Reels 5-6 2 128 Canal Commissioners, Reports to Legislature, 1826-1827 2 129 Canal Papers, OHS 2 130 Canal References, Wisc. Territorial Papers (1836-1846) 2 131 Canal References, Wisc. Territorial Papers (1836-1846) 2 132 Cayton, Andrew – Frontier Republic, Notes 2 133 Charles D. Robinson Papers (SHSW) 2 134 Charles Whittlesey John Fitch Excerpts, 1844 Biography 2 135 Chase Letters – Milwaukee Public Library 2 136 Chicago, Milw., St. Paul & Pacific RR – Inventory (SHSW) [Milw. Road 2 137 Papers] Chronology: Scheiber, Ohio Canal Era 2 138 City of Worthington, Ohio, Annual Reports, 1968-1969 2 139 Claimants’ Union/”Floated Claims” – Hist. Of Milwaukee, 1881 2 140 Columbus-Sandusky Turnpike 2 141 Connecticut – Research Materials, Bibliog’s, etc.