General Information
Wisconsin Name Index
The Wisconsin Name Index (WNI) is a searchable index of names found in various collections in the Library. These include:
- About 150 county and local histories
- Dozens of professional directories and biographical encyclopedias
- More than 60 scrapbooks containing 30,000 obituaries from the “Wisconsin Necrology” scrapbooks
- Selected articles from Wisconsin magazines and newspapers
Most items were published from 1870-1970.
Attribution
For a credit line: Wisconsin Historical Society, Creator, Title, Unique Identifier.
The Unique Identifier can be found at the top or bottom of the page for each item. The name of a downloaded file is NOT the unique identifier.
For bibliographic citations please consult the UW-Madison Libraries Citation Research Guide to ensure compliance with appropriate style guidelines.
Accessing the Wisconsin Name Index
The WNI is searchable on the Society's website. The materials found in the index are not comprehensive of all materials on our shelves.
Carrie King
April 24, 1945
Carrie King (Mrs. F.H. King), 88, of 426 University Farm Place, who came to Madison with her husband, a professor of Agricultual Physics, in 1888. Mrs. King reads and quilts.
Edgewood High School 10th Reunion
September 21, 1957
Mr. & Mrs. Wilham Wiedholz (Maurine Durkin), Madison; Mrs. Cornelius Collins (Carol Fitzgibbon), Madison; and Philip Schwarz, Appleton, chatTING together at the Edgewood High School reunion.
