What's New -- May 2025

Collections with additions or added digital content this month include the Alvin W. Boese Papers; the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board Various Records; the Ruth Cutler Family Papers; the Hennepin County Medical Examiner Coroner Record Books/Medical Examiner Reports; the Municipal Board Various Records; the Northern Pacific Railway Company President's Records; the Timothy J. Penny Congressional, Legislative, and Personal Papers; and the War Records Commission World War I Military Service Lists.

Name/Abstract	File No.
Aitkin County: Attorney: An Inventory of Its Register of Criminal Actions	gr03449
Entries give title of case, nature of criminal accusation, date of indictment or appeal, when and where tried, disposition of case, nature and extent of punishment, costs assessed, and sometimes other information.
Aitkin County: Coroner: An Inventory of Its Records	gr03450
Coroner's inquest register and reports.
Aitkin County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Coroner's Records	gr03451
Coroner's certificates and inquest registers that serve as an index to a portion of the certificates.
Blue Earth County: Attorney: An Inventory of Its Register of Criminal Actions	gr03429
Volume A (1884-1893) and Volumes 6 (1927-1930) and 7 (1931-July 1933).
Alvin W. Boese: An Inventory of His Papers	01574
Personal papers and business records related to the life and career of a prominent researcher and inventor at 3M. The papers include correspondence, laboratory log books, research reports, patents, contracts, blueprints, minutes, product samples, financial data, speeches, articles, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Includes digital content.
Campaign Finance & Public Disclosure Board: An Inventory of Its Annual and Biennial Reports	gr01491
Annual reports and biennial reports. Also includes reports of its predecessors, the Ethics Commission (1974-1975) and Ethical Practices Board (1975-1997).
Campaign Finance & Public Disclosure Board: An Inventory of Its Economic Interest Statements	gr00125
Annual personal financial statements filed by candidates for state executive and legislative offices and by appointees to boards and commissions.
Campaign Finance & Public Disclosure Board: An Inventory of Its Campaign Finance Files, Political Committees and Funds	gr00127
Reports of receipts of political committees and funds, and of their contributions (transfers)to candidates, to committees and funds supporting candidates, and to committees and funds organized to promote or defeat a ballot question.
Campaign Finance & Public Disclosure Board: An Inventory of Its Campaign Finance Files, Principal Campaign Committees (Category 1)	gr00126
Detailed reports of receipts and expenditures by the campaign committee for each candidate for a state office (constitutional officers, legislators, statewide and district courts), accompanied by a statement of organization for the committee.
Campaign Finance & Public Disclosure Board: An Inventory of Its Published Records.	gr01492
Published issuances of the Campaign Finance & Public Disclosure Board and its predecessors, the Ethics Commission (1974-1975) and Ethical Practices Board (1975-1997), relating to regulations and disclosures under the Ethics in Government Act.
Chippewa County: Attorney: An Inventory of Its Registers of Criminal Actions	gr03435
Information provided: Docket number, title of cause (i.e., name of the accused), nature of criminal accusation, date prosecuted and/or tried, what court, disposition of case, nature and extent of punishment, costs and fines, and remarks (usually whether the fine was paid or jail sentence served).
Chippewa County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Civil Case Files	gr03433
Files 1-9790. Includes criminal files through 1887; criminal files after that date were filed separately.
Chippewa County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Commissioners' Jury Lists	gr03436
Lists of jurors nominated by the county commissioners.
Chippewa County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Criminal Case Files	gr03434
Files numbered: 1-263 (48 missing); unnumbered, 1914-1925; B1-B398 (B154 missing); C1-C51 (C32 missing). Files through 1887 are interfiled with the civil case files (cataloged separately).
Chippewa County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Criminal Registers of Actions	gr03437
Volumes A (1883, 1887), A (March 1887-June 1901; case numbers 1-398), and B (August 1925-May 1942; pages numbered 1-398). The latter two volumes are indexed.
Chippewa County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Default Judgment Record	gr03438
Default judgment record of the Chippewa County District Court.
Chippewa County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Judgment Books	gr03439
Includes one volume (1899) recording assessments against members of the Farmers' Fire Company to cover the company's losses, presumably in a bankrupty action.
Chippewa County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Minutes	gr03440
Minutes of the Chippewa County District Court.
Chippewa County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Naturalization Records and Index	gr03441
Indexes to final papers and petition and record, declarations of intention, final papers, petition and record, citizenship petitions granted and denied, applications to take the oath of allegiance, and loose naturalization papers.
Chippewa County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Real Estate Tax Judgment Books	gr03443
Real estate tax judgment books of the Chippewa County District Court.
Chippewa County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Record of Oaths and Bonds	gr03442
Records of official oaths and bonds filed by county, town, village, and school district officers.
Chippewa County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Registration and Certificate Records	gr03444
Examination and licensure records for the basic sciences, chiropractors, dentists, medical examiners, ministers, optometrists, physicians, and veterinarians, and for the practice of massage.
Chippewa County: Juvenile Court: An Inventory of Its Juvenile Record Books	gr03445
Petition, findings and order, and record of proceedings (documents filed and orders issued) in each case involving a delinquent or neglected juvenile.
Chippewa County: Probate Court: An Inventory of Its Final Decrees of Distribution	gr03446
Final decrees, 1881-1982 (reels 1-8, 12), miscellaneous orders, 1883-1972 (reels 9-11), and summary decree proceedings, 1978-1982 (reel 12), containing data on decedents' estates and their distribution to heirs and/or legatees.
Chippewa County: Probate Court: An Inventory of Its Insanity Record Books	gr03447
Petitions in insanity, reports of jury or board of examiners, and related orders and committal documents.
Chippewa County: Probate Court: An Inventory of Its Will Books	gr03448
Copies or transcriptions of the complete texts of wills probated by the courts, accompanied by certifications of authenticity and of filing signed by witnesses and clerks of court. Original wills are found in the probate case files.
Ruth Cutler: An Inventory of Her Family Papers	00665
Correspondence and papers, diaries and journals, photographs, and other materials of a daughter of Saint Paul pharmaceutical wholesaler Edward Hutchins Cutler, who served in France with the American Red Cross at the end of World War I. Includes newspaper clippings about the 1912 presidential election, and some correspondence and papers of her parents and other relatives. Some of the material is in French. Includes digital content.
Dakota County: Assessor: An Inventory of Its Assessment Rolls for West Saint Paul	gr03428
Assessment rolls for the City of West Saint Paul, recording the value of taxable real and personal property for the sample years 1920, 1930-1931, and 1940.
Hennepin County: Assessor: An Inventory of Its Assessment Rolls	gr03430
Assessment rolls for the civil subdivisions of Hennepin County for the years 1860-1894, plus stray volumes for 1898 and 1900. Assessment rolls for several years are incomplete. After 1877 they cease to include Minneapolis. No other assessment rolls for this time period are known to be extant.
Hennepin County: Medical Examiner: An Inventory of Its Coroner Record Books/Medical Examiner Reports	gr02297
Information includes date, name, cause of death, case number, place of death, residence, demographic information, place of burial, name of undertaker, and a note if an autopsy was accomplished or not. The volumes dated October 1906-December 1963 are indexed. The volumes dated January 1964-December 1989 are not indexed, and are entitled Medical Examiner Reports. In addition to the information above, the Medical Examiner Reports also include the name of the investigating agency and toxic findings; the place of burial is not included. Includes digital content.
Municipal Board: An Inventory of Its Annexation Files	gr00124
Files on requests for annexations of additional land to cities and villages.
Municipal Board: An Inventory of Its Detachment Files	gr00122
Files covering two distinct kinds of detachments: simple detachments of municipal property being rural in character for which no development plans exist; or simultaneous detachment and annexation of incorporated land in which property of one municipality abuts another and is detached and annexed in a single concurrent action.
Municipal Board: An Inventory of Its Incorporation Files	gr00123
Files regarding petitions for incorporation, sometimes including annexations, of various Minnesota cities and towns, primarily in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area.
Municipal Board: An Inventory of Its Orderly Annexation Files	gr03431
Orderly annexations are a different type of annexation involving joint agreements between cities and townships. These files started out as regular annexations, but the cities and townships settled their dispute by doing an orderly annexation agreement.
Murray County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Registration and Certificate Records	gr03425
Records for physicians, veterinarians, and basic science certificates.
Murray County: Probate Court: An Inventory of Its Final Decrees of Distribution	gr03426
Final decrees, 1894-1980 (reels 1-9) and miscellaneous orders, 1873-1978 (reels 9-11), containing data on decedents' estates and their distribution to heirs and/or legatees.
Murray County: Probate Court: An Inventory of Its Will Books	gr03427
Copies or transcriptions of the complete texts of wills probated by the courts, accompanied by certifications of authenticity and of filing signed by witnesses and clerks of court. Original wills are found in the probate case files.
Northern Pacific Railway Company: President: An Inventory of Its Records	01027
Correspondence and subject files, letterpress books, and miscellaneous records created by the Northern Pacific president's office. Includes digital content.
Timothy J. Penny: An Inventory of His Congressional and Legislative Papers	00263
Correspondence, memoranda, notes, press releases, speech scripts, bill drafts, questionnaires, voting records and scorecards, legislative profiles, and other related material documenting Timothy J. Penny's service (1983-1994) in the U.S. Congress as a representative of southeastern Minnesota's first congressional district. Includes digital content.
Redwood County: North Hero Township: An Inventory of Its Birth and Death Register	gr03452
Birth, 1873-1899, and death, 1875-1899, records.
Stillwater State Prison: An Inventory of Its County Prison Register	gr03432
Register of persons committed to jail for safekeeping (e.g., while awaiting trial) by various counties and held at the territorial prison. The practice of receiving temporary county prisoners was discontinued by resolution of the Board of Prison Inspectors on August 19, 1858.
War Records Commission: An Inventory of Its World War I Military Service Lists	gr00979
An assortment of compiled lists of Minnesota draft registrants, inductees, enlistments, and persons who saw active duty in the armed services during World War I. Some were compiled by the Adjutant General's Office; the source of many of the others is unknown. Includes digital content.

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