A richly detailed memoir (typescript) and notes by businessman, newspaperman, and Democratic politician Clarence J. Noel about his life in Wisconsin from birth until his move to California in 1907. Topics covered include Noel's childhood in Oshkosh, Wis.; family life; public school education; his organization of a boys' military society, the Oshkosh Cadets; his early employment experiences in the insurance business and in sawmills and related industries; his transition to newspaperman; courtship and marriage to Alice A. Lund in 1891; his move to Marinette, Wis. where he took over the Menominee River Laborer, the official organ of the Menominee River Laborers Benevolent and Protective Union, and the unrest involving that union; his involvement with several newspapers, including the Twin Cities Daily News (Neenah), the Marinette North Star, and the Marinette Argus; and his activism in Democratic Party politics and related issues of the day.
