Papers of John Knell, who came to America from Germany in 1852 and to Milwaukee in 1855, most of them written in German. There are letters from relatives in Bermersheim, Germany, and from friends in Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Buffalo, and Davenport; several from a brother in New York City; Civil War letters from friends and from Knell who was sutler in the Southwest for the 35th Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry; and a few later letters from the Knell children. Among the business papers are letters from Leopold Rindskopf and Son, distillers and wholesale dealers in liquor, with whom Knell became associated as agent in the early 1860s; and invoices of purchase and sale of merchandise in a Milwaukee home furnishing store in which his son George was a partner. There are a number of manuscript volumes of plays in German, and a box of manuscript music.
