GUIDE TO CATHOLIC RECORDS ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS IN THE U.S.
Volume 2: Midwest United States
Wisconsin: WI-38

St. Joseph Church. Barron-Washburn County Catholic Community
111 West Marshall Street
Rice Lake, WI 54868

Phone: 715-234-2032
Email: stjoseph@chibardun.net 

 

History: St. John the Evangelist Church, Birchwood, Washburn County, Wisconsin, and St. Joseph Church, Rice Lake, Barron County, Wisconsin, have been two predominantly non-Native American parishes in a four-parish cluster in the Diocese of Superior (Archives: Superior, Wisconsin). Superior diocesan priests at these parishes attended to the following missions and stations among Ojibwa Indians.

St. John the Evangelist Church, Birchwood:

1905-1909 (transferred to St. Peter's, Winter)	Couderay station, Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation
1908-1909 (transferred to St. Peter's, Winter)	St. Joseph Mission, Bellilfalls
1914-1915 (transferred to St. Peter's, Winter)	Couderay station, Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation
1914-1915 (transferred to St. Peter's, Winter)	St. Joseph Mission, Bellilfalls

Superior diocesan priests from St. John’s attended the following missions and station among Ojibwa Indians:

1917-1921 (transferred to St. Peter's, Winter)	St. Joseph Mission, Bellilfalls
1917-1920 (became a mission)	Couderay station, Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation
1920-1943 (transferred to St. Peter's, Winter)	St. Mary Magdalene Mission, Couderay, Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation

 

Holdings of Catholic records about Native Americans:

Inclusive dates: 1905-1909, 1914-1915, 1917-1943

Volume: 2 volumes

Description: Sacramental records (e.g. baptisms, marriages, burials) for Ojibwa Indian parishioners:

1. Bellisfalls, St. Joseph Mission, and Couderay station, 1905-1909, 1914-1915, 1 volume
2. Bellisfalls, St. Joseph Mission, and Couderay, St. Mary Magdalene Mission, 1917-1943, 1 volume

 

Unless otherwise noted, the repository on this page holds (or held) the records described here and they are not held at the Marquette University Archives.

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