Welcome to Farnsworth Public Library

You can research the following items at Farnsworth Public Library:

Note:  The Library does not have birth, marriage or death certificates.

May 13, 2013 Update:

The microfilm reader and its parts are no longer available due to the age of the machine.   The Library Board is looking into other options such as a collaborative effort to digitize the microfilm collection so it would be available online. 

Newspapers on Microfilm:

• Pioneer  ............................................... June 1859 – October 27, 1865
• Lumberman  ........................................ August 16, 1864 – December 29, 1917, not all issues
• Oconto County Enterprise  ............... September 15, 1898 –1918, not all issues
• Oconto County Reporter  .................. 1871 – December 1994                         

                                                                [Have paper copies 1995 to present]

• Oconto Falls Herald  .......................... January 6, 1899 – March 19, 1912
• Union Farmer Herald  ......................... March 28, 1912 – April 28, 1916
• Farmer Herald  .................................... May 5, 1916 – May 21, 1920
• Oconto Falls Herald  .......................... May 28, 1920 – December 27, 1951
• Oconto County Times Herald  .......... January 3, 1952 – Dec. 25, 1952
• Gillett Times  ...................................... January 6, 1927 – 1951, not Aug. - Dec 1930 & 1942 

Census Records on Microfilm:

State Census  ..... 1855, 1875, 1895, 1905

Federal Census  ..... 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920

Veterans Census  .....1890

U.S. Army Infantry Muster Rolls on Microfilm:

1864 – 1865  A - K            1869 – 1870  A - O            1876 - 1879 Fourth Infantry

Oconto High School Yearbooks:  OcO Oconto High School Yearbooks:

1910 – 2011 (missing years 1911, 1913-1921, 1934, and 1992)

City Directories:

City of Oconto, Oconto Falls, Gillett, Lena, Suring, Abrams Business and Residential - 1914

     City of Oconto Residential - 1962, 1975, 1976-77, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1989,

1991-92, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999                                                    

Oconto - Oconto Falls - Abrams Telephone Directories:

1928, 1929, 1940, 1948, 1949, 1951 - 1960

Oconto County Plat Books:

 1905, 1912, 1938, 1958, 1967, 1978, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1997, 1992, 2001

 Maps:

More Online Resources:

 Oconto County Reporter Obituary Listings:

                                                                                                       Updated 13 May 2013