Title: Janis Kafton Collection
Series: Local History
Subject: Klamath County history
Extent: 21 boxes

Location: Archive

Provenance: Donated to the Shaw Historical Library by Janis Kafton
Access: Open to public
Publication Rights: The library can only claim physical ownership of the collection.
Users are responsible for satisfying any claimants of literary property rights.

Description: Research notes, newspaper clippings. Organized by town and family.
Inventory:

Box 1- 23 Folders

Folder #

Title

1

Upper Lake- West Side

2

Chiloquin- Williamson River

3

Sprague River

4

Bly- Beatly

5

Donnell, Bailey, and Hildebraus

6

Hanks

7

Biehn

8

Audrieus

9

Merle Long

10

Burleighs

11

Misc. Andy Collier and Judge Sisemore

12

Van Landrum

13

Howe

14

Keith Charles (Red) Wells

15

Laprarie Family

16

S. Kendall

17

Wm.- Hall

18

Mammonds

19

Melhase

20

Goellers

21

Obenchains

22

Autobiography- Burton Robinson

23

Ray Chase

 

Box 2- 16 Folders

Folder #

Title

1

Dixons

2

Ed Gowen

3

Bunnell Family

4

Liskeys Family

5

Helfrich Familie

6

Shorts Henley Turners

7

Brown- Olene

8

Russians

9

Case Family

10

Henley Hi-liner

11

Paugh Family

12

M. Nitschelm

13

Pres. Dorris and Family

14

Henley Steeles

15

May Deboy- Ragtown

16

Gilbert Anderson (with Dairy folder inside)

 

Box 3- 15 Folders

Folder #

Title

1

Shreeve

2

Faircloss (with H.G. Fairclo and J.A. Fairclo folder inside0

3

Story Family

4

Brown- Crystal

5

Wests

6

Browns

7

Homakers (Hamackers?)

8

Clippings on roads in Klamath Co.

9

Diridon

10

Roberts

11

Glenn Dehlinger

12

Malin Modern Times

13

Obituaries

14

Malin Schools

15

Roads in Klamath County II

 

Box 4- 50 Folders and loose items

Folder #

Title

1

Wm. Horton Family

2

Sam Joseph Taylor

3

Louis Gerber Family

4

Wallace Baldwin

5

Ichabod Hall

6

Thomas McCormick Keno

7

McCornack Family

8

Emmitt

9

Sam Dixon- Galbreath Family

10

Levi and Chas. Kester Family

11

O.A. Stearns

12

Grigsby- O.T. Brown

13

Stuckel Family

14

John A. Short Family

15

Melhase Family

16

Thomas and Percy Dixon

17

John B. and Stephen Griffith

18

Louis and Bill Hill

19

Henleys- Steeles

20

Wm. F. Arant

21

Simpson Wilson  Langell Valley

22

Silas Kilgore Family

23

George Ager Family

24

Shur- Tokk- Hattie Gay Keno

25

Prentiss Puckett Keno

26

Josiah Doten Family

27

George L. Chase Family

28

Martin Frian Family

29

Hamacker Brothers

30

Obenchain Family

31

John Loosley Family

32

Henry Hoagland Family

33

Joseph and John Nichols

34

James Shreeve Family

35

Elkanah Whitney Family

36

Daniel Brwon Family   Crystal Creek

37

George Offield

38

Ludwig Biehn Family

39

Louis Hessig family

40

 David Haynes- Henry Bussey Families

41

Bailey- John Donnell Families

42

John F. Goeller Family

43

Henry Duncan Family    Langell Valley

44

Gilbert Anderson Family

45

G. Neubert Family

46

Alonzo Storey Family

47

Applegate Family

48

John and Dan Colwell

49

Dorris Family

50

Philip Oden Family

 Box 4 also contains many loose items behind folders i.e. research notes, newspaper clippings, Xeroxed pages, Worlds Fair audio record

 

Box 5- 11 Folders

Folder #

Title

1

Klamath General History

2

Sheep/ Cattle

3

Unidentified Ranches

4

Henley

5

Henley

6

Baldwin Museum

7

Dairy/ Clover Leaf

8