Box 5, Folder 4: Julia Lapham Correspondence, 1910-1913

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Title: Box 5, Folder 4: Julia Lapham Correspondence, 1910-1913
Document Title: Box 5, Folder 4: Julia Lapham Correspondence, 1910-1913
Creator: Lapham, Julia Alcott
Folder Description: This folder contains original correspondences to and from Julia and Mary Lapham, Increase Allen Lapham's daughters, as well as copies of newspaper clippings. The letters mostly discuss various memorials or honors awarded to Dr. Lapham posthumously, such as the naming of a school in Madison and a park in Milwaukee after him, a celebration of his 100th birthday, and a painting of him on a wall in the new capitol building. Other letters pertain to requests for Lapham's publications or Julia and Mary's donations of such records or his personal effects. Also included is an essay written by Julia Lapham for the Fortnightly club which discusses the various efforts of Wisconsin clubs, especially women's clubs, to preserve and mark historical sites. Articles and essays included: "Lapham Civic Club"; "Lapham School Students Make Money for Fund"; "Street Names"; "Fine Float of Seventh Ward: Lapham School Children to Represent Landing of Pilgrims"; "Would Name New Park For Increase Lapham: Many Suggest Name of Man Whose Influence Brought Weather Bureau into Being"; "Name for Schlitz Park"; "In Favor of 'Lapham Park'"; "Historic Schlitz Park is Named by City for Increase A. Lapham, Former State Geologist"; "Lapham is Honored; Name Park for Him"; Letter from Mary Langworthy Temple to the Children of Lapham School; "Father of the Weather Bureau"; Landmarks: Fortnightly Club 28th Anniversary; "Change of Street Names"; "Monthly Meteorological Summery"
Subject: animals; archaeology; Civil War; data & lists; geology; geography; Indian mounds (effigy mounds); institutions & associations; Milwaukee (city); National Weather Service; Native Americans; personal & family life; plants; publications (Lapham's); weather & climate; Lapham, Julia Alcott; Ballin, Hugo; Lamb, Charles W.; Milwaukee Sentinel; Hersey, H. B.; Larkin, Courtland D.; The Free Press; Muir, John; Brown, Charles E.; Van Hise, Charles Richard; Lapham, Mary Jane; Riley, Martha K.; Temple, Mary Langworthy; Bryant, Hazel M.; Gruen, Lenord; MacArthur, Arthur; Smith, Henry; Pereles, John M.; Brigham, Clarence S.; Flint, Albert S.; Merry, Alice; Laura (niece); Watrous, Jerome Anthony; Smith, Annie A.; Smith, T. L.; Cole, Harry Ellsworth; Roonly, John (?); Hotchkiss, William Otis; Smith, Harlan Ingersoll; Townsend, Curtis McDonald; The News; Johnson, George H. D.; Cary, Charles P.; Wight, William W.; Whitiney, Clara A.; Ogden, George W.; Reynolds, Allen Jesse; Larsen, Fred C.; Nagelkirk, Adrian; The Creston News; King, Charles H.; Oranfield, Frederic; Blystone, Montello E.
Date: 1910; 1911; 1912; 1913
Language: English
Source: Increase A. Lapham Papers, 1825-1930 (Wis Mss DB, Julia Lapham Correspondence, 1910-1913, Box 5, Folder 4); WIHV95-A24
Type: Text
Publisher-Electronic: Wisconsin Historical Society
Publication Date-Electronic: 2015
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Digital Format: XML
Digital Identifier: Lapham(WisMssDB)B5F4000
Repository: Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collections
Source: From: Box 5, Folder 4: Julia Lapham Correspondence, 1910-1913

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