Box 3, Folder 2: Typewritten Letters, 1836-1839
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- 1836-1839
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This folder contains chapter 10 and 12 of a rough draft biography of Increase Allen Lapham written by his daughter Julia Alcott Lapham after his death. The biography is constructed from correspondences and diary entries written by Increase Lapham between 1836 and 1839 covering daily life, family, scientific observations, moving to the city of Milwaukee, land speculation, and work on the Milwaukee & Rock River Canal. Within the correspondence is a map titled: "Plan of the Canal Termination on Portsmouth Point", and essays: "Geological and Mineralogical Notes of Wisconsin", "A Small Matter But a Great Mystery Explained", and "A Winter at Milwaukee". Julia Lapham began in the early 1870s to hand write and then type a chronology of her father's life titled "Autobiography". In the process she destroyed much of Increase Lapham's original correspondence. In the "Notes on Sources" section of the Lapham biography, Studying Wisconsin, the authors comment on the editing and destruction of the o
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Lapham, Increase Allen (1811-18175); Lapham, Julia Alcott
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Subjects
- Geology
Maps
Law & legislation
Travels (Lapham's)
City
Drawings (Lapham's)
Engineering
Forests
Fossils
Grasses
Institutions & associations
Milwaukee & Rock River Canal
Milwaukee (city)
Personal & family life
Surveys & surveying
Buchannan, Robert
Hance, W
Hildreth, Spencer P
Lapham, Rachel
Featherstonehaugh, George
Lapham, Darius
Harland, C. B
Locke, John
Dewey, C
Schoolcraft, Henry R
Short, Charles W
Gray, Asa
Darlington, William
Morton, Samuel George
Russell, John Lewis
Lapham
Seneca
Torrey, John
Paddington, J. H
Lapham, Ann Maria
Lapham, Ann Marie Alcott
Lapham, Amelia
Lapham, Hannah
Ward, Charles J
Prentiss, William A - Type
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- English
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- Lapham, Increase Allen (1811-18175); Lapham, Julia Alcott. Box 3, Folder 2: Typewritten Letters, 1836-1839. 1836-1839. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/4079. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Lapham, Increase Allen (1811-18175); Lapham, Julia Alcott, (1836-1839) Box 3, Folder 2: Typewritten Letters, 1836-1839. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/4079
- MLA citation style
- Lapham, Increase Allen (1811-18175); Lapham, Julia Alcott. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15932coll7/id/4079>.